I have no fucking idea how I ended up here. But I was invested. I didn't think you could top those two dismount injured landings. But the 4 golds and the perfect ten were pretty fucking awesome too. So I have to give it by default to the first bird.
I do not agree with 'greatest moments' list. Gymnasts competing while seriously injured (yes broken bones in your legs are serious injuries!) is indicative of how broken and abusive gymnastics has been. It's not something to be celebrated. These are teenagers.
I do really enjoy watching it,I did gymnastics when I was really young with my sister but we weren't flexible enough but we did dance lessons and dance recitals together and I miss doing both gymnastics and dance even colorguard in high school...I was also taught before 6th grade to play the flute and enjoyed playing the flute and still play it once in awhile how I am 38 years old!
Really wish the incidents where gymnasts are competing injured weren’t included. It’s wrong they were expected to and shame on USA and Japan gymnastics for pressuring them to perform while hurt. It’s time we started caring about the gymnasts and not forcing this on them when they are injured.
The ironic thing is that Keri Strugg didn't have to do it again to win gold. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but the USA would have still won gold without her doing the vault again. It had something to do with the point system.
70s routines where far more graceful ..the equipment very basic so the gymnasts had to rely on there skill alone..Nadia Comaneci was 14 when she scored the worlds first 10.. No gymnast is even allowed to compete at 14 anymore 70s gymnasts where do joy to watch
@@nicolataylor6011 Todays gymnasts arent relying on their skills but they were in the 70s? That doesnt make sense when gymnasts today are performing skills that are unquestionably more difficult. Is a 10 as impressive when its skills that are kid shit by today's standards? I dont think so. Its certainly not the most impressive moment in gymnastics history. Nadia would lose to literally any elite gymnast in the last 30 or 40 years- and there are plenty of extremely graceful gymnasts still. Also, I dont find belly beats graceful. Everytime she slammed into the bar with her hips, I cringed. It used to routinely result in bruising & often knocked the wind out of gymnasts if not positioned correctly. Also Teodora Ungureanu did a way more graceful and creative bars routine back in the 70s- Nadia was overscored in my opinion.
The uneven bars in the 70s were so much closer than they are today. Pulling them apart means that gymnasts can do so much more, but it also drastically increased the difficulty and expectations, as well as the potential for injuries.
🤦♂️ girls were being injured from certain moves that flung their pelvises against a bar. Some were rendered incapable of having children. Which is worse??
that's why routines look so different nowadays... it's actually less dangerous. some claim elegance has been lost, but I am sure that is a price worth paying for athletes' health@@karyndewit193
The one foot landing of kerri strut is a prime example of sports losing its way. Knowling sacrificing your body for a piece of medal. It should not be glorified We should be mortified that coaches and the sport would sacrifice young girls body . People over medals
Back many decades ago, athletes in many a sport would still compete with broken legs and broken arms still healing. Especially in hockey and football. And there was no safe space for them to go to!
What’s even worse is that the USA did not need Strugg’s score to win team gold. They already won with Moceanu’s sit-down vault. - SO terrible that she vaulted while injured. Not a gymnastics highlight for me.
You pathetic weaklings are exactly what's wrong with sports in the US. Her foot was broken on that event? Well boo-hoo. Now guess what... it healed just fine and the entire world has the immortal moment in Olympic history. She wouldn't change a single thing. But sheep like you people would. *-SMH*
my thoughts exactly. Normalize athletes saying "No, it's not safe, a competition is not worth it" and allow them to do so without penality or retribution
I doubt they would stop even if the Coach tried to stop them... They aren't there to make you feel comfortable, but to compete at something they worked very hard for...
They forgot the monumental flip o Olga Korbut's on the un-even bars. The next day at the gym in 1972, everyone was saying, "Did you see the Olga Korbut show last night?"
Who said they were forced? A lot of athletes train their entire lives and forego a social life and all their hard work leads up to the Olympics. I could absolutely see wanting to still compete because it might be your last opportunity.
The ironic thing is that Keri Strugg didn't have to do it again to win gold. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but the USA would have still won gold without her doing the vault again. It had something to do with the point system. It's sad how much pressure and stress they are put under, as well as the pressure they put on themselves.
im pretty sure she did. she fell on the first attempt and the lower score wouldve been counted. but i feel like i saw in some documentary somewhere that she didnt have to
I don't think they knew it at the time. I'm sure with Russia on the floor at the time, they weren't mathematically sure if Kerri's vault was needed or not.
Yeah someone from Russia fell a couple times and another stepped way out of bounds, so she wouldn’t have had to go again because they could have counted a fall and still won, but they didn’t know that when they were vaulting, so it was possible that they would have had to. That said, I feel very strongly that she should NEVER have done that vault. I don’t care what medal was on the line, her health is more important
I know, I WATCHED MARYLOU RETTON IN THE '84 Olympics---! PERFECTION!I CRIED WHEN SHE STUCK THAT VAULT LANDING! SHE WAS THE BEST IN THOSE OLYMPICS IN '84!!!!! THE BEST! I MEAN, she should have been in this video, ABSOLUTELY!
