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The Fed is supportive: “Ana has been admitted to Stanford University, and Lilia to Michigan State University. Corina Moroșan, technical director at FRG, discussed with officials from the two universities to establish the gymnasts’ program and objectives,” the federation announced. “Ana and...

Her ambition has been to study Law. I think this is a great move. Amalia Ghigoarta is also out there liking NCAA posts!

Oh I forgot that. Well, she'll have fun working with them I hope

Will be great to see Tiana with choreography from Daymon and Patrick. Can't wait.

That was Dobre's injury from before Olympics. She had the same scar there. Yes, surgery was in Romania. When you get to event finals you see Silivas having trouble with her knee. A Parisian clinic offered to do her surgery, and she had it there shortly afterwards - but then of course the...

Example of GoodFacial Expression, With Good Body Language and Movement: Eythora Thorsdottir 2016 Olympics So was her facial expression angry, fearful, happy or sad? (Aloof, sinister, amused, demented obviously didn't make the cut).

I didn't know that, and it's very interesting. Tourischeva had a beautiful face. It looks even more delicate under that mound of hair.

Oh I only skimmed and read the Johnson story, sorry. As I said, didn't get it there.

Can of hairspray and you could take on the world, in the eighties. Tourischeva looked the part at 31!

Kathy has told the story a few times. Soviets were definitely still involved as officials and judges in 1984. This isn't where I first read it but here's a version of the story https://www.sellingpower.com/2010/02/02/3584/triumphant Not suggesting anything shady in beam judging by the way...

Henrietta Onodi has been in the news too recently, of course. I hope she's doing better. I love her 1992 floor for its changes of pace - prefer it to the famous West Side Story choreography. It's majestic, and she hits the beat of the music so well with her landings.

Why did they swap Chuso for Boginskaya in the floor final, does anyone know? Injury or strategy? Was it a .1 deduction for a step out in that code? If so, there would have been a four-way tie for bronze - Chuso too. I like all her later 1990s routines, but not a fan of this one - just a bit...

I wish Bontas had had her Olympics in 1988 instead of 1992. She was exciting at 1989 worlds, and the 88 Romanian team was so tired ...

To be fair, even Milo didn't actually think Milo should have won, on the day! Sounds like she was fighting and winning her own private war against Zmeskal and Okino - did Karolyi have more gymnasts there? I am always surprised at the extent to which people write Boguinskaya off in these games...

That puts a new spin on her encouraging smile at Kathy Johnson Clarke at the 1984 (Romania vs USA) Olympics. Johnson said it grounded her and got her her bronze on beam. (I'm glad she got it, though)