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I found myself looking at a lot of figure skating falls on YouTube, and found this about Elena Mukhina.
I never heard about her before. She ended up a quadriplegic after a fall while training for the Olympics! This was after the Soviets ordered her leg cast removed early following an operation...so she could get back in shape in time.
Oops.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 15, 2018 9:13 AM |
Too bad they didn't make a movie about her like Jill Kinmont.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 15, 2018 4:43 AM |
I think her accident is one reason they reconfigured the uneven bars? I saw that documentary on YouTube. She fell and thought "I don't have to go to the Olympics".
How much stress was she facing that she'd rather be paralyzed than compete.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 15, 2018 4:51 AM |
I believe she was just a little orphan, with a grandmother on the sidelines. She was basically owned by her trainer and Soviet sports officials.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 15, 2018 5:00 AM |
Russia has not changed one bit. A disgusting, filthy, destructive machine of a nation.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 15, 2018 5:02 AM |
Well, speaking as an American, our own country isn't looking so great at the moment....
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