#tatiana lysenko

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Ukrainian gymnast Tatiana Lysenko, 1992 Olympic Balance Beam Champion.

When Ukraine Ruled Gymnastics

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Tatiana Lysenko - Floor

Tatiana Lysenko was a senior from Ukraine from 1990 to 1994. She now lives in California. Probably the best FX routine Lysenko ever put together at a major competition, and at the height of her snow boot era. pic.twitter.com/aFS1Ozggrk— Pamchenkova (@Pamchenkova) March 27, 2022

[lesser-known-composers]

Mykola Lysenko - Valse Brillante op.6

Tatiana Prima khoury ( Piano)

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[mo-salto]

It’s always the right time for Tatiana Lysenko appreciation

[freifraufischer]

Many viewers will probably look and say but she's a hefty girl.  But no no, she's a very very shapely young lady.  It's really difficult to judge the size of these gymnasts on television because somebody like Shannon Miller is so diminutive.  But Natalia Yurchenko is is a very normal, shapely young lady.  Probably only about 5'1" tall and in a size 8 jeans so she's quite slender.  Just makes us dread to think what we'd all look like in leotards.

Monica Phelps, professional gymnastics commentator at the 1994 World Championships about Tatiana Lysenko (not Natalia Yurchenko who didn’t even compete in the same decade).

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“ tatiana lysenko queen of the beam tbh “

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quaRoutines (17/?)

included simply for her statement on her decision to throw a dty:

- During vault finals, you did a double-twisting Yurchenko and took a step. At the time, a single-twisting Yurchenko and a double were both valued out of a 10. Do you ever look back and regret not using the simpler vault?

- No, I’m so glad I did it. I would have felt so much worse if I did just a full and still took a step. I would have thought, “How silly was that?” No matter how safe you play it, there’s never a guarantee that you will not make a mistake. And taking risks like that was part of our team philosophy: the idea that if you could do something, you should do it—you should show it to the world. It wasn’t about playing a game of points or determining how to use the Code to your advantage. It was about showing the best gymnastics that you could in a pure sense.

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yeet

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Tatiana Lysenko’s 3 LOSO mount and full in dismount @ 1992 CIS Championships

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The medal podium for vault at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics:

Lavinia Miloșovici (Romania) and Henrietta Ónodi (Hungary) - tied for gold. Tatiana Lysenko (Ukraine) - bronze.

All three gymnasts went home with at least one gold medal from the Games.

[tchaikovskaya]

saw some tweet talking about "lysenko apologism" and i didnt see who tweeted it and i thought it was about soviet unified team gymnast tatiana lysenko's controversial olympic gold medal from barcelona 1992 and i was MIFFED and then i realized it was about trofim lysenko... 🙄 ANYWAY back to more IMPORTANT matters

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYWJuDkwevU

It’s probably not too much of a revelation that Aly Raisman’s 2012 floor music was “Hava Nagila.”  She’s hardly the first gymnast to use it -- it’s a lively, upbeat melody, it’ll get the crowd clapping along, most people know it, it’s easy to arrange within the 90-second time limit for the floor exercise, and there’s an A section and a B section, so you can have a tempo change -- I believe the Code of Points does want a tempo change at some point.

But what’s really lovely here is to see an openly Jewish gymnast performing to one of the most recognizably Jewish melodies in the world.  It’s not that there haven’t been other Jewish gymnasts, or even other Jewish gymnasts at the Olympics, or even other Jewish gymnasts on American Olympic teams (Kerri Strug is now probably the second most famous American Jewish gymnast, for instance).  But it wasn’t something that you’d make a big deal out of, and I wouldn’t be surprised if, for instance, the Soviet Union actively tried to suppress any mention that, say Yelena Shushunova or Tatiana Lysenko were MOTs.

It can be a little bit tricky for Jewish gymnasts to climb the ranks into elite, just because the training takes so much time, and so many gymnastics meets are on Saturdays -- there’s a kid at my shul who’s a gymnast, and loves it, and is always conflicted about whether to go to meets or go to shul.  So it was really a treat to see a Jewish gymnast out there on the world stage, openly being Jewish and celebrating it with her floor music and her dance!

(I get that part of the requirement for a floor exercise is to “portray a character” and to have some kind of recognizable actual dancing in addition to the acrobatic and “dance” elements, but honestly, I’ve only rarely seen anything in any gymnast’s floor routine that I would describe as a “character.”  Aly Raisman does this about as well as most, and certainly well enough for this music.)

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Tag yourself: “Bye I’m dead now” FX ending poses edition

Clockwise from top left: Svetlana Khorkina (RUS), Lieke Wevers (NED), Oréane Lechenault (FRA), Vasiliki Millousi (GRE), Stella Umeh (CAN), Tatiana Lysenko (URS)

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Tatiana Lysenko (Unified Team), BB, 1992 Olympic Games

[gymfanconfessions]

“ The 1989-1992 floor compulsory exercise was so pretty. I wish FIG would bring the compulsories back. “