Yeah, there's another lady who's in the Olympics for a sport that's even more rigorous than swimming: gymnastics. She's 33, and her name is Oksana Chusovitina. Yeah, I know is one of those names that you hope you never have to say out loud, but she's from Germany, the land of impossible names. Just kidding Russia is the land of impossible names, Germany is the land of really hard names. Anyways, shes been in 4 Olympic games, 10 worlds, and has won 8 medals on one event--more than any other gymnast ever. Not only that, but she started competing at the senior level in 1989, which basically is before almost all of her competitors were born. Oh yeah, she also came back after having a kid!
Her vaulting ability is renouned across the world. She does not preform yurchenkos (the one where it looks like the person is doing a flip flop onto the vault), but rather a tsukahara (it looks like she does a round off on the vault). She has quite a few moves named after her, but after 20 years at such a competative level, you'd hope that she would. Still, like I said about Dara Torres, props for working your freaking butt off after having a kid and being like twice as old as your other competitors.
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