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
years thank-god together
Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.
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.
simple years games
And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.
years three fifty
I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago.
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.
sports team thinking
I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level.