Olga Korbut
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Olga Valentinovna Korbut is a Belarusian retired gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union. Nicknamed the "Sparrow from Minsk," she won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympic Gam
Korbut c. 1972
Olga Korbut at the 1972 Olympics on an Azerbaijani stamp
A wax figure of Korbut at Madame Tussauds in London
Renald Knysh
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Renald Ivanovich Knysh was a Soviet and Belarusian coach in artistic gymnastics. Considered one of gymnastics' pioneering coaches, he was the coach of Olga Korbut. He was later accused of child rape b
Olga Korbut
…moved to Grodno from Dubniaki (a small town near Kalinkavichy). She started training at age 8, and entered a Belarusian sports school headed by coach Renald Knysh at age 9. There, Korbut's first trainer was Elena Volchetskaya, an Olympic gold medalist (1964), but she was moved to Knysh's group a year later…
Renald Knysh