Gymnastics in the 1970s was INSANE!
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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The Gymnastics world was a different one when Olga Korbut, Karin Janz and Ilona Bekesi performed at Munich 1972.
Check out the women's uneven bars highlights from the Munich Games and relive some truly special Olympic memories with us!
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Even if Sesame Street Gymnast Deborah Eich-Romer from New York State joined the Olympics starting in 1972 to 1984 might make her famous winning gold.
I agree. It's rather boring now.
what made it really insane was USSR system that destroyed the best gymnast in history E. Mukhina
Pero mira esa perfección y belleza. Ahora cualquier cosa mal hecha le dan 10 "biles".
Que riza dan los jueces de hoy mientras la biles comete errores le dan 10 y si otra gimnasia comete el más mínimo error o los mismos errores de la biles la penalizan.
They are all so different from one another, so unique
Exactly. I miss that
This almost looks like a different sport in comparison to today! This must have been mind-blowing 🤯 to see in real life!!
I remember watching these as a kid.
Everything in the 70's was INSANE!😁
There was never anybody, male or female, who was better on the uneven bars than Olga Korbut. She was just incredible.
Elena Mukhina
That was so much more interesting than what we see nowadays ngl.
Más bonitas que las de hoy. Más dinámicas, parecen pajaritos balanceándose de una barra a la otra 😊
So basically gymnasts threw their bodies against the bars more back then
Simplrmente grandiosas
so much elegance in the female gymnasts back then! female gymnasts look very masculine these days, and grace is a lost skill in ARTISTIC gymnastics
Many 0f them R not biological fe-male.
Olga was the revolution, the BEST ever, so far ahead of her time.
,,,,, true - Gold for Korbut.
IMO Olga Korbut is the GOAT on uneven parallel bars. I mean, c'mon. Daredevil moves and a 100% cleanly executed routine with a rock solid dismount. Dang.
@@5Gburn truly amazing moves. Too bad, the judges didn't like it.
only that janz got gold
i agree
It all went downhill when people started to care about their vital organs and bones 😂
This is crazy but also so impressive!! These women literally were flying
also, their leotards are cut so as to not make them look like pole dancers.
Yep.
Gymnastics was more insane and dangerous, but for me it was more beautiful in 1970s
So much of it looks so unintentional…haphazard
Agreed. They've lost the artistic part and it's become pretty boring.
Yes, watching clean performances
Charm goes away seeing single injury caused by banned elements, beauty is not worth trying f.e. thomas salto
SUPER WOMENS
Agree
I wish that Karin Janz and Olga Korbut could have both gotten gold medals. Both routines were insane.
I enjoyed gymnastics more back then. It was more artistic, graceful and elegant. Today's gymnasts are amazing with their power and athleticism but something's missing. The choreography is often lousy and if they're not performing a tumbling-type move it's often sloppy and jerky, not smooth. I think part of it is gymnasts of that era were well-trained in ballet as well as gymnastics and their routines were more "dance-like." Jmho
after the jury gave 9.80 to Olga Korbut,
the audience protested the jury over 5 minutes
because she was perfect - 10
I miss that every routine was so different. Now, they all look the same. It’s not what I grew up loving.
Karin Janz 🤯 So difficult and elegant at the same time.
So much more creative and artistic than what we have now with all these cookie cutter routines.
I feel like today everybody does the same routine.
The focus seems to be on collecting points solely, no care for individuality and creativity
Yeah I was blown away seeing the creativity in rhythmic gymnastics
Exactly, it’s boring to watch today.
That was such a great era for unique bar routines
I'm sorry, but these routines are so much better than the robotic ones of today. Simone Biles is amazing.....but she lacks the grace of the previous generations.
I think the last graceful group was the 1996 games in Atlanta.
And the previous generation lacks her athleticism. Stop comparing, different times.
Biles is not biological fe-male. Wake up
@@jacobmiller2663 comparison is how events are judged.
Gymnastics was much more interesting, creative and elegant than now.
The 1972 Olympics is where women's gymnastics changed forever. Before then the focus was predominantly on artistry and grace, but these Olympics made women's gymnastics more acrobatic and turned it into the daredevil sport we know it as now.
Yes now they might be perfect executing routines and exercises, but gymnastics has lost all grace and beauty.❤
What happened in '72?
@@MereCashmere Olga Korbut happened. It is really that simple.
@@jondavwal13 I'm not sure I understand, people are saying this event and gymnastics in general changed for the worst here, and that they wish Olga's style persevered, but It didn't. You're saying she's responsible for gymnastics changing for the worst despite being the GOAT?
