Today to Petrozavodsk there arrived "The train of the Olympic victory". On it to the capital of Republic of Karelia there arrived veterans-Paralympians. Five athletes – champions and prize-winners of the Paralympic Games and the World Cups – arrived to Petrozavodsk within an interregional patriotic action. "The train of the Olympic victory" arrived to Republic of Karelia from Leningrad region, and already today it will go to Murmansk where within the cultural and sports Gulf Stream festival will pass the project final.
Photo: Smirnov Nicholas 
Photo: Smirnov Nicholas 
Photo: Smirnov Nicholas Among the arrived athletes, for example, Kupchinsky Valery — the biathlonist and the skier, the ninefold champion and the prize-winner of the winter Paralympic Games, the Honoured Master of Sports Russian Federation on cross-country skiing and biathlon among athletes with sight violation. It as organizers told us, call a legend of the Paralympic Games.
All arrived to Petrozavodsk Paralympians have a rank of the Honoured Master of Sports Russian Federation among athletes with limited opportunities.
Polyakova Irina – the Russian biathlonist and the skier, the repeated world champion, the silver prize-winner of the winter Paralympic Games. Polyakova Irina lives to Kazan. She is the participant of four Paralympic Games, plays sports of 17 years. The disabled person became in the childhood, after accident. Despite existence of artificial limbs, Polyakova Irina is sure that leads full life, nothing different from life of healthy people. And with it it is helped by sports:
– Sports – my way of life. Houses I go on fitness, I am engaged with disabled children. I consider that such children need to impart love to sports. It is impossible to stay at home within four walls in general. Disabled people often and sit hermits. And sports are after all communication, people, – Polyakova Irina is convinced.
Today Paralympians will visit the museum of history of the Karelian sports on Kurgan then for them wait a sightseeing tour on the city and a meeting with the sports public in Onego Palas hotel. There to athletes with violations of the musculoskeletal device and sight will show the movie "Spirit in Movement". Will be able to look at it also participants of a meeting with champions of the Paralympic Games. we Will remind p to
, the Russian paralympic athletes discharged of games in Rio. On August 23 Sports arbitral tribunal did not satisfy the appeal of Paralympic committee Russian Federation on stay of its activity in the International Paralympic Committee.
Photo: Smirnov Nicholas 
Photo: Smirnov Nicholas 
Photo: Smirnov Nicholas