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1980 Olympics Gymnastics Titov on Mukhina Injury

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Yuri Titov speaks about the injury to Soviet gymnast Elena Mukhina just days prior to the start of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games.

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  • I think it's despicable, when asked if she will compete again, to lie and say she won't because of her age. This man lead a system which pushed young girls to their breaking point, then threw them away when they were no longer useful. There's a place in Hell for this man.

  • After all she did for her country, they blame her, the victim. That girl deserved better than that.

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  • can i have a french traduction please? Thanks!! =)

  • I speak three languages and I've yet to find a word fitting for this Jerk

  • @krakenwave I agree. By 1979 her performances had lost some of their sparkle. 2 Years is a lifetime in gymnastics.

  • Yuri Titov was like a monster, and not only for his team. This bad influence also corrupted the judges in those times. Soviets harmed themselves and everybody else around them. Despicable!

    Muckina, RIP!

  • @krakenwave Can you clarify: you're saying if she wouldn't have been injured, she wouldn't have made it in 80? Why not, if she was #1 just 2 years earlier?

  • Shame on you, Yuri!

  • she actually kept trying to convince her coach that the move was too dangerous for a woman because of the height required. female gymnasts are very short, so it's hard for them to get that kind of height. every time she performed it, she got injured. she told her coach she would break her neck one day but he just shrugged her off and said that she wasnt the kind of person who broke their neck. jackass.

  • what a jackass. it wasnt her fault!! her coach kept pushing her to do the thomas salto! her first thought after snapping her spine was "at least i don't have to go to the olympics"

  • Typical lying sack of cow plop communist. Like all of them. Cheaters, Liars, users and above all, I should say, below all, heartless bastards. I come from a communist nation. At age os 16 I made the 1976 Olympic team free and clear. However I was knocked off the team to give way to a more "EXPERIENCED" swimmer and was told that I had to train hard to make the Moscow games in 1980. I told them to get bent and to shove Moscow up their ass. I never competed again and I was banned from training.

  • @revofree

    "Where I go to practice tricking ..."

    heheheheh

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