I still can't watch that Kerri Strug vault. So tragic. I guess the Japanese (male) gymnast dismounting the rings with a fracture knee is just as horrible!!
I read that when done properly, hitting the bar with the hips doesn't hurt. Now, I don't know if that's true. I just read it. It certainly looks painful.
@@RebeccaTaylorTillery I have been in gymnastics many years through quitting years ago, I still stop by my original gym every Saturday due to the fact that my sister now coaches there. Every time after we get back from the gym we compare hip bruise’s the next day. Though when actually doing the skills it doesn’t really hurt all that bad, that’s only on the rare occasions the previous bruising healed. I remember when I actually took classes bars was ALWAYS my favorite. When the coach would stand by and watch my routine I remember after my pull over I went for a cast and when the impact of the bar got to me I slipped off due to the shock of the pain. There where many nights I would cry myself to sleep due to the pain of the sport. I was pushed to my breaking point by coaches my legs where always over stretched, my arms sore from the intense workouts, my hips and thighs bruised, my hands cut and bloody, though my mind was focused on my passion. I never really saw my own pain until I left the sport behind. Even if the coaches are kind the sport is extremely painful!! It’s also underrated how much strength it takes, mentally and psychically it’s truly difficult.
Do you mean the hip beats? I did those, and they don't hurt (though I suppose if the bars were set up wrong or something they would). The bar hits at the break between the leg and body (notvyhe hip bones), and your body just kind of wraps around the bar and springs back. It was actually pretty fun.
Gymnastics is the main sport I love to watch how it has got to be hard,I did it with my sister when I was young but was not flexible enough to do splits,my sister and I probably could have kept practicing but we loved doing dance lessons and dance recitals!
Kerry Shrug going through with her vault is a symptom of systematic abuse that these young girls went through to stay in the good graces of the U.S. Olympic Committe and abusive coaches. This is not heroic, spectacular, or great, it is a young girl with no voice and no choice.
Gymnasts competing with broken bones and other injuries is absolutely NOT greatest moment worthy. Prioritizing medals over an athlete's well-being leads to abuse, permanent career-ending injuries, eating disorders, psychological harm, and in some cases even death.
No Mary Lou Retton 1984 floor routine! That was powerful. I watched Keri Strugg live when this happened. I was so mad at Bela after her 1st fall. He kept saying you can do it Keri. That child was seriously hurt. The way she did that vault was nothing short if spectacular. I hated it happened. I was proud of her and heartbroken at the same time.
I WATCHED MARYLOU RETTON IN THOSE OLYMPICS! PERFECTION!I CRIED WHEN SHE STUCK THAT VAULT LANDING! SHE WAS THE BEST IN THOSE OLYMPICS IN '84!!!!! THE BEST! I MEAN, she should have been in this video, ABSOLUTELY!
I remember Kerry landing on one foot and at the time I thought it was so amazing in a good way. Now I just see a young woman forced to perform on a broken body. A classic gymnastics moment, but also sad.
Honestly, there's something disturbing about that fake smile at 0:16... The broken knee I don't even want to talk about...Imagine the amount of pain you're in breaking something and still trying to seem ok...man that's f'd up
I am very proud of Simone and all of our USA gymnasts also Dominique Moceanu and miss her but I am glad Dominique Moceanu is still trying that she has a gymnastics building to teach and I even have her book that she wrote in the past I haven't been able to read it all yet though but I do plan on it
Kerri Strug's performance in '96 still makes me cry; never knew she wasn't the first crazy gymnast to compete with a severe injury. Hats off to you, Mr. Fujimoto. I often wonder what routines would look like today if the women's parallel bars were still, you know, parallel.
When I saw it live, I knew I was seeing something so rare it's almost impossible --- HUMAN PERFECTION. To me it was a holy moment, a performance so difficult yet beautiful it was flawless. It was as if even seeing it, couldn't believe it. . . . . perfection.
It wash the perfection of its Assimetrical Movements and the perfect timing of its execution. Such wash Nadia's boom, that Artistic Gymnastic entered another Era
@@gabygaby5701 Rumors are that she training to be there. Besides, even if she isn't there, there's absolutely NO guarantee that anyone will be as good as her, let alone better. She is the best gymnast of all time and that isn't going to change for a very long time.
@@nogoodnameleft Nobody agrees with you. Nadia was good for her time, but Simone has created her own moves and one of the is a J level difficulty, a new classification made just for that one move. She "failed" in Tokyo (still earning medals) because of all the stress everyone put on her. She's the best and she didn't want to let anyone down, so she had to step down. That makes her a strong woman, not a fail in any way. Forgot to mention she is the most decorated gymnast of all time. She has more medals than any other male or female gymnast. Apparently, she is back in training and considering coming back for 2024, so f off with your unfounded insults.
