This coverage is so much better than today's - I love how they rush from routine to routine so you get to see more routines and less gymnasts waiting for scores.
Awww look at baby Milo! Always thought she was adorable. Svetlana Boginskaya was so graceful...... always thought Nastia Liukin was very similar to Bogi in how they both had those classically beautiful long lines and the ballerina style of artistry. 🎀💖🖤
It is interesting to hear the commentator's take on Boginskaya's bars routine, which ultimately cost her an AA medal. Now I am able to see the flaws a bit more as I really always wondered why her score was so low. I realize she only had one release, but she had scored high in the past due to her great form.
Yes and what makes me a bit sad is how much better her bars routine was in 95 and especially 96 Euros. She had the potential clearly to be a better contender on that event.
This is one bad thing about the 10.0 system. A FTY and a DTY should not both be out of a 10.00. Once gymnasts were doing harder and harder skills, it made a lot of other difficult (but not has difficult) skills way too low on the 10.00 scale and as the judges got harsher on execution deductions we got to like 2004 where the 10.00 was impossible to achieve and a score of like 9.4-9.6 on vault was like a 10.00.
@@unknown-lf6zx I did meet Kerri Strug & she signed my Wheaties box after the 96 games in Atlanta. She's from Tucson & I lived in Phoenix for over 30 years. She's a sweetheart as well❤️
If it was scored the way it is today, Gutsu and Lysenko would have probably been at the top because of their DTY and floor difficulty. I don't know how much more difficulty Shannon could have added - maybe on bars she would have tried to really pack it in like Nastia did in 2008, but I dunno. The Soviets had way more difficulty than the Americans or the Romanians.
Kinda sucks for Lysenko who couldn't get marked higher for doing a harder vault. Where was the incentive to do more if you wouldn't get a better score...except that maybe you were pushing the bar higher. Kudos to her.
To be perfectly fair though, she would definitely not have scored a 9.962 if that exact same vault had contained just one full twist isntead of two.... what with those deep knees on the landing. So judges were rewarding this implicitly, if not explicitly, but yeah obviously that system of rewards was ill advised and prone to skepticism.
Wow...I didn't remember Lysenko sticking the landing in the AA. I guess they deducted for the low(er) landing. Something NBC's Elfi was very critical about during compulsoriies.
I don't know, it does get hard trying to judge all these perfectly good full twisting yurchenkos done by like 20 gymnasts in a row, but I think that comparing her vault to someone like Milo's, her amplitude isn't all that great, and she does a sort of quick twisting off the horse that diminishes her block and subsequent height, and it just doesn't have the same impression as Milo's. Now this sounds a tad subjective, but certainly that is how judging was working in 1992 and they were forced to compare the gymnasts some way or another.
How in hell did they justify the judging back then ? In what world does a full twisting yurchenko get a higher score than a DTY ? And why did they both start off a 10 ? Why did almost all routines start off a 10 for that matter ?
Haha, well you basically answered your own question. A full twisting yurchenko scores higher in a world where a DTY isn't worth anymore explicit value. That said, it's quite obvious that judges were willing to give more leeway and overlook mistakes for gymnasts with more difficulty, but that became a dicey process that obviously resulted a deconstruction of this rather odd era in the code of points.
