Olga Korbut
Olga Korbut
Olga Valentinovna Korbut, also known as the "Sparrow from Minsk", is a Belarusian former gymnast who won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympic Games, in which she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the Soviet team...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionGymnast
Date of Birth16 May 1955
CityGrodno, Belarus
CountryRussian Federation
gymnastics people world
How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.
gymnastics world may
But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.
kids gymnastics years
Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.
gymnastics want world
Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without Olga.
fighting needs titles
I am not interested in medals or titles. I dont need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
gymnastics creation
But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
years thank-god together
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.
courage giving-up thinking
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.
gymnastics six nineteen
Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.
sports team games
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.
motivational sports gymnastics
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.
interested love public russian-athlete
I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
adult future gymnastics kids lost russian-athlete separate
And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.
helps russian-athlete
But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.