I cried tears of happiness because so many people have supported me for a long time," she said, according to the International Federation of Gymnastics. I'm saying goodbye to sports. Fellow athletes praised the gymnastics competitor, with the Team USA women's gymnastics team snapping a photo with her in Tokyo.
As she says, 'I only got better, like fine wine,'" the team shared on Instagram. Forever an icon. Wishing Oksana the best of luck! I'm so excited to watch. Chusovitina also posted about her final Olympics. She said her sports life had "ups and downs" and "tears of joy and tears of grief, but I don't regret it for a single minute.
The challenges of reporting at the Olympics. Oksana Chusovitina Olympics floor. This is Oksana Chusovitina 8th Olympics!! No words to describe how impressive that is. Forever an icon. Wishing Oksana the best of luck! Casting any disappointment aside, at having narrowly missed advancing to the finals, she, with a laugh, proudly reflects back on her achievements.
Judging by the global reaction to Chusovitina's retirement, she'll never have to. While Spanish gymnast Marina Gonzalez, who is also competing in vault in Tokyo wrote, "Constancy, Courage and above all breaking stereotypes. Admiration Oksana Chusovitina". A true legend.
Few have better encapsulated the Olympic spirit. A variety of newsletters you'll love, delivered straight to you. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted. She won medals at the Asian Games 24 years apart Hiroshima in ; Jakarta in , including at least one on each of the four apparatuses in her sport. In between, she won vault medals at four different European Championships and amassed 11 world medals, including vault silvers at ages 16 and She has had five skills named for her and her eighth Olympic appearance is the most of any female gymnast in history.
At a press conference at the Sydney Games, Chusovitina dismissed suggestions that she was too old for the sport. She also suggested the staying power came from her husband Bakhodir Kurbanov, a two-time Olympian in Greco-Roman wrestling.
Since then, Chusovitina endured operations on her back, a shoulder and an ankle, and was done with gymnastics more often than Elizabeth Taylor was done with husbands. Chusovitina says, again, that these Olympics will be her last. Her son, Alisher, was diagnosed with Leukemia in To be fair, an older competitor can maintain a higher ranking on the vault, because most gymnasts do not actually contest it as an individual event. In both team and all-around competitions, gymnasts perform a single vault for a single score.
Those who choose to make themselves eligible for individual medals on that apparatus must execute a second vault, distinctive enough from the first that it comes from a different family or category of vaults, with five families to choose from. Chusovitina keeps a front handspring and Tsukahara—a quarter turn onto the horse—vault in her bag of tricks.
Evan the apparatus itself was different when she started. The scoring system was overhauled, too. The perfect 10, a standard no gymnast had ever reached at an Olympics when Chusovitina was born, had become so commonplace that even with more demanding codes of points each quadrennium, gymnasts were achieving perfect or near-perfect marks too frequently by the time each Olympics arrived.
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