@@MereCashmere Nobody is saying that. Gymnastics changed in 1972. Korbut was the change and she is the birth of modern gymnastics. Her style did persevere. But she was transitional. Go look at videos from 1968 if you want to understand better. Those who talk about artistry don’t understand sport. Gymnastics was hardly a sport pre-Korbut. You really don’t understand anything about gymnastics.
Olga’s performance was insane ❤️
Indeed.
Their dismounts are perfection ❤
They fly
I could watch this all day. Uneven bars were far more entertaining back then. Not that I want young athletes to be put in danger, which they undoubtably were.
Especially with the fact they just landed on a basic pad, instead of a several layers thick super soft padding to land on. Much safer to make a mistake today.
No wonder I loved it so much more back then. These are the gymnastics I grew up watching. It's changed so gradually that I didn't quite remember why it felt so much more exciting and interesting back then. Now I see why.
My sentiments exactly 💯
You just clarified it for me 😊
Never enjoyed watching any Gymnast as much as Olga Korbut and Nadia Comaneci.
Gymnastics is a Wonderful watch, there are so many brilliant talents - so skilled and committed and well done all ❤ BUT never feel the same as when I watch those two elegant charismatic girls!
They'll always be untouchable 🤸🏼♀️🤸🏼♀️🩷🩷
It's just the way it is 🤷🏼♀️
That’s it exactly. I was thinking it was just nostalgia taking, but after seeing all this footage I quickly realized that women’s gymnastics is nothing like what it used to be.
The sport has changed. They don’t do all this stuff on uneven bars anymore.
Some interesting moves on bars I have not seen in a long time. And graceful dismounts.
They are mostly forbidden nowadays. And the uneven bars is dead no anyway, as they have moved the bars so far apart, that the special movements that made it so beautiful are not possible anymore.
@@endlessstudent3512 the uneven bars are strange to start with. Men often have larger hands than women but the suve of the uneven bars is bigger around than the bar used for men. Making the bars further apart was, I think, done under the assumption that women are taller now but not most of the gymnists we see use them.
Last time a video of this was uploaded, I said it was impressive compared to now, and someone replied saying it was to make it safer. But it’s not just safety is it? There’s a lot more innovation and creativity back then even if you take out the most dangerous bits, and you could do those now. But when you watch it now, you only really need to see one performer on the bars to get pretty much all of what you’re going to see. And that’s pretty unfortunate.
All of gymnastics has definitely shifted so the focus is less on grace and perhaps imagination and more on power and athleticism. The strength and power todays elite gymnasts poses is absolutely amazing, (the skills they can pull off are mind blowing,) but the grace and imagination was arguably more fun to watch.
I agree with you.
@vinoandkittens9552 Which is unfortunate since it seems to be a definite move by America to push the odds in their favor.
@@toastedt140what is that supposed to mean? Power and athleticism are not American traits. Anyone from anywhere can be powerful and athletic. Grace and creativity aren't absent in America either.
Ignant much? Or,just 💩🧠@@toastedt140
Вот это была настоящая гимнастика!
А сейчас толстые девчонки в пошлых купальниках виляют задом и постоянно поправляют трусы,которые сшили так,как будто им не хватило материала.
, 💯🎯! It was artistry then.
Toda la razón, Natalia.
I love Simon Biles but she is NOT the GOAT. These woman are just better. Olga wow. The gymnastics where at a higher level back then.
I'm sorry but olga should have gotten a 10 for that routine.
More exciting to watch than todays routine. It's becoming too monotonous and appears shorter than the 70s
i love the Commenci.. i think that's the somersault between the bars.
Wow! That's some of the coolest bar work I've ever seen. I just don't see things like that now.
That’s because constantly hitting the bar with their hips like that caused issues with fertility down the line. Modern gymnastics is much safer and leaves athletes with a life after their sport :)
OLGA FUE EL GRAN BELLO ANGEL DE LA GIMNACIA SIN MUTILAR ( NO DE LA NUEVA ) Y ESE PAJARO AUN VIVE .. Grs.
bars are much closer. the widening of the bars was to increase creativity but yet the routines are so mundane.
@@emilyvickery8081 widening of the bars was to increase fluidity!
@@halodeer Looking at American gymnasts today, apart from a few who don't have extreme stunted growth and obvious hormonal imbalances, I don't see how you figure they'd have less issues with fertility. I'd be surprised if any even get a period at all.
0:33 That dismount 😍
whole performance is also the best in my opinion, even better than Korbut
@@grzywi19mas elegante pero no mejor. Solo se la ve arriesgarse en un truco. La de korbut es alucinante de principio a fin
Insane !!!
