ATLANTA -- Federal agents surrounded the son of former Olympic gold medalist Olga Korbut on Monday and arrested him on counterfeiting charges. Evidence links the gymnast's son, Richard Bortkevich ...

In 1972, the Soviet gymnast, Olga Korbut, was one of the stars of the Munich Olympics. Just four foot eleven, the "Sparrow from Minsk" charmed the world by breaking down in tears after messing up ...

The beginning of the Games was spectacular, featuring such stars as Olga Korbut and Mark Spitz. Then, in the early morning hours of September 5th, it all went horribly, horribly wrong. The ABC ...

McGowan called it “the Cry n’ Vibe.” “Would anyone like to share a story about the last time they cried?” Josephine Hill, the evening’s emcee, asked the room. Here, the fans of D.C ...

EXCLUSIVE: Voltage Pictures has acquired global rights to the horror thriller O.T.H.E.R, starring Olga Kurylenko. The feature written and directed by David Moreau follows Alice (Kurylenko), who ...

At age 15, Olga won four gold medals and two silver medals ... She emigrated to the U.S. in 1991 and became a citizen in 2000. Korbut became a gymnastics trainer and was celebrated with a special ...

Here we take you through why it is banned and who originally introduced it. The dead loop, also known as the Korbut Flip, is a daring and dangerous move in gymnastics. This tricky manoeuvre ...

And even then, 20-year-old Soviet Ludmila Turischeva’s win was upstaged by the electric performances of her younger teammate Olga Korbut, aged 17. Korbut would be the first in a line of ...

Here, in no particular order, are the Top 10 Saturday Night Live Olympic Sketches: 'Olga Korbut' (1976) Gilda Radner makes a brief but memorable appearance on Weekend Update, portraying real-life ...

The Dead Loop is a gymnastic move that was named after legendary Olympian Olga Korbut. Her video footage of doing the maneuver recently went viral on the internet and created curiosity amongst ...

Names like Olga Korbut, Nadia Comaneci, and Mary Lou Retton register as sports legends, and when I think of the Olympics, I think of gymnastics. Lots of us take this absolute spectacle of a sport ...

The Korbut flip is regarded as one of the riskiest and most difficult skills in the history of gymnastics. It is named after Olga Korbut, who performed it for the first time at the 1972 Olympics.