Olga is so fluid... graceful. She flows like water. I'll always have a wow moment no matter how many times I see her preform . It's always as if I'm seeing her for the first time.🎉
@@emiliorodriguez8104 there was always a 10 as a possibility. Judges simply didn’t want to award it. They did it with Nadia and since then other athletes have received it with performances not even close to Olga’s.
That bar routine is probably the most perfect bar routine I have ever seen, I just keep watching it over and over because it's so daring, visually amazing and perfectly executed. The actual routine and tasks it contains are amazing. I'd like to watch a performer who got a 10 on the uneven bars (if anybody has achieved this) just for comparism if anybody can refer me to such an event. There is something about olga - no wonder the world fell for her in 72
Yes, the uneven bars routine was more spectacular and perfect than what Nadia Comaneci did four years later, it is a great injustice that she was not awarded the perfect score.
Her performance is so impressive . I wonder who was her coach. She seemed to enjoyed every bit of it; and the banned death flip in the double bars that only her got to do is as impressive as her perfect landing.
She made gymnastics look so easy. She was flawless but still charismatic, not even a bit boring to watch. You can tell that she was just having the time of her life.
@@noemigarfinkel7923 the floor had no springs. The bar routines were NOT "so easy". Matter of fact, countless young women suffered bruised and broken ribs, bruised lungs, and more from those "easy" bar routines. The pressure from bouncing off of the UB left several of them infertile. The balance beam wasn't coated in suede or leather in all meets like it is now- many were just super hard polished wood. The vault was obviously completely different. Not to mention how far training, health, and nutrition have come. To insult gymnasts of the past is to be ignorant. To act like this is unimportant is a sign of immaturity. These women paved the way for the Aly Raismans and Simone Biles'....the Vanessa Ferraris and Sui Lus. Without Nadia, without Olga, gymnastics wouldn't have exploded and grown at the rate it has.
Olga is lovely, but this style of gymnastics was often hard on performers, who had to keep so slender they were malnourished and underdeveloped. Be careful not to romanticize.
I think Olga's parallell bar routine was one of the best of all time. Her bars and all her gymnastics is just unique & gorgeous stuff. Her legs are so tight on parallel bars and her feet so pointed. They never part a dot from beginning to end. Her body indulates. She is the epitome of flawless effortlessness. She is like melting liquid to watch. Not a single pause. Mesmerizing. There arent enough words. The moves and choreography are so inventive.
Your description “melting liquid” is so accurate! And so much than how I described it! I thought of a noodle lol. Like she literally has no bones. It’s just so beautiful! And so different than today’s gymnasts! This looks artistic and feminine, whereas today’s gymnasts routines look more athletic.
I wasn’t even born at that time but I can still feel the magic in the air when she performs. Olga truly had a gift. I can only imagine how incredible it must be to watch her perform live.
Siamese Cat I don't think it was that deep bro. Personally I think that back then the routines were alot more graceful and elegant than today so if I had to choose which generation of gymnastics I like better it would be back in the 1970's, it's just an opinion, no one is shaming anyone else so calm down.
What's "shaming" in what he/she said, exactly? There's nothing offensive in such an opinion. He/she didn't say anything about today's gymnasts' work being worthless. You're over-interpreting.
What you just watched is the start of modern women's gymnastics. Before Olga gymnastics was a saft sport where adult women did pseudo ballet. After Olga gymanstics was a dangerous sport where teenage girls do pseudo acrobatics.
This honestly brings so many tears to my eyes. I remember watching this with my Mother and Step Father, and how in awe they were with her performance. I watched their faces by the light of the television pixels and witnessed genuine astonishment in their eyes. She is a force of light and energy that will likely never be recreated.
The best routine in the uneven bar that I have ever seen. Even the body builder type of todays gymnasts could not do that with graceful fluidity. Its like a ballerina on air.
You had to be living in '72 to understand how she changed the world. Electrifying!! she was beloved! Gymnastics was practically unheard of in the USA before Olga!
So many of us teenage American boys had a crush on her. I found magazine articles about her and cut out her pictures and mounted them on cardboard. I started training as a distance runner so that maybe I could see her in the next Olympics. I found out that she loves ketchup and I tried to find out how I could ship some to her (that didn't happen - oh well). I studied her home town of Grodno so that I would know more about her upbringing. Yeah, big crush. That was 50 years ago now, and I still remember it all so well! She was so charismatic and sweet. She did have a big impact on the world. If nothing else, she put a very human and kind face on Russians for those of us in the West who were raised in the Cold War culture that said Russians were evil.
@@camillaallegrucci1311 You’re welcome. There was no Internet, and mainly just three TV networks, so most people watched the same things. And of course, the Olympics got top billing, so pretty much all of America got to see her. Btw- I say “so many” had a crush on her, but I didn’t know that until years later when the Internet gave the world a forum. I kept my crush secret. I would have been teased if anyone knew about it.
@@nancyaiken4538 No, the revolution was complete by Olga. The judges had to adapt and stop thinking that what Olga brought to gymnastics was a circus, it was risk with grace. Nadia took advantage of the open path, but so did Nelly Kim and other gymnasts 4 years later.
Yup, I don't think anyone has topped her charisma, personally. Part of it for me, she actually looks Iike she's enjoying herself. You don't see that so much after her, as often as one would hope- what's the point of doing that kind of thing, if not for the pure physical joy of being able to do it? I deeply admire gymnasts and dancers of all varieties, I wish I could connect my mind and body that way, I would be very happy to find that balance...
