Olga Korbut

There, you will, uh, hear immediately from that.

And also when you had a look up into the Olympic situation in Montreal, it perhaps might have looked to you as though Olga Korbut was injured.

She was not, we're very happy to report.

There's the Bird, Mark Fidrych, and Catfish Hunter is, uh, warming up for the American League.

In 1975, Billie Jean King was voted as World's Most Admired Woman by Seventeen Magazine, earning 37% of the votes.

Surpassing Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, actress Mary Tyler Moore, Olympic gymnast Olga Korbut, singer Barbra Streisand, and fellow tennis star Chrissy Everett.

Dude, she was more admired than singers and politicians and prime ministers around the world.

This battle of the sexes was something that was...

Any major significance, uh, any newsworthy things coming out of the there, you will, uh, hear immediately from that.

And also, when you had a look up into the Olympic situation in Montreal, it perhaps might have looked to you as though Olga Korbut was injured.

She was not, we're very happy to report.

[organ playing] There's the Bird, Mark Fidrych, and Catfish Hunter is, uh, warming up for the American League.

Burroughs wants it and has it about 15 feet fair.

Well, as a physical education major, I had to take all those gymnastics classes, and they made us get up on the side horse and the parallel bars, and I can remember trying to learn ...

I could fi- finally learned how to stand on my head, and then the handstand I never did capture it.

You know, they teach you that by, you know, going against a wall, put your feet against the wall, and you stand, and then you try to bring your feet off against the wall and, and keep it there.

... players on the scene in New York, any major significance, uh, any newsworthy things coming out of the there, you will, uh, hear immediately from that.

And also, when you had a look up into the Olympic situation in Montreal, it perhaps might have looked to you as though Olga Korbut was injured.

She was not, we're very happy to report.

There's the Bird, Mark Fidrych.

Is it because they think they're too fat? Absolutely not.

I used to see a lot of these gals in the 70s and 80s when I practiced up in Portland, Oregon, because that was the time of Olga Korbut.

And you may remember her as being the darling of the world because she'd won every gymnastic event in the Olympics and the same Olympiad with a perfect score.

And everybody wanted their little girl to be an Olga Korbut.

And I used to see them.

They'd get split lips and fractured and dislocations because they weren't all perfect.