By Ben Giles | Arizona Capitol Tims
Known as the “Darling of Munich,” Olga Korbut won three gold medals in gymnastics at the 1972 Olympic Games in Germany, a sport she pursues to this day as a traveling coach based in Scottsdale. Her achievements, watched by the world during the Cold War, coincided with some thawing of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1970s, marked in part by her visit to the White House in 1973.