2011 World Gymnastics Championships Team Final Part 1 [HDTV-1080i] 

5:39 this Chinese girl is amazimg.! its amazing how she landed!! awesome

Yao jinnans score was really low

or take a shot every time Elffie says "balance check" when they are on beam

@pandaxseal3 shawn competed at the pan am games

@dahighbar out of the five you can have to be sent to the Olympics she would be the one of the three. Aly Raismann is VERY inconsistent on bars and maroney does not have the difficulty and is not as practiced. Gabby, Liukin and Wieber would all have difficulty and out of those three, only Wieber really lacks the consistency since she had a mistake in this competition and almost the same mistake (although in a different part of her routine) in Worlds AA

@JessicaRaeT Shawn didn't compete at worlds she competed at the Pan American Games

I'm gunna be honest, I disagree with how you guys judge the nbc commentators, but I kinda like them. back in the 90s, they dissected each move a gymnast did. they described each move. however they did change over the years and that part did go away and they did a different type of commentating. but each set of commentators are different. take BBC, they go right into the routine and nbc partially does that. all commentating is different. that is all I'm gunna say here

hahahaha this NBC commentators, they call Afanasyeva's vault "slopply", and they PRAISE Aly's vault. I feel sorry for them...

best all time Beth Tweddle heckler comment I've read - If there was an olympic sport of eating apples through a tennis racket, Beth would have won more medals than Phelps.

I go to NBC for the gossip, the rest of the time I prefer BBC. They point out mistakes without sounding too negative, they don't hate every single non-British gymnasts, and they show other countries besides the Americans and whoever is chasing silver at the moment! And to be honest, with USA's Soviet Syndrome, things can get boring pretty quickly. I miss the good old days when there were no certain winners.

McKayla basically just destroyed the vault competition.

Wow! Thank you for posting! I hope you don't get removed due to "copyright issues". I'm gonna download just in case...

CAN SOMEONE UPLOAD THE LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES TEAM FINALS AND ALL AROUND FINALS??? I KNOW THERES THIS FULL REPLAY ON NBC.COM BUT SADLY I CANT WATCH IT CUS I DONT LIVE IN USA.... IT WAS 2AM++ IN MY COUNTRY ON BOTH THE TEAM FINALS N ALL AROUND FINALS.... THUS I CANT WATCH IT AS THERES SCHOOL TMR:( UPLOAD IT PLEASE!!!!! (IF U HAVE IT)

@makemeupforever99 Shawn would never be better on beam than Raisman in this COP. You need more than just difficult acrobatics. In the US, you don't go anywhere on beam without D level dance elements, and she doesn't have any and can't do any. Raisman has hard acro and hard dance elements, even if they're horribly performed.

@BenTdragon21 I'd kick Raisman for Bross. Bross looked way better than she did in 2011 and this was in February. She's on track to be in her 2010 shape, and she really cleaned up that year with 2010 American Cup, 2010 Pac Rim, 2010 nationals along with the bars and beam title, 4 medals at worlds. Kyla Ross could also find herself on that team if Liukin doesn't pull through.

@colourfullife Well, Cheng's obviously not doing Amanars at this moment in time. And Cheng never opened up quite like McKayla. She often was still twisting when she landed which likely weakened her knees resulting in her ACL tear. Anyone will tell you McKayla's Amanar is the best Amanar being done by a female gymnast.

@bernardmvella Because Mustafina is Mustafina. She's at a level above Victoria in terms of mental toughness and consistency. Victoria's amazing, but is only one gymnast. With Mustafina, Komova, and possibly Grishina making their way on to the Olympic team, Russia will have a much greater chance for gold.

@96horseluvr That's ridiculous. You should always put up your highest potential because you never know how the opposition will compete on any given day. Especially at world championships. Raisman is the most reliable gymnast and earned her spot in those lineups fair and square.

I love Yao Jinnan!! I hope she continues on-- I was so sad at how injured she was at the Olympics. Her DLO off bars is one of my faves.

They're not judges! And thank god for that. They are just commentators. Bars is a weakness for Romania and USA to a lesser extent. It's a weakness for China? LOL in what world? China had 3 top bar workers on their team, Kexin, Jinnan and Qiushuang. They also left amazing bar orkers at home- Chungsong, Huidan, Peiru, Siqi. They have some amazing juniors too. Their weakness is vault! And floor. Maybe you should get your facts straight.

