Журнал Viche 2014 №1

№1, 2014

Stella ZAKHAROVA-KHLUS: “Children’s health is what we long for while developing sports in our country”

At the end of March annual thirteenth artistic gymnastics – Stella Zakharova Cup - will take place in Kyiv. This is the unique tournament of the greatest international level that is conducted in Ukraine. Before this type of sports was a leading one. Its representatives filled in significantly the box with medals at the competitions of different levels. After the sports structure was ruined after many decades of its development, and, what is more important, in the result of scornful attitude of the Ukrainian officials the artistic gymnastics suffered more noticeably than others.

Stella Zakharova, our well known Olympic champion, multiple world champion told correspondent from Viche magazine about the state of affairs in this sphere.