The 2024 Paris Olympics is approaching, and the “gymnastics” event is particularly popular among the public because of its beautiful competition. But have you ever thought that this field is like martial arts, where athletes not only pursue beauty and awards, but also desire to create unique skills? Looking back at the 1972 Munich Olympics, the Soviet “wonder girl” Olga Korbut once rewrote the definition of gymnastics with a move that is now banned, “The Dead Loop/The Korbut Flip”.
Before 1972, gymnastics was a niche sport. The athletes tended to be older, and the competition often combined ballet movements. It looked beautiful but the process was boring, and it was not very attractive to the general public. Therefore, when Korbut emerged with the qualifications of “admitted to a sports school at the age of 8 and entered the Olympics at the age of 17”, it was inevitable that the industry and the public would be curious.
Korbut is extremely talented and has an unusually soft spine. She often challenges many difficult moves on the balance beam, backflips and uneven bars. Her mental quality is also outstanding. Even gymnastics experts can’t stand her new-school skills and criticize her as “acrobatic performance”. She also questioned whether Soviet athletes were forced to train since childhood and were emotionless “sport machines”, but she didn’t care. On the global gymnastics stage, Korbut always wins competitions with a smile on his face and impresses everyone with his strength.
The 1972 Munich Olympics was the peak of his career. Generally speaking, women’s arm strength is not as strong as men’s, so they often use specially designed uneven bars to reduce arm strength and swing inertia. But Korbut was determined to make the most of the tool’s characteristics – she first threw her back from the short bar to the high bar, then stood on the high bar and did a backflip, hit the short bar with her abdomen, turned around, and grabbed the high bar behind her back. Bar, finally push on the bar with both feet, perform a backflip and land perfectly. This series of original and difficult moves is known as the “death flip” and makes him the first athlete to complete a flip-grip on the uneven bars.
In this Olympics, Korbut won 3 gold medals and 1 silver, which also subverted the future of the gymnastics world: a large number of young girls under the age of 10 participated in gymnastics, triggering the rejuvenation of the event; gymnastics has also been sublimated from a “sports version of ballet” into a unique sports art; competition Later, Korbut was invited to meet with the President of the United States. In the following years, he unexpectedly promoted sports diplomacy and eased tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, the Olympic Committee saw that the death somersault was too dangerous, and added a clause “no standing on the bar” to permanently ban it, making it a stunt “unprecedented and unprecedented”.
Written by: KC
Image source: anythingymnastics, Getty Images, CNN, OlympicGames
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2023-12-18 10:04:49
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