Former boxing world champion, the Mayor of Kiev calls the Ukrainians to “fight until the end” and wants to give the example.
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With its ice cabinet physics, Vitali Klitschko, 50, multiplies these days videos to mobilize the Ukrainians, which he believes they “are ready to fight until the end”. History to give the example, the mayor of Kiev, mountain of muscles culminating 2.02 meters, ensures that he will defend “hand weapons” the capital where he was elected in 2014. “Stop doing business With Russia, “he said to the Westerners, which was once appreciated by antirussia as Prorussses de his country. He called on the international community to help to avoid a “humanitarian disaster”, in one of his filmed messages and addressed to the 330,000 subscribers of his Instagram account.
An intractable boxer
After karate and kickboxing in its infancy, Vitali Klitschko is moving towards the English boxing. If it goes to the Atlanta Olympic Games (1996) because of positive control at the Nandrolone, its amateur successes (195 victories, 15 defeats) the propel to the professional world. In the pros, he has 45 wins, including 41 by K.-O., for two defeats, and collects the heavyweight world champion belts. He announced his retirement in November 2005, before signing one of the most beautiful comedback on the Rings, in 2008, then hanging the gloves definitively, in 2013.
A sporty sporty
Born on July 19, 1971 in the former Soviet Republic Kyrgyz – became, in 1991, Kyrgyzstan – Vitali Klitschko arrived in Kiev in the mid-1980s. His father, General of the Soviet Army, participated in the Cleaning the Chernobyl site. Unlike his brother, Vladimir, another heavyweight champion, Vitali Klitschko never won an Olympic medal for his country, but he regularly shows his attachment to Ukraine, even on the rings. In 2004, in full “Orange Revolution”, he boxed in Las Vegas, wearing a square of orange fabric on his shorts, supporting opposition to Viktor Yanukovich, Prorusse.
A popular figure
After a failed attempt to conquest Kiev City Hall, since 2006, Vitali Klitschko is elected in Parliament in 2012. At the head of the Liberal Party Oudar (Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for reforms, whose acronym means “blow to” Fist “), which becomes a major force of the opposition during the Legislative of 2012, it is one of the main opponents of President Yanukovich. Figure of the Euromaidan movement, these pro-European events organized at the end of 2013 and early 2014, denouncing corruption in Ukraine, the former champion is sensed for the presidential election. He joins Petro Porochenko and was elected, in 2014, Mayor of Kiev.