Team Ukraine's 🇺🇦 unforgettable floor routines at Atlanta 1996! 

Школа Советская !

​@@user-ip8gx6ep2zor just super original with two front handsprings.

Agreed! All of Ukraine's lineup had lovely choreography but Sheremeta's was just delightful. Much in the spirit of oksana omeliancik's tweety bird routine

Had the competition been anywhere else the crowd would have been eating out of her hand. It's a bit sad to hear the dead silence.

Knizhnik started from 10.0

@@mchur001 are you sure? isn't a+d, d , d+a and ended with a c?

@@Marketoromagnolo Yes, 10.0 sv. she had .6 with whip to tucked full in (.1 D, .1 indirect A to D), front full (.1 D) rudi immediate front tuck (.1 D, .2 direct D+A) .1+.1+.1+.1+.2=.6 indirect A+D was .1 and direct A+D was .2 bonus in that CoP.

@@mchur001 what?? 0.,2 bonus d+a? a front ful punch front was 0.3? bonus?

@@Marketoromagnolo Direct D to A got .2 bonus. Indirect D to A got .1 bonus. So the rudi immediate punch front received .2 because it was a direct combination and it changed direction (rudi lands backwards and then she reversed direction by adding the punch front) So, yup Knizhnik started from 10.0

Why didn’t she?

Так школа та ещё Советская !!!

Train your athletes to block out the noise and it won’t be a worry. I’ve been to track and field meets with 75,000 screaming fans- substantially louder than this- and the athletes were unfazed. Every Olympic gymnastics competition has had a huge amount of cheering and it hasn’t bothered anyone.

Ever heard of concentration and focus? This is their first event. They loosened up on their last event.

Olympics is jealous with Russian gymnast 😉😉

As a non American looking at it, I see absolutely nothing wrong.

The crowd was there to see the world’s best gymnasts in competition, and there’s nothing wrong with cheering and being enthusiastic. The athletes train to block out the noise- the ones who want to win anyway. Rio was just as loud if not louder, and people don’t complain about them. We have nothing to feel shameful for because our fans were excited- remember also that much of the crowd was foreigners too.

As an American, I agree. We are the absolute WORST at sporting events and this was uncalled for. Zero mitigation was done & I feel bad for the other athletes. It was a CLEAR spectacle that showed favoritism. It’s cringe worthy 100%

I would argue that things have changed and there is the particular region of the US these competitions can take place to consider. Granted, the US has not hosted an Olympics per se since (in that a large number of spectators at these smaller competitions can be big fans of gymnastics in general rather than solely the Americans), there have been several gymnastics competitions hosted in the US including Worlds, World Cups, and Pacific Rim to name a few and the difference has been night and day. The 2003 Worlds not 10 years after this where athletes of all kinds of countries were supported by the crowd were in Anaheim, and the 2028 Games will be in the same general metro area. My favorite example of crowd support from the 2003 Worlds would have to be for the Sri Lankan gymnasts' floor exercises (upon witnessing the level of difficulty being completed, it'll make more sense).

@@saragrant9749 "No one complained about [Rio]", anyway Paloma del Rio (the Spanish commentator) expressed during the men's floor final (where the crowd cheered at the errors of Kenzo Shirai and Sam Mikulak) that she had never seen this behavior in all her years of covering Summer/Winter Olympic Games (context: Rio was her 13th), and that she found it embarrassing, dangerous to the athletes, and not in the Olympic Spirit. While it's typical to expect this for football, fortunately, this was a relative outlier given the crowd was much fairer during other finals before and after. Also Ana Sofia Gomez BB QF.

So yeah, the American crowd was very pro-USA because they were hometown crowd. But at least the crowd was not actively booing gymnasts, cheering for them to fall, or laughing and applauding when they fell. The crowd was very appreciative of the other gymnasts in all around and event finals, they were just super excited for the US Ladies and rightfully so.

This was from 27 years ago.

В 1996 году все было спокойно

No they did not.

USA in 4th? You are out of your mind. They were obviously the best team in Atlanta and the performances demonstrated that.

While I agree that Ukraine deserved a medal, I think USA should have at least medaled in Gold or Silver.

I agree that the Americans were overscored, but if you want to see an EGREGIOUS example of overscoring please look no further than the Romanians, especially their compulsory routines.

I personally believe Ukraine most definitely deserved a medal at these Olympics. Overall I do not think that Ukraine deserved to beat USA because Ukraine did have some stupid silly mistakes in optionals. In the compulsory round though, Ukraine deserved to be far ahead of the US. Most of my frustration was in Compulsory and a couple of optional scores mostly on floor and bars, and beam. Vault was fairly scored here (expect in Compulsories)