'The Olympic Champion Exposes the Doppelganger' - full translation of interview with Olga Karasyova (2001) - by Marina Vulis
As promised, here is a word for word translation of Olga Karasyova's interview with Vladimir Golubev . March 7 th , 2001 The Olympic Champion Exposes the Doppelganger Olga Karasyova, one the most beautiful and charming gymnasts of our incomparable Olympic team which triumphantly won the 1968 Mexico Olympics, finally achieved fairness. The Moscow Ismail Court sided with her and ordered a famous newspaper to pay 35,000 Roubles for false information. Olga Dimitrievna [Karasyova] invited me to her cozy two-room apartment above the “Aeroport” metro. Going through the family gymnastics albums, remembering her younger years, and quietly spoken, the still coquettish and smiling “girl of our dream” (1944 German movie name). - What a voluminous document folder! Can you imagine how much time and effort had to be spent to get the case to court. Correspondence, lawyer’s request, decisions, regulations, summons. ...