Thats a huge misconception. It just so happens the US is doing alot better than most of the other teams.. if a team/person is good they will give them props. If they are just O.K. they will point that out too. If they didn't do well they would point that out as well. Everybody loves the BBC commentators but viewers are often confused because they say things like "Not an error really" and wonder why their scores are in the 13/14's.

Making the olympic team should be about talent, skill, and who can perform the best under pressure. Just because Nastia isn't one of the new girls doesn't mean she shouldn't make it. And just because they are new doesn't mean they should make it. However, Nastia hasn't competed all year and thats kinda tough during an olympic year. Shawn hasn't really performed well either, so I'm not quite sure.

But this is American TV, and the American women's team proved to be the best in the world this time. Following them and talking them up to an American audience is what I personally like sometimes, and makes sense when broadcast to the general public. Once they've got me I'll look up videos of other gymnasts online. I think sparking interest is the most important part of broadcasting to the general public in my opinion, I think this does that by leveraging the strength of the American team.

That's not really true.Of course they'll speak highly of the Americans because that's whose watching them on this network, Americans.They're likely rooting for hometown girls. Plus they do often speak fondly of other gymnasts such as at the 2011 worlds they said Russia's Mustafina defined state of the art in gymnastics in 2010.We love our girls but also give credit where it is do, there are other good gymnasts and we respect that but for ratings they appear to their target audience, Americans.

Ummmm....and? You're patriotic side must have ignored the point. If you're American, you have amazing gymnasts and I didn't say you didn't just that there are gymnasts that definitely equal and surpass them. Your commentators are rubbish though (main point of that comment) and very much over the top about how America is the best in the world and not giving any other gymnast who isn't American a chance, in their minds.

Eh, Bross is still pretty shaky. We need a bar worker and shes taken a lot of falls. Raismans floor is insane, she'd vy for a medal in EF. I've never really taken to Bross's choreo. Ross looked incredible at Jesolo, I'd say she's very much in the hunt. Especially since she looks great on UB. But who do you leave home and let Ross go? I guess nastia....we haven't even seen her yet. ugh, this five-member rule sucks.

@NF101wasntavailable I also agree with this assessment. Although Shawn's beam routine for the 2008 olympics was one of the hardest in the competition, it now lacks the artistry and dance elements needed to compete at the elite level. No doubt she is great at acrobatics, but her splits are awful and she has very few (if any at all) dance moves/leaps that have a higher than a C difficulty.

@NF101wasntavailable If Bross is healthy and we see that through future competitions I would do the same. Bross has an awesome beam routine with a difficulty of at least a 6.2 as of 2010 and a wonderful uneven bars routine. She is capable of the amanar and she is awesome on floor. Overall, she is a great AAer just like Weiber - except since time has passed and Bross is recovering so close to olympic season, it will be hard to judge if she's recovered enough to earn a spot. Trials - we'll see.

@artyowen92 I'm not sure I completely agree with this. Have you heard them gush over the chinese gymnasts on uneven bars and beam? It's almost as if they favor the chinese over the americans :P Of course they will not hesitate to point out a fall - but the nbc commentators will do that about any team (let us not forget Beijing when alicia fell in both beam and floor exercise). Conversely, when cheng fei fell on vault in the finals (and still won bronze).

@96horseluvr I think anyone who has the skill level to compete should be considered and placed on a team if she's good enough. If Nastia is better than the other would-be "deserving" girls, then more power to her. If her beam and uneven bars is more graceful, fluid, difficult and most importantly, consistent, then she deserves it more than the person she took the spot from. My two cents :D

here's my lineup for this TF: VT: raisman, wieber, maroney UB: vega, wieber, douglas BB: raisman, vega, wieber (vega has a nicer looking beam with more artistry, compared to raisman's UGLY beam set) FX: vega, maroney, wieber (again, vega has a gorgeous set with a fairly high difficulty level, and 100000 times more artistry that raisman. usa didn't need raisman's floor, they could have won with vega's instead) comment on what you think about this lineup!!!

