Two-time Olympic champion Lavrova died in a car crash

The former Russian rhythmic gymnastics Olympic champion Natalia Lavrova died on Friday in a car crash, as local Russian media reported.
Reports said that a car, which Lavrova's sister was driving, smashed into another vehicle on a rural road in the Penza region (700 km southeast of Moscow). Lavrova and her sister died immediately, police said. The circumstances of the car crash are being investigated.
Lavrova, who won Olympic gold medals in rhythmic gymnastics in Sydney (2000) and Athens (2004), was working as a coach of the Club "Dynamo" and the Moscow's Olympic gymnastics center.