For Elena Mukhina who had been ignored during her younger years by her own team to reach this level of incredible skill at 18 is amazing. The extreme cruelty and risks in her training that followed this achievement to try and force an Olympic victory led to bans. After breaking her leg and having her cast ripped off before her leg was healed and then being forced to train was horrible on its own, but then add to it that her coach forced her to do the Thomas Salto which she objected to and that led to her spine snapping when she landed on her chin. RIP Elena. You were an amazing athlete and deserved so much better.
Nelli Kim's performances were perfect. So much assertive elegance and fluidity in her movements. Very strong routines. Strong in elegance and elegant in strength - exact description of soviet women gymnasts.
OMG...I remember this broadcast and how upset I was about Jim McKay's comments about Nadia's weight, and being all overdramatic about her falling from the bars ("Nadia Comaneci, completely coming apart on the uneven bars, where she thrilled the world at Montreal". I was in tears (hey, I was like 9 years old) b/c I didn't realize Nadia couldn't hear the commentators. Seriously though, even now as an adult, I'm angry with Jim McKay for those comments. Luckily, Nadia is living a happy life now in the US w/Bart Conner and their son, Dylan.
Rip Elena tu as tout risqué pour être au plus haut niveau ou pour que l’URSS batte la Roumanie….le fait d’être orpheline ne t’a peut être pas aidé…. Tu étais et tu resteras une superbe athlète qui aurait été loin et qui aurait eu un sublime palmarès…. Repose en paix belle jeune fille 🥰🥰🥰🥰
31:19 The MAN commentator makes a comment about the "conditioning program" of the Romanian team and the weight of Emilia Eberle, stating that she is "too thin". And you hear the woman commentator, Cathy Rigby, act like she never heard him say it, she goes on like nothing was said about "weight". To speak about weight at that time was unheard of, especially from a commentator on a televised event. I loved watching gymnastics when I was a little girl and compared myself to these girls all the time. My mother suffered with an Eating Disorder (Anorexia) when I was growing up but no one in our family said a word about it. There are pictures from when I was a teenager (16) that show my mom as skeletal (think Eugenia Cooney thin) , and I never heard a word about it from my father or anyone else at all. When I started the same thing at 17, no one said anything either. It was not until I was 29 that I heard the word Anorexia from a doctor when I was hospitalized for my appendix. He talked to me about it and set me up with a psychologist who helped me alot. I applaud this commentator, I wish I would have known about this disease back then, I might have known what to look for in my mom and myself, this disease controls your whole life, your whole existence. Maybe I would have never given so much of my life to an ED if I had been educated about it along with my peers.
Thank you for sharing. Cathy Rigby, too, struggled with an eating disorder during her career-- I'm sure she was unsure how to proceed in regards to that subject-- like you said, it was almost unheard of in the public sphere! I know several women who also suffered from ED in the 1970s, but had no clue what it was. Not until Karen Carpenter's death in the early 80s did we even start talking about ED in the American culture. I am 12 years in recovery from my ED-- I'm glad your doctor helped you get the treatment you needed! Let's hope the young people who watch gymnastics today are safe and healthy.
Yeah, never though of skinny gymnasts just thought they weren't that tall (except Svetlana Khorkina). First time noticed someone loose weight quikly was indeed Karen Carpenter.
I forget the amount of abuse the crowd used to give the judges, quite funny. I also forgot how HOT Kathy Johnson was (See you on ESPN Kathy); also, love to you Elena, made me cry again.
It’s funny to me how both commentators were criticizing Nadia’s floor routine as not being expressive and not having enough ballet type elements. They thought it was too much activity with the flips and tumbling. Nowadays, that’s all the floor routine consist of! I wonder if she started the change going forward in floor routines.
A resounding victory for the sophisticated and captivating Yelena Mukhina. Personally, I feel she deserved a 10 on floor. Nelli Kim was overscored slightly on every apparatus. She was nowhere nearly as exquisite as Mukhina. The trials and tribulations of Nadia were agonizing to watch. F☆CK you Jim McKay for trivializing her motivation, weight and a last minute floor routine imposed on her. A 9.90 for Kathy Johnson on floor was much too high. It was classical and refined, but not really amazing.
