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Before the Olympics in Sochi, has for six months, and is the capital of Tatarstan held its dress rehearsal called the Universiade - 2013, which came even Russian President Vladimir Putin. I suggest you read further and see how everything goes.

Ahead of the planet

The whole world belongs to the Universiade as a student skit: competition among students - the same as the competition of firefighters, police, military or railway workers from different countries. The participation of professionals in the Universiade - a rare exception. But Russia came to the Universiade seriously, holding more than 20 Olympic champions, one hundred artists and masters of sports of international class. Here and Olympic judo champion Arsen Galstyan, and Olympic champion gymnast Aliya Mustafina, and Olympic champion in diving Ilya Zakharov and celebrated Russian team in synchronized swimming, and so on.
The foreign teams will not meet even Olympic medalists. Not surprisingly, Russia is in the lead with an impressive margin: during the first five days of our "students" have won more than 60 gold medals. Why "students" in quotation marks? Perhaps the 28-year-old champions of the real numbers in some high schools - but learn from professional athletes once. As a joke on the Internet, part-time students at the Universiade win full-time students.
Many of them were pulled out in Kazan, forced to change schedules of training and competitive plans. Gymnast Aliya Mustafina, has won four medals in Kazan, he performed a cold. Yevgeny Kuznetsov, diver and owner of Russia's first gold at the Universiade, admitted to reporters that the participants "were asked to show what we can." For the Russian sports officials Universiade - a question of prestige and a great chance to avenge the defeat in the last Olympics. It is a pity that their eagerness to go unnoticed: the foreign media pay Universiade couple of lines in the daily summary. Because look like professionals "beat" fans are not very interesting.





Broke medals

Two athletes - winners of the Universiade accidentally dropped his medals and broke .... In the fall of awards from a broken fixture, connecting two parts of the coin. No luck with the medal of the Russian belt wrestlers Laypanova Azamat, who took the gold, and the Chinese diver Tian Tsinu - his bronze medal was broken. Universiade Organizing Committee immediately replaced defective medals at the new, but the sediment, as they say in such cases remained.
Now experts of FSUE "Goznak" check the entire batch of medals - more than three thousand, to avoid repetition of unpleasant incident. The remaining athletes winners in any case asked to take care of the medals. Damage as manufacturers claim, it is not connected with the quality of the alloy, and with the design of the coin: the inner circle revolving mounted on a thin axle, which broke off from the outer circle in the fall.
Medal 2013 Universiade consists of three circles of different diameters: the first, the outer circle represents the universe, the second - the planet Earth, the third - person. Along the perimeter of the outer circle is placed Universiade slogan «U are the World!» («You - this world!") And the figure «XXVII» (number of games - 27). The smaller circle rotates around its axis - this detail, apparently, does the entire structure fragile. Medals are cast from copper-nickel alloy with a gold, silver or bronze-plated, depending on merit.



Tatar struggle

The program of the Universiade decided to include non-Olympic sport - kuresh. This belt wrestling, traditional for Turkic peoples. Bashkirs, Tatars and Chuvash kuresh is an important element of national holidays, including Sabantui. The meaning of the fight to holding the opponent's belt, pull it off the mat and put on the blades. This sport has brought Russia seven gold medals, five of them took the natives of Tatarstan. "The competition is simply not yet had time to really understand what kuresh. While the athletes and judges accustomed, we took all the "gold", - admitted to journalists and the president of the International Federation of Russia "Koresh" Jawdat Minnahmetov.
Tatar national wrestling on belts still does not appear in the program of the World Student Games or other major international competitions. However, in 2003 kuresh included in the program of the Asian Games. Even gold medalist in Wrestling, Russian Ilnar Galiev until recently did not know what kuresh will be included in the program of the Universiade. In the final match he defeated Zaylobiddinom Artikov from Uzbekistan. On some changes in rules Qureshi format Universiade athletes have learned only the day of the competition.
In Tatarstan fighters kuresh called "Batyr". In the Champions Universiade belt wrestling will have the chance again to show their art. July 13 Kazan will celebrate Sabantuy widely, and in the streets of the city will be competitions in national sports. Chief Batyr receive a reward car



Voluntary-compulsory

The Universiade is involved 20,000 volunteers from 25 countries. "Volunteer" literally means "volunteer," but blogs there were complaints that students are driven to Kazan Universiade threatened with administrative penalties: In the event of failure threatening to complicate the delivery of the session or not to put down the practice. The work, according to an anonymous volunteer whose position in the community "Typical Kazan" has collected more than a thousand likes, is to portray the banal crowd in the stands.
Student volunteers promised to free travel on public transport, free drinking water and well branded red and white uniforms cost 14 thousand per set. "Conductors made to pay, arguing that we have not got a photo badges, but we have something to do with it, if the" respectable "directorate of the Universiade has given us just such badges?" - Outraged student. Plastic cards issued out of pocket expenses, according to volunteer, simply do not work, the water was not enough, and shorts and T-shirts were not set on the size. "We were promised that we will always remember the Universiade - that's for sure! I will tell the grandchildren! "- Says a volunteer. Others complain that the volunteers fed inedible food. Some, according to the blog, even poisoned by eating "lunch volunteer."



