`Sports is to know yourself, to control yourself and improve yourself`,

№1, 10 July 2013 г.
English version
Fresh news about
the sports events that
are taking place at the
stadium
‘Olimpiyskiy’
immediately
during
the
competitions
–
that is what will cheer
up and interest the
young contestants of
the IAAF World Youth
Championship.
While
the athletes are training
and setting their hearts
on best results, while the
organizers are making
last
arrangements,
we (the participants
of the project ‘Media
volunteer’) are observing it all
carefully
and working at a new
informational product
that will be available for
anyone concerned.
Press
conferences,
moments of communication between the
representatives
of
various countries, interviews with athletes,
interesting details will
be the main ingredients
of our published dish.
Sincere feelings, emotions and impressions
will spice up every
material, adding a slight
tint of piquancy to it. A
‘tasty’ presentation of
our newspaper will be
created with vivid onthe-spot photography.
Whether our product is
eatable or not is for you
to decide. In our turn,
we wish you a joyful
reading.
№1, 10 July 2013 г.
Exclusive
for «The Chempion»
Donetsk
welcomes
you
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The Champion
‘Sports is to know yourself,
to control yourself and
improve yourself’,
IAAF President Lamine Diack assured our
journalists.
‘The Champion’ journalists managed to find out IAAF President’s secret
of his success in sports and career. Lamine Diack granted some time for
the exclusive communication with our reporters. Despite his senior age
(a month ago he turned eighty years old) he has been the head of the
Association (IAAF).
Lamine Diack knows about an athlete’s life like no other – he himself became the Champion of
France in long jump at the age of 22.
‘In the days of my youth every schoolchild was keen on athletics as it s the most suitable kind of
sports for improving physical fitness’, told us Mr. Diack. It is interesting that in his youth the President
went into football seriously and later he even was a Technical Director of the national football team of
Senegal. But eventually Lamine connected his life to athletics which he considers to be the main kind
of sports, the basis for the rest.
IAAF President stated that the most challenging in his work now is to involve young people.
Unfortunately, they lack a good programme for discovering young talents at the moment. But Lamine
Diack is sure that even in future will remain the mot forceful sports in the Olympics. In conclusion,
Lamine noticed that ‘sports is to know yourself, to control yourself and to improve yourself.
The Head of International Association of Athletics Federations recollected that years ago he
bestowed a medal to Sergey Bubka who is the current IAAF Vice President and is also called the
symbol of the Championship.
Piotr Zubar
The Champion
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Kazakhs trained in the city of
salt and champagne
Five reasons
why you would like
to stay in Donetsk
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‘We, so to say, went down from the mountains’
athletes from Kazakhstan joke as they came to the city
of Artiomovsk for acclimatization. In the beginning
five squads were supposed to arrive in the city but the
Kazakhs turned out to be the only ones. So the whole
territory of the new sports complex “Metallurg” was at
their exclusive disposal.
A gigantic flying saucer landed in the miners’ capital long ago.
The highlight of Donetsk – the stadium ‘Donbass Arena’ –
Young athletes were provided with all necessary facilities for
resembles incredibly a glowing alien spaceship. Now it is not
necessary to fly to Mars if you want to see an ‘unearthly’ game with training. They even were the first to try out the new grass surface
of the stadium. By the way, Artiomovsk grass endured not only
your own eyes.
the Kazakh athletes themselves but also the sharp point of their
The life in Donetsk javelin. But the young people confessed that they had expected
Young people never sleep through in
can be better than in the worst from both the city and the stadium. Now they are a little
the morning in the city of a million of
our capital city – Kyiv. jealous because there are no training centres of such a high class
roses because a deafening hooter is
Maybe it’s all because in Kazakhstan yet. Apart from sports, Artiomovsk surprised the
heard from the Donetsk metallurgical plant
that current President athletes with the beauty of the salt mines where the whole squad
at 7 a.m. This sound informs plant workers
of our country
went for an underground excursion.
about the end of the shift, and reminds
was born in
We hope that a few-day’s acclimatization in the city of Artiomovsk
students that it is time to go to the University.
our region.
will help young athletes from Kazakhstan show excellent results in
It is only in Donetsk where you can take a trip by an imaginary the IAAF World Youth Championship 2013 that is taking place in the
underground. The construction began in 1990s but then the sports capital of Donetsk region on July, 10-14.
Arseniy Sitnikov, Piotr Zubar
work was stopped because of the danger of earth slips – the
city could slump below the ground. While local public uses bicycles,
trolleybuses and trams, the local authorities promise building ground
tunnels like in cool action films.
