My childhood hero, the one who first made me find my place in the gym and of course she was under the tutelage of another sick and despicable man. It's comforting only that unlike him, the world will never forget her. Her name will live forever. Thank you for sharing this.

Olga enchanted us all at Munich. We'd simply never seen anyone like her. It's awful what gymnasts have had to go through. My god, she was incredible!

Olga is still my favorite gymnast, just love her!

I watched her live on TV! I'm 60 now. ❤her!

She is my hero..a legend..changed gymnastics singlehandedly as the world knows it...❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Very tough to go through as a child, Olga still inspires me then and now 💘 ❤

What a beautiful smile!

You are my friend, Olga, and I will always cherish our friendship 🌺

An incredible woman. She raised money for Chernobyl children. She will always be my favorite. We loved her soul! I saw her when she performed at Madison Square Garden when I was a kid. Enchanting. Truly special. Of course she’s telling the truth that her coach raped her. Fits his personality and she has no reason to lie about it. Very sad for her. I hope the best for her.

The First Lady of modern gymnastics!!

Olga, you will always be the 1st woman of Master Level Elite Gymnastics!

I feel like that amount of perfection comes with a large amount of hours of restriction and direction...like a CHILD doing this means hours and hours and hours and days and nights of repetition and extreme work..I can't imagine. it's incredible and also incredibly worrisome

@ball8kiwi

Жыл бұрын

an adult having this precision would be incredible, for some reason a child being a super soldier of gymnastics even more than those adults is a concern...for their childhood more than anything

I don't know why it makes me laugh that she was accused of bullying her pupils. I can just hear her saying something like, "Well, did they want to get gold medal or not?"

@sherineill6630

7 ай бұрын

Yet she doesn’t deny it. I love Olga but the fact that she was a truant coach is very sad.

@AT-cy7im

Ай бұрын

@@sherineill6630 gymanstics is difficult, she was the top and had been trained and beaten by that tyrant..... I don't think she bullied anyone, I think american are just sissies

Love her so much

we love the legacy of Olga.

"If it's true, it's between her and him". And this is why so many rapes go undiscussed. Even her teammates didn't want to hear about it.

@AT-cy7im

Ай бұрын

so so gross to hear that woman say that

¡Bravo Olga! You did great girl! So sad to hear what you went thru.I want you to know that l believe you.God bless ypu!

It's so interesting seeing the disconnect between knysh and everyone else. He admitted to hitting Korbut, I have no doubt he did much worse.

Olga and Ludmilla were my all time favorites.

Dorogaya Ol'ga, vy legenda! Ne tol'ko talantlivaya, no i chistaya i svetlaya. Vsego vam dobrogo. ❤❤❤

Olga, I was 10 living In Philadelphia; we hated anything Russian; but YOU transcended the Cold War; all the guys and girls fell in love with you; but kept silent...love you Olga Korbut!

@JuliaMroberts

23 күн бұрын

USA and the West brainwashed you and did cold war to the UssR and to the people living in the Ussr. USA and West did economic etc. blocade to the people in the Ussr precisely like USA and West are doing economic etc.blocade to the Russian Federation and to all ordinary russian people, to the russian gymnasts, eve n to russian cats etc. right now, 2022-2024.

Una gimnasta que me encantó siempre, fue Teodora Ungureanu, excelente, para mi la mejor rumana en Montreal 1976. Mereció mucho más reconocimiento, Nadia su amiga de la infancia, compañera de escuela, de gimnasio, de todas las actividades, la fue dejando de lado, hasta que se fue de Rumanía. La humanidad de Teodora, la llevó a no pedir nada, y bancarse los desaires. Esto lo digo con el mayor de los respetos.

Very interesting, horrifying and sad. Thanks for sharing.

If you compare many of Olga's comments with Jennifer Sey's words from the Nassar documentaries, it really makes you wonder what so many young gymnasts have suffered over the years. So thankful that we are now encouraged to speak out against injustice.

The female, English gymnast leaning on the beam, called Olga Korbut tawdry. What a rude comment from a nobody.

Soy una enamorada de Olga Korbut, la super admiro, también me encanta Ludmyla Tourischeva, años más tarde apareció Elena Mukhina, también fascinó, la lamentamos el horror de su final. ❤

Amazing that she survived all this dangerous tricks.

Magnificent Olga.

The fact she changed history and was being groomed and sexually assaulted just tells you how hard she was on herself and how strong she was/is. And it’s sad not everyone believed her because we have seen firsthand how abuse is allowed/ happened in gymnastics. ( Larry nassar)

Thank you!

Otra gimnasta que no puedo dejar de mencionar, fue Nelly Kim, maravillosa también. ❤

Да много Великолепная гимнасток заслуживает всяких похвал но Корбут останется непревзойдённой вот так она всем запала королева гимнастики❤❤❤

That was very interesting and disturbing.

@211jump

4 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed... Very chilling

Again a woman many years later reporting sad days of her past ! Instead of having told what was going on when it happened - - It later becomes difficult to believe it when it come out later !

Olga became instant celebrity, she met US president Nixon and world leaders and VIp people this is what Nadia wanted it she wants to make it in the UD as well but Nadia didn't meet any world leaders except the Romanian communist leader.

some of her routines were definitely worthy of a 10

I wonder if they did give Korbut drugs to delay puberty and if so what drugs? Of course extreme exercise and calorie restriction will also delay puberty. So I wonder which one or both? Her hair and teeth did not look healthy at the time. Korbut is an absolutely AMAZING athlete and incredible and beautiful woman. An old soul. I believe her...... and I'm not excusing him when I say that the stress of competition may have been a factor in doing what he did. Why would she lie? Because he moved on to train other younger gymnasts? Doubtful to me. Anyway they obviously had a VERY intense relationship.....whatever happened.

