Vintage Gymnastics - Pixie Olga

40 years ago Olga Korbut dazzled the world of Gymnastics. She changed the ways Americans watched the Olympics.Olga Korbut captured the public imagination with her charismatic and daring performances in the team competition at the 1972 Munich Games, aged just 17 year old. .

Her routines were unique, including her own signature elements, the Korbut flip on both apparatus. If you wonder what is the Korbut flip on uneven bars, just watch the 1972 videos, Just  watch the Korbut flip on beam. She opened the door for other, smaller and younger  gymnasts, and she “boldly went where no one had gone before”.

After her spectacular routine on the uneven parallel bars,1972 Olympics, Korbut later recalled, "It was amazing. One day, I was a nobody, and the next day, I was a star.