I remember watching Amy Chow during the 96 Olympic trials. What a gutsy performance she put on after that fall where she finished the routine with a black eye 👏👏👏

@agent606

2 жыл бұрын

Not to mention her eye was swollen shut and she had to finish her routine with one eye. My boyfriend is blind in one eye and his depth perception is only ok. Imagine not even getting a chance to adjust.

@andreid.8568

2 жыл бұрын

@@agent606 tissue inflamation doesn't happen that fast, it takes minutes for liquid to gather.

@agent606

2 жыл бұрын

@@andreid.8568 I’m just going by what Amy said, who also happens to be a doctor 🤷‍♀️

@andreid.8568

2 жыл бұрын

@@agent606 there is no way a doctor would ever say "the eye instantly became so swollen, the person couldn't see enything". I would really appreciate the source, please.

@agent606

2 жыл бұрын

@@andreid.8568 there is this website called google. Use it. I’m not sifting through 26 years of news articles to find a quote I don’t give a shit about. Have fun.

I always wonder how many of these falls can be chalked up to malnutrition, exhaustion, dehydration, overtraining, training while injured, etc. I would guess pretty close to all of them. One other factor I don’t usually consider is abuse at the hands of coaches, doctors, parents. It’s horrifying, and plays out in the figure skating world as well.

@MD-722

2 жыл бұрын

Or their just falls because they're falls...gymnastics isn't golf... Because where I don't entirely disgaree with your opinion, to claim that _"close to all of them"_ are the result of the reasons you've listed above for as opposed to the difficulty of what they're doing is actually somewhat ignorant. Yes, consistent gymnasts make the sport look *a lot* easier than it actually is, but that is the challenge of artistic-sports; the athletes are not meant to _show their work,_ everything is supposed to look natural (hence why an execution score is one of the key common denominators between them). So if gymnasts fall the majority of the time it is probably because they just made mistakes (which happen in every sport but also look very different from sport to sport) and/or there are other less doom-and-gloom factors (e.g growth spurts etc) taking place in their lives.

@andreid.8568

2 жыл бұрын

It's such a complex topic. Larisa Iordache said in a podcast that even eating a heavier breakfast by a few grams would throw off her balance and air awarness. Catalina Ponor said the same thing about losing 100-200 grams of weight (to heat, for example, through perspiration). Sandra Izbașa said her miss in London FX EF was due to her not drinking enough water that day and feeling dehydrated.. So when you flip and twist your entire body mass at several feet above ground, everything counts: how you slept, what and when you ate, what you drank, how hot/cold was your shower, how's your digestion. Everything.

@bidensdiaper9100

2 жыл бұрын

And it's years of child abuse by any standard to get to this level. Sickening. This isn't "women's gymnastics", it's little girls. And as such, they aren't mature enuff to make decisions. The whole sport has become grotesque. Like circus monkeys.

@beckyclawson2245

2 жыл бұрын

@@bidensdiaper9100 and gymnasts today have much healthier bodies versus the girls in the 90’s when the only body type to have was thin and frail. Ans it’s still bad!

@michaelprowland

Жыл бұрын

I wonder how many, too. I gander a great deal of the mistakes are because the gymnasts are pushing the limits of physics in competitive settings. Plus it was the 90s and gymnastics was getting crazy difficult!

Amy Chow banging her eye on the beam, and then finishing the routine barely being able to see... Making the 1996 USA Olympic team and then winning the first ever USA gold medal!! Well deserved place on that team that started it all. All the little girls that wanted to be like the "Magnificent Seven" then, have made the US a power house in women's gymnastics. But I do wish they'd bring compulsories back😩

the era when a fall equals at least a 10th place and a step of bounds a 5-7th place

Liliya Podkopayeva; what a great gymnast. Now she is dealing with the war :'( Sending some extra love for her!

@agent606

2 жыл бұрын

I always hated her fall on the double front half out because he was HER skill. So beautiful though.

@gaodrob7938

2 жыл бұрын

I think Lilia lives in the US or in Canada, she left Ukraine a long time ago.

@ellakaukonen8254

2 жыл бұрын

@@gaodrob7938 oh good, but she must be scared for her loved ones who might live in Ukraine...