This selection of top 5 is arguable, but misses one. In 1972, In 2 seconds on the uneven bars with her back flip, Olga Korbut changed the sport to spectacular. Everybody in the stadium knew it. A 10 pt score did not exist in 1972, but it should have. The judges almost got lynched. I know. I was there. I also saw Nadia in 76, Retton in LA, & Boginskaya in Barcelona (she had a rare grace). Nadia's 10s in Montreal were earned, but she was riding a wave started by Olga, and without the charm. For those who write that gymnastcs has gotten more difficult 50 yrs later,of course. Every sport evolves. But Olga's back flip to a spin-around the lower bar, and catching the upper bar - backwards, is illegal now, because it's too damn dangerous. Korbut changed the sport overnight.
I dream of being like you Simone you are my idol in the gymnastics world and I know it takes a lot of hard work to be as good as you are right now!!! :-)
@@Gymnast-J simone is literally the most decorated of ALL time. by that standard, shes better. thats like someone comparing lebron james and steph curry. lebron is better, but some people might just say steph cause they like him better which doesnt count. simone has the most gold medals of the two. therefore, shes better
for those of you who are saying that it makes you sick that "these coaches put medals over their athletes because they are competing with injuries" all I have to say that you probably are unfamiliar with chinese/japanese culture. they value honor more than anything, most of the times they would rather die than bring dishonor to their family and country. also, their mentality is so much different, they are tought from the young age to surpress emotions, pain especially. best example I can give you is when shaolin masters are breaking bricks with bare hands. the real purpose of doing this is not to show that you can break rocks (even though it's still very impressive). they do it with a pokerface infront of the public, sometimes with a scream to cover their pain, but they won't show it on their face. oh, they feel pain definitely. but for them that's the real mastery.
That McKayla's vault was the best ever! 16.233 is just not enough, duh! I give her 16.400 Fujimoto and Kerri Strug...what a fighter! They did what they gotta do...huge respect to them all.
1)Perfect 10 Nadia 2)Kerri Strug vault 3) Olga Korbut backflip off bar 4) Mary Lou perfect 10 vault Olympic gold 5) Magnificent 7 Olympic Gold Team Those are mine
Nadia comenechi is in the title of worlds best gymnast. She got 7 perfect 10’s in the olympics, no one till day has been able to beat her record. (This happened in 1960-70)
You know what? It's unbelievable that Kerri Strug won a gold medal for successfully performing her second vault with a broken ankle She got injured during her first one, but she had to perform the second one
She DID NOT, in fact, need the 2nd vault to win. She secured the top spot with her first vault. This was a crime, not a highlight. Not only did it end her entire career prematurely, it left her with lifelong issues preventing her from even completing a cartwheel after her abusive coach's sick bullying. He of course went on to enable the sexual abuse of the athletes in his "care". Bela is a devil.
I'm crying for Kerri Strug everytime I see that vault. I hate gymnastics for forcing people to perform while they're injured. I love gymnastics because of the seamingly impossible things mere humans can do. Like Biles, Like Comanechi.
Valeri Ljukin doing triple back on floor in 1987 Ri Jong song doing triple double on floor in 2004 Kenzo shirai triple double layout on floor 2016 Nakita nagorni triple back pike floor 2021 Bro what was that random rings routine from 1973. Sure he had a broken knee but there are so many better options
I'm old enouigh to remember watching Nadia Comaneci (sp?) get all those 10s at the '76 Montreal Olympics...even to my 8-year-old self that was jaw-dropping. I have no idea how people can do any of this shit, it's incredible.
Nadia’s performance was amazing but I don’t understand how she got a perfect 10 when she hopped a bit on landing and also looks like she accidentally hit her legs on the lower bar at 4:02. Those would both be deductions today
Yea, if you watch Nadia's complete performance it utterly blows everything else away. I'm glad you put it last in the video to allow the others to look impressive but when compared to what Nadia achieved they aren't anywhere near the same league. Perfect 10s on 5 events from a 14 year old? God-like.
On the one hand, I think it's wrong for coaches to allow their athletes to compete when theyre seriously injured (even if the athlete wants to), but on the other hand I get it. I severely sprained my ankle and broke my foot landing a jump wrong during a dance performance where I was one of the lead dancers. At first I thought I'd just rolled my ankle but then realized it hurt too much for that, but I went ahead and finished performing the piece anyway. It was the last song of the last time we'd be performing for that season so I wanted to see it through. I could barely walk afterwards and was in a lot of pain, but I'd still do the same thing if I had to do it over again.
I'm surprised by the comments about injuries and athletes being "forced" to compete because of their coaches. Have NONE of you EVER dedicated your entire life to a passion whose pinnacle is literally just a moment of time? Do you understand the amount of dedication gymnastics takes, the number of hours, the bruises in training? From the outside, it may seem harsh, but if you're in that world - the Olympics are everything. And it's over in the blink of an eye. I hope you find that kind of joy in your lives; these athletes did - injury or no. They will be remembered for their achievements; can you say the same?
