Olga Korbut
Olga Korbut
Olga Valentinovna Korbut, also known as the "Sparrow from Minsk", is a Belarusian former gymnast who 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...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionGymnast
Date of Birth16 May 1955
CityGrodno, Belarus
CountryRussian Federation
adult future gymnastics kids lost russian-athlete separate
And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.
motivational sports gymnastics
If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.
sports strong gymnastics
Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
gymnastics creation
But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
gymnastics want world
Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without Olga.
kids gymnastics years
Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.
gymnastics tape life-is
Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.
gymnastics world may
But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.
gymnastics people world
How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.
gymnastics six nineteen
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.
gymnastics want negative
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.
wall fun gymnastics
I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.
life gymnastics thinking
I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same.
gymnastics born duty
Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.