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Finally, the most successful people live here. Many
Ukrainian millionaires live in miners’ region. Moreover,
it is the residence city of the richest Ukrainian - Rinat
Akhmetov, whose financial wealth is estimated at
$17,8 billions.
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Athletes can everything
they want...
but from the cold table
Tucking in the fifth usual doughnut in the café
FOODMARKET (hotel entertainment complex
Liverpool), I notice a slim Brazil girl with a really
Yana Teranis and Maya Beriashvili
beautiful body. As it turned out, the young athletes
at the local cafeterias next to residents but
The Championship is available eat
according to a special system: they have a cold table
served in European traditions also with all the tasty
for everybody!
In order to make it into the world-class competitions and delicious things of Ukrainian cuisine.
The diet for the young people is carefully selected so that they
both athletes and coaches need to dedicate almost all
could renew the energy. The numerous guests from Brazil, Chile,
their time to training. The organizers need to prepare Seychelles, Venezuela, Algeria and Kenya are satisfied with the
for such an important event for several years. But there local cuisine. You can’t distinguish the diet of a sprinter, a jumper, a
is a way to get to the Championship without making thrower and a multiathlonist because there is the main rule here is
great effort at all. You can become a spectator and to eat food, rich in proteins and carbohydrates. A young organism
can’t do without fruit either, So, if you are dreaming of a flawless
watch the events out of the tribunes. So, what does one figure, stop exhausting yourselves with strict hungry diets and go
need to do for it? ‘The Champion’ journalists found out. in for athletics.
‘All the tickets for July.14 are
already given away’ a volunteer
Zhanna Baranova makes a
helpless gesture. And this is on
July, 8, the day of participants’
arrival! In the booths where you
can get a ticket for free, we were
told that the most popular days
of the Championship are July
10 and 14 which promise to be
the most festive and spectacular.
Right before our eyes people
came up and asked for tickets
for these days; ‘It cannot be
otherwise – we are so eager to
see the fairy show of the first you’
shares Tatiana Antipova, the
former teacher at the Olympic
Reserve Academy.
The
tickets
could
be
received the following way: to
take a flyer (in sports shops,
hotels, entertainment centres,
information boths etc) and then
exchange it for a ticket free of
charge in the box-office near the
RSK ‘Olympiyskiy’ with the help
of a friendly volunteer.
The organizers are prepared,
the tickets are given away, the
athletes are ready – everything
testifies that the Championship
is going to be spectacular.
Don’t miss the main event of the
summer – it guarantees to be
hot!
Natalia Usatenko,
Piotr Zubar
Athlete’s anti-menu:
Eat 3 huge slices of pizza two hours before a
marathon.
A triple jump will be successful if you eat a kilo of
‘Baunty’ each day during the week before.
A pole vaulter must have cakes for lunch.
- In Ukraine, I don't need to count calories
Maya Beriashvili
The Champion
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Championship in Faces
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Donetsk met the guests from every corner of the world with honours and hospitalities. 2250 young
athletes arrived in the miners’ capital fully armed and with a combative mood – both boys and girls
are ready, and the implements too. But are these the only components of the championship? No, not
a single competition can do without coaches, fans and organizers. Do these people know where they
have come and what is awaiting for them?
- I have got plenty of
Ukrainian friends in the USA
and they often share their
memories of the motherland.
That is why I have heard
much about Ukraine and it
has always appealed to me.
And today, while warming
up, I have had one more
chance to see that Donetsk
is a beautiful city.
Kate Brenhame,
representative
of the US team
- My first visit to Ukraine
(Kiev) took place 20 years ago.
And then I came to Donetsk
for this IAAF Championship.
Frankly speaking, I was so
resentful because the cold
Ukrainian winter has become
an unpleasant surprise for
me. But eventually, when I
saw Donetsk in bloom I felt so
excited!
Yannis Nikolau,
IAAF Communication
Manager
Danil Yesipov:
’Granny’s legend
helped me win’
- I came to Ukraine to
demonstrate good results,
but unfortunately I didn’t
know
anything
about
Ukraine. Our team has
just arrived, so we have
seen nothing actually but
we’re going to visit all
the interesting places in
Donetsk.
Evelina Velium,
Belgian athlete
- I must confess I knew
absolutely nothing about
Ukraine.
But, thanks to your
country I start loving
photography! I try to
take pictures with every
Ukrainian girl. They are
really beautiful.
