Natalia Yurchenko documentary - Part 1 of 2
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thanks
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i like the slightly psychadelic dream sequence!
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I love that the coach is yelling out grades/marks for their flips like in school. He even gives a girl an "edinitsa", which is like the equivalent of F-minus. Brutal.
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@LMA629 I heard it too.. really weird!
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did i hear one of them say "thank you" in English at around 5:14??
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Natalia was born in a place called Norilsk - even for the USSR they don't come much more extreme - or grim. One of the coldest, Northernmost inhabited places on earth, it was a originally a gulag. Horribly polluted, freezing and with infrastructure and buildings now crumbling, life expectancy is in the early 40s Check it out - both its sad history and the many pics on places like Flickr and Google maps etc.
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@GymFloozie Really? What more do American gymnasts need to do besides going 1-2 in the all-around? You're being a bit unfair.
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@gymnasticsloverxoxo it may have been before it was on youtube....
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Cinematography was clearly not an important part of Soviet film making. This video has an eerie feel to it.
A life of few and simple pleasures, almost no distractions, and lots of hard work - that's what makes a champion at this level. This is why the Soviets DOMINATED for so long. And also why Romania did. And why America never did and never will.
GymFloozie 2 years ago 9
The cinematography gives it such a spooky feeling, like you're going into the deep, dark communist Russia all of us in American were taught to be afraid of. I love this documentar so much!
GymFloozie 2 years ago 9