The Young Gymnasts

By Lyn Moran

Many youngsters hope to follow in the footsteps of Olga Korbut and Nadia Comaneci, the legendary pair who have made gymnastics the vibrant, appealing and popular sport it is today. The World... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0441949908
• ISBN13: 9780441949908
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Tempo Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

A comprehensive look at 70's gymnastics

For all you gymnastics fans out there, read this book if you want a look at the direction the sport was heading in the 70's. Even a perusal of it will tell you that the trend was favoring extremely young, tiny athletes, a trend which continues, with a few exceptions, to this very day.I got a real kick out of seeing and reading about such greats as Tracee Talavera, Natalia Shaposhnikova, Natalia Yurchenko, and Elena Naimushina when the were just mop-haired little kids.The book also contains good bios on Korbut, Comaneci, and Turischeva.