Ahhh the uneven bars - I’m old enough to remember when they were called Asymmetric bars ( a change as unnecessary as celebrating competing injured as some sort of heroism )
I broke my knee cap into 100 pieces in a car accident in 2010. The idea of competing makes me sick to my stomach. The amount of pain that man must of been in. My god….
@@aparna169 she was badly hurt, but her coaches forced her to continue on regardless. It’s why she landed on one foot and immediately collapsed. She wasn’t able to perform in the rest of the competitions after that
@@kevinthunder3375 Scottie Pippen was a grown adult at the time. Kerri was a 16 year old girl who was training under coaches who physically and psychologically abused their gymnasts and were complicit in the abuse these girls suffered under Larry Nassar.
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I have no fucking idea how I ended up here.
But I was invested. I didn't think you could top those two dismount injured landings. But the 4 golds and the perfect ten were pretty fucking awesome too. So I have to give it by default to the first bird.
Can you tell me the name of the music? I am a skater and would love to practice to it.
I do not agree with 'greatest moments' list. Gymnasts competing while seriously injured (yes broken bones in your legs are serious injuries!) is indicative of how broken and abusive gymnastics has been. It's not something to be celebrated. These are teenagers.
I do really enjoy watching it,I did gymnastics when I was really young with my sister but we weren't flexible enough but we did dance lessons and dance recitals together and I miss doing both gymnastics and dance even colorguard in high school...I was also taught before 6th grade to play the flute and enjoyed playing the flute and still play it once in awhile how I am 38 years old!
Disturbing video.
Really wish the incidents where gymnasts are competing injured weren’t included. It’s wrong they were expected to and shame on USA and Japan gymnastics for pressuring them to perform while hurt. It’s time we started caring about the gymnasts and not forcing this on them when they are injured.
I 100% agree!
Agree, we should not be glorifying this!
yeah, those aren't great they're dangerous
@@AnywhereChrista I think encouraging is the more appropriate word.
The ironic thing is that Keri Strugg didn't have to do it again to win gold. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but the USA would have still won gold without her doing the vault again. It had something to do with the point system.
The competitors competing with broken feet or knees just makes me sick
why
@@luciamangena because they were most likely forced to perform
Agreed. They shouldn’t have been pressured to compete with injuries that bad.
I don’t think the injuries were that bad if they let them compete so either this is exagerrating or those gymnasts are crazy risking permanent injury
@@paradiseb5950 Athletes are often forced to compete with bad injuries.
It's so crazy to see how difficult the routines are today, compared to the 70's. Makes me think about what the expectation will be 20 years from now.
Yea I was thinking about the moves that are now banned … probably for good reason
Routines are difficult today? Then why did they ban the 70s and 80s moves and not today's?
It's the other way around. Many routines from the 70's have been banned today because of their difficulty and danger.
70s routines where far more graceful ..the equipment very basic so the gymnasts had to rely on there skill alone..Nadia Comaneci was 14 when she scored the worlds first 10.. No gymnast is even allowed to compete at 14 anymore 70s gymnasts where do joy to watch
@@nicolataylor6011 Todays gymnasts arent relying on their skills but they were in the 70s? That doesnt make sense when gymnasts today are performing skills that are unquestionably more difficult. Is a 10 as impressive when its skills that are kid shit by today's standards? I dont think so. Its certainly not the most impressive moment in gymnastics history. Nadia would lose to literally any elite gymnast in the last 30 or 40 years- and there are plenty of extremely graceful gymnasts still. Also, I dont find belly beats graceful. Everytime she slammed into the bar with her hips, I cringed. It used to routinely result in bruising & often knocked the wind out of gymnasts if not positioned correctly. Also Teodora Ungureanu did a way more graceful and creative bars routine back in the 70s- Nadia was overscored in my opinion.
The uneven bars in the 70s were so much closer than they are today. Pulling them apart means that gymnasts can do so much more, but it also drastically increased the difficulty and expectations, as well as the potential for injuries.
🤦♂️ girls were being injured from certain moves that flung their pelvises against a bar. Some were rendered incapable of having children. Which is worse??
lolz
@@dbrelreally?
that's why routines look so different nowadays... it's actually less dangerous. some claim elegance has been lost, but I am sure that is a price worth paying for athletes' health@@karyndewit193
Nadia’s first ever perfect ten is seared into my brain. I left school that year and almost every girl wanted to be like her. 😊
The one foot landing of kerri strut is a prime example of sports losing its way. Knowling sacrificing your body for a piece of medal. It should not be glorified We should be mortified that coaches and the sport would sacrifice young girls body . People over medals
💯 agree with you
Back many decades ago, athletes in many a sport would still compete with broken legs and broken arms still healing. Especially in hockey and football.
And there was no safe space for them to go to!
