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.
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… - Olga Korbut
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…
- Olga Korbut
And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration. - Olga Korbut
And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.
I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is. - Olga Korbut
I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.
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. - Olga Korbut
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.
Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder. - Olga Korbut
Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.
This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows. - Olga Korbut
This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.
I am not interested in medals or titles. I dont need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it. - Olga Korbut
I am not interested in medals or titles. I dont need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
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. - Olga Korbut
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.
And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star. - Olga Korbut
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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