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Flashback to 1980 - Elena Naimushina

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Flashback to 1980 ... 'Kalinka' playing and a little girl, Elena Naimushina, is performing faultlessly on the floor ... Here is Elena, from Siberia, with her coach Valentin Shevchuk. The pictures are from this quarter's edition of 'Gymnastika' magazine, which you can download at the redesigned RGF website at www.sportgymrus.ru.


The matchless Elena Naimushina ... Up first for the Soviet team on floor at the 1980 Olympics - http://youtu.be/E9c5fEb1yvg

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  1. eimeara19 September 2016 at 12:55

    I often wondered why she never placed higher.She was worthy of gold all round or at least silver. Maybe it was politics? Probably she came from the 'wrong' part of the Soviet Union. I think they preferred girls from in and around Moscow

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