Renee Perla,
repersentative
of the El Salvador team
The weight you can't
truncate
In Russian track-and-field athletics is called ‘light’ but
is it really not heavy? Of course, training, preparation
for competitions are not easy but… Doesn’t sports outfit
Gopher Ostap, drawn by a Donetsk pupil, has won the and equipment complicate athlete’s life? The editorial
contest of mascots for the IAAF World Youth Championship staff of ‘The Champion’ decided to find out the details
2013. ‘The Champion’ journalists have managed to meet about the things athletes deal with in the Championship.
Danil personally at school #24 where he studies.
So, the ‘lightest’ work is that of runners for various distances,
Danil told us sincerely that he hadn’t really hoped to win.
There was an announcement about the contest of mascots in
the drawing classes in the Palace of Culture Kuybyshev which
the pupil has been attending for a long time. And the young
artist made up his mind to picture with paints the legend his
grandmother had told him.
This legend says that while making his hole, a small gopher
found a deposit of coal. A peasant was passing by and noticed
the pieces of coal on the surface. In such a way one of the first
mines in Donetsk region was founded. It is notable that this story
is not a mere fiction but a historic fact. Fortunately, thanks to Danil,
now it will be known by guest as well as residents of our region.
For according to the legend it is the gopher who we owe our
underground wealth.
The mascot, which we all can see now, is actually not identical
with the original one. A team of professional designers had worked
at Danil’s drawing before the cheerful athlete Ostap appeared. But
the young artist emphasizes that he likes the current variant of the
gopher even more than his own.
Arseniy Sitnikov
they are burdened only with their clothes and footwear – just
about 500 grams. We should also keep in mind such factors as
wind resistance, baffling wind speed but we were not able to do
calculations for it. It is a little harder for javelin throwers whose
implement weighs 700 grams and 600 grams for boys for girls
respectively. Discus throwers have to lift even more weight – 1,5
kilograms for boys and 1 kilogram for representatives of the gentle
sex. The main hope and stand-by of a pole vaulter (that is a pole)
makes an athlete’s hand heavier by almost 3 kg but fortunately this
weight doesn’t prevent during the flight. The heaviest implements
are a shot and a hammer, so their masters are probably the most
vigorous. And it is not surprising as girls put and throw 3 kilograms,
and boys - 5 kg. And each of them has half a kilo of clothing.
Of course, even if we put together the weight of all the
implements, track-and-field athletics will not turn into weightlifting
which in Russian is called ‘heavy’. But now nobody doubts that it
is not so light and easy. In turn, we hope that even the heaviest
things and hardships will not prevent the athletes from succeeding
in the competitions.
Piotr Zubar
The Champion
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Now Olimpiyskiy stadium and other places where the Championship takes place are like a huge disturbed anthill.
This stirring up began quite long ago - the preparation for the championship has been well under way since the
autumn 2012. Now, when the whole championship’s mechanism is being checked, ‘The Champion’ team edition
presents you a report about the most interesting moments of preparing. So, what does it hold in store for the
participants, visitors, and people of Donetsk?
A stadium with IAAF class 1 …
The organizers are sure that 'Olimpiyskiy' is given the first class
accreditation. IAAF representatives gave the corresponding certificate.
… and one for warming up.
The athletes who came to participate in the Championship will train at
the renewed sports complex 'Kirovets' where everything is ready for the full
preparation for the competition.
A transporting hundred
For fast transfer between the objects
of the championship – everything for the
athletes to be on time at the finishing line.
Everything for promo
7 trolleybuses with the
championship symbolics run
through Donetsk.
Among the immobile ads –
139 flags, banners and even a
brandmauer – a huge placard
on a wall of building.
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A real fan
The most active “promoter” of the Championship, a Donetsk citizen Ilia
Zemtsev uses himself to draw public attention. Just imagine, he goes in for
track and field events right in the streets! And also in a trolleybus where he
easily managed to fit a 5-metre-long pole. It is not a problem for him to leap
over a bench even if it has a couple of lovers «on board«. We hope that such
an extraordinary way of track-and-field propaganda will increase the amount
athletes not in the street but at stadiums.
The Champion
Youth press centre
Project «Media-volunteer»
No 1, 10 July 2013
Chief editor
Daria Danilina
Desigher
Iolanta Filenko
Translator
Yuliia Zakharchenko
Photographer
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On issue also worked
Arseniy Sitnikov, Maya Beriashvili,
Editor's and publication authors'
Piotr Zubar, Yelizaveta Kruchinina.
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Publisher
Vladislav Penkov,
Natalia Usatenko
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