She could teach today’s gymnasts a thing or two about presence and dance on the floor routine. So many are so into the tumbling that they forget the dance and grace elements.

@kathleenirish

3 жыл бұрын

If the code of points said dance and choreography or what-have-you mattered, it would. There is no reason there cannot be beautiful flow and position in their routines as well as tumbling. Beautiful Leaps . turns and originality should matter

@sahpire75

2 жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more. I miss traditional gymnastics. Even the simple traditional leotards too. Nowadays they're more worried about makeups and sparkle

@thaliadacosta7206

2 жыл бұрын

@@kathleenirish I think that is what the comment meant. There is not a beautiful flow nor leaps. Great athletic skills but I wish they took the "artistic" out of it cause it makes it unwatchable to me. Its like watching bodybuilders do ballet VERY badly! I am one of the few that will admit I really do not enjoy watching Simone Biles at all except when she is doing a tumbling pass. Im a dancer and growing up watching the graceful gymnasts of the past I can not get past things like horrid flat feet, no turn out, or anything that could make them tech better and more aesthetically attractive.

@fremontpathfinder8463

2 жыл бұрын

She is way better than today's gymnasts

@kiersontitus7322

2 жыл бұрын

@@fremontpathfinder8463 mmm not really

Probably the last female gymnast who I really enjoyed watching! Beauty and artistry personified....which sadly is gone from gymnastics now.

In my opinion, her Carmen will never be outdone. It was a complete game-changer. That avant garde style suited her incredibly well, became her signature style, and made her completely unforgettable. Fiesta is a close second. Also absolutely stunning and a total revelation 🙌🏼.

@worldartgym

10 ай бұрын

Her choreographers totally nailed it

Gymnastics at its best. Art and technical skills .

God I loved her so much! I miss this style of gymnastics so much! I'm American but growing up in this Era, internationally most of the gymnast were just fantastic and beautiful to watch because they were so creative with music, dance, much more artistic and graceful. Watching these older competitions, I miss the simple leotards. Today's gymnast are power tumblers wearing all bling ....such a shame.

She just had ‘IT’. She didn’t have to be loud or flashy, she let her skills speak for her

Svetlana will always be my most favorite gymnast of all time... Beauty, grace, artistry and athleticism. Definitely what is lacking in today's gymnastics. She was the Queen!

From elegant technique to beautiful physique, Svetlana was all that. Have seen various more recent interviews. Seems like a poised, polite and genuine person. Loved her hair in performance near end of video 💅 Gymnastics has gone from style and grace under pressure to lotsa power moves, oftimes uncontrolled. Nice as modern gymnastics can be, much has been lost in it's translation.

Svetlana had the aura of a lyrical dancer or modern ballerina. Her fascination with shapes and guttural feeling would have translated so well into modern dance! As a dance instructor myself (with a background in gymnastics) I can only imagine having her in a class... In heaven, I hope to dance with many of these amazing ladies, maybe we could literally put on “the greatest show” 🌻😄

@alanamileras2329

Жыл бұрын

I don't know where you are located, but she is a coach and lives in Houston, Texas, USA. Maybe you could reach out?

@ac.7724

Жыл бұрын

I'd love to have her autograph. she's my favorite.

@FC-ku4ez

5 ай бұрын

I really like everything you wrote. She's truly one of the most unique and creative dancers the sport has ever seen.

Undoubtedly, Boginskaya is the epitome of athletic artistry in women's gymnastics. No one comes close, no one!👋

For me the most beautiful performance shown here is the 1990 Goodwill Games: full twisting double picked, 1 1/2 twisting to double back tucked with perfect landing, beautiful choreographed to the music and some very beautiful arm movements. She was one of a kind!

She really looked to be living her best life in 97. The hair the swagger the confidence. Yes girl

The Belarusian Swan was one of my faves growing up. She had so much talent

Свет и грация стремление к высоте ,лучезарная наша богинская Светлана

Талант! Труд! Свой почерк, индивидуальность!

She was so underrated, yet heads and shoulders above Khorkina AND a lovely personality!

@alashiadiggs6006

3 жыл бұрын

True!

@gonzalezaramburu5741

2 жыл бұрын

Haha no, never.