Please no one take this out of context. The grace, elegance, and control of movement of the human body was at the core of gymnastics in the past. A 10 was the golden standard, and very difficult to reach. I wonder what this athlete scored then, and what she would've scored today? Her feminine flow from movement to movement was hypnotizing.
Okay, she may not have earned the perfect 10 that time but this will be the most complicated and the most beautiful routine ever in the history of gymnastics! Most of her moves in here are very creative and unique yet deadly... She's really the most fascinating gymnast of all time
Olga so happy you were the first woman gymnast inducted into the International Hall of Fame! Well Deserved. You should have gotten a 10 in the uneven bars in1972. Best to you always.
No. Nadia was the first to get a perfect 10 in the Olympics in 1976. Nadia >>> Olga. Olga couldn't even win an all-around medal in 1972! Nadia won gold in 1976 and silver in 1980!
@@nogoodnameleft No, the revolution was Olga task. Judges took time to adapt and stop thinking that what Olga brought to gymnastics was a circus, it was risk with grace. Nadia took advantage of the open path, but so did Nelly Kim. Today it is unanimous that Olga Korbut even without any Olympic gold (and she won 4!), would always be the BEST ever, the most beloved gymnast in history.
@Vasilios Georgiou I saw Nadia and talked to her (at a meet at the art corner gymnastics competition, and at the Nadia Comăneci perfect 10 challenge.) and she was amazing and super encouraging! She and Simon Biles are my idles!!!!
@@sasa-ke2024 i agree with you about Nadia. But both of these girls are unforgettable. The modern gymnastics might have added technical elements but not the artistic ones. Most seem to be so big, muscular, with masculine bodies, there is not the gracefulness of Nadia or Olga.
@@karennoble4957 I completely agree. I love Olga, love her joy, it's just Nadia has, for me, this extra quality, something almost ethereal, almost supernatural grace. You are utterly right about the modern sport...but it's the case generally. Its wonderful to see girls be powerhouses, I love it, but the price paid is this kind of grace, because sadly, feminine grace is tied in with female oppression. It was about teaching girls to make themselves small, and light, and helpless and dainty. What Nadia has, though, is something really rare: Natural grace. Untrained grace. You hardly ever see it. Olga doesn't have it: hers is trained. Her natural asset is her joyfulness
I know. No one is going to look back at Biles and say the same thing. It seems they changed gymnastics so gymnasts like biles would win and those like Olga would not. Not the same gymnastics at all. Today they just jump and spin.
@@saysomethingaldcsbiggestfa792 No one changed women's gymnastics more the Olga, not Nadia and certainly not Biles. Olga is the start of modern women's gymnastics.
@@RK-um9tu when did i say anything like that? All i said was that biles will go down in history…what are you on about 😭 i wasn’t debating on who changed gymnastics
All the gymnastic routines were much more graceful back then, but they were also much simpler back then. Today, all the events incorporate much more complex routines and pack so much more into the same amount of time that the graceful movements are hurried as if added as an afterthought. That's why I was so very pleased with Laurie Hernandez's performance in the Floor Routines. She added much needed grace back into the program that is often missing in the performance of other gymnasts.
+Edward Cabaniss how can you say they were more simple back then? now days all they do is swing in circles on the uneven bars and then jump off. nothing about it is interesting to watch.
As the years passed the distance between the bars also increased so gymnasts could no longer perform the moves where they would hit their torso on the lower bar.
Yeah that's because the American's pretty much forced them to ban any moves that they couldn't do. Half the moves in Olga's bar routine are now banned.
I know gymnastic routines today are so difficult and the moves they perform are extremely daring, but sometimes its nice to take a step back and watch a beautiful, fluid and relaxed routine without all the little balance checks.
То, что делала Корбут, намного сложнее того, что делают сейчас гимнастки. Просто она все упражнения делает очень легко, из за этого и создаётся впечатление, что ее программы не очень сложные.
Back then they were more graceful, the movements look a lot like rhytmic gymnastic, Today the girls are more powerful, fly higher, do more twists. It's different we cant compare.
Totally agree. Today`s gymanstic are very muscular. Their moves are not rhytmic and not aesthetic. I think in total old ones are much more better. While wathing their period the time flows.
kateFGMP Gymnastics during this period always looked so graceful and ballerina-esque as opposed to now. But I think a large part of that was due to the world as a whole still seeing female athletes as “soft and feminine”. They couldn’t do any of the more powerful moves and twists the girls do today. Even the musical arrangements had to be demure and ladylike.
I remember watching her throughout the Olympics with my dad. By the time she finished her last event, we were both teary-eyed. Her balance beam event brought shivers down my spine! I'm sure the entire world was rooting for Olga! I know we were!
Olga Korbut was a golden fish on the floor and the most beautiful bird in the air.. She is a terrific gymnast.. I like her bar exercise the best.. To me , it was 10.00.
I feel stunned and pure joy watching her. So sweet, radiant, graceful, balletic, yet so controlled and athletic. Perfection! Could watch it over and over. The sport changed into stronger, higher, faster and lost a lot of the gracefulness.
Had they had springs under the mats back than, they would have done more flips back then too. Maybe not like today with these more muscular slightly less lean body types, but they could have done a lot more on bouncy ground. At least we have rhythmic gymnastics since 1984, that's still just as graceful as the routines from the 70s.
This is back when they were so much more graceful, beautiful poses, lovely arm and hand motions like ballerinas. Now it's more of an athletic jumping event, higher faster etc.
