Виктория Колчина, Владимир Касперович, О смысле жизни.;
Viktoryia Kolchyna, Vladimir Kasperovich. About the sence of life;Happiness is a phenomenon which lasts only a moment. When the moment of happiness is over, we can only go on, go ahead to feel another moment of happiness some time.
When you win, you feel happiness at some instant, but it quickly passes, and you have to dispose yourself to the next race.
I felt a lot of such moments in my life. I won my first medals at the games in Turin in 2006. I gained a gold medal and three silver medals there.
Then I took part in the 2008 Summer Paralympic in Beijing, in events on adaptive rowing, winning a silver medal. And my last Paralympic Games took place in Vancouver a year ago. From there, I brought two gold and two bronze medals.
These next medals you see are from the world championship in Finland, and the latest medals I won, the gold one and the silver one, are from Khanty-Mansiysk Biathlon World Championship. Thus, in sum I have won nine Olympic medals and six medals in world championships.
Life directs in such a way that each of us is assigned with his own corner.
September 11, 2001 was the day of the tragedy in New York, when the planes rammed the WTC. The next day I climbed the roof of my student hostel to repair an antenna, slipped and flew down.
The next morning after surgery I realized that I could not feel my feet. It was certainly a shock for me. Indeed, just yesterday I ran, but today I cannot feel my feet.
To become attached to a wheelchair was the worst thing in my life. I didn't know how to handle the wheelchair, I couldn't get into it from my bed. To master this procedure, I just asked my mother to leave the room and tried to climb this chair without assistance.
But I had no time for despair, because I was surrounded by wonderful people. I mean my brother, my mom. Another person who supported me was my coach. I really wanted to live a full life.
I practically slept in the gym, coached myself all the time, trained my feet. And even while lying on the bed, being not allowed to sit, I somehow practised pull-ups and push-ups, did something in order not to lie still, because lying still was impossible for me.
One day my future coach, Tamara Shymanskaya, phoned me at home. She needed a girl the skier for a relay. She had heard about my fate and wanted to meet with me anyhow. She was interested whether I would be able to drive those skis.
I strongly resisted, I cannot imagine myself in skiing, because since school times I for some reason was not very fond of skis. She brought me to the Raubichi sports centre, put me in a monoski, and I remembered the activity I practised before my injury.
That was a hard work, a release of great energy. I wanted to ski just like boys, very playfully, as if I'm playing with these skis on turns.
Since June, we started to train more tensely. In summer I used roller skates with special ski-bindings which can be used both with skis and rollers, so in summer we drove those skates.
That was so swiftly, headily, extremely! But when I first tried the monoski— You know, roller-skating and skiing are quite different things, quite different sliding, fitting in turns.
You see a slope in front, you must achieve it, climb it, and then there is so steep descent! This is so cool! It's worth it to climb these hills.
Ten months later, in Turin, we won a gold medal and three silver ones.
I think it was great luck for me that they found me in time, that I became engaged in sports. I never thought I would go so far, right up to the Paralympic Games. My first trial was participation in the World Cup, and I showed myself not bad there, I took bronze in the biathlon.
And you know, when I received my first money, my first prize, it was such huge money for me— After the Olympics I began to receive a regular salary.
Since then, I myself have earned a living. I with no problem bought a car, an apartment. I even can help someone. Now I think that I was very lucky anyway. After all, I did not hurt my cervical vertebra, my head and my hands did not suffer.
Yes, I cannot walk, but I can move perfectly in a wheelchair. This does not hinder me from my studies, from driving, from full-value training. In general, this is not an obstacle for me.
Recently I travelled to Turkey on my own, without any attendants. I relaxed to the fullest, as I wanted.
I took part in a mountain river rafting, where our boat with nine people capsized.
I made a parachute jump. Also I had a ride on a motorcycle at 250 kilometres per hour. Even such things come true that I could not dream about. Before the injury I could not even dream of everything that I have now. I just could not imagine it.
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