FX Battle - Kati Szabo vs Nadia Comaneci 

Nadia also had to do her magic on NO SPRINGS floor and no springs or leather coverings on the solid wood balance beam. Szabo would not be able to do her 1985 routine on the hard floor of 1980 Moscow. The 1984 Olympics really cheapened gymnastics. Instead of being artistic or graceful like how it is supposed to be they transformed gymnastics into acrobatic clownish acts with those trampoline springs initiated in 1984 L.A.

No te has dado cuenta qué Rumanía siempre ha sido discriminada?

Anna Maria Nasc Campos Nadia and Kati are the same and look the same don't you think they both are actually the best .

Yes, Kati wins this one.

Mike M compare because they look alot alike of there face either though they have different hair styles and the did gymnastics in different year but yeah they were really awesome in gymnastics don't you think

Marki Nani very true:)

Mine as well.

True and since they added springs in 2013 gymnasts have it easier , before 1979 they were performing in cement pretty much

@@cherrylove9142 Moscow 1980 was on a hard floor too, though. There were no springs in Moscow 1980. 1979 was a one-off at the time because it was in Fort Worth, USA and the Americans like to change and "modernize" stuff in sports all the time. Worlds didn't add springs permanently until 1983 in time for the revolutionary 1984 Olympics which turned gymnastics into a bunch of acrobatic clownish routines instead of being artistic and graceful. Nadia did modern-style routines on the original hard floors during her whole career. It was interesting seeing that 1992 NBC special where Bela Karolyi lectured Nadia in English (not in Romanian, which was kind of funny) about the new springs added everywhere and leather coverings on the balance beam. When I learned a few years ago that they didn't add the trampoline-ish springs at the Olympics until 1984 it made me appreciate real gymnastics of 1952-1980.

+j.j.cagney Ecaterina's last pass was almost as difficult as Nadia's last pass.

Both the gymnasts took the gold in the floor finals.

Nellie Kim beat Nadia In Montreal and equaled her in Moscow

Nadia did not have springboard floors.

ratoncito63 Sabes como se llaman los temas de Emilia Eberle, Davidova y Nelli Kim usaron en Moscu 80?

Wrong. She had springboard floors.

Wrong. She had springboard floors.

@@gracetruthandlight Wrong? You can say you have another opinion... but not question mine.... 🥰

@@Boban1611 i can do whatever I want. Nadia is the greatest ever.

@@Boban1611 You know what springboards are, right? Nadia was on a hard floor.

@@gracetruthandlight I can see it clearly now... you are a lovely person. Have a good life.... Bye.

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Wrong. She had springboard floors.

​@@gracetruthandlightNadia too bro, stop with it 😂

@@marwahussein666 I call bullshit. Nadia did not have springboard floors. You are clueless about gymnastics. The apparatus booklet in 79 does not specify spring floors Another thing I want people to understand about watching 1980s gymnastics is how darn hard the mats are. The floor only just started having springs in it and I found conflicting information on if the 1979 World Championship floor had any at all (there is an article about the Rio floor saying high level competitions in 1979 did but looking at that floor ... it doesn't look to me like it does at all). The 1981 European championships are on youtube in high quality raw film with no commentary and atmospheric sound. Every vault landing, every dismount from bars and beam sounds like the sound department from an Indiana Jones movie was involved. Many countries, most notably the East Germans, competed with both ankles wrapped heavily ALL THE TIME and I do not blame them. When gymcastic covered the 1988 olympics they saw this as evidence of injury but I promise you. It was them trying to survive 1980s mats

LOVE Nadia's haircut- like Lady DIana's.. you are used to today's women: plastic faced clones of one another; straight hair parted in the middle with plastered curls that are NOT brushed out and fluffy ! UGLY AS HELL. BUT: Nadia is TRULY GRACEFUL, ELEGANT AND PERFECT AS ALWAYS! Szabo sucks! She has NO GRACE, she matches the mat color, which is stupid too! Kim You want to see a real gymnast especially on uneven bars, pretty too: Ludmilla Toricheva WOW amazing; Karen Janz from Germany- amazing, or course Olga Korbut