1958 Larissa Latynina
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Larissa Latynina has won more Olympic medals than any other athlete. She competed at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, the 1960 Rome Olympics, and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. She won a total of 18 medals, including 9 gold.
3 years ago 13
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Was this the competition where she was pregnant by her daughter?? Wow. 5 months pregnant?? Wow. I read it was 3 months but just being pregnant at all-it's amazing. I read in a book 'she managed to hide' her delicate condition and win the event. And her daughter told people for years she and her mom won all the medals. How cute! :)
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@AngelCutums You try getting out of bed during a difficult pregnancy. You're not even meant to lift a heavy box let alone your own body weight.
And also realize that none of what she did was on padded or sprung floor.
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@chocdave Just to round out your information I watched some footage of her doing that move at the 1964 Olympics and I suspect she did the same routine at the 1960 Olympics too.
It wasn't the full stomach beat, but she hit the lower bar with her hips and did a circle round it.
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@AngelCutums Well, I could see when a woman is pregnant...any type of strong movement can make you feel ill, so that's an extra challenge to be dealt with. Plus, you're more easily tired. I could see that having an effect.
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Michael phelps is gonna beat her record
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I don't know, it doesn't seem that difficult to do what she did at this specific competition. Let's realize that even before she was pregnant, she could do the splits, split jumps, back handsprings, fulls (on floor), etc easily. Seeing as these skills probably weren't pushing these athletes to their physical limits, since gymnastics was more artistic back then, I don't see how this was very difficult. Please correct if I'm wrong.
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didn't they smack their stomachs on the uneven bars back then? (i think they're called stomach beats). how could she have done that pregnant? and she doesn't look 5 months pregnant at all!!
LMA629 7 months ago
@LMA629 ...you actually didn't hit your stomach but the fold of your leg on the bars, and they didn't do those back then (Larissa ended her career having never done one). Those bars were very stiff and hard and broke a lot. It wasn't until more flexible rails came in during the 1960s that you started seeing that (the earliest film example I have is from 1966). If you look at Larissa on the medal platform, it's kinda funny, she stops sucking her gut in and this "pouch" shows up
chocdave 7 months ago