I was just thinking the same thing. If you look at those times, rhythmic and artistic gymnastics were not that far apart, now - such a drastic difference, even in the body build of athletes. The female artistic gymnasts look nothing like the gracefully built rhythmic gymnasts, they instead resemble more of a bodybuilder type. the essence was lost on the way to "higher, faster better"
🥰 So talented and adorable! And I love that she dared to share her emotions all the while! Be blessed Olga as you blessed so many who watched your gift of gymnastics!
Why do you even have to compare? I grew up in the 1970's and loved Olga Korbut as a wee girl. I love Simone Biles now for moving the SPORT forward and showing all of us how to prioritize mental health.
Absolutely brilliant. So elegant and poised. She was a household name in the 70s even if you didn't know much about gymnastics. I remember watching it on a small black & white T.V. with my family. We were mesmerised. She was a 10+
She was amazing. Doing things no one had done before. On the uneven bars, a lot less swinging between components, she never stopped. Toes always pointed, legs always together, stuck landings.Nadia was very good, always been an idol of mine, since I saw her in '76. I've never gotten an opportunity until now to see Olga's '72 performances. If Nadia got a perfect score, so should have Olga.
Olga Korbut and Nadia Comaneci make gymnast look so easy. You can see both of them have full control of their bodies, they made it look so graceful and effortless, looking almost like ballet. Olga was one of the best gymnasts for sure.
I think she should have too..not Nadia. Due to the country she lived in of course I think she performed robotically and I know she's not a cold person but she came off like that and I wasn't really involved with her performances she seemed very distant and of course she probably was. People say that it was Nadia who revolutionized gymnastics sorry that title belongs to Olga Korbut
Olga's performance was great but Nadia's performance was much better. Nadia's performance was much better rhythmical and explicit. That's why Nadia got perfect 10 not Olga.
Вы еще не видели великие выступления самой титулованной советской гимнастки Людмилы Турищевой, которая, кстати. Всегда, побеждала Ольгу Корбут на соревнованиях посмотрите Турищеву. Вот где красота и грация !
Before Olga, the largest crowd to ever see a gymnastic meet was 500. There were even rumors of ending the sport. There was so much excitement over Olga that even the stoic German people went insane over her. Her sheer joy on the floor exercise was child like magic. Nadia doesn't get 10's without Olga. Olga started it all!
In ogni performance la Korbut dimostra oltre ad una sorprendente sicurezza e mobilizzazione articolare sorprendente una leggerezza e naturalezza esecutiva d'acchito che ha dell'incredibile.Aggiunge poi pose figurali di estrema difficoltà realizzate con una non chalanche sorprendente. OLTREMODO BRAVA E SPETTACOLARE. BIGHIN GIULIO RENZO
Throughly entertainfloor routine. She floats like a bird in the air an her musicality, ballet, dance skills r a joy t behold.Shes an icon,a legend an quite possibly, the greatest gymnast of all time
Back flip off the top bar was epic, but the blind backwards off the low bar to an iron cross following that element? THATS the move that changed women's gymnastics forever. Nadia got the 10, but Olga revolutionized the sport.
I remember watching this on tv as it happened. She was phenomenal! It was really incredible to watch her! Thank you for the video it was done very well!🙏🏻
She’s still out there & active in the sport! I was mesmerized by her when I was a little girl. She always looked like she is having fun during every routine. ❤️
Nope. Her korbut flip is really impressive, but there are definite deductions. She bends her legs quite badly (which is kinda unavoidable but still needs to be deducted). Beyond that also her cast to handstand was quite laboured, you can see her struggling to get up to handstand
@@jgsh8062 I'm sorry not to agree with you ... I think that in this Olympic discipline not only technical virtuosity counts but I think that important variables are not measurable to date and in fact there are perfect 10 forgotten and perfect 10 missed entered the heart of the world
Why the uneven bars performance wasn't the 1st perfect 10 I will never know. Nadia's performance was brilliant, but Olga's uneven bars performance surpassed , Nadia's without doubt!
Both were amazing gymnasts, but Nadia's UB exercise was more complex than Olga's. It contained Comaneci salto (class E even today), perfect hand stands and a "new" dismount.
her uneven bar dead loop is even more impressive than what i've seen in last 4 olympics gymnastics cycle. 1972 is the Olympics that changed Gymnastics forever IIRC. the pure technique that is considered "impossible" is now a standard, but no one can duplicate what Olga did with the pelvic low bar catch spin. Every single gymnasts end up with a bruise if they try the dead loop, but Olga did it without getting any kind of injury.
Olga and Nadia are legends. Since then nobody has compared to them. I mean todays gymnasts are very good it's something about Olga and Nadia that todys gymnasts cant even come close to comparing to.
I had the great pleasure to watch her in the 1972 Olympics! Olga has never been matched! Her uneven bar routine was not only phenomenal, it was unparalleled history making! Whenever I think of her, I smile because my brain replays the mind boggling difficulty of her perfect execution of that routine! She was robbed by the judges scoring! Even her floor routine was perfect. She was a pixie full of dynamite! I miss watching her perform. But at least I can watch it again and again thanks to this video!
Olga Korbut Is one of my favorites gymnast along with Nadia Comâneci, in the minute 2 she flies like a bird, I was 9 years old in 1972 when I watched her performance at Munich, and ever since I remember her, now with UA-cam is a pleasure to watch her again, I love you're art Olga Korbut...
I'll never forget Olga! She is absolutely the very Best!!
