MINSK, 27 February (BelTA) –The Olympic medals of gymnast Olga Korbut fetched over $200,000 at an auction in the USA, BelTA has learned. Olga Korbut, a many-time Olympic and world champion, put her ...

The Spokesman-Review ran a full-page photo spread on Expo ’74, focusing on Olga Korbut, the Russian Olympic gymnastic champion. The photos showed Korbut riding behind three white horses in a “troika,” ...

(Reuters) - At the 1972 Munich Olympics, an unheralded 17-year-old gymnast broke the Cold War stereotype that the Soviets were stone faced performers who displayed no emotions as she sobbed on the ...

Russia announced that two of its most famous Olympians – gymnasts Olga Korbut and Ludmilla Tourisheva – would perform at Expo ’74. That wasn’t the only good news. A U.S. film crew was making a TV ...

Olga Korbut walks around the man-made lake in anonymity, despite the bright red warmup jacket with "Olga" in sparkly letters on her left shoulder. Korbut likes it here, this little suburban slice of ...