She won the gold medal in the Olympics 72'
I repeated it over and over. Never seen anything like it! All these routines are so compelling to watch and so different from each other
These are gold medal preformances. Not what we are seeing now. The gynmasts now are constrained by health and safety so they cant be artistically present during their performances. This is why simone is so big because standard basic moves then are now classed as something special now. Maybe 1 or 2 moves. Speed, power, accuracy, and high difficulties level of difficulty was NORMAL then. Look at the gold medal preformance this year and compare it to this. The gold medal level bar has been set very low.
I can't get over bar routines in 70s compared to now. So very different. Wat a huge change in 25/30 years.
50 years...
More elegant.
@@Dopamint sssshhhh…. 😅
It's boring now
@@cha9165 What! It's actually more exciting now 😂 they moved them further apart so now it's more intense.
Back when creativity and technique was important, as opposed to raw strength for points.
Korbut and Comaneci are probably the best and most mainstream from that era. As said by myself who knows nothing about gymnastics. But they all seemed incredibly creative back then. Like the stuff Goreac or Janz were doing too. All beautiful to watch.
Actually crazy legit seems so inhuman 🤯
Great video… not having to hear commentary, just taking in the atmosphere … and the beautiful, elegant maneuvers of these young ladies …. This is really quite moving …. 😭… thank you…
I agree. I find the commentators to be redundant and unnecessary
I would like to see today some of those twists like Tourischeva's ang Goreac's. And all those dismounts... and moves... Wow!
I would too, I am curious if those are still allowed, just not done anymore, or what?
@@ksol1460tv Turischeva was amazing....
Wow this is so much better than what they do today - so much style & personalization to their moves.. today it's like everyone does 95% of the same moves, it's just a matter of "who does it better" 😒
Back when uneven bars had more variety and diversity. Today it's the most boring and stressful apparatus. You can no longer touch any part of the beam with you legs or torso. I'd just focus on winning medals for the beam, vault and floor alone and let the other gymnasts take the bars.
Gymnastics back then were challenging, creative, and fun. Nowadays it's all the same, very boring, indeed.
Loved Korbut.....but Turischeva was so elegant and polished. But Korbut really opened up gymnastics 2 the world.
I’m this days all the routines looks the same, back then were so unique. ❤
0:08 Karin Janz. East Germany
0:45 Olga Korbut. Soviet Union
1:20 Erika Zuchold. East Germany
1:48 Lyudmila Turischeva. Soviet Union
2:22 Ilona Bekesi. Hungary
2:45 Angelika Hellmann, East Germany
3:04 Alina Goreac. Romania
,,,,, Korbut - Gold, no questions.
,,,, Janz won only because of politics - fact.
I dont know. I think Janz was incredible. I use to see shorts only with Olga Korbut and I've always thought she was genius. But to see several diamonds in a row that's just incredible.Their trio Janz, Korbut and Turischeva is impossible to judge. I bet none of the judges did anything similar in their sports career or maybe even just saw other competitors being that crazy and creative. All three of them are one head better than all other contestants. They were all stunningly perfect. To me all three of them deserve three golds 🏅
@@АлександраНиколаева-ь2ь Turischeva is underrated due her name (hard to memorize).
socialist countries owned west physically and intellectually by winning olympics and math and physics olympics
Korbut is a delight!!!
Definitely more complicated than today .
Olga was the GOAT who is never mentioned. I wonder why gymnastics in the 70s was so treacherous. Olga's uneven bar routine was a white unicorn performance in the sport. It will definitely never be repeated again. Anyone could have easily died from a performance. There was a gymnast that actually died doing vault, but that was in the 90s.
They still could. One wrong move and you land on you neck etc you won’t be moving much longer. They are highly trained since toddlers so this rarely happens. Stupid when it does the move gets banned. You risk doing the sport but no one can take the ( extremely rare ) consequences.
I love it when people parrot a well established internet myth that has absolutely no truth behind it, while being fully convicted of its truth. 🙄
she was the literal first inductee into the gymnast hall of fame. 'never mentioned' is a big stretch. her bar routine has 35m views, making it the most viewed bar routine of the olympics channel. comanecis 10 has half as many views. olgas beam routine is the second most watched beam routine at 15m views etc.
Agree
@@-corvinmost watched doesn't mean anything
Wow it’s not only Olga Korbut. They’re actually all incredible. Best time for gymnastics.
Completly different bodies to many of the modern athletes that are heavier and muscular today yet cannot match this accuracy.
Olga Korbut should have won gold and I stand by that. Her routine was much better and her technique was better. Plus, she stuck that landing, Karin faltered a little.
,,,, true !
Agree😊
No coaches hovering to catch them should they fall, no giant cushions to land on.
These women were incredible 🤩
Watching this had me gasping why are bar routines boring nowadays
Excellent quality video! I was 12 in 1972 and this is when the uneven parallel bars became my favorite women's apparatus. These girls are amazing!
