Against all odds. "Vancouver disaster" and what awaits us in Sochi? (Historical analysis, forecasts, comments,

You keep in your hands the book of the famous sports figure Vladimir Slavsky.
It has been more than 45 years old in sports and 18 of them was the president of the Federation of ski jumps from a springboard and a ski bift, 15 years old - Member of the FIS Committee on a ski federal.
The book begins with words: In order to live well, you need to work. This simple idea, the basis of the entire book and the life of the author itself. He talks about himself, about the history of jumps and two, about the successes of Russian athletes, about the difficulties in sports movement, which began after the collapse of the USSR.
He recalls sports meetings between the athletes of the island of Hokkaido and the Far East. With delight, he writes about the successes of German athletes led by their wonderful coach Rainhard Hess and proudly says that modern ski jumps are built in Tchaikovsky and Nizhny Tagil, St. Petersburg, and of course in the city of Sochi. And that in Russia finally began to hold large international competitions in ski jumps from tramline and a ski dirt.
Makes the conclusions that the trained springboards and the track for a ski bift in the city of Sochi are much better than in Vancouver (Canada), where previous Olympic Games were held, but the sports complex in the city of Nizhny Tagil is better than In Sochi, and the Center for Winter Sports in Tchaikovsky is generally the best in the world.
He writes about the Vancouver catastrophe and predicts what awaits us in Sochi.
It suggests that our thinking is already ready for change, but more decisive actions are needed. And we are talking about the sports system as a whole.
This book in sports domestic literature is a new phenomenon