apparently, he was a terrible husband too. when he was having issues in his marriage to ksenia he also took it out on ksenia's friend, who happened to be armenian, by calling her racial slurs
In a better universe Kathy Johnson-Clarke would be the icon of American gymnastics. In the best universe, the 1984 Olympics wouldn't have been boycotted and Mostepanova could've had her moment.
MLR's gymnastics was quite honestly never all that. Her AA floor was so overscored, and her interview...
a lot of mine have been mentioned here already: yang yun, naimushina, filatova, davydova
here are some more: oksana omelianchik (1985 and 1987), Emilia eberle and teadora ungureanu's sanie cu zurgalai routines, Jiang yuyuan 2008, shushunova 1988, meng fei 1997, Cheng fei 2006, Zhang nan 2004