1973 USSR Gymnastics Display Olga Korbut floor exercise

Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut performs on floor exercise at the 1973 USSR Display at Wembley Arena in London.

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• Olga
• Korbut
• floor
• exercise

[eoislove1]

I swear...gymnastics was so much more beautiful in the 70's, 80's, and early 90's...these days the ptb may as well scrap artistry, dance, and music from women's floor altogether and just call it power tumbling...you know they want to. Compared to the ol' days, the choreography out there now just makes me -cringe-

Olga was, and will always be amazing.

[NYCBlonde]

Why even bring up Nadia? It's not a competition--Nadia came along after Olga, they were never serious competitors against each other. Just appreciate both athletes. Nadia was cool technical perfection who didn't need to "show emotion" to earn medals (why? It's not a show, it's an athletic competition, I hate that only the women/girls are expected to smile). And Olga was the joyous performer who turned the world on to her love of gymnastics. Both are immortals in this sport.

[garyj79]

Whats clearly evident looking through some of the comments on here is that some young gymnasts know 'ZIP' about the history about the sport, as some of you have tried to point out to these abnoxious kids that the floors and everything else were basic in comparison to todays equipment.......would Johnson and the like be doing double doubles on padded flooring???? we KNOW the answer to that one and so would Shawn !

[garyj79]

@gallantrynotgone - someone must have forced LT to say that then lol, by all accounts neither liked each other, especially Tourescheva as she was the more accomplished Gymnast but widely ignored in favour of Korbut.

[SAX713]

does anybody know the name of the song?

[Lovett19991]

i was a gymnastic but i was never able to do that thing that olga did at 0.59 i would have breaked every bone in my body.

[TayRooTay]

She always seems so happy!

[MarieCampbell3000]

I wish I could do gymnastics like her, but shes waaay to awesome.

[obybaby1]

it was so effortless for her<3

[Thesammi04]

I liked the 1972 floor rutine better. Its almost the same, but a bit different with thist awesome thing around 0:44. But Olga still rocks!

[kappaway]

I like her because she always smile =)

[gallantrynotgone]

I saw Olga Korbut perform twice. Video can only capture a fraction of what it was like to see her. She was so expressive with her face and body that words were unesscessary. Words fail me to describe it. She had a stage presence like a rock star. She also had the technical proficiency to back it up. (In 1996 Tourescheva admitted that Korbut was the better athlete). Perhaps we will see one of Olga pupils remind the world of how this can be done.