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The legendary Olympic champion is selling his medals to survive. Video

Collectors waiting for these awards for 40 years.

Four-time Olympic champion Olga Korbut has personally auctioned his extensive collection of decorations and badges, including five Olympic medals from Munich in 1972 and Montreal 1976, gymnastic leotard, which she wore during a performance in London in 1973, and the icon of the master of sports of the USSR awarded the gymnast of the Ministry of sports of the Byelorussian SSR in 1970.

The fact that the lives of athletes had very sad. In the US, she went in 1991 with her husband, the soloist of the ensemble “Pesnyary” Leonid Bortkiewicz, and son Richard. In 2000 the couple divorced the musician came back to Belarus, got married again and continues to serve to this day. And Olga decided to stay in America and received the passport of the citizen of the United States, which now sells at auction. After his sports career, her life went downhill.

In 2000, Olga got caught in the US stealing food in the supermarket. After a couple of months in jail and remained in America with his mother son Richard, who was arrested for making counterfeit money.

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