I disagree I think Nelli KIm's beam routine was beautiful with some interesting creative elements. and difficulty was there on all her events. and fluidity of whole combination. all her events were perfect. she had assertive elegance and cohesion in her performances. her personality also just shone through those routines.
When that commentator said"an extra 20lbs dont help" i would have said excuse you sir... very uncalled for and if you cant do what they are doing please shut up
Wow!! This made Nadia look so bad! She was so good at 14. But she went through a lot was a prisoner wasn't aloud to train and lost her coach! Bummer!!!
It was bad but we know that Nadia was not prepared physically or mentally for this competition. She was exhausted from so many government ordered appearences. She was separated from her coach Karolyi and was being used and abused by Romanian President...this poor girl didn't have the charmed life that many felt she had. Happily a year later she was probably in the best shape of her life. Just watch videos from 1979...best gymnast ever!!
Nadia hated it. She talks about it in her autobiography. They insisted on her doing choreography as if she was a little kid and she knew how horrible and stupid at work but they basically ordered her to do as she was told.
That was not a good time for Nadia. The dictator Ceaușescu removed Comăneci from her longtime coaches, the Károlyis, and sent her to Bucharest to train at the sports complex. He took away any freedom she had and in effect put her prison. She was extremely unhappy; her gymnastics skills suffered, and she appeared to attempt suicide by drinking bleach or Shampoo. Also, she had just had a growth spurt and was seven inches taller and twenty pounds heavier" than she was in the 1976 Olympics.
9.80 for Nadias floor routine?! And people talk about overscored Russians? Ha! You people are funny. That routine had no difficulty and atrocious dance. I'd have given her a 9.4 maximum. It was horrible.
I don't think she even noticed it. She was just getting off the tatami and most likely mentally reviewing the floor exercise she had just performed. I'm pretty sure that there is a mental/emotional transition in the interim from the exhibition to the resting area during which they probably can't acknowledge what goes around them.
The way Elena used to rap her abdomen against the bars looked so painful. I wonder if she would have been able to have kids if she hadn't been deprived of the opportunity.
Nadia hated it. She talked about it in her autobiography--they kept giving her these ridiculous "cutesy" dance moves and she would argue that it looked stupid b/c she was no longer a little kid, and she was basically told to shut up and do what she was told.
was it fair for an Amerinian athlete to give first place on the uneven bars? there was no such nipple in men, and similar elements from the male crossbar were approximately pulled by 1 adult or maybe by a candidate for the master of sports
*Elena Mukhina - champion, and dearly missed.*
Yes, I second that. She was the best gymnast of all time.
Didn't she pass away with cancer?
it broke my heart when man commendator said " elena mukhina get used to that name you will hear it a lot". RIP Elena...
Also when he said some of the moves are getting...dangerous. Premonition.
It is so sad... 😥😥 R. I. P. Elena 💐💐💕💕💕... You will always be remembered 🙋🏻🇪🇸💕
It's so comforting to see how many people love Mukhina. She'll never be forgotten.
💛💚
Elena Mukhina champion forever
For Elena Mukhina who had been ignored during her younger years by her own team to reach this level of incredible skill at 18 is amazing.
The extreme cruelty and risks in her training that followed this achievement to try and force an Olympic victory led to bans.
After breaking her leg and having her cast ripped off before her leg was healed and then being forced to train was horrible on its own, but then add to it that her coach forced her to do the Thomas Salto which she objected to and that led to her spine snapping when she landed on her chin.
RIP Elena. You were an amazing athlete and deserved so much better.
Rest my Angel. you where the best in the World. they cant hurt you anymore.
Rest in peace Elena mukina
Elena was perfect on this day, she should have gotten 10's
RIP ELENA MUKHINA, ANGEL
Nadia and Elena, My favorite all time gymnasts. I can watch them over and over.
Rest in peace Elena mukina♥️♥️♥️♥️
СПАСИБО ЗА ПАМЯТЬ О ЛЕНОЧКЕ МУХИНОЙ
Mukhina had such difficult routines yet did it so well. The Floor and UB should have been 10.
Agree
Yes. It's all political reasons... 😥
Tienes mucha razón, estoy de acuerdo contigo 👍
Agree
How ominous to hear them talking about how 'dangerous' Mukhina's skills were considering the tragedy that befell her.
