One of the most successful gymnasts in the former Czechoslovakia, Ferdinand Daniš celebrates today his 85th birthday!
At that time, born in the small Slovak village Opatova he was later in 1952 to three times in the Olympic squads of CSR, later CSSR and was a participant at the World Championships in Rome in 1954, where his team ranked 5th and four years later in Moscow after the Soviet Union and Japan won the bronze medal.
Ferdinand Daniš...
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The 21-year-old Yang, the first Korean gymnast to win an Olympic gold medal, did not mince words when putting his university of blast:
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