| • | lighting Marlboro Red, Dagbladet (Norway), c. '86 | |
| • | mentions that in order to cut down on eating in order to keep her weight down she smoked cigs, she says she started at 10 yrs old and says they all [gymnasts] did, Daily Mail supplemnt?, May 9, '98 | |
| • | no - "it is said that she smoked from ten to keep down her weight. She denies it. 'I just played with cigarettes'", Radio Times (UK), May 13-19, '00 | |
| • | "smoked heavily to stay thin", The Observer (UK), Feb. 3, '02 | |
| • | no - "Previously, it had been said that Olga smoked from the age of ten in order to suppress her appetite and was given drugs to stunt her growth, but she says, 'I didn't really smoke. We just shared a cigarette between the whole team for fun, and I was never injected with drugs'", Daily Mail (Weekend magazine) (UK), Jul. 24, '04 |