But also a failure – too.

Yes, after triumph in London on Games-2012 (there were 3 gold, silver and bronze) there was a wish for banquet continuation. But after all any of olimpionik didn't arrive to Rio de Janeiro. Arsene Galstyan (weight is up to 60 kg), Mansur Isayev (to 73 kg), Tagir Haybulayev (to 100 kg).

Rest and traumas at athletes too is necessary to them happen.

Plus of the judge began to treat us – all noticed – much more strict. Pier, won the – now we will put in a tight situation. Never, in my opinion, in a disputable situation (when it seems both neither there and nor here) arbitrators in this championship didn't make the decision in favor of Russia. Generally, 2 total bronze – Ivan Vorobyyov (81 kg) and Kirill Denisov (90 kg) – necessary as speak in such cases, at least. It would be otherwise absolutely sad …

And dreamed, of course, of the bigger.

Dreamed about next award  of Sascha Mikhaylin's – great ours heavyweight, winning in the World Cup 12 (!) years ago, and now  was in a step from a medal. But … Those judges at the zero account for some reason wrote out to it on one yellow card more, than to German Andreas Tyoltser. And the Italian boss our Ezio Gamba telling, by the way, in Russian everything is better and better, then was indignant: Mikhaylin attacked more often, and punished for passivity – him …

Dreamed of gold at least in team – and after all our men's team fine acted, passed Colombia, Cuba and Korea, but the national team, beginning not on "To", became a stumbling block.

In the ending we won at the Georgian – 2:0. Alas: then Sirazhudin Magomedov, Kirill Denisov and the same Mikhaylin missed the chances. Denisov was probably closest to a victory – da misguided his that sting of the rival for which in an amicable way Georgia should have set off defeat.

Well also dreamed though of one award at little girls, but, probably, not enough time passed as Gamba and with them started working, here and repeated "success" of London …

However, not only for the sake of the judo World Cup it was worth reeling up time zones, getting over across the ocean. Moreover for a week and more!

There was a wish to look still: what it, Brazil, is how ready to games of the next summer Olympic Games and to the football FIFA World Cup-2014?

The first impression – not so. Dirt in places the wildest – even on beaches it is full of garbage. Smells – I don't take the central prospectuses – such as if in the sewerage failed. Slovenliness – fantastic. At first even something native blew softly: affect, it is visible, years of slavery at them and a serfdom at us. And crime … About numerous thefts in the press center I already wrote to "MK". On streets too not so, to put it mildly, quietly. Locals told at once us: rings remove, and that will remove together with a finger. And chains. And earrings to girls strongly recommended to pull out from ears. And it is more than 20 dollars not to carry – that if that, to get off with "a small penalty".

But – in Rio it is improbably beautiful!

Mountains. Myagonky a sand on infinite beaches. The ocean, warm even on winter. Sun. Hristos Iskupitel, stately towering over dream of the Great Schemer …

My God and for the sake of all this it is possible to reconcile both to smells, and to dangers, and to the prices (very much here it is expensive, in Moscow and that it is less unprofitable to eat-drink), and to houses in фавелах, near which change houses for guest workers a mansion, and to other attributes of the present of "the city of contrasts" – what there, My God right, Istanbul!

material: Alexey Lebedev