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Gymnastics instructor Zina Mironov teaches student Mavis Atlas about agility and
balance with this swirling stick exercise.
Zina is saddened by the Russian
boycott of the Los Angeles Olympics.
"We, and they, are missing a lot. I
have a deep, deep feeling that politics
should not enter into such great
events as the Olympic Games. They
bring peace to the world.
"Vladimir thought (President
Jimmy) Carter was right to break
with the Russians" when the United
States boycotted -the Moscow Olym-
pics in 1980 after the Soviet Union
invaded Afghanistan. "I think it was
wrong. It hurt people's lives. Athletes
worked all their lives to perform in
the Olympics. The boycott didn't help
anything; it only hurt the athletes.
Who is suffering? Only the athletes."
Many of the Russian coaches and
athletes are still friends of the
Mironovs. The couple manages to
travel to major international meets
on occasion.
Several years ago, at the world
championships at Strassbourg,
France, members of the Russian
team invited the Mironovs to have a
drink to celebrate the anniversary of
the Russian Revolution. "They knew
it was also the anniversary of our
leaving Russia," Zina explained.
"They were just pretending."
•
aving the courage to leave
Russia does not mean
that everything has been
a bed of the correct
number and color of roses for the
Mironovs. After spending five
months in the Italian transit camp,
the family arrived in Wilmington,
'Del. in April 1975, Zina has a cousin
there. Zina was soon invited to be an
assistant professor at Queens College
in New York where she worked for a,
year, but half the department was
fired because of New York's mid-
1970s financial woes.
Coming to Detroit to work for a
"friend," the Mironovs said they were
unpaid for three months and had to
strike out on their own. .They formed
a fledgling program at the Jewish
Community Center, they worked for
the City of Detroit's Department of
,
"I was not invited to judge
championships, I was not
permitted to gato the 1984
Olympics . . . all because I
am Jewish."
Parks and Recreation. Vladimir con-
tinues his work with the city, Zina is
on the faculty of Detroit Country Day
School, and they - try to find private
students for the basement "studio"
Vladimir has constructed in their '
home.
The Mironovs are bitter that
they had to leave the JCC after seven
years. They claim the Center has a
"lack of interest in physical culture"
and that "when we had no job, the
blacks in the city gave us a job, but
not the Jewish Center."
Dr. Marty Oliff, director of phys-
ical education at the JCC, said lack of
enrollment was the major factor in
canceling the Mironovs' program.
"The interest had basically died out," .
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