"Great Chronicle of Dishonor" is very much to the point Cekoni. I could analyze this in 2 different ways:
Romantic: Such an attitude towards an excellent athlete is way opposite to the actual olympic and athletic ideals. I will remind you that Greeks actually stopped bloody WARS to carry out the Olympics and demolished the cities' walls and fortresses as a symbolic action of honour to a good athlete.
Realistic: Inside and around each athletic event there is a lot of what I would call...."background activity" and what sosol calls "an American thing". Athlete-Stars are made out of nothing (the name starts with an "L"), undermining strategies are being put to action e.t.c. This is the "real world" : no honour, no ideals, (or at least very little).
But this doesn't change the actual facts: Zhenya is unique and he is the only one who will be remembered for a long, long time. And I think this is what counts. So you have to ignore the small things and look at the big picture.
dominique
P.S. That thing about ISU DVDs is a little shocking though.....