@96horseluvr does it matter if we cheer on out own team, it's not as if we don't show any other gymnasts at all? the commentators really don't matter, cause A they're not the judges, B their opinion doesn't count and C only people in Britain will really see it so who cares if they cheer on British gymnasts? And the 'false facts' was probably just a mistake? most commentators even if only slightly or not intentionally, favor their home team and you can't say nbc never do it, odds are they have.

thanks so much for uploading! the quality is incredible.

I agree. I think my real problem with these commentators is that they tend not to actually commentate on the routines, unlike the BBC commentators. During most routines they're talking about something relevant, but not talking about the gymnast's skills, form, difficulty etc. You don't really *learn* from them as much as from the BBC commentators, for example.

Alicia Sacramone is undoubtedly a world-class athlete! Fab-5 is awesome but it would've been so much better if they included Sacramone even as an alternate. She totally deserves the spot for all her contribution and hard work. PLUS... She looks SOOO PRETTY with or without make up! BEAUTIFUL INSIDE OUT!!! ^^,)

Yeah, I agreed! But Liukin must let Wieber and Raisman lead the team. It's their time. I think Nastia should just be there to support the team and do her thing on UB and BB. She should take a step back or it will be a problem because there are too many alphas on the team. Let Jordyn and Aly do their thing and it will be all good.

There are two reasons why I don't like the Chinese bars. One, those deadhangs. They hurt me ! And second, the turns. Yes, the full turns are beautiful but when they do half one way and half the other? It always looks to me like their improvising and have forgotten. It doesn't look as elegant as I know the Chinese are.

@artyowen92 are you kidding?? watch the 2010 euro team final. the bbc commentators are blatantly cheering on the british gymnasts, WHICH IS A BIG NO NO. nbc NEVER does that. and bbc gives false facts. in the 2010 euro tf, they claimed russia had never won the euro tf title, when they definitely won it in 2000

I feel so sorry for Alicia Sacramone, if she had had a good world champs in 2011 she may well have been selected for London 2012, I thought she was really strong in all the trials considering how recently she had been injured.

They should speak the truth. If they win, fair enough but don't make it sound like it's impossible for anyone else to catch up during. You can't talk for a nation as a whole and even if that's what America wants then America has a bunch of growing up to do....

Not once, but TWICE Elfi refers to Chinese falls as "shocking" just after discussing how inconsistent they've been. I'm pretty sure that the point at which you can fire a commentator is when they've demonstrated on air that they don't know what the word "shocking" means.

Ultimate Olympic team as of 3/8/2012: Raisman, Douglas, Maroney, Liukin, Weiber Breakdown; Vault: Maroney (amanar), Weiber (amanar), Douglas (amanar); Beam: Liukin, Weiber, Raisman; Uneven Bars: Liukin, Douglas, Weiber; Floor: Raisman, Weiber, Maroney What do you guys think?

My only thing is that we won without the Russians and the Romanians at there very best, thats my one big reservation and really keeping me from being excited about our win. I would have liked to see the girls win when the other top two teams are healthy and are at the top of there game.

I have to agree with you on that point. While I love seeing our girls, I really want to see other teams too. Why can't they show the other girls when ours are just milling around taping ankles or something? If they're not competing, they should pan over to another team. I want to see Beth Twiddle! I only saw her awesome bars by watching youtube videos. There are other teams too, but I can't name any of the girls. It's always US, Russia, China, and Romania shown. I want to see UK and Canada.

Oh, and I forgot we've seen Memmel and Sloan. If I saw Liukin at least once, I'd be more comfortable, but how can a gymnast go from staying away from hard core training for 4 years, no competitions or anything, and then suddenly reappear for Olympics? Frankly, with so much riding on the team for gold, that's just too risky, UB silver medalist or not. I certainly hope to see her at Visa's. Trials is NOT the place to compete first time or make comeback appearances.

You're right, we have absolutely no idea where those girls are in their prep. That's the problem I'm having with them. Sacramone and Johnson we've at least seen in competitions now, so we know where they're at. My problem is I haven't seen Liukin at all in 4 years. No one has. Just because someone does awesome at the prior Olympics is no guarantee they've remained the same, especially if they haven't been maintaining their training over the years. Plenty of the Mag 7 girls didn't return for 2000

Maroney is unbeatable on VT. The other two will be Amanar experts, either Aly, Jordyn, Kyla or Gabby. UB is Wieber, Douglas, and someone else (Liukin, Ross, Bross, Li, Johnson or Sloan). Beam will be Wieber, Ross and Raisman. FX will feature Raisman and Wieber, with maybe Maroney or Douglas. Who knows where Liukin, Sloan, Johnson, Memmel, Vega are in their prep. It's all just reading tea leaves now, but team gold is the priority so Marta wants girls who are absolute rocks in their best events.

