By education she is a journalist, but she does not give interviews. I, in any case, did not find any, gathering information. Only dossiers: a three-time world champion in gymnastics times of the early '80s, three-time European champion. At the Olympic Games in Moscow has not got age, and four years later, no games for the Soviet athletes was no - there was a boycott. In Seoul among the leaders in gymnastics team went Bicherova husband Valentin Grave, but there he was a reserve, and then Olga herself became his personal trainer - the first woman to be allowed to cross the threshold of man's gymnasium on the "Round Lake".
However, I am getting ahead of myself ...
VILLAGE CHILDREN AND GOAT
Olga Bicherova
Born October 26, 1966 in Moscow.
Honored Master of Sports.
The winner of three gold medals in the world championships in gymnastics. In Moscow, in 1981 he became the first in the team competition and individual all-around, in Budapest 1983 - in the team competition.
Three-time winner of the European Championship-1983 in Gothenburg - in the individual all-around, vault and floor exercise.
- Yes, to whom I now can be interesting? - Bicherova laughed when I finally tracked her phone in one of the suburbs of the French Etampes. - Sit in the village, with a goat, with children.
- What, I'm sorry, a goat?
- With this. Her name is Caramel. I've got the whole land - 11 thousand square meters of land. Shalo-Saint-Mars, where we live - it is such a village a village. And at the same time a historical monument - is listed in all registers. Here we have fun. Expanse circle, has a rustic swimming pool. Very close to Paris, and to the famous castles of the Loire just over an hour to go by car.
But without a car here - nowhere. Therefore, I earn in their own family the taxi driver - in the morning I drive the children to school in Etampes, then on training - each on their own, take them home in the evening. Sometimes a day reel up to 150 kilometers.
- Children do gymnastics?
- God forbid! I laugh, of course, but just from the beginning knew that giving a daughter to the gym is pointless - it is on any parameters do not fit this kind of sport. Polina - an avid football player. A younger son Anton for gymnastics was too high. Now he is engaged in fencing. He was 12.
- How many years have you lived in France? They were leaving because of Russia with Mogilny?
- Yes, in 1991 - at the invitation of the gymnastic club "Voiron", which was under Grenoble. We then have a two-year son, we each summer sent to Moscow to my parents, to Alyosha has not forgotten the language. We Valentin later moved to another club - on the outskirts of Paris. For a long time suffered from the fact that there was no formal contract, and language really none of us knew. But over time, we have acquired friends, met with the coach in figure skating Leonovich Stas and his wife Olga, through them - with a lawyer, which helped to solve many problems with the documents. Leaving something we simple tourist visa.
- How are you, not knowing the language, worked gymnastic French commentator "Eurosport"?
- When I made this proposal, I have good command of French. The fact that the club I started to work with young children, and in these circumstances, teach the language very quickly. Children because, unlike adults, have no complexes, corrected you, if you say the wrong, and do so without any second thought ... I did not shy about talking to them. And on TV came on the initiative of the French journalists. They themselves found me and asked to comment on the gymnastic competitions.
- Private departure from the big sport was given to you seriously?
- As such care was not. After starting to train Valentine, I still remained in the gym. Just as before, sat on a "round", in addition, she studied at the University Department of Journalism in the evening and was so busy that some suffering just do not have time. On "Friendship" tournament, which was held in 1984 as an alternative to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, I did not get due to an elbow injury. That is, the injury itself was not, but the hand of time starts to hurt so much that I even could not rely on it. Take me in such a state to the team of course no one.
And then my train just left. But Val turned up, which after the Games in Seoul, no one took up coaching.
- It is true that Valentine has already moved to France, continued to train hard and wanted to perform at the Olympic Games in Atlanta?
- Well - seriously? He tried to keep himself in shape, but I think he understood that the training that we could be made between the work, it was quite enough to perform at the Olympics. Although in 1996 he refused many contracts, he moved to the club "franconville", found the French coach, which even went to the training camp. But just as he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease - cancer of the lymph nodes.
Fortunately, the disease is able to identify early enough. It took quite a long period of treatment, several courses of chemical and radiation therapy, and then we were given a doctor's opinion that the threat of relapse is completely eliminated. But for all of us, it was, of course, extremely difficult period.
- As a result, you parted?
- There were many reasons. But I really do not want to talk about this period, it was for me too heavy. Especially that Valentine is gone - not so long ago he died.
To get acquainted with her new husband BOOK ABOUT Boginsky
- At what point in your life so abruptly turned towards the village and the goats?
- When Pauline was born, together with my present husband, Jean-Francois lived in the city, but decided that the child needed fresh air. Here are the spouse and found a house that he liked very much. It is clear that we in the head would not come to buy more hectares of land, but as Shalo-Saint-Mars - the village, the site of this size simply attached to the house. However, the usable area of just a tenth of the rest - slide. Therefore, goat and I needed - clean the area. Otherwise, the top all very overgrown grass. At the top, where we usually Caramel graze, I do not even remember when the last time was rising.
We buy all this in a completely collapsed state. The house is very old, it appears even in the cadastral papers of Napoleon. When Jean-Francois brought me there the first time I saw this house, where there were only four external - meter thick - stone walls, then almost cried. Even I said that we live here and never for anything! In fact, I did not imagine how it can be rebuilt.
