Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.

There Korbut's first trainer was Elena Volchetskaya an Olympic gold medalist (1964) but Olga Korbut was moved to Knysh's group a year later. In the same year Olga completed a backflip-to-catch on the uneven bars; this was the first backward release move ever performed by a woman on bars. After the boards displayed a score of 9.

Olga Valentinovna Korbut (Belarusian: Вольга Валянцінаўна Корбут Volha Valancinaŭna Korbut; Russian: Ольга Валентиновна Корбут) (b. May 16 1955 in Hrodna) also known as the "Sparrow from Minsk" is a Belarusian Soviet-born gymnast who won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympic Games in which Olga Korbut competed in 1972 and 1976 for the USSR team.