My artistic swimmer Bubritsky is interpreted: “How to learn to go”
At the end of a great career that includes participation in the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 and achieved the top performance in the industry, the artistic swimmer My Brebritsky She decided to withdraw from competitive sports: “After 19 years, I make it very difficult to say every day that I am retired,” says Bubritsky to talk.
“It is like learning to just return at an older age. A baby doesn’t remember how it started, and that’s exactly what I had while swimming. I don’t remember myself to swim, it was always there. Swimming was all my life and suddenly it ended in the boom.”
The thoughts of the career started and maintained a few months before the second performance in the Olympic Games in Paris: “The world began to fascinate me outside, and I thought about where I would be in a few years. When the time had passed, I noticed that for myself a personal development, for growth and curiosity, my safe refuge.
“I was thrilled with the legs that came out of the water”
The 23-year-old Bubritsky grew up on the street, her special connection to water and started a baby swimming course for seven months. At the age of 4.5 years, her swimming training moved to another pool, where she was exposed to artistic swimming for the first time. “As a girl, I was very excitedly over my legs that came out of the water and asked my mother to look for this thing.”
In the fourth grade she took part in the Israeli championship in the girls for the first time and got her decision to make the hobby a professional sport: “It was the turning point. Between something that is amateur and something he is really serious. From three training sessions that I have drawn for training six times a week.”
Bubritsky’s decision to dedicate them exclusively to their parents who did not steer them on the field: “My mother put me on the conversation and was worried. It is a young age to hire it, and that means that I have to give up a social life and try more at school.
From that moment on, her parents supported and she was there for everything she needed her long journey towards the highest summit. “They imagined it at some point in these levels. They didn’t know why they were brought in, but all of my services are a lot. If not my parents, I would not come where I arrived.”
“I chose the whole box office”
Her talent continues in the pool. In the seventh grade, Bubritsky was connected to the girls’ team and moved to the senior team in the 10th grade. In 2018 she was selected with three other swimmers to fight for the place in the new Olympic Duett duet. “Spanish trainer Anna Treres She started training us and she opened my eye. The trainee started talking about the Olympic Games and we started to fight both places in a duet. In these moments I decided that I would go through the entire fund. “
“It was a very emotionally busy time. In the end we are all companies and we were a coherent team, but only two of the four Olympic duettes. It is not a simple situation with many tensions between us, because in the end I have to compete with them in the team team and compete against the place in a duet for the place in the duet.”
The gospel will be part of the Olympic duet in the competition for a place in the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020 together with Eden BleacherShe only received four competitions during a special training camp. “I remember talking to the TRS coach.
After she had been selected for the duo duo, she found that the hard work just started. During the campaign, the Corona epidemic broke out, the sports world was arrested and the Olympic Games were rejected for a year. “Before Tokyo, I had a clear goal to make a clear goal for the Olympic Games. It was. There was no other option. I stopped my life completely and didn’t look right.
Within the uncertainty, Bubritsky and Bakbar decided to use the challenge for positive places. The couple has significantly increased their training on land. “There were closings and we didn’t know if we came into the pool. We practiced much more professionally in the gym. In flexibility, choreography” we really strengthened the dry part, and that also helped us in the water.
During the Korona time, the games in Tokyo were held with serious separation restrictions between athletes from the various industries and non -attentive competitions. Bubritsky and Bakkar ended the appetite of 15 and Bubritsky to continue to a second Olympic Games: “Tokyo was in very strange circumstances because of the corona. Everything was small and not an audience. The real one.”
“Every day to bring your body to the edge”
Ariel President Replaced Eden Baacar in the duet duo during the Paris campaign. This time she made the trip to Paris Bubritsky: “I felt that I wanted and not this time.
In the past three years, President and Bubritsky have led the artistic swimming industry one step further. They became one of the best connected to the world: the first Israel to win two gold medals in the prestigious world round in Canada 2023 and China 2024.
Bubritsky (right) and president in the China competition (Photo: World Aquatics)
Bubritsky explains the magic behind the amazing success and the successes that they have never seen in the industry. “The constitution changed in 2023. We were among the first countries that opened the method. Suddenly we found that we could try to fight the podium. And this hunger for the results that had not yet started to awake.”
One of the highlights of Israeli duo was to win the two historical bronze medals during the European European Championship in 2024. “We thought that we can win at least one medal. We did it extra to prove that we were even better than the other competition.
Shelley Bubritsky (right) and Ariel President at the European Championships in 2024. “Moments that give more power” (Photo: private album)
The war and the events of October 7 in 2023 have a strong influence on Bubritsky and President, who continued to practice while their friends fought in Gaza. “It felt like a luxury. People walk through hell and I come to paddle in the pool. We came to training, but we weren’t there mentally. At the beginning of the war we had a very big wish to stop and end everything to help if possible.”
“At first it felt cut off from reality – in order to continue to practice eight hours in the pool, with our whole world in chaos and a kind of kind of ignore the situation,” said Bubritsky with the hard and complex experience, “I had to force myself to do something. Over time, we learned to recognize that this is our mission.
They took the feeling of mission with them to the Olympic Games in Paris. During the implementation of the technical duet, they were able to kidnap Israel with the exercise of the exercise in many gestures and with Israel to the sounds of “Shalom Aleichem”, “Israel Living” and “Haim”, excited and strengthened with Israel.
“We wanted a dance out of our soul, from the stomach. From the difficulties with which we prepared for the Olympic Games. It was the moment when I realized that I did something bigger than I would ever bring. In the end I worked for it. Even if the result was not exactly what we expected.
Bubritsky (right) and president at the Olympic Games in Paris (Photo: Simona Casttervili, The Israel Swimming Association)
They ended the games in Paris in 11th place, a record for the Israeli duet. At the end of the games in Paris, Bubritsky collected my body and spirit and began a six -month journey around the world: “I am at a time when I open myself again. I am concerned with a new equation in my life that does not include a competitive swimming.
Shoulder to cry on her
Bubritsky is not the only athlete in the family. Her brother Nir Bubritsky Played hockey until he entered the army and her sister A container The 14-year-old continues Shelley’s away as a athlete and won an artistic gym competition this month. “Despite the time in time, we are very close. The sport is the common camp between us,” says Bubritsky about the special relationship.
Bubritsky gives her little sister from the great experience that she gained and helps her to be the best version she can: “There are many similar things – those who are not there, those who do not experience the intensity, these relationships between the girls and trainers, sometimes only at the end. This is for them.
Now Bubritsky is slowly beginning to think about the next step in her life. In her heart she still longs for the pool that calls her: “There are things that are in the process. Sport will always be part of my life in one way or another. The team is very important to me and I visit her. Where I can – I will help even from the outside.
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