@CarrieBHS

2 жыл бұрын

@@ellakaukonen8254 she lives in Atlanta.

I never understood why venessa alter’s coaches didn’t take that release skill out of her bar routine

This is the era of gymnastics I grew up watching and still seeing them use the old vaulting horse makes me nervous

@glibster

6 ай бұрын

Yes!!!!! And the springboard without the U mat! Vaults from this era are freaking terrifying.

"she needs to be right over the top... ugh she wasn't!" 👏👏

I’m surprised Kim Zemeskle falling off Beam at the Olympics wasn’t in this because that was a HUGE shock to everyone

So glad they got rid of the vault horse for the vault table.

“She wasn’t” 😂😂😂

This is very painful to watch, I guess during that time, a fall equates to no medal at all

@kevinsam3078

2 жыл бұрын

Yes exactly, the 10.0 system favored perfection over difficulty, but we were still able to see so much originality and uniqueness, but it was always interesting to see who got on top because it was never certain.

@albertitomoon5002

2 жыл бұрын

Even going out of bounds meant no medal

@RAFAAMARILLAS

2 жыл бұрын

Nowadays with such falls and misses they can medal 😛😜🤪

@jbmusician2007

2 жыл бұрын

@@RAFAAMARILLAS and be called the goat

1:28… how did no one ever correct that running 💀

@majormaxine1676

2 жыл бұрын

Aaahhh! I was thinking the same thing! I’m a gymnast, and I run like that, and my coaches are trying to fix it! Idk how no one ever corrected her’s though lol.

@katekramer7679

2 жыл бұрын

Is the issue that she slows down and starts taking smaller steps?

@michellec6336

2 жыл бұрын

@@katekramer7679 Yes, it slows down her speed and momentum.

@Hervinbalfour

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@sarahdore7884

2 жыл бұрын

She made the runway seem soooooo long 🤣

“She needs to be right over the top Oop- she wasn’t”

Man, these were hard to watch. Especially Keri at the end. I don't think I ever saw her miss a mount. Some of these looked extremely painful. I have respect for these vaulters before the change in the vault table. The old was so stiff, harder material.

standing 3 layout step-out was an amazing skill which you rarely see even now.

@Orchestraperson

2 жыл бұрын

It’s been banned sadly😭😭

Kerry struggs layouts were always horrendous

@mindyschocolate

2 жыл бұрын

Yup. I never understood how that was never corrected.

Elena Dolgopolova was very underrated and had some big skills including a Def on uneven bars - I have never seen that vault by her at 1:53 . Was she trying to do a Rudi vault? I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be laid out or tucked.

@agent606

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely tucked but she opened up knowing her block wasn’t going anywhere.

I love seeing the difference in hairstyles & leos.

There are some talented and big-deal gymnasts/champions in this video. Thanks for sharing. Lysenko at 3:43, damn!

Literally the only thing I'm thinking about through this whole video... ...why was everything sponsored by McDonalds?

@sporteverywhere

2 жыл бұрын

Same here while editing this video 😂😂 McDonalds’ marketing was actually very athlete-driven in the 90s

@vanessasoares487

2 жыл бұрын

VANESSA 26

Not me watching gymnastics fails the night before I have a gymnastics competition

The beam impresses me with what the girls/ladies do on a 4 inch width beam.

Seeing this it’s pretty obvious- Tim’s vocabulary hasn’t gotten any bigger lol. I have to say I miss this old 10 scoring system. It rewarded clean execution far more than today’s. Execution means so little now if you can build a big D score. Makes it far less “artistic”.

Think about it….most of us can’t even do 1/4 of what they do wrong and they are called “major mistake” , “What a disaster” I just lol at the commentators

Who i always thought was way underrated was Betty okino , she was just mesmerizing to watch

@subrennaevans6504

2 жыл бұрын

Yes she was. She had those long beautiful lines, just like Nastia Luken. I especially liked watching both of them on the beam and uneven bars.🙂

I hate seeing the beam mistakes because I worry they can get seriously injured

Some of these forms are horrific. Cowboying double tucks off the bar, bent legs on layout step outside (Strug had ugly ones too), vaults just poor form…

If and when you fall. You gotta get back up again and these girls did just that. Good 👍 job ladies

So not used to see Lilipod and Shannon Miller fell …

@chitownslygirl

Жыл бұрын

Podkopayeva was quite inconsistent early in her career.

