The worlds that never happened

[Matilda23]

Bogy would have won EVERYTHING in 1990.

Lisenko won the 1990 World Cup and Kalinina the 1990 Goodwill Games so it would have been an exciting AA final!

 

[Puffin]

She didn’t retire, she was retired. Or at least that’s how she describes it.

I guess that is par for the course but she was so young to have been forcibly retired at 17.

 

[makam]

Oh I am totally loving this thread - armed with a glass of wine I'm going to have a bash at '75 Worlds'...

Team
1. USSR
2. Romania
3. GDR

The Romanians were on the rise - if these had been held in the October then the Romanians would have been on top form. Nadia had had a very successful Euros in the April (?) and Teodora was obviously recovered from what kept her out of Euros looking at her success in the '75 World Cup. The USSR team would have likely been Tourischeva, Korbut, Saadi, Kim, Gorbik and Koval. Romania - Nadia, Teodora, Grigoras, Goreac, Gabor and maybe Trusca. GDR would be Zinke, Hellmann, Schmeisser, Kische, Gershau, Escher.

AA

This would have been Nadia's day, with the minor medals between Kim, Tourisheva and Ungureanu. I'm hoping

1. Comaneci
2. Kim
3. Ungureanu
3. Tourischeva


Vault
Gold and silver could easily be reversed - it depends on Olga's ankle on the day

1. Kim
2. Korbut
3. Hellmann
UB
Nadia's to lose
1. Comaneci
2. Ungureanu
3. Korbut
BB
Also Nadia's to lose
1. Comaneci
2. Korbut
3. Ungureanu
FX
I always felt Teodora was robbed in the 76 FX finals - probably the best routine of the games. This is pre-redemption!
1. Ungureanu
2. Korbut
3. Tourischeva

I think Chusovitina would have won FX. What's that? She wasn't competing quite that long ago? My mistake... ;-)