September 1972: Olga KORBUT of the Soviet Union in action during the gymnastics competition at the Games of the XX Olympiad in Munich. She won gold on the balance beam, the floor exercises and was also a member of the winning all-round team as well as a silver medalist on the uneven bars. Credit: Getty Images

Munich, 2 September 1972, Games of the XX Olympiad: gymnast Olga KORBUT of the Soviet Union does a backflip during her routine on the uneven bars. Credit: Getty Images/Getty Images Hulton Deutsch

Munich 1972: Olga KORBUT of the Soviet Union in action during the women's artistic gymnastics floor exercises event at the Games of the XX Olympiad. KORBUT won the gold medal. Credit: Getty Images UK /Getty Images

Montreal 1976, Games of the XXI Olympiad: Olga KORBUT of the Soviet Union, 2nd in the beam event, concedes defeat to the brilliant 14-year-old gymnast from Romania, Nadia COMANECI (right). Credit: Getty Images Hulton/Archive

Montreal, July 1976: Olga KORBUT of the Soviet Union in action during her floor routine at the Games of the XXI Olympiad. Credit: Getty Images/Tony Duffy

Games of the XIV Olympiad, London, August 1948. Men's artistic gymnastics. Swiss Michael Reusch, 1st in the parallel bars final, in action before the audience. Credit: IOC/Olympic Museum collections

Berlin, August 1936, Dietrich Eckart Theatre, the Czechoslovak women's team, 2nd, during the team exercise of the artistic gymnastics competition at the Games of the XI Olympiad. Credit: IOC/Olympic Museum collections

Moscow, 22 July 1980, Sports Palace at the Central Lenin Stadium: Nikolay ANDRIANOV from the Soviet Union in action during the rings event of the team competition. Credit: IOC Olympic Museum Collections/photo TASS

London, 15 July 1908: Alberto BRAGLIA from Italy, 1st in the individual all-around gymnastics competition, in action on the pommel horse during the Games of the IV Olympiad. Credit: IOC Olympic Museum Collections

Stockholm 1912: Alberto BRAGLIA from Italy, 1st in both the team and individual all-around gymnastics competitions during the Games of the V Olympiad. Credit: IOC Olympic Museum Collections

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