What’s even worse is that the USA did not need Strugg’s score to win team gold. They already won with Moceanu’s sit-down vault. - SO terrible that she vaulted while injured. Not a gymnastics highlight for me.
You pathetic weaklings are exactly what's wrong with sports in the US.
Her foot was broken on that event? Well boo-hoo. Now guess what... it healed just fine and the entire world has the immortal moment in Olympic history. She wouldn't change a single thing. But sheep like you people would. *-SMH*
but at the same time its the olympics and you wouldnt want all of your work to go to waiste
athletes competing with injuries is not a highlight in gymnastics history, it makes me sick that these coaches put medals over their athletes.
I agree but I’m guessing they chose to
@@erinhoyer9541 oh okay, well that sucks then
Seriously, I turned it off when I saw that. Disgusting how we treat these events.
my thoughts exactly. Normalize athletes saying "No, it's not safe, a competition is not worth it" and allow them to do so without penality or retribution
I doubt they would stop even if the Coach tried to stop them...
They aren't there to make you feel comfortable, but to compete at something they worked very hard for...
They forgot the monumental flip o Olga Korbut's on the un-even bars. The next day at the gym in 1972, everyone was saying, "Did you see the Olga Korbut show last night?"
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Forcing injured athletes to compete and ruining their careers is not a "Greatest Moment" it's some of the worst.
Who said they were forced? A lot of athletes train their entire lives and forego a social life and all their hard work leads up to the Olympics. I could absolutely see wanting to still compete because it might be your last opportunity.
It's obvious you never competed at a high level. Never let an injury hold you back.
Yeah but most want to and Manis if she hadn’t stuck that she would not be as good
That’s bc you don’t have the heart nor are a athlete you would never understand
Love Nadia's swan dive dismount.
The ironic thing is that Keri Strugg didn't have to do it again to win gold. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but the USA would have still won gold without her doing the vault again. It had something to do with the point system.
It's sad how much pressure and stress they are put under, as well as the pressure they put on themselves.
im pretty sure she did. she fell on the first attempt and the lower score wouldve been counted. but i feel like i saw in some documentary somewhere that she didnt have to
I don't think they knew it at the time. I'm sure with Russia on the floor at the time, they weren't mathematically sure if Kerri's vault was needed or not.
Yeah someone from Russia fell a couple times and another stepped way out of bounds, so she wouldn’t have had to go again because they could have counted a fall and still won, but they didn’t know that when they were vaulting, so it was possible that they would have had to. That said, I feel very strongly that she should NEVER have done that vault. I don’t care what medal was on the line, her health is more important
@@allison2287 actually they did know that her second vault wasn't necessary. They knew they had the points to win without the second vault.
I don't know, they say she had to there: ua-cam.com/video/O4um3YEX51k/v-deo.html
I don't think athletes performing hurt should be remembered as "best" moments. It shouldn't be something to admire :(
Absolutely it should
OMG the last clip, proper Jedi ninja style 👌🏽
Oh, Nadia! 🥹 I still tear up seeing that 10. How well I remember it. ❤️
How does this not have Olga Korbut's performance from 1972? Best of all. Shaped the world of Gymnastics
I know, I WATCHED MARYLOU RETTON IN THE '84 Olympics---! PERFECTION!I CRIED WHEN SHE STUCK THAT VAULT LANDING! SHE WAS THE BEST IN THOSE OLYMPICS IN '84!!!!! THE BEST! I MEAN, she should have been in this video, ABSOLUTELY!
Olga Korbut’s 1972 performance - the most impressive performance ever, in my opinion - to this day
I still can't watch that Kerri Strug vault. So tragic. I guess the Japanese (male) gymnast dismounting the rings with a fracture knee is just as horrible!!
Whenever I watch Nadia's perfect routine, I can't help but wince, it looks like it hurts.
Karolyi was her coach and he was abusive as hell, so yeah I’d bet a ton of money that her routines were unbearably painful.
I read that when done properly, hitting the bar with the hips doesn't hurt. Now, I don't know if that's true. I just read it. It certainly looks painful.
@@RebeccaTaylorTillery I have been in gymnastics many years through quitting years ago, I still stop by my original gym every Saturday due to the fact that my sister now coaches there. Every time after we get back from the gym we compare hip bruise’s the next day. Though when actually doing the skills it doesn’t really hurt all that bad, that’s only on the rare occasions the previous bruising healed. I remember when I actually took classes bars was ALWAYS my favorite. When the coach would stand by and watch my routine I remember after my pull over I went for a cast and when the impact of the bar got to me I slipped off due to the shock of the pain. There where many nights I would cry myself to sleep due to the pain of the sport. I was pushed to my breaking point by coaches my legs where always over stretched, my arms sore from the intense workouts, my hips and thighs bruised, my hands cut and bloody, though my mind was focused on my passion. I never really saw my own pain until I left the sport behind. Even if the coaches are kind the sport is extremely painful!! It’s also underrated how much strength it takes, mentally and psychically it’s truly difficult.
