“RIP”: Gymnastics Community Heartbroken as First Male Star to Score Perfect 10 Passes Away at 68 The gymnastics community highlights the stardom of Alexander Dityatin, as the Olympic legend passed awa

Alexander Dityatin, the first man to earn a perfect 10 at an Olympic event, the gymnast who showed his dominance in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, sadly passed away this month. He was 68. While the cause of his unfortunate passing is yet to be revealed, the entire world has come together to pay tribute to the Russian Olympic gold medalist.

Dityatin stole the spotlight after he won eight medals at a single Olympic Games. That’s a feat that only the American star swimmer, Michael Phelps, has achieved when he won eight gold medals at the 2008 Olympics. The star power of the Saint Petersburg native continued to rise. He was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame (IGHOF) in 2004. “In Russia they haven’t forgotten me, but now I know it’s the same around the world,” he said in p