1996 Atlanta Olympics Women's Artistic Gymnastics Event Finals EF UB BB FX 

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And she was the back to back world champion 1993 - 1994. That was also huge back in the day.

And that landing!

@@SarahJames-gv2td landing was everything

at that point, I think it'd be safer to stop. not gonna win a medal, and balance can be off after a fall to the head, risking further injury. but it was impressive.

More impressive than anything I’ve ever done in my life

When Marta put her hand on her neck Dom said she was digging her nails I'm her neck.they awful people allegedly

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And a mother of 2. Even after fighting (and beating Thank The Lord) ovarian cancer. She is a true winner and fighter in every sense of the words.

Oh yea shes nearly 50 now, right? Haha she is my favorite gymnast. I never knew how decorated she was I just always watched the olympics and olympic trials as a kid and she was my favorite. Guess I had an eye for gymnastic talent at 7.

@@Janellabelle She's still one of the most decorated gymnasts in history. Read her bio on Google; She has 59 international medals, more than half gold. 49 national medals >half gold. 7 Olymic medals. Etc, etc. First back to back AA Olympics Gold medalist. Ps. She's 44. Lol 😂

@@donaldholderdoc2910 She was never a back to back AA Olympic Gold Medalist.... she never won Olympic AA Gold at all..... she won silver in Barcelona 1992 & silver in Atlanta 1996, AA Competitions & didnt make the team in 2000 after trying to make a comeback. Mary Lou was the first American to win AA Gold in the 1984 Olympics & the next American was Carly Patterson in 2004..... Mary Lou Retton Carly Patterson Nastia Liukin Gabrielle Douglas Simone Biles Sunisa Lee That's the list of American women who have won AA at the Olympics. Not sure how you ever thought Shannon won even 1, much less being back to back when, had Simone competed, shed have been the first female gymnast to win back to back AA gold at the Olympics. She is one of the most highly decorated gymnasts in the world so we dont need to add medals she never won.

@@heathermiller76 oops. Thanks. I was wrong after doing some research. I thought she had won Gold. She's still a fantastic athlete. And a great commentator.

Biles is a sloppy troll

Shannon was SOLID As a ROCK!

@I. Wynn Wynn Dominique Dawes

No sé por qué pero todas me parecen absolutamente increíbles!!!!!!

If only Lillia didn’t wobble her score would have been better

@@tomgallowitzLilia probably would’ve over taken Shannon if she didn’t wobble on her somersault and her dismount. It would’ve still been very close though because Lilia’s dismount was not as well executed as Shannon’s even if she didn’t have to make her adjustments. But that’s what the Olympics is about. You have to be at your best when it mattered most and Shannon was certainly that.

She was solid as a rock!!!

It really was. She was so smooth.

Really the best of the night 👏

Must say, I always love watching Gogean too

The beam queen!

@QPHashSS77 i brought sexy back

Simone is elegant! ...I mean gymnastics is still elegant.

@@0xTRellyx0 no way. Simone is powerful, not elegant.

@@punkrockstar I agree. Simone is great but lacks polish and elegance! She’s a tumblr

It is STILL elegant. Just because it has evolved and changed (as athletes have been allowed to actually be ATHLETES instead of starved little girls) doesn’t mean the elegance has disappeared. You just choose to ignore it and live in the past.

Nastia Liukin

@@jjh2456 nasti didn’t have loads of difficulty other than on bars

@@nathanielhalls1893 for her time she did. Her scores reflected that.

like you can tell the russian gymnasts take ballet. their muscles are more evenly developed, and their lines are much cleaner.

@@KC-fi2or agreed :)

@QPHashSS77 almost every other country in the world cross trains their gymnasts in ballet. same with figure skating. why? because it's a deeper understanding of the body. why'd you delete you other comment? true colors.

Shut up. Not every gymnast is going to starve themselves to look thin.

@@BooneErica literally no one- not one single solitary person said anything about the gymnasts' size. OP was CORRECTLY stating that ballerinas know tons of tumbling and leaps, and that cross-training more in ballet would greatly benefit American gymnasts in many ways. It appears that you were too busy looking for a reason to be offended to actually read and grasp what OP was saying.

They absolutely should have.

Amanar was a great tumbler but her dance choreography? Not so much.

It's her ankles that allow her 'toe point' to happen. But def beautiful

reminds me of Laschenova. she too, had exquisite feet IMO

And Martha received her by padding her REALLY not softly on the back of her neck!! 😳 Abuse??

She finished with dignity.

So difficult to watch.

They should do the cheer style gymnastics in college and only in college so I don’t have to watch haha

AND..... she was SOLID as a ROCK!

@@JB-sg1vy A True Star 🌟

Yep definitely a part of the abuse she went public about

Oh please....🙄

Yes

Track athletes train just as much and the 100 meter dash is over in literally 10 seconds

Probably less starvation and harsh coaching. But the open ended scoring of today has changed the routines completely, where harder skills mean higher scores, so the beauty and grace aren't really given much weight anymore. I do wish we could get a good mix of the 2 though.