Granted, there are some outstanding non-American gymnasts out there. But what counts is who's standing on the podium in London. US commentators don't speak to gym fans, gymnasts, coaches or gymnast's parents. They are talking to the millions of people who watch gym only once every four years, and the only thing thing those people want to see are a bunch of smiley, American girls holding flowers over their head and holding up gold medals... just like they did in Tokyo.

Why are they comparing the scores of the Russian vaults to McKayla Maroney's? 2 different vaults here people. Obviously the one with more difficulty is going to score higher. Compare these vaults from the Russians to Aly Raisman's.

haha I just found it unusual because while most people refer to (American/British/Russian/etc) gymnasts by their first names, I never hear anybody do so for Chinese gymnasts (maybe b/c these names tend to get butchered/hard to remember?). :P

thats because its an american broadcast. you guys wanna watch something where the russians speak in russian about the russians, or the chinese speak in chinese about the chinese go watch THEIR broadcast of this, because this is CLEARLY for americans

i hate these commentators. the only time they're positive about the US is during international competition. other than that, every US girl pales in comparison to weiber, unless its their speciality (like douglas on UB, and maroney on VT)

I think you're ignorant for saying something like that. Not all Americans think that, especially me. I'm not the best in the world at most things, and neither are you. So before you start judging Americans as a whole, think befioe you type.

So is Sacramone not gonna go for 2012? this injury was 6 months ago only. I know she has a twitter as does Memmel, someone ask what are they gonna do? I really wanted alicia to upgrade her vaults, but with this injury, I dunno if thats possible.

I won't say McKayla's Amanar is the best though, as that is totally subjective. I've always enjoyed how Cheng waited for so long to start twisting and for me her lines are the best. McKayla is obviously more explosive and her landing is impressive.

@kundun5 Ooooh har har you think she’s ugly, but your comment wasn’t even close to witty or particularly original. This is about the 2142394873295639427 time someone has said a female gymnast “looks like a man”. And Beth doesn’t even come close……I think she looks great and her body is athletic, beautiful, and strong.....frankly enviable.

The difference is that the BBC are more positive about the British Gymnasts, whereas these commentators are extremely negative about any country that isn't the USA. So the BBC are biased, but in a nicer, more positive way.

No, they really do. A great bars worker from 1976-80 doesn't offset the fact that aside from Iordache and Porgras (who has retired), they haven't had a decent bars worker this millenium. And very few in the 90's too.

Yes she was. Gabby had muchlower start values last year and was quite inconsistent. She wasn't hyped up at this point and in fact- Jordyn qualified to bars finals and Gabby didn't. Her rise has been incredibly fast.

The youtube channel olympic is worldwide I think, it has everything with commentary- not sure who is doing the commentary, as I only knoiw NBC and BBC. If you are in Europe you can watch everything from eurovisionsports.tv

This is how you know you dont know anything about gymnastics when you think every performance is flawless(except for obvious flaws) and then you hear the commentators like "nope shes gonna get a big deduction from that" lol

I watched a lot of videos commentated by nbc and you were right LOL They talk positive about USA. But when they talk about other countries they say like " She is not going to get a medal" They said that to china

Well I don't deny she's really good, but maybe not the best in the world? Cheng fei did that difficulty as well, and she won world championships long before jordan. I really hate the commentators!! Can't they just shut up?

ok, i don't know shit about gymnastics but as a casual viewer i find the dancing parts of the floor routine to look so bizarre most of the time. only nastia liukin seemed like a graceful dancer to me

I do hate how full of themselves the american commentators are.... Yes, America has great gymnasts but they're not necessarily the best in the world....there are so many amazing gymnasts out there.

This was quite a harsh worlds scoring-wise, not really like London at all. Yao had a dead hang and caught a release too close on bent arms. Her start value was lower than what it is now.

