Breaking Barriers! 🇨🇳 China's Women's Gymnastics Team redefines Asymetrical Bars at Atlanta 1996 

Absolutely agree. Liu Xuan was actually much stronger on bars than on beam although she was OG champion in the later apparatus.

@@CHOWCWT I respectfully disagree she was top notch on both! And actually wonderful on floor. She didn’t quite have the power for vault but still came 4th in the Sydney all around (upgraded to bronze after raducans DQ)

it was because the code did not want to promote the one arm giant that she did here - stating too dangerous - so gave it a low value. ironically look at what BILES is doing and no one is stopping her.

Was the one arm one Liu Xuan? The gal who won beam in 2000?

​@@saragrant9749 yes, that's her! :D

Bi Wenjiing actually threw the Mo Salto from an Eagle grip 😱😱😱 How have I never noticed this before 🧐

The crazy thing is that at that time China even had a third gymnast (Meng Fei) who was capable of doing the Mo Salto but was not selected to compete in Atlanta.

@@saragrant9749 I was thinking exactly the same thing!! I didn’t know that the one arm girl is she!! So surprising me. She is amazing gymnast absolutely

wow better than 2008?

Would have been 3 if Meng Fei made the team in 96 (she was on the 95 World team).

@@singsongeric And Zhou Duan had Gaylord 2 then

@@rafaelliao2753 Did she have it in 96? I hadn't seen any videos of her pre-97 and it was a shame her international career was so short

@@singsongeric Yes, she did it at least from 1995. She landed it at least twice at the first Asian Gymnastics Championship in Fall 1996 in Changsha, China

The transition wouldn't be valuable enough to do anyway. The UB is now every element performed needs to be at least D rated for the routine to be competitive

They didn't even wear grips😮, well few

True idk why she kept it when the judges deducted every time

How did they broke the rules ?

I thought it was 2000 they broke the rules?

@@beambreaker they did. I was just saying they did this then followed it up with that. Sad as the athletes were the ones who paid the price by having to relinquish their medals.

@@saragrant9749 oh ok. I figured that's what you meant. I understand your point but the 96 team didn't have much to do with that as far as I know and even if they knew about it I'm sure it wasn't really up to them. The union in China prob makes all those decisions. I could be wrong. This particular team however did alot for the sport IMO.

The same could be said for Romania then when Andrea Raducanu got stripped of her gold medal for breaking the rules 😌

You probably had in mind the 2000 olympic team that lost its bronze due to proven falsified ages

@@Cachatlot Yet Alexandra Marinescu from the Romanian team was underage during Atlanta (she publicly admitted that Romanian officials gave her a modified passport that changed her birth year from 1982 to 1981, which made ineligible to compete), and nothing was done to disqualify the team Same thing in 1992, Gina Gogean was rumored to actually be born in 1978 and not 1977 as she claimed, nothing was done about it either Even the queen herself Daniella Silivas, the Romanian officials just gave her a new passport out of the blue in 1985, and told her she was now 15 and not 13 so she can compete in the 1985 worlds. Her birth year was changed from 1972 to 1970, she publicly admitted this and once again, she was not stripped of her world title that year

@@mht4908 Everything you said was correct. I can see how it would be more difficult to remove medals/change results for events that happened in the 1980's or early 1990s, but if I remember correctly Marinescu spoke about officials changing her age not long after the 1996 Olympics. And Aurelia Dobre revealed Silivas was underage in 1990, five years after Silivas's debut. Other 1985 world team members said the same during that time. The 2000 Chinese team was stripped of their medal ten years after the fact, but Romania was never punished. Why is taking away medals ten years later okay, but not sooner? IOC, FIG make that make sense. It's very odd that a country with a history of cheating was never punished--even when it was clear at the time when the competitions happened that Romania was in fact cheating. Was this because of Romania's "favored" status back in the 1970s and 1980s? What about the 1990's when they were no longer considered such?

@@mht4908 Amelia Bedlia was asking about a chinese team cheating, not a romanian one. I only tried to guide her.