Tatiana examines the photo and argues about the life of the peripetia. Her favorite literary character Scarlett O'Hara from the novel "Worked by the Wind" is an incorrigible optimist. "I try to receive pleasure from life," admits an athlete. "I think that any event acquires that coloring that we give him." Navka since childhood understood what her vocation, having loved the figure skating with all the soul. But there was a moment when she thought they would have to go out of sports. Being a teenager, Tatiana died over the summer by fourteen centimeters, and it became problematic to jump. "I jumped and fell, jumped and fell. At night, Pope put me compresses on the bruises, and in the morning I went on the rink again. " Mom offered a way out - dancing on ice. And Navka, who considered them "sports for the disabled", pulled. Another test was the moment when Coach Natalia Linichuk broke them a couple with Kostomarov. But Tanya used a forced respite to arrange a personal life. Gave birth to a child. Then there was a victory at the Olympics, bright television shows, loud fame and divorce with Alexander Zhulin. "More than once I thought: how would my fate work out, we will remain in America? .. But I am happy today, I am happy about life. We must live with faith in the soul and to be open everything is good. "
Photo: Personal archive Tatyana Navka.
1. "I am with my beloved doll. This is one of my first pictures, here I am two years old. We went to the photo studio. I remember, I was very afraid. See, there, behind the back, some robber on the wall? It seemed to me that he would now live and take me into the forest. I can not say that I was a timid girl. I grew up very mobile and mischievous. Lasila in the yard on trees like Mowgli. Therefore, parents and gave me curly skating - they decided to send my energy to the right direction. When I was first led to a kindergarten, I managed to escape through the hole in the fence. It's good that the house was not far, and I was not lost. "
Photo: Personal archive Tatyana Navka.
2. "My favorite family: Pope Alexander Petrovich, Mom Raisa Anatolyevna and the younger sister Natasha. This is our Sunday family access to the park. Usually we all dressed up, my mother screwed hair on the curlers, we were told bows. And the dad was a "festive" velor jacket. And so, with a full parade, we went for a walk, rode the attractions, ate ice cream. Every time, looking at this picture, I smile - we are fun here. Alas, then because of the workouts, I did not so often afford a careless time. "
Photo: Personal archive Tatiana Navka.
3. "I, my former husband Sasha Rulin and Sasha's daughter. This is a solemn moment in her life. The first time in first class. I remember my daughter was very worried before the first of September, she wanted to school, like most children. True, after two weeks, it is somewhat
Ugas ... Although we broke up with your husband, he is still native person for me. I respect him. Infinitely grateful to him for the years we spent together, and for our wonderful daughter. "
Photo: Personal archive Tatyana Navka.
4. "Our home in New York. I then felt unusually happy. Sasha was only born, she is just a few weeks. Daughter we really waited. Actually, while I was on maternity leave, it was filled with some kind of peacefulness and harmony. For the first time I did not have to overcome myself every day, rush to the rink. I enjoyed life: walked around the city, I watched the Broadway Show. Alas, this serenity lasted for a long time: I called the Roman Kostomarov and again offered to train together. "
Photo: Personal archive Tatiana Navka.
5. "These are my first competitions. Now, looking at this photo, I smile - so funny I looked. And at that moment I was not at all before laughter. My outfit sewed mom girls, which is in the picture next to me. This woman worked on the rink of the seam. For my daughter, she made an unusually beautiful dress embroidered with beads, according to the catalog. I also got some strange red-white robe. When I tried it out, I felt myself a real chicken. In tears came running to his mom. She said: "Daughter, do not worry. It is only celebrated by clothes. " At the competition, I ranked first. But still since then I am very careful about my clothes. "
Photo: Personal archive Tatyana Navka.
6. "We are with the younger sister of Natasha on a turbase under Dnepropetrovsk. Often we went there to rest. When I had a sister, I first very jealous of my parents. After all, now the baby paid more attention. And we have the difference only two years. I did not understand: what, me now do not like? Several times I tried to get rid of the "rival": I tried to strangle her with a pillow, then throw away from the window. Fortunately, each time parents turned out to be near. Having matured, I very much loved the younger sister and now just not imagine my life without it. "
Photo: Personal archive Tatyana Navka.
7. "Reception in the Kremlin, Putin congratulates us with a victory at the Olympics. Next to me, my part-roman Roman Kostomarov, and behind - Sasha Zhulin. Sasha has always been frustrated that it is not visible on group photos. His role as a coach in our victory is very great, he helped me to fulfill a cherished dream. The president then presented the winners of the Olympiad on the car and apartment. I remember, I stood, squeezing the keys in my hand, and thought: "Lord, really it happens? It's just a fairy tale! "
Photo: Personal archive Tatiana Navka.
8. "Olympiad in London. I was present on it as a viewer. On me the old sports jacket - she became a symbol of good luck. How many times have I told me that you need to change the training outfit for more modern, but I did not agree. I believed in signs. Not generally accepted, but some existing, their own. Before the competition I had to lie down, hiding the jacket, - so I accumulated energy. On the ice always came out from the left leg. Arriving for fees before the competition, went in the same T-shirt, the sweatshirt and did not change the socks. True, before the Olympics, we were given to prepare ten days. So I still decided to risk and gave things to washing. And nothing terrible happened. On the contrary - we won the Olympic medal! "
Photo: Personal archive Tatiana Navka.
9. "I am with my first partner on figure skating Samvel Gezalyan. We were a rather successful pair. And then the collapse of the USSR happened, and since the competition in the Russian national team was too high, Coach Natalia Dubova decided to put us under the flag of Belarus. In 1995, I and I were fourth in the world championship. "
Photo: Personal archive Tatiana Navka.
10. "This is a New Year's view, I am a Snow Maiden. Being a champion was my children's dream, since I looked at the TV speech by Elena Waterzova. Then, in Soviet times, the skates were a deficit, and at the beginning I rode four-wheeled rollers. But then, when I first turned out to be on the rink, this preparation gave the result. All the children walked on ice, holding the side, and I immediately got up and went. The surroundings admired: "Yes, she is a born figure skater!"
Photo: Personal archive Tatiana Navka.
11. "We and Sasha, the photo was done last year. They say that we are similar, in any case, the figure is one in one. The daughter is very purposeful, seriously engaged in tennis, it loves it very much. I often reproach me: they say, the childhood itself was not, and you mock the child, it does not rest at all! It seems to me it is important when a person has a goal. And we have time to rest: we go to the sea with your daughter, we ride water skiing, we are engaged in horse riding. In general, Sasha is a talented child. I think, and in figure skating she would have achieved success, but you have to choose something one. "
Photo: Personal archive Tatiana Navka.
12. "Here is such a cute" bachelorette party ". My friend with my friend, my mother, sister and daughter rest in the Crimea. I myself am from Ukraine, so in my childhood we often went with family and friends to the Black Sea. There is a wonderful clean air, nature, fresh fruit. For me, it is probably a kind of nostalgia for those happy days. A few years ago I purchased an apartment in Crimea and now I am happy to spend my vacation there. "