Do you mean the hip beats? I did those, and they don't hurt (though I suppose if the bars were set up wrong or something they would). The bar hits at the break between the leg and body (notvyhe hip bones), and your body just kind of wraps around the bar and springs back. It was actually pretty fun.
I don't remember hip beats hurting at all. Tearing calluses off your palms is another story. My grips had a blood stain.
Gymnastics is the main sport I love to watch how it has got to be hard,I did it with my sister when I was young but was not flexible enough to do splits,my sister and I probably could have kept practicing but we loved doing dance lessons and dance recitals!
the background music is extremely unnecessary
Ikr
Instrumental numa numa? 😆
All the gymnasts in this compilation are badasses✊🏼🔥
The last one looked so satisfying!!!
Kerry Shrug going through with her vault is a symptom of systematic abuse that these young girls went through to stay in the good graces of the U.S. Olympic Committe and abusive coaches. This is not heroic, spectacular, or great, it is a young girl with no voice and no choice.
What they did to Kerrie Strug was messed up, no self respecting coach would ever let their athlete compete injured.
Gymnasts competing with broken bones and other injuries is absolutely NOT greatest moment worthy. Prioritizing medals over an athlete's well-being leads to abuse, permanent career-ending injuries, eating disorders, psychological harm, and in some cases even death.
No Mary Lou Retton 1984 floor routine! That was powerful. I watched Keri Strugg live when this happened. I was so mad at Bela after her 1st fall. He kept saying you can do it Keri. That child was seriously hurt. The way she did that vault was nothing short if spectacular. I hated it happened. I was proud of her and heartbroken at the same time.
I WATCHED MARYLOU RETTON IN THOSE OLYMPICS! PERFECTION!I CRIED WHEN SHE STUCK THAT VAULT LANDING! SHE WAS THE BEST IN THOSE OLYMPICS IN '84!!!!! THE BEST! I MEAN, she should have been in this video, ABSOLUTELY!
I remember Kerry landing on one foot and at the time I thought it was so amazing in a good way. Now I just see a young woman forced to perform on a broken body. A classic gymnastics moment, but also sad.
Honestly, there's something disturbing about that fake smile at 0:16...
The broken knee I don't even want to talk about...Imagine the amount of pain you're in breaking something and still trying to seem ok...man that's f'd up
I'm sorry, but to leave out the astounding uneven bars performance by Olga Korbut is criminal! It was so good and unique that it had to be banned!!
I'm from New Zealand watching the US Olympic gymnastics team just breaks my heart now 😭
I am very proud of Simone and all of our USA gymnasts also Dominique Moceanu and miss her but I am glad Dominique Moceanu is still trying that she has a gymnastics building to teach and I even have her book that she wrote in the past I haven't been able to read it all yet though but I do plan on it
Kerri Strug's performance in '96 still makes me cry; never knew she wasn't the first crazy gymnast to compete with a severe injury. Hats off to you, Mr. Fujimoto. I often wonder what routines would look like today if the women's parallel bars were still, you know, parallel.
Same. I'm literally crying as I type!
What a psychotic take. Shame on you.
Wow they are all so good
Incredible Olympic and World History!
I loved Nadia Comaneci I remember watching her get the first ever perfect “ten”!❤❤
When I saw it live, I knew I was seeing something so rare it's almost impossible --- HUMAN PERFECTION. To me it was a holy moment, a performance so difficult yet beautiful it was flawless.
It was as if even seeing it, couldn't believe it. . . . . perfection.
After training for so many years, giving up most of their childhood, these athletes would definitely compete injured
I always wondered how Nadia got a perfect 10 when she did a small hop on the landing.
It wash the perfection of its Assimetrical Movements and the perfect timing of its execution.
Such wash Nadia's boom, that Artistic Gymnastic entered another Era
@@texmexmorales6027 but she still did a small hop too.
Ok really
Because they threw out the high and low scores. So the threw out a 9.95 and a 10 and that left two 10s.
@@pebs65 Should have all been 9.975s.
Simone Biles is literally the greatest of all time.
Only when she can use her doping!
Wait to the next games…
@@gabygaby5701 Rumors are that she training to be there. Besides, even if she isn't there, there's absolutely NO guarantee that anyone will be as good as her, let alone better. She is the best gymnast of all time and that isn't going to change for a very long time.
@@nogoodnameleft Nobody agrees with you. Nadia was good for her time, but Simone has created her own moves and one of the is a J level difficulty, a new classification made just for that one move. She "failed" in Tokyo (still earning medals) because of all the stress everyone put on her. She's the best and she didn't want to let anyone down, so she had to step down. That makes her a strong woman, not a fail in any way. Forgot to mention she is the most decorated gymnast of all time. She has more medals than any other male or female gymnast. Apparently, she is back in training and considering coming back for 2024, so f off with your unfounded insults.
no, Nadia, Olga and Vera
Number 1 should’ve been Olga Korbut’s uneven bar routine at the ‘72 Munich Olympics.
