Khorkina
At present, the Gymnastics World Championships are being held in Stuttgart, Germany, and after the 22-year-old female player Biles of the United States won the championship in the all-around, the number of individual World Championship medals has reached 22, 2 ahead of The Russian star Khorkina. Khorkina, 40, said after the women's team final that if she was 15 years younger, she hoped to compete with Byers.
In an interview with Russian media, Khorkina said That Biles should not be allowed to become an "undefeated queen." Khorkina also talked about the current state of Russian gymnastics: "For me personally, it is unacceptable to talk about whether the Russian women's team can catch up with the United States. The Russian team has always strived to be the best and proud. Today's women's team is no better than the men's team, if it were not for the mistakes of Italy, France and China, I am afraid we would not have won the medal. ”
The Russian men's team has won the World Championships and is currently the most competitive team in the men's gymnastics world. Nagorny and Dalaloyan advance to the finals in the top two of the all-around qualifying tournament, and they will compete with Chinese players Xiao Ruoteng and Sun Wei for the title tonight.
Born in 1979, Khorkina reached a height of 1 meter 65, is the "giant" of the women's gymnastics field, slender, beautiful movements, strong performance, is the goddess of many gymnastics fans. Although now 40 years old, Khorkina's style has not diminished that year, and she was elected to the Russian Duma twice in 2007 and 2011.
As an athlete, Khorkina competed in three Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000 and Athens in 2004, winning seven medals. Khorkina was a gold medalist on uneven bars at both the 1996 and 2000 Olympics. At the World Championships, Khorkina won 20 medals from 1995 to 2001, including 9 gold, 8 silver and 3 bronze (5 high and low bars, 3 all-around, 1 vault gold medal).
Byers
With just one more medal at the World Championships, Byers will tie the record of 23 medals held by Belarusian star Sherbo. Between 1991 and 1996, Scherbo won 12 gold, 7 silver and 4 bronze medals, for a total of 23 medals. For Byers, surpassing the legend does not seem to be a difficult task, she has reached the final in all four women's individual events, and after this World Championship, she is very likely to leave Shelbo and become the first person in history.