I agree with so many of others comments here. She told a story through every movement and mood. Now days it is just movement between tumbling runs. I do not think Biles is the best in the world. I love how this lady could do all the elements of a beautiful floor routine and show creativity, elegance, humor, sadness, triumph, etc. in every movement. She seems to me the queen of the floor routine! Yes the modern gymnists could learn a lot from her!!!

@jacobmiller2663

2 ай бұрын

Simone has won gold on every floor event in worlds for 10 yrs. Her domination speaks volume. You are just a hater.

One of my all time favorite gymnasts. Beautiful form and everything the 1992 floor was especially gorgeous!

I’ve been a fan of the ‘Russian Swan’ for decades. It’s athletes like her and Simone Biles that have set the tone for their sport. We all need to realize that we live in one world and we need to give credit where credit is due!

@sahpire75

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent point

@nikkispark6477

Жыл бұрын

Biles eats dope. She is an acrobat, but not a gymnast. She has a muscular, ugly torso. Zero elegance and femininity.

@thesovgc

Жыл бұрын

"Belarusian Swan" 😊

Excellent video! There are so many routines I'd never seen. All exquisitely executed. Bravo!

Boginskaya is one of my favorite Soviet/Belarus gymnasts. And I like that "I meant to do that" move at 1:20. :)

@kyssedbyfyre915

3 жыл бұрын

ONLY a TRUE CHAMPION can be _THAT SMOOTH_ 😆👏

In a class of her own. 👑

The Queen of the Floor Beautiful graceful skillful... Marvellous Love her She has her place in the sporting history... a special place in Gymnastics and Olympiads

Ah ces belles filles Russes qui nous ont beaucoup éblouis et qui nous étonneront pour toujours. Bravo et félicitations.

“She has a lil something they don’t have.” Yeah, hips, self awareness, and confidence out the amazing ass - she was a woman amongst little girls.

Спасибо автору за этот прекрасное воспоминание о мировой легенде Светлане Богинской! Thanks to the author for this wonderful memory of the world legend Svetlana Boginskaya!

Excellent video! Thank you so much for putting this together! She is my favorite! :)

@worldartgym

4 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

"Still competitive at seventeen years old." lol. And now we talk about a sixteen year old being the baby of the team. She was so amazing.

TO THIS DATE 2023, SHE IS STILL THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND GRACEFUL GYMNAST EVER WITH GREAT SKILLS

Thank you for this marvellous compilation!

First time I ever saw her do a whip to direct full-in - LOVE IT!

@matthewdunaway7739

3 жыл бұрын

where?

@jaepeac

3 жыл бұрын

@@matthewdunaway7739 12:44

@matthewdunaway7739

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaepeac that's a back hand spring

ボギンスカヤさんの演技は四種目共に女性らしい動き女性らしさ華麗さ美しさダイナミックさが全て醸し出されていて大変素晴らしい演技ですね!

She was mesmerizing! I loved her artistry when I was little and now!!! Does anyone know how she’s doing today?

@worldartgym

10 ай бұрын

She’s doing very well, or so it seems from her social media presence. She runs a highly schedule gym camp every summer, a yearly invitational and appears at various world championships

@unknown-lf6zx

6 ай бұрын

@@worldartgymthank you for sharing! Glad to hear she’s well

The only other gymnast who comes anywhere near Boguinskaia on the quality, magnitude, and variety of floor work is Ksenia Afanasyeva 💗.

Been trying to find this gymnast I first remember at the Atlanta 1996 Olympics. She had a different look great to see how she grew in her field.

That floor routine at 1:30 I love. So lyrical and entertaining.

I never knew she did a FX to Bolero. I guess it was a little too avant-garde for it's era. I'm not sure about the pelvic movements after the 1st pass, but all the dance before the last pass was devine. My fave FX routine of hers is the one she started using in 1990 through 1991 Worlds.

@worldartgym

3 жыл бұрын

That Bolero piece never saw much action, so I wanted to make sure it made into the final version so more people can enjoy it!

@worldartgym

3 жыл бұрын

Also, I completely agree about her belly dance pelvic thrust! I feel like this was an experimental choreography experiment. {Bolero}

She was so great

I just love that split leap to double full dismount. Not worth any difficulty points but oh so classy ❤

O gimnastă superbă!🙂

@worldartgym

10 ай бұрын

Superb!