I feel for these young women, but sometimes the commentators' reactions are just priceless.

I saw Amy Chow's fall in person. Lots of gasps

What was the first girl TRYING to do? Because for the life of me I don't understand it.

So many of those vault falls were at the Olympics and happened because the vault was not high enough. I remember the judges measuring the height and it was waaay off. Travesty for those gymnasts who did nothing wrong.

@AmyRaeChaos

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah those really shouldn’t count as fails.

1:42 is that Kerri Strug?

@chitownslygirl

Жыл бұрын

Yes

Kerri Strug stumbling off 📴 her Balance Beam.

"she missed the whole beam!" and then has to do the entire routine anyway, no do-overs here. Weren't a lot of those vault disasters because the horse was set too low? I remember at least with Svetlana Khorkina (96?) that's what happened.

That’s an ugly vault at 2:00

Who is the gymnast in the very first clip?

@chitownslygirl

Жыл бұрын

Lilia Podkopayeva

Amy Chow got her crashing down off the Balance Beam in 1996 Olympic Trials.

2:18 Sang Lan 😭

Now do horizontal bars and pommel horse falls

I remember watching a video where Gina Gogean crashed her head on the beam terribly, It sounded as if she broke her head. After that she looked completely bad but Octavian Belu let her continue!!! How the hell?? Until one of the judges asked to stop the routine, she realized Gina wasn't ok. But once Gina got down nobody even got close to her to make sure she was ok. Belu looked so angry for losing valuable scoring.

Where is Kinsey Rowe BB dismount fail?

I would give extra points to the deduction if the gymnasts can gracefully overcome the fail and continue. I think that when you are under such a pressure and still can continue and keep your head cool that deserves deducting the deduction. I hope you know what I mean.

4:15 Who's that pokemon?

@MD-722

2 жыл бұрын

Henrietta Onodi (1992).

@agent606

2 жыл бұрын

Onondi falling on an onodi.

Nooooo not atler 😢😢😢

@wendyw651

2 жыл бұрын

Actually covered my eyes when I saw the '99 worlds one.

What would that transition on UB at 4:45 be rated today?

@gonzalomagallares1188

2 жыл бұрын

i think a "c"

@sarahdore7884

2 жыл бұрын

@@gonzalomagallares1188 thanks

Moceanu should have had 2 falls for that

The announcers’ reactions are often funnier than the falls, themselves.

hey uh this is unrelated to the video but how does a random person like me start watching gymnastics lol

Who's at 2:47?

@fulltwistingdoublelayout4248

2 жыл бұрын

bi wenjing at 95 visa challenge

Why play the mistake’s they have made, all of these young women are awesome they have trained beyond belief and people are still pointing out every mistake. These women our someone’s hero out there to some little girl.

Hi

Was the Phelps the tsuk half or the yurchenko half. Either way that’s the ugliest vault ever. Almost no one could keep the shape.

Min 2:17 is she the chinesse gymnast that broke her neck now she is quadriplegic?

@chitownslygirl

Жыл бұрын

I think so. Sang Lan.

“Oh, she wasn’t” Nah fr?

They all still did very well cause I could never

No quieto ver ... adiós.

@rhyantilbury9032

Жыл бұрын

No quiet very...adios.

aka every Chinese gymnast who was hyped for the Olympics prior to 2008. Seriously, their training program was such crap back then -- every up and coming superstar female gymnast from China would get to the Olympics and fall on something totally stupid (which indicates a mental, not physical, problem). Every.Single.One. They did a heck of a job cleaning up the program for the 2008 Olympics to fix the choke issue.

Who is at 2:11

@sporteverywhere

2 жыл бұрын

Elvire Teza

@vanessasoares487

2 жыл бұрын

Mamãe. CIDA 5.2

era of fat girls in gymnastic started with USA team