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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 204. Not illustrated. Chapters: Olympic Gymnasts of the Soviet Union, Olympic Gymnasts of the Unified Team, Soviet Artistic Gymnasts, Soviet Rhythmic Gymnasts, Larissa Latynina, Yelena Davydova, Tatiana Gutsu, Ludmilla Tourischeva, Yelena Shushunova, Maria Gorokhovskaya, Elena Mukhina, Nellie Kim, Oksana Chusovitina, Vitaly Scherbo, Svetlana Boginskaya, Oksana Omelianchik, Nikolai Andrianov, Alexander Dityatin, Polina Astakhova, Olga Korbut, Sofia Muratova, Natalia Kuchinskaya, Ivan Ivankov, Yuri Titov, Olga Mostepanova, Boris Shakhlin, Valeri Liukin, Rozalia Galiyeva, Dmitry Bilozerchev, Tamara Manina, Natalia Shaposhnikova, Natalia Yurchenko, Alexander Vasilyevich Tkachyov, Maria Filatova, Olexandra Tymoshenko, Viktor Chukarin, Zinaida Voronina, Tamara Lazakovich, Tatiana Lysenko, Vladimir Artemov, Galina Shamrai, Mikhail Voronin, Irina Deriugina, Olesya Dudnik, Valentin Muratov, Valentin Mogilny, Galima Shugurova, Stella Zakharova, Oxana Skaldina, Svetlana Grozdova, Marina Lobatch, Viktor Klimenko, Nina Bocharova, Sergei Kharkov, Lyubov Burda, Grant Shaginyan, Igor Korobchinsky, Oxana Kostina, Rustam Sharipov, Valery Belenky, Olga Bicherova, Galina Beloglazova, Pavel Stolbov, Anna Kotchneva, Grigory Misutin, Larissa Petrik, Ekaterina Kalinchuk, Vladimir Artemev, Margarita Nikolaeva, Alexei Voropaev, Elena Tomas. Excerpt: Yelena Victorovna Davydova (Russian: , born August 7, 1961 in Voronezh, 400 miles south of Moscow), is a Russian (formerly, Soviet) gymnast. She is the 1980 Olympic All-Around Champion. Davydova became interested in gymnastics at age six after seeing on television the famous Soviet Olympic gold medallists Larissa Petrik and Natalia Kuchinskaya. She attempted alone to be enrolled in Voronezh's famous Spartak Gymnastics school, yet was turned away, as she was very small, and considered at the time to have the wr...