Olympic champion, World champion, Europe champion Alexey Tischenko

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You will not write the novel "War and peace" after dialogue with Tishenko . Any journalist, who had to take interview from Alexey, will tell you that. This red-haired still-boy does not like to deal with press, and that’s all! Even its the Olympic victory, so unexpected for all, had not forced to change to principles: « I’m Certainly happy, that the old dream was executed... I trusted in success... Thanks everyone who helped me... » Well and so on.

And in fact there is so much to tell. It’s interesting to know, that in the childhood he was engaged in ball dances seriously (I found out this from his father). Not speaking that in his 20 he lives more than four years separately from parents – they are in Altai, in Rubtsovsk where Lesha began his boxing career, he is in Omsk, where he grown in Olympic champion. Why did he change the varnished parquet to a fighting ring? It happened at a genetic level as father was the master of sports on boxing. Victor Gennadevich also became the first trainer of son. Has learned his alphabet of fight and when he understood, that his own qualification for development of Alexey’s talent was not suffice any more, he let him go to Omsk, to deserved trainer of the country Leonid Kiselyov.

Speaks, that success is favourable to reds. We cpild call Tishenko the lucky, if we didn’t know, how much the victory over Athenes cost to him. The destiny tried to stop him three times on a way to it: « Excuse, the guy, but this Olympiad is not yours yet, wait for four years... »

First in this weight category any improbable image a prize-winner of two Olympiads, double world champion Raimkul Malahbekov, to whom had been given chance to win it to the first, was left without the Olympic permit. Then, already in Athenes, judges had made everything for loosing of Russian in fight Tishenko with Azerbaijan boxer Imranovym. His contender conducted in 3-rd round with advantage in 10 (!) points, when he recieved a fatal section of an eyebrow in a head-on collision (in which itself, by the way, was guilty)...

And in day of the final the doctor of our combined team Valery Nikolaev created the miracle, Tishenko could not even lift a hand, because of the trauma of a shoulder recieved in previous fight,...

Lesha sang on the top step of an Olympic pedestal during execution of the National anthem of Russia. « Did you learn words Yesterday? » - I asked him then. - « No, I knew them for a long time! » Probably, the guy indeed trusted in the victory, tha he had prepared so thoroughly to it.