Moscow Open

12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics
and to work towards their
implementation. In my situation,
I was thankful that I was
a female athlete, and, it was
through finding the qualities
of a sportsperson that I was
able to overcome serious disease.”
“How do you feel about drug
disclosures in modern sport?
“I take all those doping
scandals that shock world
athletics from time to time, in
my stride. They indicate to me
that the policing of those who
try to deceive everyone is being
carried out properly.”
“By profession, you are a
teacher of Physical Education.
Have you ever managed to work
in this field?”
“I left a teaching in 1980
and never returned to it. After
leaving athletics I never
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Asafa Powell
and Tyson Gay
‘worked’ anywhere. I dedicated
myself to helping other
people become involved in
physical activity; to start distance
running and walking to
improve their health. In Norway,
I have my own running
race for women called “Mileage
Grete Waitz”. This race
once attracted 40 thousand
women. It can be said that
even after I ended my sports
career, I remained in running.
It continued to be a part of
my life as before.”
The Deposit
on Drinks Cleans
the Olympic Stadium
The German authorities
managed to teach their citizens
to be clean and not throw
away unwanted beer bottle and
water bottle empties wherever
they felt like it. Unlike Moscow,
during the World Championships
in Berlin, there was
not a single, discarded empty
bottle to be found. The streets
and parks were cleaned by introducing
a refundable cash
deposit on glass and plastic
bottles.
The not-so-wealthy Germans
have now started collecting
empty bottles to earn a few
extra Euros for a beer.
This was particularly noticeable
at the Olympic stadium
where after the competition
some spectators collected, in
exchange for the deposit, plastic
beer mugs that had been
left on the stands from beer
which had been sold from
hundreds of kiosks directly
underneath the stands. Beer
was sold in such abundance
that it flowed like a river, and
it appeared that the spectators
at the stadium were at a
picnic, regularly going to refill
their glasses. In order to
maintain cleanliness at the
stadium, an especially large
deposit on beer mugs was in-
Usain Bolt
inspects his
200 metres
World Record
troduced. For a beer mug costing
3.70 Euros, the deposit
was 1.30 Euros making the
cost of a beer 5 Euros. For a
small bottle of water, the deposit
was 50 cents. Of course,
to avoid the deposit it was always
possible to hand in an
empty bottle when a new one
was purchased.
Now every morning, the poor
and unemployed people of
the German capital, find their
way to places where they can
expect to find empty bottles.
This is the way that some Berliners
earn their living. They
have been joined in this occupation
by local children. There
are well-known localities, such
as the Olympic stadium, where
the deposit is especially large
and it is possible to bring beer
mugs from other places here
and get more money.
At the World Championships,
beer consumption in
the Olympic stadium, reached
a record level. Sometimes the
vendors could not keep up with
consumption, because, unlike
a football match, the drinking