Olga Korbut Uneven Bars with Korbut Flip slow motion replay (1972 Olympics)

[cj222100]

why did they ban standing on the high bar & this move? i'm assuming cause it's dangerous, but I thought that was how you got bigger scores, by taking more risk. did she win gold in AA or bar EF? cause the commentator said something about second

[lkofron]

How can you swing back from the low bar to the high bar backwards without being able to see where you are moving and catch the high bar how she does? Is it just practice, luck or both? Wish they did things like that now.

[xrictinagymnastics]

It doesn't matter what her score was. Everyone knows that Olga was a perfect 10

[smeetfan1234]

She created the korbut flip, and then Elena Mukhina did a korbut flip with a full twist. The Soviets sure knew what they were doing.

[caguy562]

Olga deserves the perfect 10.....Wake up judges!!

[xrictinaaa1]

When I think of my favourite gymnasts I always put Olga and Nadia in a different category. It doesn't really matter if you get a 10 or 9.8 when you can change the face of a sport and make a million people all over the world to fall in love with you in 40 seconds. That's what both Olga and Nadia did. Lots of gymnasts were innovative and help gymnastics evolve to the breathtaking sport they are today but it was Olga and Nadia who opened the door for them all.

[ludmila03000]

Olga Korbut is stronger than Nadia Comaneci

[ludmila03000]

10.00

[LunaIsAce]

0:24 'not like any human i know' .. but.. the announcer sounds like an android..

[jujusa77]

Damn amazing!!!!!!!!!

[CoriAMalone]

No offense to Nadia, but this should have been the first perfect 10 in the Olympic games.

A 9.8... you kidding me... find me 2 tenths of deductions in that routine.

[ludmila03000]

10.00 good

[Sultanbruney]

best of the BEST!

[DARZAMAT21]

The best ! Amazing !

[jamjar1314]

I stumbledupon the original on another website. I have to admit, shamefully I had never seen this before. The reason I'm watching this vid is that I could not see what she actually done at the start as it happened so fast.....so I had to come here and watch the slow mo.

Insane. That is all.

[dcs002]

Nadia Comaneci 1976 didn't hold her landing well. She stuck it, but she was off balance & she covered it by turning right away. She absolutely deserved the 1976 gold medal, but Olga's 1972 routine was FAR better! Olga was in perfect control at every instant throughout her routine, and I still can't get over that backward release move! She had poise & charm, whereas I think Nadia had technical skills but less expression. Uneven bars were such a completely different sport in the 70's.

[PinkDuracellBunny]

i have been doing gymnastics since I was 5 and I am now 14, 9 years of solid gymnastics, and I am rubbish compared to her. Her and Nadia comaneci are my idols, i would love to be like them one day. but i doubt that very very much. ): To my idols! Stars of there time, they dont come much better.

[khonfosh]

This is very impressive. I first saw that in a video clip about weightlifting featuring Alexander Kurlovich the great Russian weightlifter and he was from the same town as Olga, so the clip featured Olga breifly on the uneven bar and I was speechless and stunned to see that. How come now a day gymnists don't even come close to this 70's performance, wow, that is all I can say

[mrbasketbal98]

This routine is illegal now because it is so dangerous

[kellyrocks15]

for those who are comparing Korbut and Comenci you have to remember it was too different events Nadia got the first ever 10 on BB not UB total different mentality. I just have to point that out. But yes it sure did deserve the 10

[Lovett19991]

the judges were idiots -.-" olga deserved a perfect 10.

nothing against nadia she was great too.

[mikitavi]

@Lovett19991

Agree 100%. Not trying to poo poo Nadia, she did deserve her 10 and her gold, but Olga should have been the first person in the world to receive the perfect 10. Risky moves executed perfectly, perfect angles, awesome flow, originality, PERFECT landing... Seriously, HOW WAS THIS NOT A 10!?!?!?!?!

[Raymoiful]

@mikitavi

Nadia was not the first to score perfect 10 and Olga would not be the first anyway. Vera Caslavska was the first gymnast in the world to receive 2 perfect scores of 10 at the 1967 European Championships.

[mikitavi]

@Raymoiful

Honey, I like reading up on the history of gymnastics and I was aware of that fact myself. What I meant was the first perfect ten at the Olympics (which sad but true is what really matters) and I'm pretty sure you know that's what I meant.

[Raymoiful]

@mikitavi

You should wrote at the Olympics, if it was what you meant, darling. And Nellie Kim received the perfect 10 after her floor routine and another perfect 10 for vault at the same event like Nadia (1976 Olympics) and nobody mentions it. Nadia just won the hearts of people, so did Olga and she didn't need to score perfect 10 for that.

[mittensginger1]

@Raymoiful

sounds like someone's trying to sound like a smart-ass know it all!

[ParanoidAndroidDA]

I love her dismount. I wish the Korbut flip was still allowed, it'd be great to see some of the top bar workers today (Tweddle, Kexin, Mustafina etc) try it.

[MrRob19881988]

I really think the judges in gymnastics grade to tough.

[lkofron]

I don't understand how she can catch the high bar moving backwards and not being able to actually see it! It must be sheer practice and precision.

[pabecral01]

This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in years. Don't care if the cocksuckers judges didn't think this was a 10.0 I would've given her a 12.0 for all I care. Nadia routine was great and I think she deserved the 10.0, but Olga in this routine was beyond perfection, no scale apply to her here...

[AngelicPhantom]

Those commentators had me laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. It was totally obvious that this little girl they were talking about was doing things people did not think possible.

That last flip... My god she was a legend.

[bikkutoria98]

Oh my gosh!! I think Olga was the greatest, did you see that flip. But then those judges wouldn't give her the score I dont think she deserved and, they banned her famous flip. Olga will live on Forever in my heart!! :D!!!

[lauracoupe13]

this is amazing, but does nobody else think that the way her lower body hits the lower bar at 0.32 looks really odd and fake? i'm not sure what to think of it :\ the flip is outstanding though

[lindalyricluver]

that was amazing :O

how old was she, and do you know what her deduction was for?

[MISSLISH1A]

unreal, I had to watch several times because it was so fascinating. Thank you for sharing a slow motion version.

[mahvachcheidani]

i sobbed then and i sob now for olga korbut captured people's hearts; on this she was champion

[MsEmm22]

i heard that gymnastics moves now are much harder but from what i see it doesnt look like it this is amazing and looks much harder and more dangerous than the ones shawn or nastia do no offense to the great us gymnasts though

[ThePennywiser]

why does the commentator sound like something from The exorcist movie??

[smithjj61614]

I remember watching that on TV. I was 16. I couldn't believe it. I thought it was too low of a score too. I remember one standard of greatness: when they change the rules because of you--you're great. George Mikan was the greatest basketball player of his time. They created the three second rule because of him. Jim Brown was the greatest lacrosse player. They changed the rules because of him. No longer could you carry the ball more than a few steps.

[bubblezed]

the bars look kinda close to each other. makes it look more dangerous than now

[rukiaAndsakura4ever]

damn, that's what called descrimination in my eyes. Seriously Olga is truly great. I believe that that performance deserved full 10!!! i dont even know what is there to improve.

Judges didnt mind giving Nadia Comaneci a full 10.

[yellowbanana104]

@rukiaAndsakura4ever The only thing to improve is to change the year to 1976, then she would get the 10.

[markwoodland1]

omg