Korbut Flip linked to this routine, Pak Gyong Sil on Bars at the 1991 Worlds.
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The Pak on Bars is named for her.
Pak’s 4’4″ tall teammate was Kim Gwang Suk, who claimed to be age-17 at the Barcelona Olympics. Bela was not impressed.
Kim Gwang Suk … is known for both her exemplary uneven bars work and for her involvement in one of the most prominent age falsification scandals in gymnastics …
Kim … performed her own original release move, a Tkatchev-front flip … The skill came to be known in the Code of Points as the Counter-Kim …
Kim Gwang Suk was World Bars Champion 1991 …
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As a result of the falsification, the North Korean women’s gymnastics team was banned from the 1993 World Championships. …
Kim, however, was permitted to keep the medals she had won in international events, including her 1991 World Championships gold. …
North Korea’s most recent age falsification suspension — this time for Hong Su Jong — is expiring. I wonder if those totalitarian bureaucrats will be more careful, in future?
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