Kazan for life, for people

Kazan blogs complain that during the Universiade their hometown as though moved to a war footing. "Everywhere snipers, a warning to all the houses - in the period of the Universiade not open windows, the windows did not fit ... When Putin came, it was forbidden to go out and travel by car", - says one of them. Kazan prefer to go out of town for the competition, so as not to deal with constant checks.
At each intersection on duty five cops - are constantly discharged penalties check "suspicious" car. However, to contact them for advice pointless: the majority had been brought from other cities, and the city they do not know. 30 thousand machines, which, according to the authorities, spoils the view of the city, were sent to the car pound. "We have beaten the machine called a very arbitrary. There is a small crack on the windshield - broken. There are some stone chip, dent - also broken. Take the car, and at the same time take on the right time. Now everyone is waiting for, when the Universiade is over. Go pick up and restore the rights "- said the journalist" MK "resident of Kazan.
State employees under threat of dismissal from May are obliged to work in sports facilities. Rural teacher Tatyana told BBC, that in the construction and cleaning of one of the arenas was attended by about 5000 people, and not all of them were there on their own. "Teachers and other employees are forced to get out of the holidays for a living corridor fire Universiade. Sunstroke in gift "- says Alexander Kazan opposition Rachuk. Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov this information is not confirmed nor denied.



No tickets

A record number of tickets for the event were sold Universiade in Kazan. Tickets for the closing ceremony and the majority of sporting events does not buy it. In the queue for the few remaining tickets are viewers for seven hours. The crowd was in competition with the look half-empty. How is this possible? Deputy Director General of ANO "Executive Directorate" Kazan 2013 "" Igor Sivov believes that blame human greed: "We found that many people bought a huge number of tickets to the opening ceremony, just bought everything, and then did not come».
But bloggers say that is not the case: the organizers were afraid that no one would come, and eventually forced all state employees to provide the same crowd. "I live near Kazan, I can definitely say that state-owned enterprises across the Tatarstan forced to buy tickets. I think that's half-empty stadiums. Places purchased by state-owned enterprises, but not used. Me from my work, too, offered a free trip. I would not go even if paid, "- says one of the residents. According to the residents of Kazan, in a number of state-owned enterprises make workers reported that they go to the competition.



Money Talks

Universiade 2013 was a record not only in the number of events and athletes participating in them, but also on the amount of money spent on its implementation. As President of the International University Sports Federation (FISU), Claude-Louis Gallo, preparation for the Student Games in Kazan cost about 4, 5 billion dollars. In comparison to the previous Universiade held in Shenzhen in 2011, we spent about $ 1 billion; and Universiade in Belgrade in 2009. The cost, according to various estimates, between $ 40 to 100 million euros.
Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov has announced that the total budget of the organization of the Universiade-2013 amounted to 228 billion rubles. This figure is explained Minnikhanov, is composed of "the federal, republican budgets and private sector investment." But "private investments" turned out to be extrabudgetary funds Railways and the local airport administration. Earlier, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov promised that the construction and reconstruction of sports facilities for the Universiade will spend 40 billion rubles, and infrastructure - 39 billion rubles.
This amount, according to the president of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, includes not only the direct costs of organizing the Universiade, but also the funds that are invested in the development of Kazan in recent years. Indeed, in the city, new shopping centers, stadiums, road junctions, signs in English, parks and lawns "in Europe." "However, somehow very quickly ceased to be proud of and enjoy, the people it has become fashionable to vilify damn Universiade on what light roads, they say, are building is too slow, so the cork, and stadiums and swimming pools are building too quickly, so long they just do not stand for "- says Elena Chesnokov, a student of Kazan. According to her, the police officers in private conversations willingly shared information on the number of construction workers killed in skorostroyah.
Six weeks before the Universiade at the press conference of representatives of the Ministry of Interior of Tatarstan is one of the speakers said that the number of cases is excited about fraud related to the Universiade, but the details will be announced after the holding of these Games in order not to create too much noise. However, the head of the Russian Audit Chamber Sergei Stepashin, three examined objects of the Universiade, was satisfied and found no violations.



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