The Little Girl and Death
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Story of a Russian gymnast...
The Little Girl and Death
At 14, Roza is going to her first World Championship in Indianapolis. The Soviet team wins gold. Roza is very happy and, naturally, is dreaming of a medal in the AA. But, as a newcomer, she competes only during team competition.
The next year, in France, she had a chance for gold. After the first day of the competition, Roza was leading. She was sitting in her best friend's hotel room and shared her happiness and dreamed about tomorrow's competition. She was very thirsty and a glass of cold mineral water came in handy. ''This French mineral water sure tastes strange..."
For three days Roza was between life and death. Team doctors gave the correct diagnosis right away as drug (medicine) overdose.They were afraid to bring her to the hospital. SCANDAL! Thank God, they were able to take care of it themselves. Roza regained consciousness in her hotel room. "I woke up, but it seemed that my hands are covered with blood and big spiders are crawling all over me and someone is trying to cut my head off. I thought I was dying."
First question: what did you drink? "They decided that I took diuretics to lose weight or laxatives. I tried to convince them that it's not true. Nobody believed me. But I am not a fool to take a handful of pills especially on the eve of the World Championships, before doping control."
She came back to Krugloye and together with Roza Borisovna (she was not in France with Roza) started going over [recalling] the entire day. "I did not remember it well. But once I dreamed about mineral water with a strange taste. I told Alexandrov about my suspicions. But again nobody believed me." They even found a psychiatrist who tried to convince Roza that she was deeply mistaken. Roza thought that she was losing her mind. And then the coach [Roza Borisovna] found another psychiatrist through her friends. "I did not believe anything anymore. I just went to see him so as not to hurt Roza Borisovna's feelings. As soon as I started telling him what happened, he described the whole thing right away. It turns out I was given medication used to treat alcoholism. I started laughing that I don't drink. 'Don't laugh,' he interrupted me, '[It was a] huge dose... It's a miracle that you survived.'" Roza, happy that she was proven right and not emotionally disturbed, came back to Krugloye to pick up her things. And to ask her friend "Why ?" She did not reply [but] just looked away.
The two Rozas returned to Almalyk.
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don't know how i got the two mixed up, doh! 
