@Emma James When a doctor tells you he is just treating you and you don't know any better it's not common sense. Also USAG had been hiding reports for 20 years, no matter who reported him, they ignored it.
It's hard to watch this at times knowing what four of the five suffered through to win that medal. It shows how strong they are and I admire that but it's sad too.
A lot of times the first Olympics is way better than the attempt at a comeback but after watching her Rio floor and then coming back to this it's insane to see how hard she actually went in Rio.
That's flatly untrue as well. A ton of abused minors or minors who have health issues they dont want to talk about with parents present (IE being sexually active) have been helped because they were able to be in a room without their parents over their shoulders especially as teens.
@@Janellabelle he would block the parents view. The child would then have to think "does my parent know what he's doing. They must know they're sitting right there. They know right? This must be okay he is the team USA doctor." The parents feel horrible about it now of course but it was actually worse that the parents were in the room making the child think it was okay and like they didn't need to say anything. Another thing that was said is as gymnasts the girls are used to being touched by adults. Massages, stretching, treating their injuries, spotting them, adjusting their positions. So they are prime targets for abuse. Girls that did complain about him were gas lit and threatened. Other adults knew and did nothing. Team USA knew and let it go on. They were winning metals so who cares they were getting sponsorships so who cares? Whatever he's doing was working. He would give the okay for them to train and compete on broken limbs in some cases were a legitimate doctor would have told them not to.
That was an incredible routine. She knew she nailed it when she finished. What a moment that she will remember forever. I hope it makes some of the torment that she endured easier to bear.
it's really awful as well to think that they continue to cut and reduce the # of gymnasts on each world and olympic team. 1996 Magnificent 7 and now they are cutting the team size down from 5 to 4? Why? Why do that? Why not allow more gymnasts to compete at the highest level? the sport is cuthroat enough already
It's to give a chance to countries that don't have that big of a program. Assuring success to other countries that have not been traditionally at the top means more gymnastics in the long run because the better they do the more they fund their programs and the more new girls will take an interest in the sport. The problem with having teams of 7 people is that the countries with weaker programs can't produce 7 athletes of enough level to be competitive. While there is countries like the USA that could probably send 2 teams of 7 girls and win gold and silver easy. Also having such big teams lets the bigger programs abuse specialists like China did back in 2008. 08 is actually a great example of this. If you watch that back you can see that because the teams were so big only the USA and China had the depth to build extremely efficient teams, the race was between those two countries and no one came even close. So with a team of four they are trying to force the team members into being all arounders while also having that specialist thing that let the best ones in an apparatus qualify to the Olympics on their own without a team (which also was a problem sometimes because some specialists were the best in the world but didn't get to go to the olympics because the team didn't pick them). And also is letting smaller programs have a chance at being competitive by not making them have to produce a lot of extremely good girls. It may not be the fairest solution all the time but it's sort of doing what they want it to do. It is important that they do this because if only 2 or 3 countries dominate the sport then it will die.
jodavitow Not fair is the biggest understatement. It eliminates spots at the top to make room for more mediocre gymnasts at the bottom. Let’s allow more countries to tie for last place so they can say they participated than reward elite talented gymnasts with a chance to compete who actually stand a chance of winning.
@@saragrant9749that was Bella Karoly, not a personal coach of any of them and pretty much founder of the abusive environment along with his wife that brought US gymnastics to decades of abuse. He's yelling and ruining routines at every Olympics before 2012, as always, needy and desperate for attention. NO ONE needs more coaches like him.
@@volodymyrdolia6544 that coach was NOT Bela Karoli, but Aly’s personal coach! He IS the type we need- encouraging, persistent and dedicated. Get your facts straight before speaking, I’m well aware of what those two frauds the Karoly’s did to the sport.
@@volodymyrdolia6544 Bela isn't even on the floor at all so you wouldn't have been able to hear him if he did yell because he is in the stands, and he hasn't been on the performance floor since the 2000 or 2004 Olympics - he was at the camp and was part of the coaching team leading up to the Olympics, but officially, at the Olympics, he isn't part of the coaching team. Even Marta isn't on the floor. The yell was from Aly's personal coach who is at the edge of the floor exercise platform, probably near the camera that captured the angle when he said it. As for what they brought abuse wise - well - that's a conversation on it's own. But the yell was Aly's couch, who we do need more of.
I love the diversity represented by this beautiful team of girls. They represent the USA so perfectly. They are just extraordinary. It was such a joy to watch them that year.
So fun to go back and see kyla and Jordan win the gold after watching them with coach Val at UCLA. Love what they do and who they are. All 5 of them are phenomenal. And now kyla at UCLA getting the grand slam in college gymnastics. She is a super hero.
Nobody else started there tumbling passes as early as she did, and to have four in one program has to be exhaustive. I'd give her difficulty points on that alone.
I wasn't even sure it was part of her program because of the energy and enthusiasm she showed throughout. I saw it and thought "was that her excitement spilling over" she could have just ended with the stick and still led to gold.
