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#VintaGymnastics – Olga Korbut

Everytime I think of Olga, I can’t keep myself from smiling. Her routines were superb, done with such ease and cheerfulness, just a joy to watch.  Especially her uneven bars and beam routines are unique, including her own signature elements,

#VintaGymnastics – Larisa Latynina

Via Three Olympics with a crop  of 18 medals- 9 gold, recently surpassed by Michael Phelps, winning team gold, all-around gold and an event final gold at the same Olympics. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. Ah,

#VintaGymnastics – Vera Caslavska

How can I describe the distinguished Vera? The gymnast  who competed at three Olympics,  won seven Olympic gold medals, received two scores of 10 at  the 1967 European Championships, trained with potato sacks and logs replacing beams during the Soviet

#VintaGymnastics. And so it starts…

Today we debut one new category, VintaGymnastics, that will basically reveal vintage gymnastics videos of yore. Vera Cáslavská, Larisa Latynina, Elena Leusteanu, Ludmilla Tourischeva, Olga Korbut, Nadia, Mary Lou Retton, Daniela Silivas, so many great gymnasts  with fabulous routines that the

Marius Urzica speaks about the Romanian MAG team

Marius Urzica (c) Sanatate si nutritie The greatest Romanian male gymnast of all times, now a coach at the National team, Marius Urzica, had shared his thoughts on the perspectives of the Romanian team. From his point of view, 2014

3 non-Romanian gymnastics performances I enjoyed in 2013

As we draw to the end of this year, I cannot help but wonder at how quickly it seems to have passed. 2013 was a year of transition, from an Olympic cycle to another. We left London behind and started