The ULK professional ski team, for which four Olympic champions raced, is all… One of the most ambitious projects of Russian sport in recent years is ceasing to exist, at least in its form current. Was a victim of the collision of worlds.
I’ll try to explain why this makes everyone sad. For some, it’s already now, but for others, it will be a little later.
Professional sports should be financed by private capital. Children’s sports – by the state. Youth, transitional – mixed financing, public-private partnership. This is absolutely obvious to me; I have written about this more than once.
It offends me that someone could have the idea that the financing of “Varangian skiers” of the Arkhangelsk region was carried out with budget money. I did what I was asked to do: win. And the sponsor strictly fulfilled its obligations. The tax office of my native Kamchatka will also be delighted, I assure you.
I have no right to speak on behalf of the owner of the Ustyansky wood processing complex, Vladimir Butorin, but it seems to me that he was very tired of all this “ski freedom” in which he got involved when he started investing in Malinovka in winter. sports center. I am aware that initially everything related to skiing was designed and started there by other people. But someone stand up and say that the best roller ski slopes in the country and a major hotel could have happened without the money of a major investor.
Who had a clear and well thought-out project: to create a ski center to train the Russian national teams in Malinovka. Keyword: “prefabricated”
I have no illusions: we skiers have kept the seriously amateur skiers out of the Arkhangelsk forest. Recently, we came to Malinovka four or five times a year, occupied hotels and sometimes highways. Did this make anyone feel like a “second-class skier”? We have the impression that this is the cause of the conflict.
Malinovka had the chance to become the best professional ski center in the country, but now the word “professional” will have to be crossed out at least. It costs hundreds of millions of rubles and is designed for the most demanding and, in their free time from prefabricated days, the most solvent. About the same as Laura/Polyana 1389. The slope is not overgrown for amateur skiers who are also willing to pay.
Activists who threw themselves under a tankette in Malinovka last month can relax: the tanker without money and the factory’s capabilities will be permanently abandoned. Google how much a new PistenBully 400 costs and you’ll see why.
But professionals will no longer hinder amateur skiers. I hope that the quality of the trails created by the Bourane snowmobile will satisfy the remaining demand. It is difficult for me to imagine what will happen to the world’s best asphalt of Malinovka roller ski slopes in a few years. But it’s easy to predict that the planned high-end gym won’t see the light of day in the near future, just like the stadium, restaurants and another hotel…
The local SSHOR kids will lose. Without public-private partnerships, it is extremely difficult for ski schools. Believe me, for many years now, since I achieved success on the ski slope, I have been signing letters of gratitude to the patrons of children’s skiing. Best regards, by the way. Try to buy Helium or S2 with budget money – and you shouldn’t buy skis for 100 thousand with budget money. They bought it from me until the manufacturing company offered me a personal contract.
Special greetings to bloggers who tried to aggressively work on the events around Malinovka, in the pseudo-style of Guberniev. Dmitry himself, by the way, reacted very balanced, and once again I agree with him. Because he feels responsible for what was said. Unlike my colleagues at the store, whom I called “internoise” in the last column. Rejoice, in this case, your cries apparently became the straw that broke the camel’s back. “We don’t need such bloggers”, but “we don’t have any other bloggers for you”. Alas.
Bolshunov, I and other participants of the “project – super ski team of the Arkhangelsk region” have no particular reason to worry. There are other worthy partners, that’s the market. And we will move to other regions and defend their colors – because that is how the system is built. I would prefer that the competitions take place between private clubs, but not fundamentally: Zenit = St. Petersburg, and Krasnodar is Krasnodar.
What has been happening around Malinovka in recent weeks reminds me of The Cherry Orchard. The difference is that in the new interpretation, the Ranevskys refuse to admit that their time is running out, that the time has come for large professional investors who want to make money on their investments. The Ranevskys have temporarily defended their cherry orchard and can rejoice. But that doesn’t solve the problem: the domain will still disappear from auctions, and that’s it. I have no idea why this is so difficult to understand and accept, but in Malinovka the old world temporarily won. I repeat, it’s not scary for me. The problem is that a potential investor, a sponsor, will look at the “Malinovka case” and say: “Why the hell do I need these skis, I prefer to invest in curling or padel, there is people on my wavelength.
Source : MatchTV
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