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Elena Mukhina, the tragic gymnast who unlike Simone Biles could not say ‘no’
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evoke.ieSoviet gymnast Elena Mukhina was a rising star who was tipped for glory at the 1980 Olympic Games but pushed to extremes and facing mounting pressure, the 20-year-old suffered a life-altering fall.
In the lead-up to the Olympics, Elena had broken her leg but despite this, her coach insisted that she continue to train as the Games were just around the corner, and the young Olympian felt she had no choice but to push through.
She recalled later in an interview with the Russian magazine Ogoniok that:‘They removed the cast and I was walking crookedly.
They took an X-ray, and it turned out that the bones had separated.’ I was on the operating table right after lunch. My coach came the next day and said that I wasn’t conscientious and that I
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