The satanic sistem killed her... Poor sweet Angel
We love you Elena
Nelli Kim's performances were perfect. So much assertive elegance and fluidity in her movements. Very strong routines. Strong in elegance and elegant in strength - exact description of soviet women gymnasts.
I watched this movie called “Nadia” when I was younger and it gives some insight as to what was going on at this point of her life. Pretty good movie.
Happy Birthday Rest in Peace my Angel.
Shaposhnikova has always had so much strength
Crowd knew more than judges. Kathy deserved a higher score.
Kathy Johnson's floor was incredible. So talented.
Мухина Ким Шапошникова , Супер !!! Звезды спортивной гимнастики !!! Лену Мухину , помним , любим , Скорбим !!! Так жаль !!!
Shaposhnikova's arms so beautiful and feminine even in the aftermath of the vault.
Beautiful Kathy johnson😊
Наши красавицы заняли весь пьедестал! Молодцы! Наша гордость! Спасибо вам огромное!🥇🥇🥇💐💐💐❤❤❤🎆🎆🎆⭐⭐⭐👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😍😍😍
Elena my favourite
СПАСИБО ЧТО ПОМНИТЕ И ЛЮБИТЕ НАШЕГО СЛАВНУЮ ГИМНАСТКУ АНГЕЛОЧКА ЛЕНОЧКУ МУХИНУ
OMG...I remember this broadcast and how upset I was about Jim McKay's comments about Nadia's weight, and being all overdramatic about her falling from the bars ("Nadia Comaneci, completely coming apart on the uneven bars, where she thrilled the world at Montreal". I was in tears (hey, I was like 9 years old) b/c I didn't realize Nadia couldn't hear the commentators. Seriously though, even now as an adult, I'm angry with Jim McKay for those comments. Luckily, Nadia is living a happy life now in the US w/Bart Conner and their son, Dylan.
Elena was not afraid of anything I could watch her and nadia for hours Elena best uneven bars ever rip Elena
Rip Elena tu as tout risqué pour être au plus haut niveau ou pour que l’URSS batte la Roumanie….le fait d’être orpheline ne t’a peut être pas aidé…. Tu étais et tu resteras une superbe athlète qui aurait été loin et qui aurait eu un sublime palmarès…. Repose en paix belle jeune fille 🥰🥰🥰🥰
31:19 The MAN commentator makes a comment about the "conditioning program" of the Romanian team and the weight of Emilia Eberle, stating that she is "too thin". And you hear the woman commentator, Cathy Rigby, act like she never heard him say it, she goes on like nothing was said about "weight". To speak about weight at that time was unheard of, especially from a commentator on a televised event. I loved watching gymnastics when I was a little girl and compared myself to these girls all the time. My mother suffered with an Eating Disorder (Anorexia) when I was growing up but no one in our family said a word about it. There are pictures from when I was a teenager (16) that show my mom as skeletal (think Eugenia Cooney thin) , and I never heard a word about it from my father or anyone else at all. When I started the same thing at 17, no one said anything either. It was not until I was 29 that I heard the word Anorexia from a doctor when I was hospitalized for my appendix. He talked to me about it and set me up with a psychologist who helped me alot. I applaud this commentator, I wish I would have known about this disease back then, I might have known what to look for in my mom and myself, this disease controls your whole life, your whole existence. Maybe I would have never given so much of my life to an ED if I had been educated about it along with my peers.
Thank you for sharing. Cathy Rigby, too, struggled with an eating disorder during her career-- I'm sure she was unsure how to proceed in regards to that subject-- like you said, it was almost unheard of in the public sphere! I know several women who also suffered from ED in the 1970s, but had no clue what it was. Not until Karen Carpenter's death in the early 80s did we even start talking about ED in the American culture.
I am 12 years in recovery from my ED-- I'm glad your doctor helped you get the treatment you needed! Let's hope the young people who watch gymnastics today are safe and healthy.
Yeah, never though of skinny gymnasts just thought they weren't that tall (except Svetlana Khorkina). First time noticed someone loose weight quikly was indeed Karen Carpenter.
@@tori6741 skinny was the thing back then. Too many gymnasts died of anorexia.
Леночке Мухиной, лайкосик❤️
I forget the amount of abuse the crowd used to give the judges, quite funny. I also forgot how HOT Kathy Johnson was (See you on ESPN Kathy); also, love to you Elena, made me cry again.
