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I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can't eat, whatever you want to eat. And what kind of meal you're supposed to have, you can't.
Olga Korbut
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Olga Korbut
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 16
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Olga Valentinovna Korbut
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And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know.
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Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.
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And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
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Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.
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This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.
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Its better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
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Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
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I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.
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I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same.
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I am not interested in medals or titles. I dont need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
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And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.
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If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.
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Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was a musician. I start to travel with him through Europe also and around the former Soviet Union.
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