TIED WITH MARY LOU RETTON"S UNREAL VAULT THAT WON US THE GOLD in '84 ~~~!!!!!
This selection of top 5 is arguable, but misses one. In 1972, In 2 seconds on the uneven bars with her back flip, Olga Korbut changed the sport to spectacular. Everybody in the stadium knew it. A 10 pt score did not exist in 1972, but it should have. The judges almost got lynched. I know. I was there. I also saw Nadia in 76, Retton in LA, & Boginskaya in Barcelona (she had a rare grace). Nadia's 10s in Montreal were earned, but she was riding a wave started by Olga, and without the charm.
For those who write that gymnastcs has gotten more difficult 50 yrs later,of course. Every sport evolves. But Olga's back flip to a spin-around the lower bar, and catching the upper bar - backwards, is illegal now, because it's too damn dangerous.
Korbut changed the sport overnight.
Olga deve avere i suoi meriti. Nadia invece era praticamente perfetta, aveva un ritmo diverso un flow magico.
Such a shame Biles had to drop out this year. I hope we'll get to see her fly again.
I dream of being like you Simone you are my idol in the gymnastics world and I know it takes a lot of hard work to be as good as you are right now!!! :-)
No one will ever be so good as Nadia. 😎
love this comment.
Biles is way better. She's like an angel compared to Nadia who moves like a regular human.
@@lt2672 They are both beautiful in their own ways. Nadia moves gracefully while Simone moves powerful. No offense
@@lt2672 Nadia Comaneci and Olga Korbut....then Biles.
@@Gymnast-J simone is literally the most decorated of ALL time. by that standard, shes better. thats like someone comparing lebron james and steph curry. lebron is better, but some people might just say steph cause they like him better which doesnt count. simone has the most gold medals of the two. therefore, shes better
Brazil winning gold for the first time is definitely one of the greatest moments!
I saw all of these! Incredible!!
for those of you who are saying that it makes you sick that "these coaches put medals over their athletes because they are competing with injuries" all I have to say that you probably are unfamiliar with chinese/japanese culture. they value honor more than anything, most of the times they would rather die than bring dishonor to their family and country. also, their mentality is so much different, they are tought from the young age to surpress emotions, pain especially. best example I can give you is when shaolin masters are breaking bricks with bare hands. the real purpose of doing this is not to show that you can break rocks (even though it's still very impressive). they do it with a pokerface infront of the public, sometimes with a scream to cover their pain, but they won't show it on their face. oh, they feel pain definitely. but for them that's the real mastery.
Having athletes compete while injured should see the whole team disqualified, they’d never do it again.
On one foot?!?!? Incredible
Thank you for #4 and #1.
Yelena Mukhina the best of the word.. R.I.P 2022
I’m in tears watching these gymnasts in pain 💔😔
A huge fan of gymnastics, I'm a gymnast grandparent
I was wondering if Fujimoto’s rings would be in here. Great job picking it Amazing he was able to do that
WOW Nadia is the best gymnastics 🤸♀️
Super respect to these athletes from me 🫡
That McKayla's vault was the best ever! 16.233 is just not enough, duh! I give her 16.400
Fujimoto and Kerri Strug...what a fighter! They did what they gotta do...huge respect to them all.
1)Perfect 10 Nadia
2)Kerri Strug vault
3) Olga Korbut backflip off bar
4) Mary Lou perfect 10 vault Olympic gold
5) Magnificent 7 Olympic Gold Team
Those are mine
Nadia is the best gymnastics athlete that ever lived. No one else comes close
Nadia comenechi is in the title of worlds best gymnast. She got 7 perfect 10’s in the olympics, no one till day has been able to beat her record. (This happened in 1960-70)
It actually happened in the late 70s
1976 i watched it I was 12
Este Nadia Comăneci, nu "comenechi" ! De ce îi pociți numele?
I think that every gymnast knows Nadia Comanechi bars routine by heart
their jumps are amazing👋
Makayla was not 26. 😂 she still isn’t
kerri strugs one footed vault and mckaylas perfect vault are core memories that altered my brain chemistry
And I really think I do something with my half handstands 😳😳😐😐😐
Kerri said in an interview it was her choice to do the 2nd vault.
Knowing she was injured. To bring home the gold medal for her team
I still cry to this day. Keri stuck it with 1 leg. One leg!!
You know what? It's unbelievable that Kerri Strug won a gold medal for successfully performing her second vault with a broken ankle
She got injured during her first one, but she had to perform the second one
She DID NOT, in fact, need the 2nd vault to win. She secured the top spot with her first vault. This was a crime, not a highlight. Not only did it end her entire career prematurely, it left her with lifelong issues preventing her from even completing a cartwheel after her abusive coach's sick bullying. He of course went on to enable the sexual abuse of the athletes in his "care". Bela is a devil.