But it turned out that is not so scary. Husband, before becoming the owner of a real estate agency, for many years spinning in the construction business, he laid the tile, he knew how to do many other things, he also prepared the whole plan for the restoration, so that all construction and finishing works have kept us in seven months. Now turn another historic pimped - the second house, which stands on the site and we want to turn into a guest house guest. In the house because necessarily somebody has to live, so it does not come into disrepair. Plans for the restoration of my husband, too, all made up. Just prior to their implementation is not reached.
- Where did you meet?
- Oh, that was the whole story. It all started with a book about Svetlana Boginsky. Sveta often come to France for demonstrations, and one of her visits, I was approached by a man who said he wanted to publish a book. He once admitted that he had never had any relation to the gym or to book publishing and that in Russian does not know a word. And he asked me to convey Boginsky letter, which he wrote and for some big money translated into Russian.
We Svetka first took him for a madman, who thus simply want to get acquainted with it. Still Boginskaya always been incredibly popular in France. But it turned out that the man is really serious. To the extent that we are unwittingly infected by his enthusiasm.
The book, by the way, turned out just great. Jean-Francois was a very good photographer, he came up with a very interesting layout with a lot of photos on each page, some photos of sporting times acquired from agencies, we very much told him, and the text it eventually also involved himself, although initially it was assumed that over the it will operate a professional sports journalist from L'Equipe.
Under the publication of the book by Jean-Francois took out a bank loan, as to publish it was quite expensive, and then we all come up as the money returned. Whenever Boginskaya came to France with the demonstrations, we organized the sale of books in gymnastic clubs. As a result, we can not say that a lot of money, but the costs of Jean-Francois were compensated.
For me it was a huge life lesson - how to absolute beginners, without any support, without knowing the language, to realize his dream. Until now, the head does not fit, to be honest.
- And being close to such a man, you scared the restoration of a collapsed house?
- But you're right. With such a man can be safely and into the fire and into the water. I then, by the way, for a long time tried to find out why gymnastics? Why Boginskaya? Everything was simple: in 1996, Jean-François, like any normal person, watching the Olympic Games in Atlanta, and he was interested in the fact that Sveta performed at three Olympics, each time under a new flag. Here is a man, and clicked in his head that to Boginsky this never happened in sports.
The interest was so great that Jean-Francois went to look for a book about gymnastics in bookstores. He climbed all. He found that these books just yet. So I decided to fill the gap.
Son became gymnastics coach
- Gymnastics in some way in your current life there?
- Of course, all the same I gave the sport too many years. First, coach Alex works at the gym. The only successor dynasty, one might say. He once played for "franconville" as Valentin, became in his division champion of France. Now the son is living not far from us, often calls in guests, divided issues. The main thing is that he was madly in love coaching.
Personally I'm going back this summer for Natasha Yurchenko. It opened in Chicago his room, which had long dreamed of, and asks for help - work coach. Pauline at this time will not be able to go with me, she has planned a summer football camp in Marseille, but Anton necessarily take. We have recently "found" Volodya Novikov, who was speaking in Seoul for gymnastic team of the USSR and became Olympic champion over there, and now, like Natasha, she lives in America. He has three daughters, two of whom are engaged in fencing. And he Volodya last fall opened a gym at his club still fencing school. So I'm now beginning to grow and fencing ties, too.
- Why do not you want to work with a coach on a permanent basis?
- I have all the certificates and licenses that are required to work in this specialty in France. But this is not America, where the coach can choose the schedule of work. Here you can work in the evenings, plus Saturday and Wednesday, when children do not have school. And the competition is held on Sundays. In other words, with such a schedule of their own children, I will not see at all. And then why would they give birth? It is enough that I am his first son as a child could not see properly. I will never forget how Valya stood before my mother-engineer on his knees, begging her to quit her job in order for me to go to the gym to "round" and his coach. You're probably aware of how I became the coach of her husband?
- No, I do not remember.
- In 1988, when all went to the Seoul Olympic Games, Val was considered the third-fourth the number of national team, that is guaranteed to hit the squad. But when the day of the competition, I turned on the TV, I saw with horror that her husband is not on the platform. That he only wears clothes of all, always had the duty to spare.
Why did it happen, I do not know yet.
More important was another. The whole team was well aware that if Leonid Arkaev someone takes away from the team, the national team is not a player will never return. Therefore, when after the Games Valkin coach Alexander Alexandrov began to work with the women's team, who want to train Grave simply was not. And what could we do? Just start working together.
- An arch did not object to this?
- From the hall is not expelled, but pretended not to notice me. The rest of the coaches openly laughed at us. Of the women in the men's room was working only masseuse Faith, which was not allowed to enter the room at all - she could really see that training, standing in the doorway. To me it treated more leniently: after all, I have already been in the gym a specific name. Val also in 1989 won two gold and a silver in the all-around at the world championships in Stuttgart, and a year later became the absolute champion of Europe in Lausanne, winning the passing horse and parallel bars.
I'm on the championship did not go as well as the previous - I was not included in the composition. But when the team returned from Lausanne in Moscow, Arch gathered all to "round" before a workout and said: "And now I want to introduce to all of you present coach. Olya, come here. Please love and respect!"
Although to be honest, to train her own husband, I never desire and the enemy. All bumps all irritation and flies in the room, and the house, only to you. It should not come into conflict with a man, but only to maintain it.
- What will you do when the children grow up?
- I am constantly asked about it all our friends. Perhaps I will stay home - one that will only rebuild. But before that, my children still have time to win the Olympic Games.
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