Olga is so fluid... graceful. She flows like water. I'll always have a wow moment no matter how many times I see her preform . It's always as if I'm seeing her for the first time.🎉
Absolutely fantastic!! There'll never be another gymnast like Olga.
Looking at this after all these years, Olgas performance still looks fresh and perfect, and still the best gymnast of all time.
And even though you know it was hard for her, she always exuded pure joy. We don't see that in today's gymnasts.
Nadia comenaci?
Nadia was great. But she just didn’t have the same charisma.
Olga played NO GAMES!!
A consistent delight.
It's so beautiful how she combines ballet with gymnastics. All of her moves look so effortless.
The truly Artistic gymnastic.
It’s like calisthenics
I will never understand why she did not get a 10 in the uneven bars, best performance ever.
Because there was no such thing as a 10 back then. Only Nadia managed it
@@emiliorodriguez8104 there was always a 10 as a possibility. Judges simply didn’t want to award it. They did it with Nadia and since then other athletes have received it with performances not even close to Olga’s.
@Elizabeth Marie her uneven bar performance was the closest I have seen to perfection
She struggled getting to handstand at one point, that was it
@@juanantoniozuleta6575 because she's a Russian spy.
What she did on the bars is absolutely stunning!
That bar routine is probably the most perfect bar routine I have ever seen, I just keep watching it over and over because it's so daring, visually amazing and perfectly executed. The actual routine and tasks it contains are amazing. I'd like to watch a performer who got a 10 on the uneven bars (if anybody has achieved this) just for comparism if anybody can refer me to such an event. There is something about olga - no wonder the world fell for her in 72
Yes, the uneven bars routine was more spectacular and perfect than what Nadia Comaneci did four years later, it is a great injustice that she was not awarded the perfect score.
@@untalfelipin5202 it was cool but it wasn't perfect. she had a major form break at 0:24. i think she deserved the score that she was given..
Agreed!
@@nmixx.changeupletsgo Ok Hercules, where is this "form break". Please feel free to put your cheetos and beer down first.
Nadia Comaneci of Romania got the first perfect 10 in 1976 montreal games
Her performance is so impressive . I wonder who was her coach. She seemed to enjoyed every bit of it; and the banned death flip in the double bars that only her got to do is as impressive as her perfect landing.
Renald Knysh was her coach!
Sadly, she get sexually abused during her training. She’s very vocal about it and you can find some interviews on UA-cam
@@karltorento3358 Wow, I didn't know.
Well her coach was accused of raping her before the Olympics her coach was Mitch there's much information on him now
The Governing body banned the flip not for safety but because it "ruined" flow. Still calling it a "death" flip is just perpetuating misinformation.
She made gymnastics look so easy. She was flawless but still charismatic, not even a bit boring to watch. You can tell that she was just having the time of her life.
Probably because the moves she did were so easy? There's nothing past level 7 or 8 in any of her routines....
@@noemigarfinkel7923 the floor had no springs. The bar routines were NOT "so easy". Matter of fact, countless young women suffered bruised and broken ribs, bruised lungs, and more from those "easy" bar routines. The pressure from bouncing off of the UB left several of them infertile. The balance beam wasn't coated in suede or leather in all meets like it is now- many were just super hard polished wood. The vault was obviously completely different. Not to mention how far training, health, and nutrition have come.
To insult gymnasts of the past is to be ignorant. To act like this is unimportant is a sign of immaturity. These women paved the way for the Aly Raismans and Simone Biles'....the Vanessa Ferraris and Sui Lus. Without Nadia, without Olga, gymnastics wouldn't have exploded and grown at the rate it has.
@@noemigarfinkel7923 USA go to sleep
Jenna Leigh's Beauty Slam FACTS.
Noemi Garfinkel miles better than today’s routines
I miss this style gymnastics. So graceful. Olga was phenomenal.
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Olga is lovely, but this style of gymnastics was often hard on performers, who had to keep so slender they were malnourished and underdeveloped. Be careful not to romanticize.
@@Sarah-eh7bw sounds like loser talk to me
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I think Olga's parallell bar routine was one of the best of all time. Her bars and all her gymnastics is just unique & gorgeous stuff. Her legs are so tight on parallel bars and her feet so pointed. They never part a dot from beginning to end. Her body indulates. She is the epitome of flawless effortlessness. She is like melting liquid to watch. Not a single pause. Mesmerizing. There arent enough words. The moves and choreography are so inventive.
It was truly unique! Absolutely wowed-
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It's like if they parallel's bars was made especially for her. The bar distance
Your description “melting liquid” is so accurate! And so much than how I described it! I thought of a noodle lol. Like she literally has no bones. It’s just so beautiful! And so different than today’s gymnasts! This looks artistic and feminine, whereas today’s gymnasts routines look more athletic.
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This is my favorite bars routine of all time. She is so fearless.
I wasn’t even born at that time but I can still feel the magic in the air when she performs. Olga truly had a gift. I can only imagine how incredible it must be to watch her perform live.
I saw her 1st year high school 1974
I’ll never forget it
Cheers from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
Everybody was talking about her. She was electrifying… I was 10.
@@mariefriedmann3203cool story! you must have so much accumulated knowledge about the world
All uneven bars routines from back then were so beautiful
Siamese Cat I don't think it was that deep bro. Personally I think that back then the routines were alot more graceful and elegant than today so if I had to choose which generation of gymnastics I like better it would be back in the 1970's, it's just an opinion, no one is shaming anyone else so calm down.
What's "shaming" in what he/she said, exactly? There's nothing offensive in such an opinion. He/she didn't say anything about today's gymnasts' work being worthless. You're over-interpreting.