OLGA KORBUT

Tourishcheva face when Korbut took the gold on floor.... 🤣

@211jump

Жыл бұрын

It’s so interesting to see Tourischeva and Korbut’s fued even 50 years later lmao.

@user-LuGymnastics

Жыл бұрын

@@211jump Of course they are synonymous of gymnastics 😊

Her coach was a monster.

Y'all talking about her taking drugs, when Olga is saying she would even count sips of water. They satarved her.

So much in this documentary. FINALLY that lady admitted to the fixed medals; we knew this was happening. Okay. Next. How about this, did you ever take medications? Somehow NO ONE admits to taking “drugs.” And sex. Wow! One part of me questions why the coach would risk having sex with her RIGHT BEFORE THE OLYMPIC competition, REALLY??? But I would NEVER doubt that the coach would sexually use her. He controlled her. Having sex with her exercises his power and control over her.

Poor girl, im so sorry she went through so much 😢 that guy is evil 😈

❤❤

Olga Korbut was almost every little gymnast's hero,... While her coach was Larry Nassar's hero.

A very harsh world producing harsh ppl. It's good that some things had changed.

@melissahouse3488

2 жыл бұрын

The more things change, the more they remain the same. The abuse certainly continued, it's only due in part to ratting out your predator becoming en vogue, that that "secret" in the industry was confronted publicly & prosecuted and others have also aired their own and named names of the accused. Progress is too slow in my opinion. Abuse is still not taken seriously or done much about by those who's job it is to protect and bring justice. This was a fabulous documentary, I thank my lucky stars people share them on here for those of us who care to see a glimpse of that golden era. There is also her other film, from 1973, made in Russia with the most beautifully scored music. It's really charming* where as this one is sort of expose` style, seedy tell all behind the scenes the hidden hells of Russians athletic legends. So depending on the mood, take your pick. I think the older one where they documented her after she'd won in Russian, is very sweet to see during that very period.

Other girls claimed the same for him. So....no doubt of course....

They didn't show the floor exercise???

very interesting, do you know when was made? I think 1996. I din't know she had a so bad realtionships with Touriuscheva and dind't want even train or warm up with her teammates very interesting personality, just the opposite to Comaneci

@Ale.K7

3 жыл бұрын

Near the end the narrator says "earlier this year, Olga and Leonid divorced". According to Wikipedia, that happened in 2000.

She was born earlier than a half centry.

That coach is disgusting. I have no doubt he did it.

@i.p.knightley6970

9 күн бұрын

No doubt? Obviously you were in the room when they, allegedly, did it then.

Oh the denial & Minimizing of abuse for the men’s self decided that they 20:14 were “entitled” gratification .. Sadly it’s gone on for forever.. many women of older age just had to accept sexual harassment etc as part of life, work life. It should have been included in job descriptions really, I’m a senior citizen & worked all life , in many different jobs over the years , only ONE job out of many, didn’t include sexual harassment etc. only one, Remember, Olga achieved SO MUCH, when all the while she was putting up with some man’s shit as well. (Of course not all men are this way, but back in the day, many men just automatically assumed it was their given privilege.. )

Her coach is a liar!!

potevate almeno mettere i sottotitoli in italiano

I agree these Soviet gymnasts are beautiful people, but such Soviet gymnasts were beautiful people because so many people were beautiful around them. They had wonderful upbringings - not the same values of cherishing property as our own, they cherished other things like education and cooperation, but wonderful nevertheless. Our view towards USSR is completely twisted from our Cold War (this border and our economic sanctions, trade limits, advertising, hysteria of losing our private capital, bad image towards Soviets in our movies, etc were all created by ourselves, not by USSR). And the legacy of our hysterical propaganda lives on until today.

@sunnydayzie1202

Жыл бұрын

Spoken like a true brainwashed American socialist with a warped utopian view of totalitarianism. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about until you've lived under it.

@211jump

Жыл бұрын

USSR had good parts, but it was not all sunshine and rainbows much like any other country. I still dont think that is good to praise USSR and claim US propaganda was all false. (It was not) USSR deserves to be hated for their foreign policies and just flat out how they treated anyone who wasn’t russian.

@user-pg5yb7ff1t

6 ай бұрын

Спасибо Вам. Вы даже не представляете, как Вы правы. Я из СССР. Мне 56.

disturbed by his obvious weird hair wigs... i cant concentrate.

@melissahouse3488

2 жыл бұрын

Wigs??? You've got one strange imagination.

"...but it was soon clear that Olga without Knysh was not the same Olga.... " - and would never become one

Why does her hair look so unhealthy?

I don’t believe her at all She’s always been arrogant & pretentious She’s anything but humble Only greed would make her auction her medals She raised a criminal for a son Her teammates didn’t like her There’s just something about Olga that makes me not like her despite her talent It’s the humility the grace the accountability the respect with the coach and the hard work and accepting failure yet humility against so much Praise that has marked Nadia Comaneci in my heart

@theone456

2 жыл бұрын

I think she is lying as well, no grace. Ludmilla was much more of a role model

@alli-kat2329

2 жыл бұрын

If you dont fucking like her, wtf r u watching it?

@beablooming

Ай бұрын

I’m not seeing any arrogance only talent. Extreme talent. She was way ahead of her times and she was hated for it. Nadia doesn’t even come close when it comes to pioneering and exploring different moves. I’m Romanian and think Nadia is highly overrated. But this is the world we live in, the best never get to shine only the average. To me Olga was the best gymnast of all times and she was robbed, she deserved the first 10 not Nadia.

I don't care how many Golds other gymast or who got perfect 10,she was for me the greatest gymnast ever!

Olga yesterday.全紅嬋today, now 17,has to delay her puberty, to prolong her performance from the 3-m dive.