46 year old Gymnast Oksana Chusovitina takes her final bow as she competed at her eighth and last Olympics

in her first olympics she was starting for the soviet union still....

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funfan · 46-50, M

How amazing! Her first Olympics was... maybe Barcelona?

PinkPunk · F

@funfan yeah was barcelona.. and technically it wasnt the soviet union but this weird followup team, but she competed before that at european championships as part of the soviet union team

funfan · 46-50, M

@PinkPunk that's all so fascinating. I had forgotten that the ussr had fallen not even a full year before those games.