The Spokesman-Review ran a full-page photo spread on Expo ’74, focusing on Olga Korbut, the Russian Olympic gymnastic champion. The photos showed Korbut riding behind three white horses in a “troika,” ...

Russia announced that two of its most famous Olympians – gymnasts Olga Korbut and Ludmilla Tourisheva – would perform at Expo ’74. That wasn’t the only good news. A U.S. film crew was making a TV ...

#gymnastics #OlgaKorbut #KorbutFlip More than 35 years after being banned from the Code of Points, the Korbut flip remains one of the most impressive and renowned moves in the sport of gymnastics.

MINSK, 27 February (BelTA) –The Olympic medals of gymnast Olga Korbut fetched over $200,000 at an auction in the USA, BelTA has learned. Olga Korbut, a many-time Olympic and world champion, put her ...

Olga Korbut's accreditation from her historic performance at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich has been sold at auction ©Heritage Auctions Competing for the Soviet Union, Korbut won three gold medals ...

Korbut, 61, captured the imagination of the sporting world with her spellbinding displays in Munich before competing at the Montreal Games four years later. The Arizona-based former Soviet gymnast ...

Olga Korbut walks around the man-made lake in anonymity, despite the bright red warmup jacket with "Olga" in sparkly letters on her left shoulder. Korbut likes it here, this little suburban slice of ...