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During last summer's Munich Olympics, Soviet Gymnast Olga Korbut twirled and flipped spectacularly, then went to pieces and made a disastrous muddle of her second appearance. She wept in shame, and the sports world fell in love with her. Olga recovered and carried home two gold medals. Now it turns out that she is suffering from a slipped disk and has been sent to a spa in the Caucasus for complete rest. "We hope Olga will be able to perform again," says her trainer, "but it is not possible to say when...
Disbelief. The crowd favorites, however, were two tiny porcelain dolls, the U.S.S.R's Olga Korbut and the U.S.'s Cathy Rigby. Olga, 17, put on a dazzling first-round performance on the uneven bars in the team event that had observers rubbing their eyes in disbelief. In the all-round event, however, Olga brushed her toe on the ground during her mount, lost both her poise and rhythm and returned to her seat barely blinking back the tears after recording a disastrous score of 7.50 (out of a possible 10). Undaunted, she overcame her jitters and returned the next...
...considerable height of 5 ft. 1 11 in. to set a world record. But she is a constant worrier-about keeping up with the housework, about not spending enough time with the baby-and it sometimes affects her performances. Almost a foot shorter than Ilona is Olga Korbut, who weighs only 84 Ibs. She is the smallest member of a Russian gymnastic team that as usual looks exceptionally talented. Unusually, so does the U.S. women's squad...