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
lying people world
This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.
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.
games competition world
I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
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.
position russian-athlete saw seventeen
No it's wrong, I had different youth, in my position as gymnastics, or so I saw all the world before I was sixteen, seventeen years old.
helps russian-athlete
But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.
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.
interested love public russian-athlete
I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
oh russian-athlete work
This is why I like my coach, because of that she never said oh that's not good. He just told, we need to work more, harder, that's all.
care deed good happy richard russian-athlete son
And then Richard was, my son was born, and this is another new deed to take care of him and I very happy I have a very good family.
lie people russian-athlete
Because you know some people can lie. I can't. You can see my eyes, right away, if I. And I will say it like this if I will lie to you.
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.