Unorthodox Gymnastics

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For Svetlana Boguinskaia, the best part of winning was the microwave

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For Svetlana Boguinskaia, the best part of winning was the microwave

Dvora Meyers
Oct 5, 2019
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Thirty years ago, the Soviet squad, one of the greatest women’s gymnastics teams ever assembled, won the team gold medal at the 1989 world championships in Stuttgart. In addition to the team title, they swept the medals in the all-around competition and took the titles on vault and floor. But they weren’t special simply because they won a lot of medals …

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