That's exactly what I was getting at in my comment.. like Katelyn ohashi always has to have her leotard up her ass and showing off and smashing her private parts into the floor you know these gymnasts from the 90s didn't do that. I think the ones today try to do it for men's attention more than the routines and trying to win the gymnastics.. the 90's girls were the best because they did it because they wanted to win not because they were trying to get men to look at their leotards up their ass

@@feehasfleas3291 😂😂😂

The loss of compulsories contributed a bit to that; less body mastery in terms of grace and fluidity was required. Also, minimum age requirements went up.

@@HB-ey2dkI’m sure there’s a happy medium. Just haven’t reached it.

Moceanu told Nadia was ' all she saw was light' after the event.

Yeah. She was robbed!

an USA gymnastics underscored in a stadium full with USA people?

No way ☠️ She should have been lower. Low diffculty, and the execution was not superb.

She had a 9,9 start value. She was overscored

@@enchantedella6495 No she was from 10.00 as were they all in that EF.

Gymnasts endure falls like that throughout their life, even as little kids. Luckily at that age they are pretty resilient - I'm sure it subluxated a vertebra or 2 but also, considering all the other abuse their body gets over the years it really wasn't that bad. Take it from someone who coached competitively for 15 years :)

@@magicianamongthespirits622 And some gymnasts were paralyzed after falls on the heads. The point is that no one even bothered to examine her, and they undeniably should have. Not really cool to be so dismissive of child neglect

She scored a 9.287 at Trials on beam and hit her routine. She was way past her prime and not a contender on anything at that point. She would have made no difference on the team, but she would have gotten a belated Team Bronze like the others after China's DQ.

@@milkybum6339 But.... she was solid as a rock!

They really needed Brandy Johnson and Kim Zmeskal on the 2000 team too. And Kristie Phillips!

YA! Shannon was solid as a rock and shoulda been on the 2000 team. She coulda been the ROCK for the team!

@@JB-sg1vy Right a team of a bunch of 25-28 year old women who had been retired for years would have done just awesome. Are you crazy. Shannon is the only one of those who maybe wouldn't have totally embarased themselves at the Games by then. If that were your team there is no way they even get the team bronze after China's DQ which is now Spain's.

Sorry wrong video for me

Compulsory score I believe is why.

She typically used the more dramatic music for finals in late '95/'96.

Dina used the more upbeat routine in tf and aa but only finished with a double tuck. When she uses the slow dramatic music (which conserves energy) she ends with a full in

Yep. ef means event final

Dominique mentioned her Marta’s fingernail were dug into her neck. She wrote a book several years later and she was mistreated terribly by her coaches and her father.

I saw that. Not an OUNCE of concern.

Marta looked like a wicked witch.

…which they literally said shortly after.

@@timothy_f yea but they practically whisper it too long after, like it was a secret, when she was onto her dismount by then.

It’s not in the COP. It was submitted incorrectly and as a result never was named for her

More like a poker face... lol. Yikes

There's way better Russian gymnast than her

The timer

The timer. They have a time clock in the corner of the score she wanted to see if she was about to be overtimed or undertimes

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i think kerry was supposed to be in the final and moceanu took her place because of the injury. even though shannon had trouble with the dlo i would have let shannon take that spot even though she got the vault replacement spot which didn't go well either. moceanu was very over-hyped and never lived up to the faux sensation

@@SonOfAGun1814 No, Moceanu got in thru quals. Dawes got Strug's spot. That's the crazy part. The idea of Dawes not being in that final is utterly ridiculous, but it was a byproduct of compulsories. Moceanu literally mounted w Dawes' dismount on fx. A lot of ppl loved compulsories because they see these ATHLETES as dancing little girls who can tumble, but this was a glaring example of why they should never have counted toward event finals. It's almost insulting to the rest of the field that Moceanu was in a final w them and their level of tumbling.

@@brandonbrown1916 o ok, it's been a minute lol, i just presumed dawes made it in on her own merit because her and kerry were most deserved to make that final of all the usa ladies for sure. now i want to go watch 96 compulseries and qualifications

@@SonOfAGun1814 yea, you'd think Dawes made it in based on tumbling, right? Lol. Yea, compulsories certainly favored gymnasts born w the nicest lines and most flexibility, but that's the problem with '1 size fits all' in anything.

Jason Bourne She has an error on one of her tumbling passes in qualifying. That’s what cost her the spot otherwise she would have placed ahead of DM.

Duh.....

Yes but too bad she was terrible in 2000

@@Lovememore231 really? She got a bronze 🥉

Can anyone translate?

Ну почему? Шэнон Миллер выступила очень хорошо, её программа была сложнее. И победа её заслуженная.

Spoken by an arrogant, selfish, self centered mendicant with little to no real value or credibility in verse. Did the USA have a state sanctioned doping program? No. We all know who did! Shannon earned her gold medal, go back to preschool.

She was solid as a rock!

Was she solid as a rock?

Agreed. And the balance beam is the toughest rotation of all.

@@scook5599 and she was SOLID AS A ROCK!!!

Agree! She was a rarity that had the difficulty and was also elegant and polished. She was meticulous and detailed. Love her!

@@uncchristine99 And...... SHE WAS SOLID AS A ROCK!!!!

Agreed :)

The NBC feed also showed all 8 performances for all four events.

kras118 so did BBC. This is a condensed version.

@@antwonnyy ooh I'll have to look for it! I'd love to see it. I tend to like BBC commentary

Commentary *is* speaking so I don’t understand this comment 🥴