Gymnastics In The Summer Olympics - Part 1 of 16

Nice documentary about the olympic history of artistic gymnastics from 1956 to 1996. It's in French.

1956 Olympics, Melbourne (Australia)
Gymnasts: Takashi Ono JPN, Viktor Chukarin URS; Ágnes Keleti HUN, Larissa Latynina URS
(If you recognise other gymnasts please comment)

Check out my channel for more of this documentary!
Competitors and results here:
http://www.gymn-forum.com/results/Olympics/1956_Melbourne/1956_Games_main.html

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Sports

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• artistic
• gymnastics
• gymnastique
• artistique
• szertorna
• torna
• olympic
• games
• olimpia
• 1956
• melbourne
• australia
• ausztrália

[themightycelestial]

¿Qué?

[AngryWhiteGurl]

French is such a beautiful language...I wish I understood what they are saying (:

[LeCalixx]

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[MixViewsOfContortion]

@veevee305 her father is not a survivor he is dead at auschuitz

[veevee305]

At 1:44 the commentator talks about the "dominance of the USSR" and talks about Keleti. She is 35 years old and her father is a survivor of Auschwitz.

At 2:37 is the part about Latynina. He explains that she is the winner of the women's competition and had in her career thus far won 18 medals--9 of them gold.

Is this at all helpful? The French is very fast and hard to catch; I would be a lot better if I could read it, but I can't, so if it helps, I'll keep doing it for the other parts.

[veevee305]

At 0:45 they speak about the intense competition between the USSR and Japan, and Ono's "form and control" on the bar.

At 1:29 they mention that Chukarin won the PB event finals and speak more about the USSR and Japan (but I couldn't catch exactly).

[Anax68]

Have thought that myself too!!! lol  Though men had more difficult than women!!!

[arielbrynner]

larissa is the best

[PJacinto]

LOL!

[dancelife450]

if back then was now I would have won a medal

I can do al that stuff!

Now, it's big business baby

[jmburry]

Cool to see the beginnings of Rhythmic Gymnastics in the group setting that they had here!

[caramelcreamsauce]

The gymnast at 0:44 has some awesome form.