Sports breeds the strong and the brave
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Who among you has not dreamed of becoming an astronaut as a child? The development of our cosmonautics is going so fast that the current fifth- and sixth-graders should be ready to explore our neighboring planets - Mars, Venus. Someone will be a builder of new spaceships, someone will fly on these ships. 
To realize all this helped them sports, regular training. Therefore, as soon as possible determine the right choice of sport. Physical culture and sports have been and remain faithful companions in the lives of famous Soviet cosmonauts. Even as schoolchildren they played soccer, volleyball, basketball, swam well, ran, jumped, skied, skated.
- I would probably never have become an astronaut," says German Titov, "if I had not been addicted to sports from a very young age. Even as a child I loved mobile games, then I became fond of gymnastics, bicycling and swimming.
Valentina Nikolaeva-Tereshkova considers sport to be the best friend and helper of all cosmonauts. - All of us long before the preparation for space flights loved sports. Sports and "pre-space" training helped us to endure all the difficulties associated with a space flight.
Yuri Gagarin was a versatile athlete from childhood: he played basketball, was fond of athletics and diving, was good at skiing and gymnastics. His love for aviation sports led him to the Orenburg Aviation School.
Excellent physical training is necessary for an aviator. That is why cadets spend a lot of time on sports. Strong, hardened people are able to reach the clouds, and constant training, morning exercises, physical exercises give hardening. Hundreds of stadiums, sports grounds and gyms, swimming pools are open for our youth.
Schoolchildren are engaged in children's sports schools, in sports sections of secondary schools, in stadiums and in the Palaces of Pioneers, Palaces of Sports. Here is what wrote All-Union Starosta, as people called Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin. He was very concerned about the health and physical education of the younger generation.
"We need comprehensively developed people, and sports will play a big role in this. But sport should not turn into naked record-breaking.
Our athletes who show outstanding sports results are examples of exceptional development and health. But, of course, it should not be thought that such results are available only to singles. What today is possible for one, tomorrow becomes the property of many.
The whole history of sports records speaks of this. They improve from year to year. World records in running, swimming, lifting weights, high jump and long jump, in all sports without exception, shown half a century ago, are now far surpassed. What was once considered a world record is now the achievement of athletes of the first, second and even third category.
Physical culture and sport
The performance of sport reflects the level of physical culture. Sport helps to check the correctness of the methods used to develop and strengthen the body. And the improvement of records is the evidence of success not only of individual athletes, but also of the whole organization of physical culture and sports. So, each of you guys, if you really want, can be a master of sports.
Of course, there is no universal recipe for this. You need desire, perseverance, will. You should take the baton from the older generation of Soviet athletes, continue to fight for the high title of world champions, to break records. A little time will pass, and you will part with the school. There is a wide field of activity ahead.
The country needs people of all professions, and there is an interesting and useful business for everyone. Who will stand at the machine, who will take the wheel of a combine harvester, who will put on the white coat of a doctor, and who will return to his native school as a teacher. You must prepare yourself for great labor for the good of the Motherland. And in this the best helper for you is sport.