La plus talentuese ! In French this is better! Merci! ❤

do we have any female gymnasts today with this level of elegance and line?

She would have fit it great at UCLA with her dance style.

@worldartgym

3 жыл бұрын

Could you imagine going to college with Boginskaya!!! ❤️

@thesovgc

3 жыл бұрын

@@worldartgym lol I wouldn't have gotten much studying done 😂😂

@MsHunt-hv8di

2 жыл бұрын

I disagree because she has a class about her that is not present in this current generation. She is able to hold on to her class oh, and I don't think the others ever had it.

incredible！

One of my favorites ever. Along with Helena Shushunova.

"17 years old she's still competitive with the younger girls coming in" well, that's a phrase that thankfully didn't aged that well.

@worldartgym

10 ай бұрын

I know, luckily we now know a career can span a decade rather than a few seasons!

I guess that first routine answers my question of why she never upgraded to dismounting with a double back in 88 😂

@thesovgc

Жыл бұрын

On Instagram, she recently talked about how she had a mental block on that skill during this time period and how she overcame it 🙌

Nice video wonderful bobinkaia

boginskaya walked so khorkina could run.

@hannahmachellekelly7146

2 жыл бұрын

yes

She's amazing!

Antes de la Diva Svetlana Korkina existió. Una Diosa llamada Svetlana Bigynskaya

Unica....

Her routines were always different and interesting but I wouldn't say graceful.

She tried to come back in 99 for Sydney but it did not happen.

#1 💯👏

The real and beautiful gimnastic !

05:13 "That is a look".

anyone know the name of the music from the 1988 USSR display?

Помню все выступления Светланы!

She sure is pretty to watch

Simone Biles is NOT a gymnast--she is a TUMBLER!

@worldartgym

3 жыл бұрын

And for that, I blame the Code. The judges turned gymnastics into a trick show... However, she is meeting the requirements the judges have set on all four events for artistic gymnastics.

@MrChrismlamorte

3 жыл бұрын

No. Shes A gymnast. Your comment is stupid

@viktoriaironpride4977

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrChrismlamorte Yeah--she's a MALE gymnast!

@MrChrismlamorte

3 жыл бұрын

@@viktoriaironpride4977 So you're far along the spectrum I see

@raenkaai108

Жыл бұрын

Maybe she is a gymnast, but far from an "artistic" one. I hope the wind shall change and we will see more beauty in this sport again.

Classic Russian gymnast.

some of them are beautiful, ( 1991-1988 ) others not! ( 1989 1996 )

@lottamarie9197

3 жыл бұрын

Oh I love this 1996 routine in the video! But her 96 olympic routine isn't my fave

@barahona68

3 жыл бұрын

@@lottamarie9197 Her 1996 Olympic floor routine was in fact an improvement in terms of difficulty to her previous routines: 2 front and 2 back series, 2 1/2 twisting to front tucked, 1 front serie with connection to front sommersault and the usual twisting double back tucked.

after all the years of practice and competition at the highest level Ms. Boginskaya is now 48 years old--I wonder if she is having any issues with arthritis in her knees/hips etc after all the pounding they took

Boguinia (divina) (o algo así, ni sé en que idioma)

Do you or anyone know the name of her music from 1990-91 (it's on here as 90 Chunichi Cup)?

@worldartgym

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t know... unfortunately

@thesovgc

3 жыл бұрын

@@worldartgym one day we'll find out! 💗

@worldartgym

3 жыл бұрын

@@thesovgc I feel like it’s from an opera or something, so if anyone out there knows, let us know.

@patrizioorru772

3 жыл бұрын

I am pretty sure it is from the ballet Swan Lake. You can see her impersonating a swan. In the ballet the white swan dies and Bogi clearly 'stabs' herself during this routine. After all she was known, among other nicknames, as the Belarusian Swan. This is me speculating... I might be wrong

@thesovgc

3 жыл бұрын

@@patrizioorru772 haha I guess your guess is as good as any 😂. I tried to see if Shazam would recognize it, but it doesn't recognize 99% of floor music, sadly. Apparently classical music isn't a popular thing for such a service unfortunately.

This is when gymnastics used to be classy. Now it’s all girls that look like they are on steroids that just compete to do the best tumbling skills. No elegance.

