The triple winner of Olympic Games on classical wrestling, the deputy of the State Duma of Russia, the deserved master of sports Aleksandr Karelin told about a meeting held in the Bereza with young wrestlers.

— Alexander Aleksandrovich, you for certain very busy person how it was succeeded to find time and to arrive to the Bereza?

— I wouldn't call it a master class — a meeting, joint training, but no more than that. In this case it is planned  visit which was transferred several times for the various reasons. But I managed to find time.

Chairman of the Belarusian Federation of Wrestling Yury Chizh drew long ago on this meeting, and exactly in the homeland. Yury Aleksandrovich motivated the invitation convincingly: on a personal example to show to young athletes correctness of the choice made by them.

— You brought with yourselves as a gift books...

— Their author — Ivan Kotenko, died. The book is devoted to Ivan Poddubny, the forerunner of our victories. Great  athlete, after tours which in the USA which have lasted for three years, in the program of the Olympic Games there was a free-style wrestling, somehow told that  wrestlers aren't born, and become, and in our sport are important not only muscles, but also the head.

I asked children that, having read this book, they wrote about the impressions, having answered both for itself personally, and for me a question why they chose fight.

I think that we will be able to cooperate with Belarusian Federation of  Wrestling . If children and their trainers treat mine request honestly, we will hold competition and we will define best of these the composition ̆.

— How many days carried out in Belarus what was the visit schedule?

—Special program wasn't. Only two days, and leave soon. From this that managed to make for that time, today's action the most important.