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What Is Korbut's Interest In The Sport Of Gymnastics

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Most people are watching the Olympics in their homes, hosted this year here in the United States, in the city of Los Angeles, California. Much improvement has been made for in the sport of Gymnastics. Women teams, having only been allowed since 1928, is proving everyone wrong with their accomplishments. It was only 1976, 12 games ago, when Nadia Comaneci of Romania was the first gymnast to ever achieve the score of a perfect 10. Still Americans hope. Through all of historic evolving in this sport, they realize things are unexpected and anything is possible. Starting in 1932, the floor exercise was added into the Olympics in place of individual tumbling. The United States also won five gold medals and the Japanese competed in the in the same …show more content…

It was a long road, but after all of that Nadia Comaneci accomplished what no other could. In that year of 1976, not only did she get the first perfect score, she got the first seven. It is import that people stay informed Throughout the years because many people only read about the most important things and don't really know all about everything that led up to those events. People got interested at the time of Korbut’s accomplishment which got them interested in the sport of gymnastics. Others started their interest in the sport after hearing about Nadia Comaneci because it became a well-publicized event that many people never would have realized. However, if people do not enjoy and follow along with the small details of gymnastics and have only learned about the main events that were broadcasted over TV or through the newspaper they wouldn't understand the meaning and intent behind new skills or something as big as a prefect score. There will always be people who don't stay updated, but people such as Nadia Comaneci and Olga Korbut have helped increase the amount of people the follow along with the sport through the many years that it has been

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