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In 2002, Chusovitina's son, Alisher, was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL). [10] Seeking advanced medical treatment for their son, Chusovitina and her husband accepted an offer of help from Shanna and Peter Brüggemann, head coaches of the Toyota Cologne club, and moved to Germany. [11]
The Olympics never fail to produce amazing stories, but at the top of that list might be the amazing story of gymnast Oksana Chusovitina.
In December 1997 he married Oksana Chusovitina, an Olympic gymnast from Uzbekistan whom he met at the 1994 Asian Games in Japan. The marriage was opposed by Chusovitina's Orthodox Christian parents because Kurbanov is a Muslim. [4] Their son Alisher was born in November 1999, [5] and in late 2002 he was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia ...
Uzbekistan gymnast Oksana Chusovitina had been aiming to compete at her ninth consecutive Olympic Games later this year, but the 48-year-old’s hopes of securing a spot in Paris have been dashed ...
Oksana Chusovitina's time as an Olympic athlete is over. After a professional career that lasted nearly 35 years and spanned eight Olympic Games, the 48-year-old's dream of making a ninth Olympics ...
Uzbekistan competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004.This was the nation's third consecutive appearance at the Olympics. The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan sent a total of 70 athletes to the Games, 52 men and 18 women, to compete in 13 different sports, tying its delegation record with Sydney four years earlier.
Five years before Simone Biles was born, Oksana Chusovitina was already an Olympic gold medallist in a sport whose brightest stars often fade early, their bodies battered by years of gruelling ...
The competition was starting Friday, and Chusovitina said she would be there to support the rest of the Uzbekistan team. Chusovitina's long career is all the more striking in gymnastics, a sport where medalists are often in their teens and elite-level careers rarely last long. She has previously competed alongside gymnasts a third of her age.