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Luv'Velle Hitlal Did you even watch the video? There are much more difficult skills from back then. (For uneven bars)
I know nothing about gymnastics as I’m a basketball player but this was the most athletic performance I’ve seen in my life.
What you just watched is the start of modern women's gymnastics.
Before Olga gymnastics was a saft sport where adult women did pseudo ballet.
After Olga gymanstics was a dangerous sport where teenage girls do pseudo acrobatics.
This honestly brings so many tears to my eyes.
I remember watching this with my Mother and Step Father, and how in awe they were with her performance.
I watched their faces by the light of the television pixels and witnessed genuine astonishment in their eyes.
She is a force of light and energy that will likely never be recreated.
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I was lucky enough to see her in the 72 Olympics. I knew at that time she was a once in a lifetime.
I’m so jealous 😊!
The best routine in the uneven bar that I have ever seen. Even the body builder type of todays gymnasts could not do that with graceful fluidity. Its like a ballerina on air.
Her uneven bar performance is unmatched to this day
Just read what you wrote. Going to go back and watch routine. Ballerina in air.
most definitely our current gymnasts couldn't do that dead loop and then leap up backwards to the top bar. She was agile like a cat.
Olga - the best if the best! Forever
I can watch the Korbut Dead Loop all day ❤❤❤
You had to be living in '72 to understand how she changed the world. Electrifying!! she was beloved! Gymnastics was practically unheard of in the USA before Olga!
So many of us teenage American boys had a crush on her. I found magazine articles about her and cut out her pictures and mounted them on cardboard. I started training as a distance runner so that maybe I could see her in the next Olympics. I found out that she loves ketchup and I tried to find out how I could ship some to her (that didn't happen - oh well). I studied her home town of Grodno so that I would know more about her upbringing. Yeah, big crush. That was 50 years ago now, and I still remember it all so well! She was so charismatic and sweet.
She did have a big impact on the world. If nothing else, she put a very human and kind face on Russians for those of us in the West who were raised in the Cold War culture that said Russians were evil.
@@mediamannaman Thank you for writing this! It's so sweet and help us who weren't around to understand her impact.
@@camillaallegrucci1311 You’re welcome. There was no Internet, and mainly just three TV networks, so most people watched the same things. And of course, the Olympics got top billing, so pretty much all of America got to see her.
Btw- I say “so many” had a crush on her, but I didn’t know that until years later when the Internet gave the world a forum. I kept my crush secret. I would have been teased if anyone knew about it.
Nadia was also game changing.
@@nancyaiken4538 No, the revolution was complete by Olga. The judges had to adapt and stop thinking that what Olga brought to gymnastics was a circus, it was risk with grace. Nadia took advantage of the open path, but so did Nelly Kim and other gymnasts 4 years later.
I will consider her as Greatest of All Time.
Gymnastics is only popular today because of Olga. She started it all.
@djskeedledoo she is..
Nadia Comaneci
@djskeedledoo so do Nadia...but only 1976...
@@خالدعبدالله-ث6س1ل yes
Her uneven bars performance is one of the best I have ever seen.
Tied to deadly risks which was the reason why some elements were forbidden later.
The best ever!
It was a really good ☝️
Yup, I don't think anyone has topped her charisma, personally.
Part of it for me, she actually looks Iike she's enjoying herself.
You don't see that so much after her, as often as one would hope- what's the point of doing that kind of thing, if not for the pure physical joy of being able to do it?
I deeply admire gymnasts and dancers of all varieties, I wish I could connect my mind and body that way, I would be very happy to find that balance...
The best I've ever seen
45 years later and I still enjoy watching Olga as much as I did in 1972.
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I'd rather watch her than any of the gymnasts of today
I was her in my make-believe playtime back then. She made me believe I could do anything
Gymnastics back then is graceful and artsy ❤
Artistic
Please no one take this out of context. The grace, elegance, and control of movement of the human body was at the core of gymnastics in the past. A 10 was the golden standard, and very difficult to reach. I wonder what this athlete scored then, and what she would've scored today? Her feminine flow from movement to movement was hypnotizing.
Today they’re just tumblers!
Okay, she may not have earned the perfect 10 that time but this will be the most complicated and the most beautiful routine ever in the history of gymnastics! Most of her moves in here are very creative and unique yet deadly... She's really the most fascinating gymnast of all time
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The most unique and charismatic gymnast of all time! Simply the greatest
I read these kind of movements are prohibited today
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She will always have made 10 for me.
Olga so happy you were the first woman gymnast inducted into the International Hall of Fame! Well Deserved. You should have gotten a 10 in the uneven bars in1972. Best to you always.
También en el tablón 4*6 y en piso merecía el 10.
She was the first gymnast! ever, 5 years earlier to the second person Nadia
No. Nadia was the first to get a perfect 10 in the Olympics in 1976. Nadia >>> Olga. Olga couldn't even win an all-around medal in 1972! Nadia won gold in 1976 and silver in 1980!
@@nogoodnameleft No, the revolution was Olga task. Judges took time to adapt and stop thinking that what Olga brought to gymnastics was a circus, it was risk with grace. Nadia took advantage of the open path, but so did Nelly Kim. Today it is unanimous that Olga Korbut even without any Olympic gold (and she won 4!), would always be the BEST ever, the most beloved gymnast in history.
UNBELIEVABLE QUALITY FOR 42 YEARS AGO - BETTER THAN MOST VIDEOS UPLOADED TODAY !!!
THANKS FOR SHARING !!!
