An athletic program for everyone yields Olympic gold
In a Leningrad gym, a class of ten-year-old schoolgirls begins one of its twice-weekly sessions by executing handstands on the parallel bars. In Moscow's Central Army Sports Club, teams of soldiers exchange their combat boots for skates; a hockey puck is soon cracking like gunfire against the wooden boards. Near by, in Luzhniki Park, a group of middle-aged citizens sets out on a supervised 10-km walk, picking berries along the way.
A few vignettes from everyday sporting life in the Soviet Union, where fitness is virtually a state religion and millions of citizens...
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