Nellie Kim gave an interview to Sports.ru for their new series commemorating 40th anniversary of the 1980 Olympics. Kim talked about the Olympics, dealing with the USSR breaking down, moving to the US, and her career at the...
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Legendary Soviet gymnast Liudmila Tourishcheva and her husband, an Olympic champion in track Valeriy Borzov recently visited Minsk to attend the European Games and talked to Sport.tut.by about their careers, life during the...
Belorussian rhythmic gymnast Liubou Charkashyna holds a very high position in the FIG – she’s the President of the Athletes Comission and, as such, is one of the members of the Executive Committee. One of the roles of...
Svetlana Baitova who won team gold at the 1988 Olympics recently talked to Igor Kozlov of Sputnik.by about her career and about life after retiring from competitive sports. Q: Svetlana, this year marks 30 years since you became...
For several years, Olga Korbut has been accusing her former coach Renald Knysh of molesting, raping and beating her. Knysh categorically denied the accusations and for year Korbut’s been accused of lying and...
Olga Korbut first publicly accused her coach, Renald Knysh, of raping and physically abusing her in 1999, long before the #metoo movement. Knysh continues to deny the accusations and Korbut continues to insist on them. This...
Olga Korbut posted on her Facebook that during a recent trip to Moscow she found her own gold Olympics medal from 1972 at the Sports Museum there. Korbut claims the medal was stolen from her a few days after the victory. It is...
Besides “ending the Cold War“, Olga Korbut has done some actual charitable acts, such as making donations to an animal shelter and a children’s hospital in Arizona. Last year Olga Korbut sold her medals at an...
Olga Korbut was recently on a Russian talk show “Pust Govoryat” [Let them talk] telling about her life in the US. She also described her first visit to the States in March of 1973 and the meeting with the US President...