Because of analog format and excellent video-operators. And Olga Korbut was just brilliant!
She's so radiant, never stops smiling, you can't help feeling joy when you watch her. But Nadia was my idol: what grace.
@Vasilios Georgiou well, can only be opinion. But I find Nadia to have an unearthly grace. She floats like a feather, in a beautiful world...
@Elodie Leblanc not really a comparison. A preference.
@Vasilios Georgiou I saw Nadia and talked to her (at a meet at the art corner gymnastics competition, and at the Nadia Comăneci perfect 10 challenge.) and she was amazing and super encouraging! She and Simon Biles are my idles!!!!
@@sasa-ke2024 i agree with you about Nadia.
But both of these girls are unforgettable. The modern gymnastics might have added technical elements but not the artistic ones.
Most seem to be so big, muscular, with masculine bodies, there is not the gracefulness of Nadia or Olga.
@@karennoble4957 I completely agree. I love Olga, love her joy, it's just Nadia has, for me, this extra quality, something almost ethereal, almost supernatural grace.
You are utterly right about the modern sport...but it's the case generally. Its wonderful to see girls be powerhouses, I love it, but the price paid is this kind of grace, because sadly, feminine grace is tied in with female oppression. It was about teaching girls to make themselves small, and light, and helpless and dainty. What Nadia has, though, is something really rare: Natural grace. Untrained grace. You hardly ever see it. Olga doesn't have it: hers is trained. Her natural asset is her joyfulness
50 years later, and still so impressive!
I know. No one is going to look back at Biles and say the same thing. It seems they changed gymnastics so gymnasts like biles would win and those like Olga would not.
Not the same gymnastics at all. Today they just jump and spin.
@@kellyb3540 That's still impressive. I bet you can't do any of Olga's nor Bile's moves 😂😂
@@kellyb3540I’m willing to bet that biles will go down in history
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No one changed women's gymnastics more the Olga, not Nadia and certainly not Biles.
Olga is the start of modern women's gymnastics.
@@RK-um9tu when did i say anything like that? All i said was that biles will go down in history…what are you on about 😭 i wasn’t debating on who changed gymnastics
Back then, the gymnasts were very graceful. The bar routines are very different from what the Olympians do now.
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All the gymnastic routines were much more graceful back then, but they were also much simpler back then. Today, all the events incorporate much more complex routines and pack so much more into the same amount of time that the graceful movements are hurried as if added as an afterthought. That's why I was so very pleased with Laurie Hernandez's performance in the Floor Routines. She added much needed grace back into the program that is often missing in the performance of other gymnasts.
+Edward Cabaniss how can you say they were more simple back then? now days all they do is swing in circles on the uneven bars and then jump off. nothing about it is interesting to watch.
As the years passed the distance between the bars also increased so gymnasts could no longer perform the moves where they would hit their torso on the lower bar.
Yeah that's because the American's pretty much forced them to ban any moves that they couldn't do. Half the moves in Olga's bar routine are now banned.
This girl gave an absolutely flawless performance. She deserved a 20!! She is such a sweetie too 👏🏻.
I know gymnastic routines today are so difficult and the moves they perform are extremely daring, but sometimes its nice to take a step back and watch a beautiful, fluid and relaxed routine without all the little balance checks.
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Nunca habrá otra igual a la korbut, era brillante
То, что делала Корбут, намного сложнее того, что делают сейчас гимнастки. Просто она все упражнения делает очень легко, из за этого и создаётся впечатление, что ее программы не очень сложные.
Her routine was groundbreaking at the time, no one was doing anything even close and she did it perfectly.
Her routine is much harder
Nobody will ever beat olga she was amazing.
Nadia Comăneci beat Olga
@@ralucamagdu7498 She did it when Olga was past her peak and 4 years older than in this video.
Back then they were more graceful, the movements look a lot like rhytmic gymnastic, Today the girls are more powerful, fly higher, do more twists. It's different we cant compare.
Totally agree. Today`s gymanstic are very muscular. Their moves are not rhytmic and not aesthetic. I think in total old ones are much more better. While wathing their period the time flows.
1992 and 1996 was the perfect example of a mix of artistic gymnastics
Very true
kateFGMP Gymnastics during this period always looked so graceful and ballerina-esque as opposed to now. But I think a large part of that was due to the world as a whole still seeing female athletes as “soft and feminine”. They couldn’t do any of the more powerful moves and twists the girls do today. Even the musical arrangements had to be demure and ladylike.
Totally agree. Now they are just aiming for points, points and more points. It has become Math-letics.
I remember watching her throughout the Olympics with my dad. By the time she finished her last event, we were both teary-eyed. Her balance beam event brought shivers down my spine! I'm sure the entire world was rooting for Olga! I know we were!
Olga Korbut was a golden fish on the floor and the most beautiful bird in the air.. She is a terrific gymnast.. I like her bar exercise the best.. To me , it was 10.00.
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Henry Tun i agree
I liked the beam.
Her routines are STILL the best in my opinion. Love Olga! ❤️
Olga Korbut... A fantastic gymnast... Her routines are point on and Acts like there is nothing to it. What a tremendous talent!!!
Yes great job 👍👍👍
Her score should be a perfect 10! She delivered it perfectly! 😍
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I agree.
@@christianlopez9807 Not on the bars she didnt.
@@omgDavidGlasper I wonder who ever did better on the bars. Maybe Tweddle in London (2012)
10 you joke ? Sorry It’s should be 11
I feel stunned and pure joy watching her. So sweet, radiant, graceful, balletic, yet so controlled and athletic. Perfection! Could watch it over and over. The sport changed into stronger, higher, faster and lost a lot of the gracefulness.
