The "Grandma" contestant defeated the 16- and 18-year-old sister. On the evening of March 4, local time, a magical scene appeared at the Doha station of the Gymnastics World Cup. Uzbekistan's Uzbek's Cusovykina, 46, won the gold medal in women's vaulting. Chusovykina, who has participated in the Olympic Games seven times, has once again proved to the world that she still has enough strength to beat the younger generation of athletes.
Many of Chusovkina's opponents are those born after 2005, 30 years younger than her. But in the vault final, after Chusovykina landed perfectly, she received applause from her young opponents. Chusovykina ended up winning the gold medal with 13.433 points, Hungary's Bacchuskey, 18, who won the silver medal with 13.150 points, and Russia's Listunova, 16, who won the bronze medal with 13.133 points.
Known as the living fossil of gymnastics, Chusovkina has competed in the Olympics eight times. Chusovykina was born in 1975 and is 46 years old this year. She won the gold medal in women's gymnastics for the CIS for her first time at barcelona in 1992, represented Germany in 2008 and 2012, and won silver at the Beijing Olympics. Rio and Tokyo represented their native Uzbekistan at the Olympics. In her lifetime, she represented three countries in the Olympic Games, which is unprecedented.
In fact, what kind of achievements Chusovkina can achieve in international competitions is not the focus of attention, what is important is that she came and spread the spirit of sportsmanship and glory, that is, the spirit of friendship, unity, fairness and hard work, full of human upward, brave, tenacious and confident spirit. Whether it is her own struggle, or the touching "licking of the calves", or the courage to challenge herself and even the limits of human beings, Chusovkina should be respected enough.
For gymnasts who eat youth meals, Chusovkina is simply a cattle person with super willpower. She has maintained a lean, dry figure to compete with younger gymnasts. The reason why she can maintain such a long sports life is closely related to her hard training beyond ordinary people. Not only did she have great restraint in her diet, but she also trained very hard. At the age of 46, she is still fighting in the gymnastics field, which is almost unprecedented among female gymnasts, and I am afraid that she is "the last queen", right?
In this regard, a tribute to Chusovykina, who has made sportsmanship glorious. She is not only a legend, but also a legend of "living". The living legend chusovykina, let the spirit of sportsmanship shine, let the Olympic spirit spread brightly. We don't need her to get any good rankings anymore, because having her there symbolizes the existence of sportsmanship.