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Olga Valentinovna Korbut [a] (born 16 May 1955) is a Belarusian retired gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union. Nicknamed the " Sparrow from Minsk ", she won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympic Games , in which she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the Soviet team, [ 1 ] and was the inaugural inductee to the ...
Now a U.S. citizen, the former Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut, who dazzled audiences at the 1972 Munich Games, has sold off her Olympic medals. As rumors swirl that she is "almost destitute," Korbut ...
Comăneci took over the media spotlight from gymnast Olga Korbut, who had been the darling of the 1972 Munich Games. [36] Comăneci was the first Romanian gymnast to win the Olympic all-around title. She also holds the record as the youngest ever Olympic gymnastics all-around champion at age 14.
Olga Korbut, who competed at her first Olympics in 1972, was popular with fans and the media for her daring moves. That year, she won four medals, including golds in balance beam and floor exercise. She won two more medals in 1976 and finished her career with six overall. [ 12 ]
Barthold Wayne Conner [1] (born March 28, 1958) is a retired American Olympic gymnast.He was a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team and won two gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
An SNL icon thanks to her iconic character work (including Roseanne Roseannadanna, Baba Wawa and Emily Litella) and hilarious parodies (such as Lucille Ball, Patti Smith and Olga Korbut), Gilda ...
A passenger aboard the Delta flight that flipped upside down in a crash-landing in Toronto on Monday recalled how within seconds of the wheels touching down, his body was turned fully sideways and ...
The early IGHOF was founded in 1972 by Frank Wells of the National Gymnastics Clinic. It had only one member, Olga Korbut, and disbanded in the late 1970s. The current museum was founded in 1986 by Glenn Sundby, publisher of the International Gymnast Magazine.