Elena Mukhina, the girl the world forgot

-ELENA MUKHINA, the girl with ice eyes - Elena Mukhina was born on June 1rst, 1960 in URSS. At the age of five she lost both her parents and from then her gramma raised her. She dedicated all her life to gymnast and her dream was to go to the Olympic Games. Noboby knew her till 1975, when she started competing in her home state, Russia. In 1997 she became an official member of the URSS team and that year she won 13 important medals, including the European Games and the World Cup. The next year at the World Championships she won other five medals, including the all-around title, beating out Olympic Champions Nadia Comăneci and top-ranked Soviet gymnast Nellie Kim, among others. All the world talked about her, everyone knew she will win the next Olympic Games. In 1979 she won the European Games, again. But the same year she broke her ankle. However her training didn’t stop and she needed two surgical operations to recover. In the 1980 she skipped the World Championships to focus on the Olympic Games. Her coac