Women's Floor Exercise Final - London 2012 Olympics 

These commentators are actually really informative and aren't getting on my nerves like they usually do.

No one should ever boo at a gymnast. It doesn't matter who your rooting for, all the woman try very hard. All these girls were AMAZING!

6 years later and we discover that she was suffering from a fractured tibia and she was being assaulted by her doctor. My heart breaks for Jordan Wieber

I have so much respect for Jordyn after rewatching this Olympics. As the reigning world all around champ, she had a reasonable expectation for this Olympics to be her moment. Even when she failed to qualify for the all around, she pulled together a great performance for her team in the team final, and was incredibly supportive of her teammates in the all around and event finals. Even in this final, she still stands here cheering for Aly because she knows Aly can win, with no hard feelings about Gabby and Aly keeping her out of the all around. Jordyn did her best, and the two per country rule screwed her. But she was a great competitor with some truly fantastic sportsmanship. Compare her attitude to Komova's (during team, all around, and event finals), and there is truly no comparing their sportmanship. Aliya was the Russian's sportsman, and she outshone Komova because of that. Medals aren't everything, and the behavior of several athletes at these games really showed that. Kudos to Aliya and Jordyn for their well deserved golds and sportsmanship under pressure, and congratulations to Aly for this floor gold.

Aly's routine was so difficult yet amazing

Aly can't be human. That first move was so ridiculous, how she didn't step out of bounds is a mystery to the world.

This is why that Olympic floor final was the best ever : 1. Ksenia Afanasyeva -2011 floor world champion 2.Jordyn Wieber - 2011 AA world champion 3. Alexandra Raisman 2011 Bronze Floor world champion 4. Catalina ponor 2004 Olympic floor champion 5. Lauren Mitchell -2010 world floor champion 6. Vanessa Ferrari -2006 AA world champion 7.Aliya Mustafina - 2010 AA world champion 8. Sandra Izbasa - 2008 Olympic floor champion

Shannon Miller should be the commentator for Tokyo, she's the breath of fresh air everone needs right now, always finding the beautiful things in everyone's routines

Am I the only one obsessively watching last years Olympics waiting for this years?

Stop bashing Catalina, she had no attitude problems at all, she was just focused on what she had to do, she didn't even smile when they called her name, watch her in 2004 it's the same back then as well. She's just a very focused and determined competitor.!

Start List 0:20 1. 🇷🇺 Ksenia Afanasyeva RUS 3:10 2. 🇺🇸 Jordyn Wieber USA 6:25 3. 🇺🇸 Aly Raisman USA 10:55 4. 🇷🇴 Catalina Ponor ROU 14:30 5. 🇦🇺 Lauren Mitchell AUS 18:10 6. 🇮🇹 Vanessa Ferrari ITA 22:00 7. 🇷🇺 Aliya Mustafina RUS 26:30 8. 🇷🇴 Sandra Izbasa ROU 30:20 🥇 FX Olympic Gold Medalist 🇺🇸 Aly Raisman USA 34:28 🥈 FX Olympic Silver Medalist 🇷🇴 Catalina Ponor ROU 34:40 🥉 FX Olympic Bronze Medalist 🇷🇺 Aliya Mustafina RUS 34:50 Women's FX Final Results 37:10

Jordyn Wieber has an amazing attitude towards her teammate, you don't see that that often. Congrats, everybody!

2020! THREE YEARS BUT STILL EXCITED! Who else is?

That has to be one of the most impressive groups of gymnasts in a single EF. Three olympic champions on floor, two world champions on floor, three world AA champions. Imagine if they all had been able to put together their best performance, it would have been even more epic

Anyone here reliving the London olympics? For whatever reason that year's was the epitome of olympics for me... I don't think any other will ever beat it

Catalina Ponor is poetry in motion. And this was 2012...8 years AFTER she was the Olympic gold medalist on floor in 2004. I love seeing this new longevity in women’s gymnastics...POST pubescent women were pushed out for so many years.

