Vladimir Gogoladze

Vladimer Omarovich "Lado" Gogoladze (Georgian: ვლადიმერ ომარის ძე გოგოლაძე; Russian: Влади́мир Ома́рович Гогола́дзе; born 18 August 1966), is a retired Georgian gymnast who represented the Soviet Union at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.

Gogoladze began competing at the elite level in 1985, at the age of 18,[1] taking silver medals in the all-around and high bar in the USSR Championships, and bronze medals at the European Championships in the all-around and parallel bars.

[2] He was a member of the Soviet "Dream Team" who won the team gold at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, and he is also known for being the first gymnast to perform a triple back on floor in the Olympics.

[3] In the same year, he received the title Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.

[4] According to a report in Sovietsky Sport, Gogoladze and teammate Dmitri Bilozerchev were removed from the Soviet men's squad for the 1989 World Championships because of a two-day drinking binge.