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'You in Gymnastics' Soviet documentary - Part 3 of 3

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'You in Gymnastics' is a Soviet documentary filmed in 1978 about gymnasts on the national team. It features Yelena Mukhina, Maria Filatova, Natalia Shaposhnikova and more Soviet greats during training.

Previous parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RW9_GSOzX0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBjtRvVE5aU
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  • Mukhina must have been sick or injured during this video. She looks absolutely miserable. Given the events that would soon unfold, the whole thing is very depressing to see.

  • she was paralyzed and she recently died.

    very sad, my x girlfreind is a gymnast so i heard alot of gymnastics storys.

    I am an athlete also , gymnast have all my respect, very tough women

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  • @beautifulsarah100 Helen broke her neck for 3 weeks before the Olympics in Moscow. She said in an interview that had prayed to God to send her a minor injury to take a break from training. And received a "vacation" - for life - for 26 years. She could not be happy that broke his neck. This is nonsense!

  • what was Klimenko shouting at Yelana when she was on the beam?

  • The routines that were done on the old setup of the uneven bars were agonising. Likewise, the beam was then still just a bare block of polished wood (international standards didn't specify a covering until 1980).

  • Maldito Klimenko...nunca valoró a la grandiosa Yelena Mukhina!! (la cual era mejor k la Comaneci)

  • Can someone translate what Klimenko and Elena are talking after 5:52? please :)

  • @helenweb

    I think she is Svetlana Agapova.

  • I don't like Mikhail Klimenko, he was someone who could not stop!

  • @beautifulsarah100 It was actually a couple of weeks until the Games :( For her to have that thought when her injury happened is a testimony to her grueling regimen.

  • Whose the girl at 1.38? Does anyone know?

  • Elena said that when she was lying on the ground with a broken neck right after the accident, her first thought was, Thank God I don't have to go to the Olympics (1980, which were a few months away, as I remember). All through this documentary she looks pitifully sad and hopeless - which was sort of weird because she truly was a great competitor. I guess there are some things we'll never know the whole story on.

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