Chusovitina was competing before most of its current competitors were born. The gymnast has appeared at … But what was the end of a legendary Soviet gymnastic team was the beginning of Chusovitina's extraordinary gymnastics career, which lasted for decades, broke records and was extraordinary.

The Functional Times Recommended for you It was 1992 and the last time Chusovitina competed for the Soviet Union. Chusovitina, on the other hand, successfully completed the somersaults, but was unable to stick the landing and ended up doing another somersault on … So they decided to flirt with death. Nastia Liukin - Uneven Bars Final - 2008 Beijing Olympics - Duration: 5:10. Oldest ELITE gymnast in the world - Oksana Chusovitina (age 42) - Duration: 7:29. James Townsend - What It Would Take To Consider Re-Affiliating with CrossFit - Duration: 58:05. At 45, she […] 7:29. Oksana Chusovitina's seven Olympic Games is record-setting, as is her nine world medals on vault. 'vault of death' gymnast hoping to break own record with eighth olympics Oksana Chusovitana says she wants to compete at Tokyo 2020 at the age of 45.

Oksana Chusovitina of Uzbekistan and Dipa Karmakar of India needed something to wow the judges with, with Simone Biles in the field of the individual vault finals. Georgia 370,118 views. Speaking of no guts, no glory: 41-year-old Oksana Chusovitina somersaults out of her Produnova vault to score 14.933 — Julia (@juliagrassie) August 14, 2016 The 74 …

In Rio, she'll become the oldest female gymnast to ever compete at an Olympics.