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Oksana Chusovitina set to be oldest Olympic female gymnast of all time

Uzbekistan’s Oksana Chusovitina qualified for her seventh Olympics on Sunday at age 40, setting her up to become the oldest Olympic female gymnast in history.

Chusovitina earned a place in her seventh Olympics at a last-chance qualifying event at the Rio Olympic venue on Sunday.

She previously competed internationally for the Soviet Union, Unified Team, Uzbekistan and Germany before switching back to Uzbekistan.

She earned team gold for the Unified Team at her first Olympics at Barcelona 1992 and vault silver as a German at Beijing 2008.

Chusovitina is still talented enough to make the eight-woman vault final in Rio.