Lysenko was a member of the Soviet Union team during the early 1990s, a period when its pool of talent was deep (the USSR never lost the women's team competition in the Olympic Games).
Lysenko was a member of the Soviet Union team during the early 1990s, a period when their pool of talent was exceptionally deep. Merely to make a major team represented a huge achievement, since competition was so fierce (the USSR never lost the women's team competition in the Olympic Games).