My grandmother always told us the story about how she married in Mexico, my home country. And that she was called Mexico's Bride because all people loved her.
@@thesovgc My Mexican grandmother told us the story about Caslavska. My grandmother watched the wedding on tv, Caslavska married at the Cathedral in Mexico City in 1968 and she used to say that it was a beautiful ceremony and people went to the streets to give the bride and groom wedding gifts when they left the cathedral.
@@jaggercardenas2533 oh wow! Did she get married before or after the Olympics, do you know? After, I'm assuming but idk. From everything I've read, Caslavska was an amazing person and I was so devastated to read that apparently her life was negatively impacted by defying the Soviet occupation during the medal ceremony. She was only doing what was right and should have been her choice. 😔
@@thesovgc I believe she was married after the Olympics, these were very strange times in Mexico also because there had been students protesting against the goverment and many of them died just before the Olympic games started. I did read somewhere that she had a difficult personal life. My grandmother was single and around 19 years old in 1968 and she watched the games on tv with her family but remembers the ambient in the streets and that the Olympic games were such an amazing experience, she says that when the Czesk Republic entered the stadium (you know like when all the athletes enter in groups with their flags of their countries for the innauguration ceremony) there was a huge applause and very warm reception and bravo's!! for this Country , I think it was then Czechoslovakia and not Czesk Republic, because of what you say, the Soviet occupation had happened very recently and the Mexican people wanted to show their support for the Czesk athletes, I do not know if there is any of this on you tube, but these were the stories my grandma told to me :) So I grew up listening to the stories of Vera Caslavska :) and everybody in Mexico adored her because she danced gimnastics with a pianist playing live and to traditional Mexican music.
vera la máxima gimnasta de todos los tiempos ganadora de más medallas olímpicas y ganadora de todas la medallas en individual, Nadia grande ,unica en obtener el primer 10, pero a mi pensar abajito de Vera Caslavska
Aún lo recuerdo, le llamaron la novia de México por su interés por la cultura mexicana, y porque al final de los juegos se casó en la Catedral Metropolitana que estaba repleta porque todo el que quiso pudo asistir. Su valentía al protestar por la invasión de la Unión Soviética a su país también le ganó muchas simpatías sobre todo porque los jueces comunistas en las competencias favorecían a las atletas soviéticas, por ej. N. Kuchinskaya, como un “castigo.” Vera fue repudiada y obligada a retirarse sin salir de su país pero le permitieron regresar a México como coach gracias a que el gobierno mexicano amenazó con detener los envíos de petróleo si no la dejaban viajar. Cuando murió en 2016 México recordó con cariño a esta bella y talentosa gimnasta que como bien dices, se ganó muy merecidamente el corazón de los mexicanos.
I do remembet watching Vera in tv, and we all Mexico watched her getting married in the Mexico's Cathedral! With this performance (Mexican music) she won all the ❤ s of the Mexican People! 😊
Lo dudo mucho.. la gimnasia hoy día, es meramente acrobática y muy poco artística... Lejos quedó esa gimnasia elegante y graciosa, donde las gimnastas parecían "volar" como plumas sobre el piso y los aparatos.. hoy día, las gimnastas lucen toscas y se ven pesadas al "volar" sobre los aparatos... La última gran gimnasta artística es Liudmila Turíshcheva...
The soviets had invaded and taken over Czechoslovakia, and like many in her country, she protested against communism. They cut short her career and only many years later, with intervention of the international Olympic committee, she was allowed to coach in her country. RIP this brave and talented woman.
De hecho cuando regresó a su país y la obligaron a retirarse y le impedían viajar porque protestaba contra el comunismo, el gobierno de México los obligó a que la dejaran viajar como coach amenazando con detener los envíos de petróleo a Checoslovaquia. Muy linda y valiente, descanse en paz.
Esa gente que se queja de la gimnasia moderna, todo bien en casa? Los olímpicos son una muestra de la evolución de la capacidad del ser humano para lograr trucos impensables. Grande Vera, hermoso performance, bien merecido sus medallas🎉 A l gente que se queja de la gimnasia de ahora, los invito a que vean ballet clásico 🙄
Is so frustrating to go back in time to watch classic gymnastics, just to find a bunch of people shitting over current gymnastics, Vera wouldn't be able to do this kind of complex choreo if she would have to do nowadays complex tumbling. You don't have to put other gymnasts' hard work down to lift others.
please consider that this was a time before Olga Korbut waltzed in and introduced the gutsy moves to everyone. it may look easy to you (but trust me it’s not. try it yourself, you won’t be saying that then) but don’t deny that it’s a work of art
Ya ves que por hacerlo cada vez más y más complicado, ahora terminan desistiendo. Todo tiene un límite. Y si hubiera sido “lento y ejercicios sencillos” ¿por qué no se dedicaban mas países a la gimnasia y se atiborraron de medallas? Ellas lo hacían parecer muy sencillo pero requerían varias horas diarias de práctica hasta quedar exhaustas. Lee sus historias.
