Meanwhile in Kazakhstan …
After competing in the Kazakh nationals Ilya Ilyin sat down for an interview (video below).
The quotes from here paint a bleak picture of a depressed Ilya who struggled with alcoholism and suicidal thoughts (he already said this much in his interview here).
There was a desire to die. I drank at the hotel for three days. At the beginning of last year, I went to Israel and there came to my senses.
On Doping:
“I’ll take the matter of doping to my top secrets.” I think that now it will be wrong to talk about everything. I can not say everything. Perhaps later I will tell you in more detail.
Translation: If you can help translating the main points, please leave a comment below.
Ilya is an elite athlete, so he’s basically a maniac, because it is what it takes to be an olympic champ, being an extremist, almost autistic, living humanity being.
I will watch it and try to write the most interesting bits. He starts the interview by stating he is not ready to tell about everything and there are certain things he will keep to himself (secrets if you will) but promised to be 90 % honest and open with the interviewer who he is friends with and has been for long time.
Thank you for taking the time, looking forward to read a summary.
Oh man, I am sorry I completely forgot about this. Had some important stuff to take care of last weekend. I will take my time and go over it this weekend I hope.
Thanks for the update, I understand it is not a top priority. 🙂
Ilya could have been a role model but his drug abuse was his downfall. It is completely unfair that he was singled out for doping but it all paints the real picture of how corrupt and unclean Olympic weightlifting, and ALL sports have become.
There is not a single Olympic athlete that competes clean anymore. It’s something that’s tolerated. The Olympic game has no honor or integrity anymore. It passes out condoms to the athletes and then they use each other to sell products to the masses.
There are a lot of great things about Ilya, and he was one of my favorite Olympic athletes, but he was judged correctly as an abuser of drugs and stripped of his medals. The only part in this saga that is entirely backwards is that all the other athletes who clearly dope are not punished as severely as Ilya.