When old timers complain about ‘lack of artistry’ in modern gymnastics, they harken back to the great Soviet girls.
nastia2012:
Olga did not have a fairy tale career, and is remembered for many things that were out of her control, including age falsification, the 1984 boycott, and the “injuries” that kept her and Irina Baraksanova out of the all around in 1985 …
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She was first (1983) to compete Onodi. Yes, that’s another named gymnastics skill bungled by the FIG WTC.
This song happens to be called “Eighties”
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