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Anton Golotsutskov: Black strip can be takeoff
From 30 years old Anton Golotsutskov '23 played sports three times a day. Ten years - from 2002 to 2012 - was a member of the national team. Two-time Olympic bronze medalist in 2008 (in the floor exercise and vault), bronze medalist of the World Cup - 2009 World Championship silver medalist in 2010 and 2011, three-time European champion.
After the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing Anton Golotsutskov was a hero of the country: two bronze gymnastics competitions were his. The team captain is configured for success in London suddenly was forced to retire.- After a serious injury was a question whether I will walk at all - he says.Bedridden, who lost all sports revenues ... Anton admits that it's all go for the second time he is unlikely to have had the strength. On the other hand, had it not been a black band, there would be no current Golotsutskova, successful owner of the gym in Moscow and VIP-coach children of billionaires.
Who do you need, sportsmenchik!
On that fateful day, Anton took a thorough medical examination. In the recruiting office about his condition would have said, "fit with limitations": doctors pronounced back problems, but were allowed to jump further. After inspecting the gymnast came home for lunch, I sat at the table ...
- And then - I recall - as babahnulo! He fell to the floor, crouched all ... And all this on the eve of the Olympic Games in London, where I was planning to win a medal. Apparently, the body has not sustained and has failed. A few months before that, I fell in competitions and bounce back. However, it is still made at the pre-Olympic European Championships and brought back a silver medal. He drank an analgesic and walked on the carpet, professional sport is a business ...
Emergency treatment Golotsutskovu paid Artistic Gymnastics Federation. But coming out of the hospital, he found that he was deprived of all athletic scholarships. Including for the recent silver in Europe.
- It must be said that world-class athletes - pretty wealthy people: at a salary you can live in anything without denying yourself - explains Anton. - And here you are staying at one point even without a penny ... I then flew into a rage and said what I thought about the Russian gymnasts training system and the relationship to the athletes with the leadership of the federation. For 10 years, I brought three or four medals from world and European championships. Thanks to my team came to the Olympics in 2008 - for this had to jump the floor exercise with a broken leg. But once it became clear that the stars on the epaulets I do not bring me written off.
Faith Hope Love
Golotsutskovu had to restore the health of your account. To pay for the rehabilitation, as well as to put out loans to buy food and elementary Anton sold their cars. Without the aura of the rich and successful guy, and he missed most of the old friends.
- With me there were only two people - my mother and her husband. Vera (his wife) left her job for a second to me not to leave. She even put a monument should be! - Says the athlete. - Single song - wandering in search of work, which began immediately after I was able to get to his feet. Back in 2006, I had the idea to open in Tomsk private gymnastic school. After the medals in Beijing area, even going to give me the ground under the building, but the conversations were conversations. In 2012, farewell to a professional career, I returned to this idea. I thought, my own area of ​​support, it's still a new jobs and the development of mass sports. I'm not asking for money just so - it was at least a free loan. There was a good business plan, which helped write versed in the people. The project actually shot, but not in Tomsk. Here, for six months, it never got off the ground. It would be better just told the truth: "We do not need." Tired of waiting, Vera and packed up and left for Moscow.
Golotsutskov gratefully remembers two names by which he was able to gain a foothold in the capital - Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko and the director of the Center for Sports Training (DSP) national teams of Russia Alexander Kravtsov. They gave an athlete work in DSP, which he studied for two years.
- In parallel, I could not stop thinking about his own gym club. There were good people who helped me and painted a business plan down to every penny: rent, repairs, ammunition, personnel ... Then there was a man who believed in the idea and became an investor for a share in the business - continues Anton. - This summer, we opened the first room under the brand "Olimpionik", he cost about 30 million rubles. The project is just awesome! Our equipment is not worse than the Olympic team training camp. A professional carpet is worth about 12 million rubles!
We do not set a goal to raise champions - we just love to instill a healthy lifestyle. We have, for example, has a 80-year-old grandmother who comes to jump on a trampoline. And there polutoragodovalaya kids. A child having a base in the form of gymnastics, then can go to any section you want, and be head and shoulders above the rest. Because our sport - it is the cornerstone, is a muscular corset, it is a culture of movement, the vestibular apparatus. I do not understand why the queen sport think athletics! ..
Without ensemble
Now the school Golotsutskova involved about 500 people. People go and in his name and in the name of show business stars from Kostya Tszyu to Lena Temnikova who actively spread in social networks a photo with training in "Olimpionik." (After Beijing Anton led a secular lifestyle and became his in this get-together.)
- Opening the first club, we have seen that it can bring good money. To make it clear: our coaches get 126 thousand. Rubles per month, with prices we mean by Moscow standards, - says Anton Golotsutskov. - Continue to develop the network will be: December open a second room, by next summer - the third. In Moscow they are to be at least ten, and then go to the regions. In addition, I work VIP-coach and individually engaged with the children of the powerful. It's great when you earn things you love and do good to others.
Whether there was resentment at his small home? Anton says no.
- What does not kill us makes us stronger. There is a saying: sometimes a black stripe becomes takeoff. When a professional athlete is not sport - it's like three year old child lost in the city. You do not know where to go, what to do, how can the hell to survive. After all, before all domestic issues to decide for you, the hotel brought in a room settled, things washed, fed, to practice withdrawn by the handle ... After a career I'm coasting for a while waiting for outside help. But it turned out only when I finally realized that it does not matter, you're an Olympic medalist or Otvertkin Vasya from a nearby village, no you do not owe. Its success you can do just by himself.
Eight-year Nastia Golotsutskova is engaged in rhythmic gymnastics, but in the future Anton dreams translate daughter in synchronized swimming, "Unless, of course, want to - against the will of force is not going to"
Imagine the scene: the World Cup 2007, which addressed the issue of participation of the Russian team in the upcoming Olympics. Stadium 30 th. People packed to overflowing. During my speech is deathly silence: everyone knows that I have a broken leg ... I had to score 12 points to our team held screenings. I scored 12,350. Coming from the platform, from a painful shock fainted.
The text Elena Taylasheva, published in the newspaper "Tomsk news"Photo: from the personal archive of Anton GolotsutskovaSeptember 19, 2015, Saturday, 17:48Source: Elena Taylasheva



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