While many athletes would give their best to just reach the Olympics, gymnastics icon Olga Korbut once gave her medals a fate ...

Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina is filled with a mixed sense of wonder and trepidation when she watches the gravity-defying and often treacherous routines of Simone Biles as the American set out to ...

The Olympics has given us plenty of jaw-dropping gymnastics moments. Few were as shocking as the “D*** Loop,” a ...

(Reuters) - Olga Korbut, the gymnastics darling of the 1972 Munich Olympics who has apparently fallen on hard times, has sold off her Games medals and other trophies through a U.S. auction house.

What is the cost of perfection? NPR's David Folkenflik talks with Rae Meadows about her new novel, "Winterland." It tells the story of Soviet... 'Winterland' explores the cost of perfection through ...

Back in the days of the Soviet Union, the women's gymnastics competition was highly predictable — the Soviet squad won the team gold medal at every Olympics it participated in. Even when Nadia ...

(Reuters) - At the 1972 Munich Olympics, an unheralded 17-year-old gymnast broke the Cold War stereotype that the Soviets were stone faced performers who displayed no emotions as she sobbed on the ...

Recapping the highlights from Olympic gymnastics history, from the event's origin and timeline to all the most iconic moments ...