Revisiting Past Age Falsifications

[RedBirdie]

And a follow-up to the Gymnastics History link posted earlier

How Romania Broke the Age Rules and Why the FIG Looked Away – Gymnastics History

 

[phoenix7]

Didn’t Silivas say in an interview, that she didn’t want short hair but someone in the federation made her cut her hair.

Short hair for women was in fashion at the time but more like Dorte Thummler’s hair at Seoul. Though maybe in the East it was a different style (Silivas, Ulrike Klotz in 88).

I listened to an interview once (the skating lesson? Or an American TV production?) where she explained that the gymnasts all gave each other trendy short cuts before the Seoul Olympics in 1988. Executives from the FRG had fits at the results and conducted them to Bucharest's finest hair salon to undo the damage ...

 

[IratePanda]

The Romanians had

Didn’t Silivas say in an interview, that she didn’t want short hair but someone in the federation made her cut her hair.

Short hair for women was in fashion at the time but more like Dorte Thummler’s hair at Seoul. Though maybe in the East it was a different style (Silivas, Ulrike Klotz in 88).

Klotz had a full-on mullet, which was a very popular style for American guys back then.

Fun fact: From ages 14-16, I had the same haircut as Gabrielle Faehnrich/GDR. At the end of tenth grade (1986), I started growing my hair and eventually got a perm with poufy bangs. I consciously avoided the Romanian poodlehead. In fact, when my best friend learned that I was getting a perm, she said, "If you show up at school looking like Daniela Fucking Silivas, I'll pretend I don't know you."