The characters
David O'Connor
David meets Maria outside the olympic village and they hasy his marias english is a lttle broken but tries desperately to talk to david - david is a nice guy and left his girl friend back home - she is the ice saking champion of sapproo in january in the usa but didnt win the gold medal at the olmpics.
He was tyhe boy wonder who left his small town to play basketball for Okloheo state university - getting a college scolaarship. and hope to play for the nbc basketball league. The Russian soon soon discoverd the pay the american got playing professional basketball and were a little jealous - communism was like working for free, ok the state paid you but basketball players got stacks of money and so thats was that lots more money.
Basketball to the boy wonder, the prince escaped his small town to go pro
escape the small town with its small people and small thinking - he wanted bigger and better things, he wanted more. David did nearly die in a car accident with a slow moving tractor whilst speeding against another car, teenagers being teenagers, fast cars and girls. Or in david’s case it was fast cars and basketball - but that is for another story. His parents were farmers but the boy wanted to escape the farmlife, it wasnt for him(superman in my head here) smallville - the early hours he could cope with but the isolation way from the town, the hub of people and people out there being stuck in the middle of nowhere wasnt for david - again he wanted more. The early hours he could just manage but when he caught others sleeping in to seven am he was alittle jealous.
his frinds couldnt do what student things was it was depressing for a farmers boy turned basketball player, deep belief in god he was 19 going on 20, david was born in 1953, growing up in the late 50’s and early 60’s 1963 he started to get into basketball idol worship. He fell in love with his childhood sweetheart Kelly-Anne at age 16 and they always thought they would be togather but things in life always are nver set in stone. When she was discovered cheating with his best mate coming out the cinema in broad daylight kissing, she denied it but the report given to david was there was definelty more involved with bodylanguage and the touchy feely hands. Who was the snitch never mind David said slapping her across the face and landing a huge punch in his ex-mates face resulting in a black eye and bleeding nose, funately for billy it wasnt broken. - she died in a car accident with his child - ??? she was pregnant and he was racing against his best mate. Basketball was his prime focus after the tradegy and he would believe he would never get out of his slump. People blamed him for the accident, and for being a small town word got around, he was to blame for her death ad the death of his best mate. He was drink driving and clearly under age but no evidence was found, many kids his age were trying to sneak away from the spying eyes of their parent to swig at the naughty illegal liquer. He only had one beer but the way the town talkied about it it sounded like i was a raving alcohol and drank alcoloh like a fish. She was preganat and planning to get married with him. They went to senior prom togather, got their photos taken in the high school year book, a smiling white teeth, David with mop blonde hair, thick unruly waves that wrapped around his head like a big blonde bob, good looking, blue eyes he got from his mother, the yellow sunshine hair thatr looked like the wheat on his dads farm - no-one knew, possibly a reccessive gene in the family down the line (mother had an affair with the pastor and had his hair)
his physic was 6ft3 where did he get his height? not his father at a mere 6ft.
This was a tradgey for the young david, confident and loud mouth on the basketball court, he bright and clever but fickle, a jock loud mouth.
He was dating other girls in college being the basketball captain, he could sneak down behind the bleachers and get busy, but these were never serious for him they were just rewards for his hard work on the basketball court and him chasing skirt on the sidelines maangeing to snare the captain of the cheerleading squad. She was a real bitch, but he didnt care, she wanted more he just wanted to be in her, for him she was fun a play thing a strach that need to be itched. The only way to erase the hurt feelings of the love of his life was fucking this tart, he was college freshamn this is what they did
(Animal House? Porky’s)
His family are irish catholic and have a deep faith in god but david knowing he is from a solid catholic faith wants to explore his youth in other liberal ways away from the constrictions of small town, repressive laws and moral dilemma’s of the youth of today.
coach recommended david - high charisma, good looks, athletic ability and drive, the passion and love of the game of basketball, if it wasnt for the basketball scholarship he would not of graduated high school, managed to miss enlistment in vietnam unlike joseph his bother who was called up to fight theviet cong in vietnam. david was patriat and accepted it like he accepted his religion and faith - he was told that the communist were the bad guys out in the middle of the usa - small thinking again - distrust of usa cities curruption and prostition lost their way in new york and cities in usa like las vegas and los angeles and san franciso ( borther back from vietnam didnt care - he enjoyed drugs from san franciso being introduced to them over vietwnam - sfatre that joseph never trusted patriostims, and the government ever again with its liesa nd propanganga in fighting the communists.
the farm boy was an ugly duckloing in the family household.
birthday was ?? stephen curry? 1969 - 16 years old
the first person recorded to win the the station 190m 210 dash at the olympics in 776bc was a humble baker and chef, Corebalus of Elis. if this isnt the frist example of brambige vision of the the spirit of the olmpic vision then waht is? amataurs 1972, judo champion took silver was cockney sweet shopkeeper in London beaten by the russian, using the something hold.
