So after 4 weeks we came back home.
We're alive, arrived by ourselves.
- Home! - Home!
Maryino.
My favourite and native district...
..where I always go back to.
It feels good, as if you are really back home.
(ORIGINAL FUEL)
I do not know about the rest, but I struggle with myself.
My name is Yaroslava Bondarenko
and I do BMX cycling. It seems to me
that I have been a sportsman since I was born,
as if somewhere it was already written,
"This person will be a sportsman."
In school, everyone was scared of me.
I used to beat boys, break my bones.
I did not want to stay home at all.
At the first physical education lesson,
my coach put my energy to the right direction.
(1ST PLACE RUSSIAN CHAMPIONSHIP MOSCOW 2016)
This is racing.
Come on! Come on!
Just do not crash!
There were no trails,
and coaches had to constantly invent something.
But we were children, we always needed a lot of action.
We used to go to parking lots.
You don't have to be some kind of a super-duper racer,
you can be an ordinary cyclist.
You can easily go and dig springboards,
have a ride, you just need to try.
Parking lots helped us a lot,
but we were often kicked out.
Usually it took 10 or 15 minutes before security comes.
We have a funny game for practising coordination.
We draw a square.
When you enter a turn and the track is narrowed,
many people get lost.
Our game helps you somehow to feel comfortable.
You are surrounded by people, you mustn't fall,
you must stay on your bike and you still want to win.
And how to win? Well, let me go, my turn!
Who cross the line, who fall off the bike - go home!
Ladies and gentlemen, here is trouble.
That's right, in the right corner she torn a ligament.
Ksenia, where are you going today?
To the hospital.
In general, BMX cycling is a very traumatic sport.
Before I thought that trauma is the end of my life.
I failed.
Now I understand that trauma
happens often in the life of sportsman.
It's just a period of time that you need to overcome.
As long as everything depends on me,
as long as my head is working, and the body doesn't give up,
I will make every effort, do anything I can
so that together with our coaches
we could raise our hands and the Russian flag
and that medal and say, "Yes, we did it!"
I do not know about the rest, but I struggle with myself.
Overcoming fear, overcoming uncertainty.
My dream is...
..to show others that the world is not so bad.
That everything depends on you.
If someone else does something, then you can do it for sure.
(YAROSLAVA IS NOW TRAINING FOR OLYMPIC GAMES TOKYO 2020)