г.   The present Russian Olympic champions are honored everywhere in our country. Now Ivan Tcherezov’s turn has come. 500 thousands rubles for the 500 grams of Olympic silver – that’s the present, which was given to the silver medalist of the 20th Olympic Winter Games in Torino – Ivan Tcherezov. Because of this half a kilo of silver Ivan Tcherezov is surrounded all the time by the journalists for the last three days. He is obviously tired of all these interviews – you can see it even without asking. He explains that it’s impossible anyway to tell about all the problems and difficulties he faced on his way to this first Olympic medal. The whole country watched only that fatal leg of the Relay when Ivan made three misses. All the rest was out of the spectators’ view: that saw only Ivan’s mother. “He went to the trainings every day except Sunday although the coach allowed him to come only 2-3 times a week. Anyway he went every day. Ivan had to decide: either to continue doing sport or to concentrate on his studies, which wouldn’t allow to do sport seriously. Tcherezov has chosen sport”, - tells us Ivan’s mother. In the Relay, which became later the silver one, Ivan ran on the first leg. He says he was so nervous that he started making the correction of the rifle only at the shooting range although he should have started doing it earlier. Moreover, the correction that he made wasn’t the right one. As the result Ivan had three misses out of seven errors collected by the team through the race. Anyway, no matter what actually happened, Ivan holds that silver medal in his hands right now. “I saw it all with my own eyes when Ivan came after the race, fell down and couldn’t stand up for so long”, - told president of the Udmurtia’s sport federation Gariy Kremer. The president of Udmurtia’s republic commented Ivan’s three misses philosophically: your three errors were not a disaster! One can understand that you worried a lot. Anyway you did your best. I wish our hockey team had the same tuning! As the Olympic silver medalist Ivan Tcherezov receives the title of the merited of sports and for his patriotism and willingness to win he receives a money reward of half a million rubles from the Udmurtia’s government. Ivan will also get a present from the republic biathlon federation but a bit later. That’s going to be a flat. The silver medalist himself promised to his compatriots that from the next Olympic Games he will return with “gold”! Izhevsk, 4th of March.