Jordyn looked like she was about in tears as she walked off the floor. Just wish I could give her a big hug at that point!

Can I just say Aly Raismans performance was amazing

These commentators are so amazing? They are so informative and their voices sound so nice and calm!

My favourite moments: 3:34, that was amazing. Such a powerful gymnast. I'm so sorry she wasn't at her best that day. I loved the way Jordin danced! Great skills, too! But just look at that pose! 6:32 11:14 amazing as well. She can almost fly. No wonder she was the captain!! 14:50 perfect landing. Catalina is so graceful as well, her moves made her routine so beautiful to watch. Age? What age? Lauren surprised me! What a great routine!!! So precise with the music! And always smiling, that's priceless. 23:31 Look at her hands! Wow such grace. Powerful finish!!!! 26:40 Aliya is so beautiful to watch. Those looks! Those moves! And this! 26:55 32:00 I suffered with her. I'm so sorry, it was so beautiful to watch! No wonder she is Romanian! All in all, I think it was a great event. The judges were correct because the podium was only with the best. I think these Olympics were beautiful for gymnastics.

People aren't listening to the announcers. It's not rigged, Raisman's difficulty level was higher, and she executed it so great. Catalina and Ally were both amazing, but the judges scored correctly according to the difficulty level. (6.2 Catalina, 6.5 Ally)

aliya's music is so dramatic, i love it!

Am I the only one who loves Ponor’s dancing

all the people In the comments kinda ripping Aly apart bc they think Ponor's routine was better and she should have won. Don't understand the difficulty aspect of it. Ponor didn't do nearly the kind of tumbling Raisman did. She had a gorgeous routine (despite the crossed legs in the double full she did) her dance skills were great. They even said it no one had the difficulty that raisman did. Period.

I thought that lady in the black was a contestant but she was just a worker for the Olympics lol

Man, watching this again makes me hate my decision to quit gymnastics 😩😂

I loved Catalina’s performance! So clean and powerful!

8 years later and I just realize the commentator at 15:37 said “she’ll give the judges fever with this performance.” And Ponor’s floor music is called “Fever.”

Love Aliya's wave and smile to the crowd after her routine. So sweet =)

Aly Raisman starts at 11:00

The last girl to perform, from romania... Even though she fell, I love her routine because her music is PINK FLOYD!

Can we just stop for a second to admire Ksenia's artistry?

I love Mustafina's overall line and extension in her dance and choreo

Such powerful women, muscles and still make this look so easy!! My respects. Amazing all of them

aly’s score made me tear up with happiness, and it’s been 8 years. wow

To think Ferrari has been competing internationally (as a senior) since 2006 AND has participated in 4 olympics is incredible. Not Chusovitina’s longevity but still very impressive. She truly deserved that silver medal !

Lol the opening of Ferrari's music is what played in the background of the slow-mo of Maroney's near-perfect vault. People were saying how that coincidentally came at the right moment and made the vault 10x more epic xD

Ponor just did not have a higher difficulty value than Raisman. Their execution was very similar since both performed very well but Aly's opening tumbling pass was seriously amazing and difficult.

i just hate it when people assume Aliya is snobby! she’s actually one of the sweetest, and gets along with all of the other gymnasts well. her sportsmanship shines through!

Catalina has an artistry that no one can touch. And I don't mean just frou-frou moves: the artistry is present throughout the whole routine. She looks so graceful all the time. :)

I love that everyone but Aly had already proven themselves in this final. Ponor and Izbasa, both individual champions in 04 and 08. Then Ferrari, Wieber, and Mustafina who were all AA World Champions. Afanasyeva and Mitchell were both floor champions in the last two years.

I liked Alexandra raisman floor routine

Came because I wanted to see Raisman but wow 14:49 Catalina was absolutely fabulous to watch. She is amazing

I'm actually just so interested at how small Vanessa Ferrari is, her size is adorable but she has so much power and skill in such a small body, lovely

Aly Raisman killed it!!