I'm crying for Kerri Strug everytime I see that vault. I hate gymnastics for forcing people to perform while they're injured. I love gymnastics because of the seamingly impossible things mere humans can do. Like Biles, Like Comanechi.
Valeri Ljukin doing triple back on floor in 1987
Ri Jong song doing triple double on floor in 2004
Kenzo shirai triple double layout on floor 2016
Nakita nagorni triple back pike floor 2021
Bro what was that random rings routine from 1973. Sure he had a broken knee but there are so many better options
One foot landing moment....no one will ever beat that
olga korbut needs to be in this smh
Biles be some secret super-heroine she next level i heard she can fly
I am from romania 🇷🇴 like Nadia Comaneci
I wonder why Mary Lou Retton wasn’t included in this she was amazing
Hi! Thanks for your comment! Mary Lou Retton is included in the part 2! Check it out here: ua-cam.com/video/d2PhyHFpCXY/v-deo.html :)
Simone you’re my biggest idol
I cant even do a cartwheel sheesh
Lol 😂 same
Same
Ha jokes on you!
What about Olga Korbut???? Have u seen those fantastic presentation???
Would help if the on-screen advertisement wasn't blocking half of the vault...
McKyla Maroney is not 26 here, she was 16.
I'm old enouigh to remember watching Nadia Comaneci (sp?) get all those 10s at the '76 Montreal Olympics...even to my 8-year-old self that was jaw-dropping. I have no idea how people can do any of this shit, it's incredible.
Nadia’s performance was amazing but I don’t understand how she got a perfect 10 when she hopped a bit on landing and also looks like she accidentally hit her legs on the lower bar at 4:02. Those would both be deductions today
Yea, if you watch Nadia's complete performance it utterly blows everything else away. I'm glad you put it last in the video to allow the others to look impressive but when compared to what Nadia achieved they aren't anywhere near the same league. Perfect 10s on 5 events from a 14 year old? God-like.
On the one hand, I think it's wrong for coaches to allow their athletes to compete when theyre seriously injured (even if the athlete wants to), but on the other hand I get it. I severely sprained my ankle and broke my foot landing a jump wrong during a dance performance where I was one of the lead dancers. At first I thought I'd just rolled my ankle but then realized it hurt too much for that, but I went ahead and finished performing the piece anyway. It was the last song of the last time we'd be performing for that season so I wanted to see it through. I could barely walk afterwards and was in a lot of pain, but I'd still do the same thing if I had to do it over again.
I’m still not sure how Nadia got a perfect 10 when she didn’t stick the landing ? Was that just not a thing then?
She didn’t hop… she re-posed to present herself and complete the exercise
She hopped on most I think and still got 10s. I think it was just the times.
I'm surprised by the comments about injuries and athletes being "forced" to compete because of their coaches. Have NONE of you EVER dedicated your entire life to a passion whose pinnacle is literally just a moment of time? Do you understand the amount of dedication gymnastics takes, the number of hours, the bruises in training? From the outside, it may seem harsh, but if you're in that world - the Olympics are everything. And it's over in the blink of an eye. I hope you find that kind of joy in your lives; these athletes did - injury or no. They will be remembered for their achievements; can you say the same?
How about Vitaly Scherbo's 6 Gold medals at the 1992 Barcelona games or Aleksandr Dityatin's 8 medals at the 1980 Moscow games? 😳
Impressive.
I'm convinced of all sports in the world gymnast are the best natural athletes .
Will never forget Nadia 😊
I remember Strug’s vault from the Atlanta games, vividly. The thing was though, USA would have won anyway after Moceanu’s vault
ooh but if the forward roll I did yday in the park was caught on camera
What is the point of the music. Can barely hear commentary!
Amazing . Inside and out 😊
You my favorite gimnastic 🎉
Did anyone else notice that they said McKayla was 26 years old? She was not 26 years old.
Ahhh the uneven bars - I’m old enough to remember when they were called Asymmetric bars
( a change as unnecessary as celebrating competing injured as some sort of heroism )
I broke my knee cap into 100 pieces in a car accident in 2010. The idea of competing makes me sick to my stomach. The amount of pain that man must of been in. My god….
why was the announcer saying mckayla was 26 in that video when she is only 26 this year. dude added ten years to her age.
The story of Nadia is so sad
NO. Stop using the Kerri Strug clips.
Why?
@@aparna169 she was badly hurt, but her coaches forced her to continue on regardless. It’s why she landed on one foot and immediately collapsed. She wasn’t able to perform in the rest of the competitions after that
@@CC-iq9qs still one of the greatest moments. Scottie Pippin once played with a broken hip in the NBA finals though he was not forced, I don't think.
@@kevinthunder3375 good for him but Kerri was forced. This is not a great moment. This is abuse.
@@kevinthunder3375 Scottie Pippen was a grown adult at the time. Kerri was a 16 year old girl who was training under coaches who physically and psychologically abused their gymnasts and were complicit in the abuse these girls suffered under Larry Nassar.