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Her amazing routines, beautiful smile as well as her tears touched the hearts of the world. She brought youth — Korbut and her American peer Cathy Rigby were the standard-bearers of gymnastics' new breed of teenage prodigies.

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She won two individual gold medals in Balance Beam and Floor Exercise, and the third one in the team all-around competition. But her image as a representative of her sport stayed with Korbut; during the 1996 Olympic summer games in Atlanta, she was an official attaché for Belarus. Korbut demonstrated innovative gymnastic moves and became a favorite of the audience, winning three gold medals and a silver medal. Äktenskapet upplöstes dock år 2000.2001 gifte hon sig med Alex Voinich och påbörjade samtidigt en tjänst som gymnastiklärare i Olga Korbuts framgångar banade vägen för en ny sorts artistisk gymnastik, där kortvuxna (vid OS 1972 var hon 152 cm lång och vägde 39 kgNär Korbut visade upp sig för världen 1972 fick hon snart smeknamnet "Sparven från Minsk". 1974 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships She retired from competitive gymnastics after the 1976 Olympics. Her marriage to Bortkevich broke up in 2000; she remarried a year later. For gymnastics' newest star, life would not be the same. Though her smile never faded, Korbut was eclipsed in the public eye by Comaneci, a fourteen-year-old phenom who posted gymnastics' first perfect "tens."

Dessutom visade hon med sina tårar efter fallet på den olympiska barren (där hon till slut tog sig upp, avslutade sitt program och erövrade silver) ett mänskligt ansikte som låg i tiden. She once was wedded to Leonid Bortkevich. The same year, she also(Three decades of unforgettable moments in gymnastics. Fyra år efter den krossade Korbut började träna gymnastik som åttaåring, och hon började vid elva års ålder studera vid en sovjetisk idrottsskola ledd av hennes framtida tränare Den kortvuxna (åtminstone i unga år) Olga Korbut bildade skola inom gymnastiken. src="" alt="" class="gallery-slider__content__img" height=""

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"Americans who didn't know a thing about gymnastics when the Munich Olympics began were arguing at the end whether or not Korbut deserved a perfect 10 for her work on the beam," wrote Montville.

Oga Korbut, Mary Lou Retton, Nadia Comaneci, Bart Conner, Kurt Thomas, and more. src="" alt="" class="gallery-slider__content__img" height="" At age seventeen, Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut captured hearts everywhere at the 1972 Olympics. Olga Korbut brought qualities to Olympic gymnastics that few had seen before.She brought innovation — her backwards flips from the balance beam and the uneven bars became a staple of the sport's repertoire.

Olga Korbut, also known as the "Sparrow from Minsk", is a Belarusian, Soviet-born gymnast who won four gold medals and two silver at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

In 2000, she moved to Arizona and was appointed the Head Coach at Scottsdale Gymnastics and Cheerleading. 1974 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

1972 Summer Olympics She knew, as Korbut told same interviewer, that the Soviet secret service, the KGB, trailed her during those years.

Olga Korbut’s performance in Munich was the first time TV had found the gymnastics venue, and the whole world took a double take. That Korbut had to fight to be able to teach fitness classes for three hours a week illustrates how far the Olympic legend has tumbled. She took part in her first USSR championship in 1969 where she was allowed to compete as an underage 15 year old. In 2000, the couple got divorced. The following year, she graduated from the ‘Grodno Pedagogical Institute’ and became a teacher. "Through television, the American public saw a fascinating, delicate creature, the little girl down the street, who seemed as removed as possible from the unemotional, cold Communist stereotype perpetuated by her teammates," Paul Attner stated in a Washington Post piece.In 1978, she married Leonid Bortkevich, famous singer of the Belarusian folk band ‘Pesniary’ and gave birth to their son, Richard. Olga Korbut, also known as the "Sparrow from Minsk", is a Belarusian, Soviet-born gymnast who won four gold medals and two silver at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Her first big success came in 1970 when she became a champion of the USSR and joined the USSR national team.

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