Friday Night Film: The True Story Of Olga Korbut
What She Concealed For Decades, But Was Finally Able To Talk About
I was saying to a friend earlier today that if you were a child in the 1970s, you will for the rest if your life look upon gymnastics as the sport that belongs to Russians and Romanians, though other nationalities are welcome to participate.
I decided to stay in my time warp and indulge my 1970s nostalgia. I was surprised to find such a raw and honest documentary as this.
Tomorrow’s film will be about Nadia Comaneci.
Her story is much happier than Olga’s, has a much happier ending. Everything was easier for Nadia.
Olga was in the grip of a man it is no exaggeration to call evil, and as a coach, a genius. That famous fumble in Munich in 1972 has an unthinkable story behind it.
Both of them take your breath away.
Here’s the now banned “Korbut Flip.”
Celia, this is a very gracious way of avoiding the Paris psyop festival that substitutes the olympics.
Thank you!
Celia thanks as ever for your powerfully brilliant lens of life and death, and of other ethereal energies impossible to describe. You are a mirror reflecting how human consciousness must now transcend (and seems now actually to be doing) via humility, courage and selfless compassion.
When I see stories of such abuse (which in my humble opinion and experience are far beyond a single person's evil - they are borne of deeply cultural and societal reasons, rooted in ancient wisdoms, lost over millennia) I find best explanations in Tolstoy's novella the Kreutzer Sonata (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kreutzer_Sonata), and in the extraordinary 1978 book The Wise Wound by Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove (http://www.marionboyars.co.uk/Amy%20individual%20book%20info/WiseWound.html) - "A groundbreaking study of the facts, fantasies and taboos surrounding menstruation, The Wise Wound has helped bring about a profound shift in women's attitudes towards a natural phenomenon that has been despised and denigrated for centuries. The Wise Wound explores the historical and cultural legacy of this repression, from its effects on the way medicine treats women to the displaced appearance of menstrual imagery at all levels of our culture."
We are merely vibrations and frequencies IMHO, and there are much higher intelligences than our own conditioned beliefs and what we believe to be 'real', all very thankfully indeed.
Love and gratitude to you and all, Alan x