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HAND SIGNED WONDERFUL PHOTO OF OLYMPIC SUPERSTAR OLGA KORBUT-"SPARROW OF MINSK"
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HERE IS A WONDERFUL HAND SIGNED PHOTO OF OLYMPIC PHENOM OLGA KORBUT
PHOTO DEPICTS HER IN A GYMNASTICS ROUTINE
PHOTO IS 10 X 8 AND IN NICE CONDITION
PHOTO IS HAND SIGNED AND COA INCLUDED
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Olga Valentinovna Korbut (born 16 May 1955) is a Belarusian former gymnast.
Nicknamed the "Sparrow from Minsk", she 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,and was the inaugural inductee to the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1988.
While Korbut retired from gymnastics in 1977 at the age of 22, which was considered young for gymnasts of the period, Korbut's influence and legacy in gymnastics was far reaching.
Korbut's 1972 Olympic performances are widely credited as redefining gymnastics, changing the sport from emphasizing ballet and elegance to acrobatics and technique, as well as changing popular opinion of gymnastics from a niche sport to one of the most popular sports in the world.
Korbut, who has won four Olympic gold medals, is best known for her move, the "Korbut flip", a backflip performed on the uneven parallel bars, starting from a standing position on the high bar and then catching the same bar from below on the under swing.
Named after Korbut since she was the first to perform the skill at an international competition in 1972, the move has since been made illegal in the Olympic Code of Points.
After the 1972 Olympic competition, she also met United States President Richard Nixon at the White House.
About the meeting, Korbut said: "He told me that my performance in Munich did more for reducing the political tension during the Cold War between our two countries than the embassies were able to do in five years."
In addition to greatly publicizing gymnastics worldwide, she also contributed to a marked change in the tenor of the sport itself.
Prior to 1972, the athletes were generally older and the focus was on elegance rather than acrobatics.
In the decade after Korbut's Olympic debut, the emphasis was reversed.
Korbut, in her 1972, gold-medal Olympics, at 4 ft 11 in (1.50 m) and 82 pounds (37 kg), exemplified the deliberate and purposeful trend toward smaller women in sport.
SOURCE--WIKIPEIDA
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PHOTO IS 10 X 8 AND IN NICE CONDITION
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