? Both Sixin and Yuyuan were alternates. Sixin has consistency issues which is why she wasn't on the team. Yuyuan was not as valuable as He Kexin, who beat both of them to the last place.

but other than her.........they struggle. most teams have an achilles heel. vault for the chinese, UB for most of the US girls (except douglas and ross and liukin but these are exceptions)

Because the Chinese are spectacular BUT they almost always make huge mistakes. It's kind of hard to leave that fact out... It's become a part of their identity in recent years. Lovely gymnasts BUT inconsistent.

I seem to switch between first and last names for them moreso than I do other gymnasts...I noticed sometimes if I'm listing a few it won't even be consistent. Not sure why!

Routine with a step on the dismount for USA: WOw, an Amazing routine for the USA!! Same step with chinese: that will cost her some valuable tenths. Not a good routine ...

I usually mute the TV, lol. Nastia demonstrated how to say Komova and Mustafina in a fluff, but to no avail. Komova's name doesn't get butchered too badly, but "moo stuh fee nuh"? No. Just no.

Too bad Katelyn Ohashi is a year shy of turning 16. She has beautiful lines on bars, and her difficulty on beam is amazing. If she had been a senior, I'd have picked her over her teammate any day.

Why is the coach allowed to be with the gymnast on the bars, i dont do gymnastics so i dont know what he's doing, but why is he doing it and how is he allowed??

I really think Mckayla could be the first to do a triple twist yurchenko. When she lands on the 2 1/2 she has already stopping twisting for "a long time".

@snofagun1814 if fake, stuck up, needs the spotlight nastia grabs a london spot from a deserving girl who's never gone before, i'm literally going to shoot myself

@wyocanchaser I completely agree. And when she was throwing the Amanar it was even more atrocious. Any improvement from her vault form is significant.

Gengi Cho isn't real. It's just a TV show. :)

Couldn't agree with you more BBC is so great, that's why I watched the Olympics with them instead of falling victim to the NBC Dictatorship.

They will be having a Worlds this year, correct? Minus the team competition because its just after the Olympics. Or is the next worlds in 2013?

Maybe because you're not used to judging the ages of people who aren't your race? Let's not make assumptions just because they're fun to make.

Ehh yeah! Cassie Scerbo is a great gymnast! No. I have a few brain cells. It was in reaction to someone wondering where Genji Cho was.

Beth tweddles mouth annoys me the way she leave it open, ugh. Sorry if thats rude, but its my biggest pet peeve, it just looks strange.

And even for the USA they still point out like every single little deduction... they're just more enthusiastic about their performances.

they have to be a little more careful on the bars.....gymnastics is all about (not literally but you know what i mean) timing and focus

mckayla blocks like nobody in the world. the minute she takes off, because of her block, you can jus tell it's going to be an AMAZING vault

@beffyblb its true you know I thought that when she downgraded the difficulty of her vault the form might be better but its still gross

2013. It's in Antwerp, Belgium. It's one without a team competition, just AA and event finals. So 4 members from each country only.

Hey can yall answer a question for me. I'm confused. If Shawn Johnson is going to try to go to London why isn't she competing here?

@GardiniaBloom LOL who knows.....I don't actually know if there is a pad or not ^__^....I only know that a pubic bone CAN be broken *shudders*

@boonestarr88 She was the non travelling alternate for the team! Each country could only send 7 (6 competitors and 1 alt) girls!

I remember in 1996 there were 7 girls on the team. Every girl went up, and the lowest score was dropped. I wish they'd go back to that!

Why does he say they can't fill Aliya Mustafina's spot when Victoria Komova just days before had qualified first to the AA, beam and bars?

Looking back at my comment I'm pretty sure I was talking about London. Certainly misleading on a video of worlds alright!

@Shainnab1 Probably one of the best amanar vaulters of our time so far. She's even better at it than Amanar herself :P

aww alicia sacramone is so cute, "i think i broke the floor"

Tim ALWAYS says her name wrong and it gets SO annoying! He did it every time she was competing at these Olympics.

In general, Asians biologically look younger. Have you seen 40-year-old hispanic people? Some look 25. It's genetics.

many Chinese look younger than Americans.I am a 17-year-old Chinese,but my American classmates said I look like 14.

When did they start allowing men to compete with the women? How can someone not administer a DNA test to Beth Tweddle?