theme 17.03.1995 (1995)

The epigraph of the program is a fragment of the film "In Love by His Own Will".

Theme of the program: Life after sports.

Guests in the studio: Galina Gorokhova - Chairperson of the Russian Union of Athletes, Olympic champion in fencing and Anna Dmitrieva - NTV sports commentator, Honored Master of Sports in tennis.

Galina Gorokhova and Anna Dmitrieva answer the question, what is sport for you.

Galina Gorokhova and Anna Dmitrieva answer the question, how did you leave sport.

Story: About athletes who left sport.

Video: Count Steffi plays tennis, hockey players on ice, Tanui Moses - Kenyan athlete, fans at the stadium, Edberg Stefan plays tennis, boxers in the ring, Boris Becker plays tennis, football players on the field, Chris Evert with a child, Martina Navratilova on the court, Galina Gorokhova talks about the difference between professional and amateur sports.

Dmitrieva Anna says that professional sports in the USSR were perceived as a bourgeois phenomenon.

Story: Igor Malkov, Olympic Champion in speed skating.

Video: Malkov Igor, a traffic police inspector, gets into a patrol car, Malkov Igor is driving, Malkov Igor is talking on the phone at a police station, Malkov Igor is checking a driver's license, Malkov Igor is skating.

Malkov Igor talks about his achievements in sports and his work.

Malkov Igor's son shows his father's medals and awards.

Malkova Marina talks about her life.

Malkov Igor talks about working in the police.

Gorokhova Galina and Dmitrieva Anna answer the question of who determines the line when it is necessary to leave sports, an athlete or a coach.

Gorokhova Galina talks about her retirement from sports at the age of thirty-five.

Dmitrieva Anna talks about her emotional experiences during her retirement from sports.

Dmitrieva Anna talks about Karpushina Elena.

Karpushina Elena talks about her emotional experiences when leaving sports.

Danko Alla talks about the problem of social adaptation of athletes who left sports and the TV show "What do your names mean" dedicated to veteran athletes.

Story: about Melnik Faina - Olympic Champion in discus throwing.

Video: Melnik Faina at competitions, Melnik Faina among doctors.

Melnik Faina talks about sports and her work as a dentist.

Giller Leonid - professor of dentistry, talks about Melnik Faina.

Dmitrieva Anna talks about the difficulties that an athlete faces in his life at the end of his career.

Gorokhova Galina talks about how athletes end their careers in big-time sports.

Bykova Tamara - Olympic Champion, talks about herself, her studies, work as a journalist, her adaptation to life after big-time sports, her family and her son.

Nikolay Alekseevich Gulyaev, a Soviet and Russian speed skater, says that it is impossible to live on memories, you need to be realistic and find your place in life after sports.

Anna Dmitrieva talks about student sports as a transition from amateur to professional sports.

Petr Bolotnikov says that without amateur sports there is no professional sports, you need to go through certain stages of the sports path.

Petr Bolotnikov says that a professional athlete must earn well.

Anna Dmitrieva answers the question of whether we have commercial sports in our country.

Story: About the strict rules of the Olympic Games regarding the participation of amateur athletes, about sponsoring the Olympic movement, about professional and amateur sports.

Video: B/W Olympic Chronicle, Documents with the amounts of monetary rewards of athletes, baseball game, raising the flag at the stadium, Jim Thorpe - American track and field athlete, Jim Thorpe's gravestone, Toni Sailer - Austrian alpine skier, Juan Samaranch giving a ceremonial speech at the Olympics, alpine skier on the track, opening of the Winter Olympic Games, Juan Samaranch speaks about commerce in the Olympic movement, Adidas sports shoes, US flag, Opening of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, sale of sports tickets, competition commentators, runner with the US flag at the stadium, TV studio at the Olympics, spectators in the stands, athlete with a cup, pole vaulter, fencing competitions, tennis players on the court, Natalia Zvereva - tennis player, Garry Kasparov - chess player, Pavel Bure and ice hockey players on the ice, boxers in the ring, tennis players on the court, basketball players, A pair of figure skaters, a game of golf, a tennis competition, a running competition, the Olympic flame, a view of the Olympic stadium, the Olympic Cup, the Russian team at the opening of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, a long jumper, athletes at the stadium, the presentation of Olympic medals, a runner at the stadium finishes and falls to his knees.

Mikhail Lisitsyn, an orthopedic traumatologist, talks about injuries to athletes.

Larisa Latynina, an Olympic champion in artistic gymnastics, talks about the fatigue of athletes and her work as the head coach of the USSR women's national artistic gymnastics team.

Lev Markov talks about sports, politics and the discrediting of sports and athletes.

Anna Dmitrieva talks about Russian athletes.

Galina Gorokhova answers the question of what you do in the Union of Athletes for veterans.

Host Lidiya Ivanova says that she is a master of sports of the USSR in academic rowing, a member of the USSR national team.

The presenter says goodbye to the audience.