So much more intricate and interesting than today's sets.
What have we gained? ...only giant swings and a few more release skills. Lost plenty.
Yes if I wanted to watch giant swings all day I'd watch men's gymnastics.. (no disrespect to the male gymnasts)
I see things here that i don't see in 2024. The routines from the 70s were super tricky. And the athletes had smooth execution
And the equipment made sure only tiny teenagers could manage these routines. Look at how small that gap is. All these tricks rewarded agility but not strength which therefore favored young girls with pixie bodies.
@@brumels1570as if the gymnasts now aren’t borderline dwarfs.
Bars was so much more interesting and beautiful back then; the newer restrictions have changed it but not for the better. I do still love watching that and vault much more than beam or floor though.
I still remember Munich 1972 because of Olga Korbut and the all the women gymnasts.
This gymnastics was just different, id say more artistic and creative. We trained and competes with routines like these into the late 80’s. Everything was different, bars material were different and training was CRAZY
All beautiful.
Dangerous but high technic and hard work. And more entertaining of course.
Just... It's my idea or they are all from the ex urss? Kind of... Forced to be the best?
Creativity and elegance in abundance. Beautiful and thrilling to watch.
Olga was 😱 OUTSTANDING. We don't see that anymore. Bravo!!
Definitely one thing you can't call the people less athletic or skilled as modern people like everyone claims the past was.
Why did the uneven bars look so much cooler back then compared to today?
They changed women artistic gymnastics forever, Especially Olga Korbut
This is why it irritates me that modern gymnasts keep getting ranked best ever when they’re NOTHING compared to these ones!
Very true ✅
It's much more enjoyable to watch.
I didn't realize all these women had unorthodox routines. We are usually only shown Olga's routine.
Janz’s dismount looked like a torpedo - insane!
All those elements definitely made the routines way more unique than today.
Risky stuff though, I can understand why some things aren't popular anymore 😁
Wow, I would give 10.0 for all of them! Beautiful, graceful, creative, strong...
Dang those girls were great! Back when olympics was worth watching
I loved Karin Janz's routine (third girl)
Agree with the comments. I love the grace of the routines back then. 💖
Those were the days!! Amazing.
They make it look so easy flying around. Meanwhile I'm starting to realise that trying to do one single pull up may actually take my life...
The dismount on the first woman was actual insanity
Last dismount was deadly
Much more interesting than today
back when east europe dominates
They were spectacular, imo.
Elas tinham leveza, elegância, classe, parecia que faziam balé com ginástica. Simplesmente lindo, porém mortal. A ginástica baniu vários movimentos por serem muito perigosos para os ginastas, imagino quantos não sofreram lesões graves como a também incrível Elena Mukhina 😢 hoje em dia elas são mais musculosas e fortes, menos delicadas, pois assim não aguentariam os impactos e lesões das execuções!
As long as everyone does it perfectly , it means it's not too dangerous 😂
@@Loma23256 didn’t you read me talking about Elena Mukhina? There are many others gymnasts who became paraplegic, sad but true. Not all of them became famous, but it doesn’t change the fact some skills are extremely dangerous
This is just one after another surprise… just jaw dropping! Amazing!
Public wasn't fair play at all. They cheered German gymnastics and the other European gymnastics but they stay silent in front of the amazing Soviet gymnastics.
My shoulders hurt just watching this. 😂
Some of the best uneven bars work. Wish they would do some of the moves now. 😊
Was more exciting and interesting to watch 😍
3:00 backflip while sitting down😮😮
I know you're not allowed to do the Korbut Flip anymore but are some of these other things disallowed or do they just not do them anymore? Especially the kinds of dismounts Turishcheva or Zuchold did?
Why can’t gymnasts now can’t be as elegant and graceful like the girls the 70s 😢 (btw it’s a rhetorical question)
Because it's gymnastics, not ballèt, tap, or ballroom dancing. (not a rhetorical answer).
@@lisameriedyalways thought of gymnastics as ballet in motion, never as thundering horses passing by. The gracefulness is gone. But make no mistake, there was much power in thos delicate bodies just as you find in ballet! 🦋
Turischeva had both. So different from today. It was a "performance" back then....not just checking off all boxes on "skills".Todays gymnastics is just a bunch of "moves" strung together 4 points. Back then...it was artistry. Didn't even bother watching this year.
This is a sport! Do you ask males why can’t they be elegant and graceful in their gymnastics routine? Why can’t you just shut up about your sexist tropes?
@@forevertruth1206What?
...
Better than now.
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Part of the reason these routines are so different is I believe the bars were closer together then as compared to now. I am not sure when they changed that but yeah, I think it at least in part had to do with the risk and danger involved.