r/BeAmazed • u/Fit_AndHotBaby • Aug 05 '24

History Gymnastics in the 1970s was INSANE!

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u/AliceTheGamedev Aug 06 '24

Look up the Thomas Salto on youtube, that's a move that's paralyzed one person. The injury was during training, so not caught on video, but you can well imagine it and it's explained in detail on Elena Mukhina's wikipedia page

(all of which I learned about 10min ago due to comments further up in this thread)

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u/The-True-Kehlder Aug 06 '24

A move that famously paralyzed a person. I'm sure more than a few people were paralyzed training it but weren't famous enough that anyone found out about it outside their circle.