So well said, Lea.
SIMPLY PERFECT!!!! FEATHER IN THE
WIND!! SO, SO LIGHT!!!
Olga Korbut and Nadia Comaneci - the best gymnasts ever!
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nastia and shawn are close seconds
+Queensofprep870 So true!
MiaSqueaky I personally think both of them were so pretty and adorable😊
Simone Biles....
She was so calm and smooth with it
She floats like a feather, that flexibility and gracefulness cannot be equaled.
She's proof that less is more. You dont need all these crazy high flying flips to be an amazing gymnast. Love her routines!!
The fluidity of her moves, the beauty and the form of her routines were just breathtaking. Very inspiring.
@@lisapalmeno4488 yes, like a work of art
Had they had springs under the mats back than, they would have done more flips back then too. Maybe not like today with these more muscular slightly less lean body types, but they could have done a lot more on bouncy ground. At least we have rhythmic gymnastics since 1984, that's still just as graceful as the routines from the 70s.
@@renereichea lot of gymnasts still have this body type it’s really just the Americans that look extremely muscular
@@renereicheinteresting comment. Thanks. When did they put springs in the mats and why?
This is back when they were so much more graceful, beautiful poses, lovely arm and hand motions like ballerinas. Now it's more of an athletic jumping event, higher faster etc.
I was just thinking the same thing. If you look at those times, rhythmic and artistic gymnastics were not that far apart, now - such a drastic difference, even in the body build of athletes. The female artistic gymnasts look nothing like the gracefully built rhythmic gymnasts, they instead resemble more of a bodybuilder type. the essence was lost on the way to "higher, faster better"
So true
Korbut helped lead the change into the more physical gymnastics you see today. She was ahead of her time.
And the gymnasts look like body builders today (I personally don’t like it).
Totally agree now more like dancing that was real class
🥰 So talented and adorable! And I love that she dared to share her emotions all the while! Be blessed Olga as you blessed so many who watched your gift of gymnastics!
Today's generation can have Simone.....I'll take Olga any day. This performance still gives me chills to watch even after all this time.
And she doesn't even have the trashy tattoos.
both perform beautifully in their time.
Why do you even have to compare? I grew up in the 1970's and loved Olga Korbut as a wee girl. I love Simone Biles now for moving the SPORT forward and showing all of us how to prioritize mental health.
@@geminigrrl66 exactly
Olga was way more impressive to watch and I bet she didn't have half the bad attitude that Simone has.
The bar routine is still my favorite after all these years. It was just so fun to watch! ❤
An oldie but a goodie for sure!
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Aw I love how much fun she’s having with it. It makes it so much more enjoyable when people get in to it and express their love for gymnastics♥️
Absolutely brilliant. So elegant and poised. She was a household name in the 70s even if you didn't know much about gymnastics. I remember watching it on a small black & white T.V. with my family. We were mesmerised. She was a 10+
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So beautifully done 🎉 The reason for all present gymnasts 🤸🏽♂️
She was amazing. Doing things no one had done before. On the uneven bars, a lot less swinging between components, she never stopped. Toes always pointed, legs always together, stuck landings.Nadia was very good, always been an idol of mine, since I saw her in '76. I've never gotten an opportunity until now to see Olga's '72 performances. If Nadia got a perfect score, so should have Olga.
Who could forget Olga Korbut, she was amazing.
You just shouldn't miss this fantastic gymnastic performance by Olga Korbut, one of the greatest of all times!
Olga Korbut and Nadia Comaneci make gymnast look so easy. You can see both of them have full control of their bodies, they made it look so graceful and effortless, looking almost like ballet. Olga was one of the best gymnasts for sure.
Incomparable. Unforgettable. Wonderful.
Olga is the best. Forever.
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She did at least one exercise at uneven bars which was forbidden later because of deadly risks, one of the reasons why Comaneci didn't show them.
Olga should have gotten the first 10. She truly changed gymnastics.
I think so. She is really surprising!!!
I think she should have too..not Nadia. Due to the country she lived in of course I think she performed robotically and I know she's not a cold person but she came off like that and I wasn't really involved with her performances she seemed very distant and of course she probably was. People say that it was Nadia who revolutionized gymnastics sorry that title belongs to Olga Korbut
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Olga's performance was great but Nadia's performance was much better.
Nadia's performance was much better rhythmical and explicit.
That's why Nadia got perfect 10 not Olga.
Totally agree
Thats honestly one of the Most beautiful Things i have ever Seen
Вы еще не видели великие выступления самой титулованной советской гимнастки Людмилы Турищевой, которая, кстати. Всегда, побеждала Ольгу Корбут на соревнованиях посмотрите Турищеву. Вот где красота и грация !
Olga was the best! I enjoyed the Olympics that year 1972.
Before Olga, the largest crowd to ever see a gymnastic meet was 500. There were even rumors of ending the sport. There was so much excitement over Olga that even the stoic German people went insane over her. Her sheer joy on the floor exercise was child like magic. Nadia doesn't get 10's without Olga. Olga started it all!
Olga deserve the first 10 in olympic history
Olga is number 1. Absolutely! Pure, beauty, eternity!
