Throwback to team China 🇨🇳 rocking the balance beam at Atlanta 1996! 

These judge with stupid or headless

Something desperately needed these days

@@eh5507 fr the fig made gymnastics difficulty>execution

It was the compulsories that they didn’t score well with that’s why

@@TheMajesticice01 I know. So sad, but fair.

@@TheMajesticice01 only for Kui. The major issues for Liu and Mo came from optionals.

I’m not even sure there was a US judge for compulsory beam in the mix lol. Regardless, no one could touch China on style, but they all had very visible errors that usually resulted in at least 0.1 for the balance check and a simultaneous 0.1-0.3 for rhythm breaks. Besides, China’s first couple scores are deservedly higher than the Americans.

@@dannymorales7143 I stand firmly by my observation. The US didn't deserve the team gold and the questionable judging was a source of low morale for a lot of non-American gymnasts, even before the start of optionals and the Bela Karolyi and Kerri Strug fake circus act. The deduction for flaws and rhythm breaks is fact but they always enforce it with the exquisite performers, like the Chinese. The Americans seemed to be rewarded for simply staying on the apparatus and the judges ignored amplitude, toe point and flexibility.

@@gaelgarciabernal2434 - sorry but the fact that the Chinese got the scores they did with the errors they made shows that the judges would have rewarded them well if they had hit. Qiao Ya getting a 9.3 for those mistakes vs. a conservative Strug getting a 9.3 doesn't seem off. I have no doubt that Mo would have matched - if not beaten, Miller, Moceanu, and Podkopayeva without that error on the cartwheel.

The Americans were the only ones to hold the leg up after the cartwheel and China did the fouetté the best. The rest I’d say was equal and you can’t deny the deductions for the semi major wobbles and rhythm breaks.

@@gaelgarciabernal2434 Genuinely curious who you think should have won based on the actual performances? The other teams gave it away, the US won pretty handily and fairly IMO. China probably had the best group of athletes but didn't deliver, and Romania got more gifts than anyone, especially on compulsory bars. Russia had a fall or near fall on every event in optionals.

It’s called compulseries, back then everyone did the same set in the first round.

Pq eram séries obrigatórias

I think the mistake on the first element (form break on the mount) soured the judges' eyes a bit. The rest of the routine was great. For what it's worth, I think she ended up as one of the reserves for the beam final with a 9.7-ish score for her optional exercise, which shows how difficult it was to get a great score on compulsory beam that year.

Mistake on first element and dismount was not stuck. There were also other little places where form wasn’t exact as it should have been.

Everybody knows the judging at these Olympics was questionable and favored the Americans. On top of that, the Kerri Strug “injury” was staged.

LMAO - you're questioning Moceanu outscoring the Chinese routines? Hers was one of the best of the competition.

@@PeirsolFan2 Moceanu was the best? Kui Yuanyuan's beam easily trampled all over Moceanu 🤣. And if she's the best, why didn't she win any medal apart from the team medal 🤭

@@Zarumaans she was on COMPULSORY beam. She also had one of the top scores at 1995 Worlds, only behind Mo and one or two others. I do agree that Moceanu was very overrated on optional beam though. I wouldn't have given her silver in Sabae.

@@Zarumaans Kui fell on compulsories beam mocean didn’t 💡 that would be why mocean had a higher score. It’s not rocket science.

Vehemently disagree. Eliminating the, was the downfall of the sport quite frankly.

@@buddyboy1309 coincidence

@@buddyboy1309 I agree. We have now compulsories (all routines are the same) with bad form.

Couldn’t disagree more, the reason why gymnastics is so horrible today and lacks artistry is because compulseries were removed after these Olympics. They emphasized the basics, the foundation and artistry of gymnastics which is no COINCIDENCE that those elements are missing in todays womens gymnastics

@@chuckie102883 gymnastics doesn't need compulsories to keep artistry. Again, it was a coincidence.