Catalina's routine was more vigorous and caught my eye, but the true winner was Raisman. The judges were right.

I can't believe 2012 was now 8 years ago, so glad you put this up. One of the best floor routines I've ever seen, and she just nailed everything, so well deserved, can't state that enough.

This lineup is gymnastics royalty including 4 of my favorites ever: Aliya, Sandra, Ksenia and Catalina. This was a very exciting final event.

omg CLEARLY aly was the best on this day. Stuck landings plus good form in the tumbling. She deserved at least a 9 in execution. But even if Cata had scored a 9.1 and Aly a 9.0, Aly would still have won by 2 tenths because of her difficulty score that gave her such an advantage in this final. I don't think those who are complaining truly appreciate the difficulty of Aly's first pass, tbh.

my opinion is that raisman just out did ponor. ponor's difficulty was lower than raismans and there were a lot of tiny tiny errors in her performance. i feel that the judges judged fairly and that they gave each gymnast the score that they deserve

Catalina with the ballet shoes! So cute

The Romanian gymnast (Ponor Catalina) was amazing !!

Catalina Ponor my God,she was breathtaking..What a woman.!!A rare species nowadays really.

Alexandra Raisman from the U.S.A was amazing. So was Catalinas Ponor and Lauren Mitchell.

Everyone can learn from Sandra Izbasa’s wonderful personality, attitude, and humility. She got last place, but she shrugged, then SMILED and waved at the crowd! Truly an Olympian to admire that she can make a mistake and not get too upset about it to forget how amazing and lucky she is to be so successful. I had just come from rewatching the vault final and decided I didn’t like Sandra for beating McKayla. But McKayla was so rude about losing that it made me sad to see someone I thought I admired act that way when she lost. Coming to watch this, I didn’t want to like Sandra. But watching her gracious reaction to last place made me realize I could never not like her. She’s awesome. I’m gonna go watch her other routines now!

1:10 - Introducing the athletes 3:18 - Kseniia Afanaseva (Russia) 6:11 - Kseniia Afanaseva score 6:27 - Jordyn Wieber (USA) 10:37 - Jordyn Wieber score 11:00 - Aly Raisman (USA) 14:13 - Aly Raisman score 14:34 - Catalina Ponor (Romania) 17:53 - Catalina Ponor score 18:12 - Lauren Mitchell (Australia) 21:33 - Lauren Mitchell score 22:01 - Vanessa Ferrari (Italy) 26:15 - Vanessa Ferrari score 26:36 - Aliya Mustafina (Russia) 29:56 - Aliya Mustafina score 30:26 - Sandra Raluca Izabasa (Romania) 34:19 - Sandra Raluca Izabasa score Aly Raisman wins Gold

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Aly's routine amazing that opening pass was steller!

This was my very first gymnastics competition I watched on youtube in august 2013 and it is my favorite to watch. I have watched it so many times.

Sandra R's fall at end is heartbreaking . The whole performance is sooo powerful and spot-on ; I was convinced she'd take gold ' until that moment . She held it together magnificently ; just that little frown and shrug* You are ALL amazing* P.S. I don't have a t.v. (by design) so am seeing all this for the first time .

I love how Aly walks really slowly right past Catalina-17:39😂😂😂😂

And then there's me, who does a forward roll and feels like a pro.

La elegancia de Ponor y Mustafina está muy por encima de las piruetas y acrobacias del resto, es lo que hace a la gimnasia artística: ARTÍSTICA

Mi favorita era Ponor

I always loved the perfomance of Jordyn and Alexandra. Aliya is amazing too. I love them

The trick is, if you feel as though you're going to stumble on the landing, do some kind of leap (like at 6.56) to avoid deductions

Aly's amazing performance is at 10:58, I just love coming back to it, everyone else was so talented as well

I was shook when Shine on you crazy diamond started playing, love it

People hating on Aly because Ponor's routine was more "beautiful" should watch dance or acro gymnastics, where artistry is part of the score (unlike WAG). Until then, accept that she had less difficulty and slightly worse execution and got second fairly.

the russians and the romanians are so beautiful to watch on floor

Sandra Izbaşa would likely have scored 15.400 if she hadn’t fell on the last tumble - silver behind Raisman due to difficulty, however the most beautiful routine of the competition

Catalina was the best are you kidding me!!! SHE WAS ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL!!

