My friend, Kohl...
My friend, Kohl...
The OLYMPIC fire lighted by Mike Erazione from a name
American hockey players standing at a bowl, probably, was shock
The demand of authors of the scenario of solemn opening of Games.
Unforgettable sensational victory of a national team of the USA over the Soviet
Hockey monolith, it is represented to me, should not only
To remind of those happy instants for America, but also to connect
As though in a patriotic feeling the past and the present of two
Olympic capitals - 1980 in Lejk-Pleside and present in
Salt Lake City.
The old that hockey good luck named on pages
Respectable "New York tajms"as"Olympic dream,
Carried out in the form of a miracle on ice ", on a plan, should
To have something in common with present hopes of fans. And it is not casual,
Probably, Herb the Brooks, the "star" trainer of the then American
Commands, also has now headed a hockey team of the USA.
In a word, all should play on moods of Americans, that
Somehow to muffle the gone through September tragedy and to create
Optimistic background and spirit of present Games.
And here in the first evening, observing of ceremonial of opening,
Sometimes tightened by historical Mormon plots,
Naturally, the days of 22-year-old prescription spent in were recollected
Lejk-Pleside. With my unforgettable friend and colleague Nikolay
Ozerov with whom we were connected by forty-year teamwork,
We sat in winter clothes on an open tribune of stadium, preparing
To the reporting on the beginning of those Olympic Games. The technical is already spent
Test, and through pair minutes on television channel we will tell the habitual
Words: "Attention! Speaks and shows Lejk-Plesid..." And
Stay in America will promptly rush day after day,
Filled with cares and alarms, pleasure and grief...
As unexpected blow in the end of Games - the hockey ending. A defeat shock
National team of the USSR to the command of young Americans-students has spoilt
Mood, though on number of the won medals our Olympians
Have surpassed all participants.
The head of a creative brigade Gosteleradio Alexander
Ivanitsky compelled on affairs to take off for the Soviet embassy in
Washington, has left "on an economy" me, the assistant.
Has charged to be on reception to represent the Soviet
TV to finish some financial affairs in hotel,
To pay off for employment of cars, to hand over keys from them and other,
The other. And the main thing - to organise traditional interview with
The chairman of Sport committee Pavlovym. Occupied with all these
Final cares, has asked to Anju Dmitriev, known
The tennis champion and more more popular as the television commentator,
To go with the operator and to write down total interview.
And all it - against preparation with Kolej the reporting on closing
Games. And here suddenly phone call from Moscow: I hear
Margarita Petrovny's uneasy voice, wives Ozerov: "Naum
Aleksandrovich! Prepare to Kohl - Hope Ivanovna has died... "
News about death of his mother, so gently and touchingly liked,
Has eclipsed all the rest. Reaction of my friend it was easy
To assume: "Naum, you work one, you should immediately
To send me to Moscow ". Considerable collective efforts it was necessary
To put, to persuade him to remain on Olympic Games closing. But
It was, perhaps, worst ours with it the reporting... Its sad person
With tears, sad silence and the compassionate sight asking
To speak for it, - all it it was possible to go through on the air.
Extreme efforts should be put to exchange the air ticket
Ozerov that it before all of us could depart. I have carried still, that
Has found the popular French commentator of Leon Zitrona,
Knowing it is a little in Russian and casually taking off with Kolej one
Flight. Having handed over any dollars on road, with awful grief
Spent Ozerov.
And here comes back upset Dmitriev: Pauls has refused
To give interview. Already at the airport Sergey Pavlovich, as though
Being justified, has explained to me: "I even have given up to"Truth"in interview -
Hockey, hockey, hockey... "And during flight - we came back
By one plane with a management of the Soviet delegation, figure skaters,
Biathlonists - me who have slightly dozed off for weariness and
Troubles, uneasy and cheerful Alexander Tikhonov has parted forcibly,
In fourth time become by the Olympic champion in biathlon and
Holding a wine-glass in hands: "Just in a cabin of the pilot there was a communication with
By Moscow and me ordered to be prepared for performance on meeting in
Sheremetev. You should me help... ".
Destiny turns are amazing. Whether it was possible to foresee in it
The well-known sportsman of the future sufferer full of optimism from
Illnesses, the prison prisoner nowadays disappearing from inspectors...
Coming back by last days in Lejk-Pleside, I will notice, that
To bury Hope to Ivanovnu Ozerov nevertheless was in time. Companions on
To job have operatively managed to take away from the airport directly on a cemetery,
Where I "was attached" to last numbers seeing off. Now, alas,
We happen to the wife on the same cemetery at a tomb If.
It would not be desirable to finish memoirs on the sad note. As
My friend liked a joke, cheerful stories! How much time we with it
Invited Raikin, Utesova, Hazanova, Shirvindt to creation
jumoresok on sports subjects! And when Nikolay early in the morning
Has called to us home from maternity home, on a question who was on light
- The successor or the successor, with a smile has said: "As always, at
Me search - twins, tennis mikst... ".
Small Kohl became now the president "Ozerov's Fund", in
Which as he confidentially has informed me, is not present copecks of money. And
Becoming the deputy in one of Moscow suburbs areas where is
Their family summer residence, has first of all asphalted name street
Nikolay Ozerov.
Naum Dymarsky,
NJU-JORK.
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//* an information Source: the Russian newspaper, 12.02.02
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