Indeed, Korbut and Comaneci are the best👏👏👏. Their gracefulness are incomparable❤️❤️. They are like a feather floating in the air.❤️❤️
In ogni performance la Korbut dimostra oltre ad una sorprendente sicurezza e mobilizzazione articolare sorprendente una leggerezza e naturalezza esecutiva d'acchito che ha dell'incredibile.Aggiunge poi pose figurali di estrema difficoltà realizzate con una non chalanche sorprendente. OLTREMODO BRAVA E SPETTACOLARE. BIGHIN GIULIO RENZO
Beautiful combination of athleticism and a graceful, ballet-like performance.
Bless Olga! She changed the whole gymnastics world!! Gymnastics owes her so much ❤❤
Олья молобчина мне очень понравилась урп😅😅😅😅🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
She makes it all look easy , with grace and elegance . And strength that I didn't even think the human body could do ! ❤
Olga Korbut was the first gymnast ever to perform a back somersault. She created it.
Wow, that's a great fact to know 👌
That's why is called Korbut flip
perfect, perfect, perfect! I have no words, soooo beautiful, she was born to do this
Throughly entertainfloor routine.
She floats like a bird in the air an her musicality, ballet, dance skills r a joy t behold.Shes an icon,a legend an quite possibly, the greatest gymnast of all time
I could watch this over and over
Korbut's uneven parallel bars routine is probably my favorite of all time. She was such an incredible gymnast.
She's absolutely adorable, like Nadia Comaneci .... both ladies are legend, respect!
Wow! Impressive union of grace, elegance, artistry and athleticism. Both beautiful and breathtaking to watch.
“IF” it were even possible😯her sets were ALL above 10’s🤩😎
Now, this was ARTISTIC!!
So graceful and elegant!
I think Olga had a fantastic performance and definitely deserved a 10 aswell
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A phenomenal athlete and so charming. Just a beautiful Olympic moment.
Back flip off the top bar was epic, but the blind backwards off the low bar to an iron cross following that element? THATS the move that changed women's gymnastics forever. Nadia got the 10, but Olga revolutionized the sport.
Can you put the time stamp you’re talking about
I remember watching this on tv as it happened. She was phenomenal! It was really incredible to watch her! Thank you for the video it was done very well!🙏🏻
She’s still out there & active in the sport! I was mesmerized by her when I was a little girl. She always looked like she is having fun during every routine. ❤️
OMG Olga your bars and floor routines is so beautiful and clean 🤸🏼♀️💪
Olga should have been the first gymnast to score a perfect 10!
absoluty! I agree with you!!!
Nope. Her korbut flip is really impressive, but there are definite deductions. She bends her legs quite badly (which is kinda unavoidable but still needs to be deducted). Beyond that also her cast to handstand was quite laboured, you can see her struggling to get up to handstand
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I'm sorry not to agree with you ... I think that in this Olympic discipline not only technical virtuosity counts but I think that important variables are not measurable to date and in fact there are perfect 10 forgotten and perfect 10 missed entered the heart of the world
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Юлия no, I really don’t. Watch in slow motion. You really must be blind to not see her knees are bent more than 90 degrees.
After a few permutations and combinations, i suppose she is the greatest of all times in this field.
She shall remain immortal.
Olga was my idol growing up ❤
Why the uneven bars performance wasn't the 1st perfect 10 I will never know. Nadia's performance was brilliant, but Olga's uneven bars performance surpassed , Nadia's without doubt!
I have been keeping this very same opinion for 40 years already. With all due respect to Nadia (1976), Olga (1972) was the best ever!
Both were amazing gymnasts, but Nadia's UB exercise was more complex than Olga's. It contained Comaneci salto (class E even today), perfect hand stands and a "new" dismount.
She made not noticeable mistakes! Some people can catch it When she goes up in the handstand she shake out leg or called as sickleing.
Olga's was groundbreaking, but Nadia's catches and releases were just unreal. I still gasp when I see Nadia's 76 Olympic performance on bars.
its almost a shame they moved the bars further apart. I love Nadia's release and all the whirling around the close bars.
I would have given her performance in the uneven bars a 10!!! 😍
Man her uneven bars were unreal.. just awesome i could Cry watching it
her uneven bar dead loop is even more impressive than what i've seen in last 4 olympics gymnastics cycle.
1972 is the Olympics that changed Gymnastics forever IIRC. the pure technique that is considered "impossible" is now a standard, but no one can duplicate what Olga did with the pelvic low bar catch spin.
Every single gymnasts end up with a bruise if they try the dead loop, but Olga did it without getting any kind of injury.
Olga and Nadia are legends. Since then nobody has compared to them. I mean todays gymnasts are very good it's something about Olga and Nadia that todys gymnasts cant even come close to comparing to.
Sheer joy. One of the most charming participants ever in the olympic games.
Beautiful performance!!! Amazing artistry!!
I had the great pleasure to watch her in the 1972 Olympics! Olga has never been matched! Her uneven bar routine was not only phenomenal, it was unparalleled history making! Whenever I think of her, I smile because my brain replays the mind boggling difficulty of her perfect execution of that routine! She was robbed by the judges scoring! Even her floor routine was perfect. She was a pixie full of dynamite! I miss watching her perform. But at least I can watch it again and again thanks to this video!
Wonderful to see. Thank you Olga.
Olga Korbut has aways been my favourite gymnast and always will be the best in the world. Great stuff! 💯
Olga Korbut Is one of my favorites gymnast along with Nadia Comâneci, in the minute 2 she flies like a bird, I was 9 years old in 1972 when I watched her performance at Munich, and ever since I remember her, now with UA-cam is a pleasure to watch her again, I love you're art Olga Korbut...
There will never be another gymnast like her no one can come close