I’m one of those who feel we should resist calling out mainstream media when they make mistakes.
Bite your tongue for a few months. Let’s take advantage of increased attention.
After Tokyo, popular media will go back to mostly ignoring Gymnastics.
Natalia Yurchenko:
“This vault is in the code of points under my own name.
Indeed, I was the first gymnast to do this vault during an official competition. It was in Moscow during the Competition in 1982. …
Few people know that the first gymnast who performed this vault was a male gymnast!
It was invented by Russian gymnast Victor Levinkov during a national competition in Former USSR.
But this vault was not well accepted in the male Russian gymnastics. So my trainer has decided that I should do it and I began to learn it.
First I thought that my coach has gone crazy and wanted me to break my neck. …
NataliaYurchenko.com
Click PLAY or watch Natalia in 1982 on YouTube.
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