Amateurs not professionals are permitted in competing in the olypics.
invited to a syposium nuke drinking party in the grek apartment in the olympic village.
david o connor meets marina kormolov
Atomic Ant - 50's and 60's cartoons
hat sort of farm did Brian O Connor own? He had knowledge indians - as what in the are his father was irish catholic
davids basetball friend is cia or his friend is black basketball.
david is close to one of the basketball players
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Marina Kruschov
Maria was born in wastelands of Serbia - svestatpol - near port arthur where the japaneses 1904 inflicted heavy defeat on the czar naval forces - and was only six when her mother died and complication with pregnancy with her brother who also died in the birth - she was sent at only 6 on a train the trans siberian railway, where the fabled orient express runs passing 7 different countries and ending up back in moscow, her father was born in the ukraine, odessa grew up there and soon decided jion the navy not the army like his father wished, the young father andrepov - wanted more then anything loved the black sea and was keen on history of great naval battles of nelson and pirates of the carribean - he soaked up all the captain hornblower, and was a big fan of jule verne and read peter pan and tresure island - all the sea stories like mobu dick was his favourite, and being naval officer soon moving from cruisers and destroyesrs to submarines.
Maria has been raised in the ukraine and then moved to moscow following the promtion of her aunt and the family returning back to the heart of soviet union Moscow. She started at the age of 11 everyday in training from her coach doing a vigourous and grueling training regime.
the coach soon saw great potential in the young gymnast
times??? 7am - 5pm weekends.
Her father is in the navy and is a submarine commander.
saw inspired by the 1964 gymnastics
the most difficult of moves perfected over many months of sheer grit and determination in a isolated and bleak gymnasium outside moscow - pioneers palace
belarus and ukraine (gymnastics ukraine 1948 - 1972???)
Just herself and noone else - isolated and alone, harsh floreent yellow lights in a bleak cold blue winter sky. As a child she loud to play in the outdoors catching snowflakes and remembered the first time she caught one on her tongue its coldness chilled her tongue but the dew was refreshing, fresh and pure. licked its - snowflakes something so beautiful but so fragile like the young gymnast that trained on the vigerous workout injuries may occur again and again, back pain, foot aches are common injuries in this sport, bruises and falls.
Its expected to fall but to get back up and begin the routine all over again and again for the upteen time never stopping always remebering like if its instinct and purely subconscious. exhausted and tired just one more go, and another and another it gets to a state when your love of the outdoors and dance, beaytu of ballet and gymnasium of being and flexing when the first love your always adored and take to your heart that makes you happy. Hours and hours of discipline tried routines no longer become fun but a chore, just work, hard physical and mentally draing work 60 and 70’s new wave of upheaval - marinas new love away fro m gymnastics was the illegal radio if you could hear it - in the western hemishre listening to led zepplin, the beetles and the roling stones - uk and usa music. playful and fun and full of soul - express oneself was the inspiration for Marina in her floor disply - she wanted to dance free, free like a spirit and child playing in the meadows or in the snow with fragle snowflakes genltly walling to the ground. the soviet system - the russian people had to accpet what the system was and had to survive and endure it and sports and culture was ways of escaping the harsh druderies of soviet life and living on a day to day basis.
Russians were still patriotic and proud people to represent you country domesticall and internationall was the greatest of honours bestowed on an individual. in another world, a carefree one in the west people are enjoying music, freedoms of speech, food, drink and entertainment, clothes, money and sex. people in russia look at the west and listen and watch in envy.
her brother survived the pregnancy her mother did not - the father hardly saw his daughter, the mothers parents were already dead, or he didnt know where to contact them, he could only rely on his sister, grandfather and grandmother back in moscow/odessa. mather originated in serbia and this is where marinas father met her mother, where they married soon after olga was pregnant Misha Kruschov, Alexi Kruschov loved his new bride very much and look after his daughter, she was mini clone of olga - she was beatiful and he read her his many sea stories her favourite 20,000 leagues under the sea by jules verne.
coaches were abusing the bodies of their students pushing them to breaking point, to be the best you have to work the hardest put all the time in, talent on its own is not enough, techniqu and constant practise. loved animated cartoons - so did david - and they talked aboout their favourite
marina when she was recruited moscow school young pioneers either had do ballet or gymnastics - looked tough and compete to win - there was no competition no winning in ballet so gymnastics it was, rely on herself not on others, this how she prefered it, edgar degas, russian ballet? chekhov and the wonder of russian opera.
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david was dufferent he was a leader but individual who wanted him and his team to do well but was and hadnt scarificed hinself for the goood of the team he was still young and selfish and still just put himself before his team, he wanted his usa team to return olympic gold champions but he wanted to lead it to victory. selfish, fickle, self centred - but he played with the team
ib kept reminding him that the team wins you win, team loses you lose. play like a team.
david has to appear to ioc board 4 seasons hotel regasrding innocent advertising
beer hall putsch 1923 - place right wing nazis build a shrine - or the castle hitler incarcarated was kept in another shrine to the ditator in munich castle, world view and manfesto of nazism and its rise to power.
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