Nadia Comaneci will forever be remembered as the ... but it was another Soviet Union entrant, the diminutive Olga Korbut, who captured her imagination -- and that of the international audience ...

Nadia Comaneci can still deliver a perfect ... As for the picture. That’s Olga Korbut. She’s Russian. She won three gold medals at the 1972 Olympics in Munich and added team gold in Montreal.

Olga Korbut, of the Soviet Union ... At the following Summer Olympics in Montreal, Nadia Comaneci, only 14, received the first perfect 10 in gymnastics. Olga’s groundbreaking ’72 performance ...

Forty years ago, at the Munich Olympics, Olga Korbut became the first female ... Instead, the star of that Olympiad was Romania's Nadia Comaneci, who at age 14 earned the sport's first perfect ...

There are few Olympians who can say they redefined their sport, but that is what former Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut did at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics. She won balance beam, floor exercises and team ...

In an apt tribute, The Hindu on July 23, 1976 wrote: “What the Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut began in Munich (Olympics) four years ago, Nadia Comaneci has completed in Montreal — turning ...

Reputations: Olga Korbut - The Gymnast, Her Coach, Her Rival And The President is broadcast on BBC Two on Tuesday 28 August at 2100 BST. Russian athlete Olga Korbut began a tiny thaw in the Cold War ...

Olga Korbut had endeared herself to the crowd ... "Not by any human that I know of." Four years before Nadia Comaneci earned the first ever perfect 10 at the Olympics, Korbut came agonisingly ...

Kerri Strug may not have won as many titles and World Championships as Simone Biles, Olga Korbut, or Nadia Comaneci. But she is still counted among the greatest gymnasts of all time. Having shown ...