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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hollow: some experts still say that the Americans won because there was no real European competition, and furthermore predict that the U.S. will never turn out a topflight team. Why can't the U.S. produce champion gymnasts? One man who thinks he knows is German-born Coach Bernard Unser of the famed Bronx branch of the American Turners (until 1948, the Turnverein'). Says Unser: "In this country gymnastics is not considered a sport as it is in Europe. The average person here says, 'What do I care about people on monkey bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Orphan | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

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