This group was so amazing, and you have to respect how composed Aly was under what was obviously SUCH high pressure, especially when you see her expression at the end. It must be extremely challenging to execute that kind of skill when you know EVERYONE is watching you and it is going to decide where your whole team places and where you place in the most prestigious athletic competition you'll be apart of, she delivered and she's awesome
@@jordanrodgerson5583 constantly bringing up the past only hurts them, he's locked up, he can't harm them or no one else. Move the fuck on!! We can't change what happened in the past!
@@joeyhawkins1870 they aren't defined by what they went through though that's the thing. you can say someone is strong for enduring and persevering through such a thing. you can't just pretend 100s of girls weren't put through shit by that guy. him being locked up doesn't take away their hurt and to a lot of young girls and women, their stories have made it easier for others to open up about what they went through. so i think it is important to talk about, especially as she has continuously been open to the public about it, and been an ally to this day. but yeah, move the fuck on joey lmao
I loved the comradery between all of them. Seeing Mikayla, who had the greatest vault I've ever seen, work OT to make sure all the girls stayed close and cheered each other on was amazing to see❤
Bro I was 12 when this happened and I remember staying up late on a school night for the team final and The all around! I cried along with everyone bc I remembered the 2008 games I was 8 when they missed out on the team gold. It was literally amazing to see them win, I really made my decision to go competitive after the 2012 after doing Xcel for so long. Plus MaKayla’s vault was legit awesome
@@ashleewoods9205 different school districts start at different times, my cousin starts school in October and ends end of July, so it very well might be the same.
Really? But the announcers said “it’s all down to this one single pass- if you stick it, you’re in.” So it sounded like her score was the only thing between them and gold?
@@clairegrim1112 the USA won with a margin of almost 5 points ahead of the second best team, and each time you fall, it’s a full point off, so they would have lost 4 points if Aly and fallen on all 4 of her passes, and they would have still won.
@@clairegrim1112Aly only needed a 10 point something to win. With her D score being high. She would only need a low E score to match it and for the US team to win. So she could’ve actually fell on all 4 and would have bought the USA gold
Only because Russia didn't preform to the best of their ability. If Russia preformed a little better, Gold would be Russias, The team that actually deserves it.
I posted on this a year ago and I’m adding to it. Watch Jordyns Ted talk with UCLA. She talks about being resilient and how she chose her reaction to missing the AA and how she chose to stand up and go into the team final with her head held high and the determination to help the team win gold. I’m teaching school kids this word and we are using it all year this year. Good stuff.
@Kaylee Me too. The expression of bliss on Jordyn’s face, squished into Aly’s shoulder, when they learned they’d won team gold must have blotted out Jordyn’s pain about not making the AA. At least for that moment. Just as Aly’s AA silver in Rio will be far better-remembered than her tie-breaker-granted fourth place in that event in 2012.
It amazes me that fortwo Olympic cycles from 2008 to 2012 and from 2012 to 2016 each of those has had at least one member who already has a gold medal - - wow! I cannot imagine what goes through someone’s head when they have won the Olympics more than once. Here’s to all the little girls who grew up knowing just how good we are and who’s expectation is now winning the competition instead of just competing in it. I come from a generation where we were chasing about two countries only, Russia and Romania. In 1996 we finally caught up and headed the top of the mountain. In 2008 we had her either all around him then in 2012 and in 2016 our team was back on top . Congratulations ladies one and all from every Olympic cycle from Atlanta to Rio de Janeiro and beyond for where we were where we are and where we hope to continue to be. And thank you for finally breaking the Russian and Romanian stranglehold on Olympic and world gymnastics.
I always get emotional when i go back to this video. The support the team gives to her when she got back from the floor.. the cry when they realized they just won gold. The Fab Five ❤️❤️
Think this is my favorite U.S. Olympic team......they all were just awesome....it just is so great to watch this once again......and Kyla even cried......precious as hell.
That second tumble looks ridiculously sick from that camera angle. The way she launches and just keeps going up, it's like she fired ejection seat rockets in her feet.
I think that all those people who are critical of McKayla's "unimpressed" response should really, really study how powerful Aly's "OMG I DID IT! I DID IT!" response is here. Or that of practically any champion, Olympic or otherwise. All those hours and years, everything you gave up and endured. It's not hard to believe that there would be a reaction of disappointment that could be just as hard to keep inside as the feeling of elation so often is. Anyway, this isn't about McKayla, but Aly. It's just what comes to mind anytime I watch this. Aly was SO good. That team was SO good. It's wonderful watching it.
They were so young. So talented. So beautiful. Breaks my heart to know what they were going through at the hands of Nassar. But the strength they’ve all shown by rising above is so inspiring ❤
Is that asian lady Coach Liang Chow's wife? I can't imagine, winning a medal and thinking that the fact that the jerk that yelled at you (Gettart) and the doctor that abused you (Nassar) made it feel worth it to those girls. Like it was justified because they had been so manipulated by bad people to believe it.
These little girls were so cute. I loved watching them root for each other and be good sports. Pity they were treated as poorly as they were behind the scenes.