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07-08-2003, 01:00 PM #21
I don't see how this is a valid question since you do not compete directly against other teams.
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07-08-2003, 01:50 PM #22
Brad -- I don't know either
I have a list of all the gymnastics medal winner from the Women's division from 2000 all the way to about 1952, right about when women were competing in gymnastics
And I couldn't figure out how you tell if a United States gymnast beat a Russian.
After all, if Mary Lou Retton won the gold medal, that meant she beat out every gymnast that entered the Olympics, which would include the Russians.
So, I was pretty confused, and eventually just gave an answer and gave up
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07-08-2003, 01:53 PM #23
well the trick with the question is also the fact that they were the USSR and fairly recently Russia... and I am not sure what they were called in the olympics before the commie revolution.
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07-08-2003, 01:57 PM #24
Ya but the Commie's came around in about 1920 so the list doesn't go back before that. Plus, the US Olympic team didn't enter female gymnists back then. I am confused. I am pretty sure by the 92 games, the USSR had fallen.
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07-08-2003, 02:25 PM #25
Okay, the answer to the question was Phoebe Mills like enigma said... but I'll give credit to Fuba too. Fuba, from now on give a full answer to the question.
By Russia I meant The Soviet Union also... it's all the same. '88 was the first year an american female won a medal in an individual event. Sure, there were 3 women who won an individual event medal in '84, but Russia's gymnastics team boycotted that olympics, so those '84 winners did not compete against Russia.
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07-08-2003, 06:08 PM #26
Originally posted by IggyWH
Okay, the answer to the question was Phoebe Mills like enigma said... but I'll give credit to Fuba too. Fuba, from now on give a full answer to the question.
By Russia I meant The Soviet Union also... it's all the same. '88 was the first year an american female won a medal in an individual event. Sure, there were 3 women who won an individual event medal in '84, but Russia's gymnastics team boycotted that olympics, so those '84 winners did not compete against Russia.
They Russians/USSR sure did boycott that that year...
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07-08-2003, 06:46 PM #27
Congrats to Fuba and Enigma!!!
This trivia kept me up an extra 45 minutes trying to figure out the answer
and I still didn't, lolol
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