Elfin Personality and Charm

I posted 2 years ago on my favorite female gymnastics star, Oksana Omeliantchik (my preferred spelling). It is extremely difficult to find good quality video of her. Here is one footage of her from the 1986 World Sports Fair Tokyo. Again, it is her expressiveness that really shines through in her floor routines. When she performs, she wears her personality on her sleeve.

Here's a comment I left on the YouTube site, 5 months ago:

I distinctly remember watching her 1985 World Championship routine on ABC Wide World of Sports. I became an instant fan, because when I watched her, she had such a vibrant expressiveness to her performance. It was just such a joy to watch her facial expressions! She didn't just go through the technical motions. Her whole personality came through in her presentation.

Oksana possesses one of those qualities that you just can't really teach: innate charm and an infectious personality. What can be taught, is how to act...how to deliver presentation on stage. Gymnastics is a subjective sport, so presentation and being a performer- exposing one's personality for an audience- makes one stand apart from the "just-going-through-the-motions" competitors.