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Originally Posted by Old Vantaa Man
Those little gymnast girls. Jesus. When they do that back flip on the beam.. I can barely stand to watch. eeerk! It freaks me out just thinking about it. I remember when Olga Korbut was the first to do it at the Munich Olympics in 72. The place went mental!
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No matter who got the medals, the 34 year old Russian gal who competed for Germany this year, in order to allow her son to be treated in Germany for leukemia over the past two years is a hero. She called her German friend when he was diagnosed and they worked out a deal for her to come to Germany and train, and allow the boy to be treated there as the medical faciliites in hwer country weren't sufficient.
She is in rock hard shape. They showed her in Barcelona (I think) when she was a kid and then a clip of her now twice that age running down the lane and vaulting just like the little kiddies around her. Her son endured 7 chemotherapy treatments and is now in remission.
She gets the platinum medal in my book.