@gadeaiglesiassordo716

3 жыл бұрын

Well, I find old gimnast as a troupe of underweighted teens. Right now you can tell they are not underweighted, which is better for their health outside of sport

@dylanthepickle6428

2 жыл бұрын

Who said? They were kids, most with a different body shape. Some people are naturally leaner than others. The women today look so thick they must do a ton of weights, which is not good on your joints. Sorry if I hit a nerve, but you can’t be a fatty and be a good gymnast. That’s just the way it is..

@cesarquintanavinau2251

2 жыл бұрын

@@gadeaiglesiassordo716 Yes it is healthier to take drugs in order to keep in shape (and to cut women's body develpoment including their period and to look like a man) rather than to be skinny. Sure LOL. Ask Pantani, Eddie Guerrero and all the athletes that passd away for taking stetoids

@jacobmiller2663

2 ай бұрын

@@dylanthepickle6428 you are just body shaming. And none of them are fat, you just like the look of starved little girls. Weirdo

never saw the Bolero routine...glad I hadn't....

＃仲里依紗 似😊

A very beautiful girl...only Kate bush transcends her

Unique Boginskaya!!

Her choreography is weird if I'm honest. She sure sells the hell out of it though.

She is a taller gymnast, but was she as tall as Queen Khorkina?

@worldartgym

3 жыл бұрын

I believe princess Khorkina is slightly taller than Queen Boginskaya

@lanpingpug

3 жыл бұрын

@@worldartgym So Khorkina is about 5'4?

@worldartgym

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds about right

@Cmc995

3 жыл бұрын

@@lanpingpug yes Svetlana Khorkina is 5’4, Boginskaya is 5’2, so not by much

@MrChrismlamorte

3 жыл бұрын

Boginskaya is the queen

i cant handle the commentary - the things the commentators said back then were just ... ewwwwwwwww

Compared to Katelyn Ohashi, Svetlana seems to go thru the motions someone else has given her, almost rushing thru the 'dancier' bits.. Her floor routines varied little over the years & stayed within a 'safe' zone that lacked spark & excitement as well as rhythm.. (Watching Katelyn's bouncy brilliance has spoiled me a little i think!)

I never liked her gymnastics at all. I think she stood out from other soviet gymnasts for all the wrong reasons! Her routines just did not flow and were instead jerky and robotic. She lacked elegance and she also waved her arms about way too much. In fact if I didn't know I wouldn't have thought for one minute that she was a soviet gymnast!

@worldartgym

7 ай бұрын

Taste is certainly subjective isn’t it

Shes is no simone!

@worldartgym

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, before her growth spurt she was competing double-doubles before it was known as a “Silivas.” She was quite a trickster when she was younger! Plus equipment has really changed throughout the years, she was certainly a worthy star of her era!

@leykimayri

3 жыл бұрын

Simone would have never survived as a gymnast in the '80s. Not that many springs back then, she is definitely not artistic at all, and does many mistakes in her routines, she is not consistent. It's the high difficulty of her routines that gets her ahead of others today, back then the slightest obvious mistake was getting you immediately out of the medal race, and into the 4th place and even below it.

@WAGgymSuperFan

3 жыл бұрын

@@leykimayri Simone isn’t consistent?! Lmao she hasn’t lost a single all around competition she’s competed in since 2013 nationals but ok...

@leykimayri

3 жыл бұрын

@@WAGgymSuperFan Yes, she is inconsistent. Back in the ‘80s and 90s, with the perfect 10 system, the tiny mistake and she would be out of the medals in the 8th place immediately. Look at Prudunova, she never even got close to a medal in vault, while in 2016 Olympics if she had participated and landed it, she would have had serious chances to challenge Simone for the gold medal, if not, she would have taken the silver one for sure. Simone nowadays depends on the difficulty of her acrobatics which put a large gap between her and the other athletes. But she makes mistakes all the times, or most of them, and still gets the gold. Back in the ‘80s and 90s she would never have gotten any medal, no matter how hard her exercises would had been. Plus she’s no artistic at all, another reason which would have kept her away from any medal.

@Cmc995

3 жыл бұрын

@@leykimayri Exactly, therefore it’s not fair for people to even compare today’s gymnasts who are very skilled and all, but still can’t be compared to the trailblazing legends of the sport because it was a different time. People forget that, so well said