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Olga Korbut

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I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.


— Olga Korbut


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I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level.


— Olga Korbut


#high #high level #i #i think #level

I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can't eat, whatever you want to eat. And what kind of meal you're supposed to have, you can't.


— Olga Korbut


#gymnastics #hard #i #kind #meal

I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.


— Olga Korbut


#been #before #big #championship #compete

It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.


— Olga Korbut


#rich #soul #than

Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.


— Olga Korbut


#anyway #first #forgot #god #good

Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.


— Olga Korbut


#anything #because #coach #disappointed #friend






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There Korbut's first trainer was Elena Volchetskaya an Olympic gold medalist (1964) but Olga Korbut was moved to Knysh's group a year later. In the same year Olga completed a backflip-to-catch on the uneven bars; this was the first backward release move ever performed by a woman on bars. After the boards displayed a score of 9.

Olga Valentinovna Korbut (Belarusian: Вольга Валянцінаўна Корбут Volha Valancinaŭna Korbut; Russian: Ольга Валентиновна Корбут) (b. May 16 1955 in Hrodna) also known as the "Sparrow from Minsk" is a Belarusian Soviet-born gymnast who won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympic Games in which Olga Korbut competed in 1972 and 1976 for the USSR team.

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