uswntgymfan:

forsaken-road:

olga mostepanova is my favorite old-era gymnast. she is an absolute joy to watch perform, even if all we have now are grainy youtube videos. olga was poised to win AA gold at the 1984 olympics, but the soviet union ultimately boycotted the games because they didn’t feel the USA was doing enough to protect their athletes. the countries that boycotted held their own alternate olympic games (the friendship games), at which olga won 5 total gold medals (including AA) and posted ten perfect 10s.

i apologize for the poor quality of some of the gifs, but i wanted to capture her performances from the alternate games. (the higher quality beam gif is from EF at 1983 worlds.) as much as i respect retton and what her win did for USA gymnastics, i still think that olga was the absolute best gymnast in the world at that particular moment in time. her performance at the alternate games speaks for itself.

I agree with all you said! Olga was an amazing gymnast who was underrated, she was beautiful<3


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    She also scored a perfect 40! Even if scoring was inflated, she must have been head and shoulders above the rest to do...
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