Word: ditiatin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Members of a Soviet gymnastics team touring Brazil spoke more candidly than their fellow athletes back home. Said Alexander Ditiatin, winner of a record eight medals at the 1980 Olympics: "I hope it's not true. After all, we have been preparing ourselves for such a long time, and all that work can't be thrown away...
...gymnastics-where, before the boycott, American heartthrobs like Kurt Thomas and Bart Connor were expected to do especially well-the show was stolen by Alexander Ditiatin, 22. The handsome Soviet leaped and vaulted to a total of eight medals, the most won by an individual since the modern Games began in 1896. The previous record was held by U.S. Swimmer Mark Spitz, who won seven medals in 1972, and by Ditiatin's teammate Nikolai Andrianov, who won seven gymnastics prizes at the 1976 Olympics. Andrianov, making something of a comeback at the relatively advanced age of 27, picked...
...addition, the nimble Ditiatin scored the first 10 in men's Olympic competition, a feat he accomplished on the rings, probably the most difficult gymnastic event. He had hardly left the floor when Alexander Tkachov of the U.S.S.R. turned in a 10 on the horizontal bar. Then Zoltan Magyar of Hungary, a gold medalist at Montreal, received a 10 on the pommel horse. Finally, a Bulgarian, Stoyan Deltchev, 21, scored the fourth 10 of the day, on the rings. Male gymnasts took the high marks as a sign that their sport was at last approaching the kind of perfection...
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