Shirley Babashoff
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Shirley Frances Babashoff is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in multiple events. Babashoff set six world records and earned a total of nine Oly
Babashoff on the podium at 1972 Olympics
Babashoff in 2016
Spiritual Christianity
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Spiritual Christianity is the group of belief systems held by so-called heterodox ethnic Russians, folk Protestants, including non-Eastern Orthodox indigenous faith tribes and new religious movements
Shirley Babashoff
…Her father had been a swimming instructor in Hawaii and always wanted his own children to become Olympians. Both of her parents are second-generation Spiritual Christians from Russia. After the 1976 Olympics, Babashoff was occasionally referred to as "Surly Shirley" and described as a "sore loser" by the media because…
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