U.S is always just so bold with their routines. So beautiful to watch.

Love how aly goes "wow" at the end.. Haha you said it!

That first pass is stunning, even now, 12 years later!

I feel so bad for Sandra Izbasa. It was such a clean gorgeous routine up until that last pass, she could have easily taken silver or bronze but she got last just for that one mistake.

Aly and Catalina are amazing.....

I really enjoy Kseniia's style. Too bad she didn't do all she's capable of. It would have been nice to see her medal.

the american was impressive. but my heart went to ponor. i found her perfect. can t understand 9.00 for execution...and what a longevity for an athlete! imagine she was olympic champion at floor and beam in 2004 and silver at floor in 2012 and still european champion at beam in 2017!!! she is incredible

After watching the trial, I have a new respect for Ally and our women! What concentration they have!

Anyone notice Ksenia Holding a stuffed bear? She's so cute, love her;)

I love how at the beginning (when they're being introduced) the two Americans wave like "Hey mom, I'm in the Olympics!" and the other athletes are all business.

Can we talk about how amazing this final is? Literally every competitor is a world/Olympic champion on floor or a world all around champion! Increíble!

100% without a doubt Afan has the most artistic FX of the entire pack. Periodt.

Some of these comments make me wonder if there is some vendetta against Raisman. She was the best, no question. Insane difficulty + Great execution = Clear winner. If anyone was overscored it was Mustafina (9.0, wtf), and I say that as a Musty fan.

Honestly Ponor looks like one of those villains in the movies.

Aly certainly deserved the win with the code and her d score, but Ponor. Wow. No one can deny that her form, artistic quality, and attention to detail was the best of any competitor

Aly was so smart. She watched what happened to the other gymnasts when they landed in those corners and how overly springy the floor was, and she stayed far away from the corners so that she didn't go out of bounds. Not only did she win off of talent, her wisdom played a big part. Update: In fact it looks like others followed suit. I feel bad for the first two performers. The others probably had their coaches warning them that they needed to adjust.

That 3rd one was amazing!

If this were a men's competition no one would complain about Ally winning despite a lack of artistry. They are athletes, not pretty little dancers.

Aly may have won on level of difficulty and clean moves, but Russian girl mustifia and Catalina has ten times the style.

Catalina Ponor's performance is flawless.. Should have won the gold medal.

I could watch Aly's routine over and over :') She so deserved it! No competition.

Guys! The difficulty matters to! Stop hating just because your country didn't win

Perhaps the greatest lineup of 8 athletes to ever compete for a floor exercise Olympics championship ever! All 8 names of these ladies are synonymous with female artistic gymnastics greatness today. If I had to put together a 'dream team' they would all be on it.

You can tell Ponor is a DANCER. She moved like a ballerina butterfly.

Ponor's start value was only a 6.2 not a 6.4. And to be honest very few if any in the floor final can dance. It's about the tumbles. Everyone knows that even if they don't like it. No since worrying about it now. Its over. it's just a sport. Not the end of the world.

Aly had a higher start value than Catalina, Aly did her floor exercise pretty well and Catalina's performance wasn't exactly perfect either and that is why Aly had a higher chance of winning the gold medal. Why don't people get it? Just because Catalina's performance had more artistry doesn't automatically make her the winner. People claimed that gymnastics isn't all about the acrobatics but gymnastics is not all about the artistry either. I wish people would understand that.

I love Raisman! She's so strong

I could hear aly whispering "yes!" when she saw her score💖 really amazing btw, i was looking out for her in this