Editing Yelena Davydova (section)

===Post-Olympics===
On 3 July 1981 in [[Montreux]], the 100th anniversary celebration of the [[Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique|International Gymnastics Federation]] took place. Davydova was invited to perform her floor exercise. In August Davydova won the tournament in [[Giresun|Giresum]], Turkey. She won the AA title and was top scorer on vault, bars, floor and joint top scorer on beam. She scored 10's on bars and floor.

At the 1981 USSR Championships, Davydova won the All-Around title plus golds on floor and vault and bronze on bars. She also participated in the [[1981 World Championships in Artistic Gymnastics|1981 World Championships]], her last major international event. The USSR won team gold. Davydova suffered a serious neck injury in pre-competition warm up but still finished 3rd all-around with a fall and was the only gymnast from any nation to make all 4 event finals. She won silver on floor and bronze on bars.

Davydova remained on the Soviet display team until 1984 but retired from competitive gymnastics in late 1982. She was competing on vault at the Rome gymnastics Grand Prix in 82 when she injured her ankle. She didn't want to finish Elite competition gymnastics and talked of defending her Olympic title in L.A. but it became obvious as time went on that her body could no longer stand the pounding of intense workouts.