Gymnast Oksana Chusovitina made her international debut for the Soviet Union, and while the country may be long gone, the 48-year-old is still going strong.
Uzbekistan's Oksana Chusovitina competes in the women's vault in the artistic gymnastics at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, in China's eastern Zhejiang province on Thursday, Sept. 28.
But the Uzbek does not care and has set her sights on appearing at next year's Paris Olympics, by which time she will be close to her half-century. She set her first target to appear at a fifth Asian Games, although the competition was postponed by a year because of China's zero-Covid policy. In 2002, her son Alisher was diagnosed with leukemia and she and her family moved to Germany so he could receive treatment.
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