It’s funny to me how both commentators were criticizing Nadia’s floor routine as not being expressive and not having enough ballet type elements. They thought it was too much activity with the flips and tumbling. Nowadays, that’s all the floor routine consist of! I wonder if she started the change going forward in floor routines.
Русские девочки самые элегантные!
Great quality! Thanks for the upload!
A resounding victory for the sophisticated and captivating Yelena Mukhina. Personally, I feel she deserved a 10 on floor.
Nelli Kim was overscored slightly on every apparatus. She was nowhere nearly as exquisite as Mukhina.
The trials and tribulations of Nadia were agonizing to watch. F☆CK you Jim McKay for trivializing her motivation, weight and a last minute floor routine imposed on her.
A 9.90 for Kathy Johnson on floor was much too high. It was classical and refined, but not really amazing.
I agree with everything you said, except, I must say, about Kathy Johnson. I think her routine had been under scored.
I disagree I think Nelli KIm's beam routine was beautiful with some interesting creative elements. and difficulty was there on all her events. and fluidity of whole combination. all her events were perfect. she had assertive elegance and cohesion in her performances. her personality also just shone through those routines.
Marcia Frederick. First American 10 on bars
ЛЕНОЧКА МУХИНА НАШАТЕНЬКА ШАПОШНИКОВА НЕЛЛИ КИМ НАШИ СЛАВНЫЕ СОВЕТСКИЕ ЗВЕЗДОЧКИ
a double feast is a jump for small schools of 10 years, a double flip with a pirouette is a jump that even adults will not do.
Shaposnikova ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I really love Mukhina's floor music, does anyone know how the song is named?
For me a medley french song : "un jour Lara" (Les Compagnons de la chanson) + "Milord" (E. Piaf)
That is the theme music from the movie Dr. Zhivago.
When that commentator said"an extra 20lbs dont help" i would have said excuse you sir... very uncalled for and if you cant do what they are doing please shut up
Wow!! This made Nadia look so bad! She was so good at 14. But she went through a lot was a prisoner wasn't aloud to train and lost her coach! Bummer!!!
So many of them are sporting the Purdey hair style
Nadia's floor routine was hideous...
Pinocchio. Zero elegance.
DJKiara88 I know, she looks like she's on crack.
Zero elegance, Zero difficulty. A 9.80? LMFAO, a joke.
It was bad but we know that Nadia was not prepared physically or mentally for this competition. She was exhausted from so many government ordered appearences. She was separated from her coach Karolyi and was being used and abused by Romanian President...this poor girl didn't have the charmed life that many felt she had. Happily a year later she was probably in the best shape of her life. Just watch videos from 1979...best gymnast ever!!
Wow they certainly don’t show this when they reminisce about Nadia. That was awful and I agree a waste of energy. The commentators were like 😳
Браво!Советскому спорту!
Poor Nadia--- Who the hell thought this routine was ok??? She looks as if she just doesnt want to be there!!!
I was NOT being critical of Nadia...Love her!!! However...It was the programs design that I found fault with.
Nadia hated it. She talks about it in her autobiography. They insisted on her doing choreography as if she was a little kid and she knew how horrible and stupid at work but they basically ordered her to do as she was told.
Yes she will be missed.
That was not a good time for Nadia. The dictator Ceaușescu removed Comăneci from her longtime coaches, the Károlyis, and sent her to Bucharest to train at the sports complex. He took away any freedom she had and in effect put her prison. She was extremely unhappy; her gymnastics skills suffered, and she appeared to attempt suicide by drinking bleach or Shampoo. Also, she had just had a growth spurt and was seven inches taller and twenty pounds heavier" than she was in the 1976 Olympics.
9.80 for Nadias floor routine?! And people talk about overscored Russians? Ha! You people are funny. That routine had no difficulty and atrocious dance. I'd have given her a 9.4 maximum. It was horrible.
QPHashSS77 Elena mukhina wasn’t overscored
have you seen 23, 30 omaneci refusing to shake hand with a rival? she is the queen of gymnastics but was not very friendly
She was being abused by the commie government
I don't think she even noticed it. She was just getting off the tatami and most likely mentally reviewing the floor exercise she had just performed. I'm pretty sure that there is a mental/emotional transition in the interim from the exhibition to the resting area during which they probably can't acknowledge what goes around them.
The way Elena used to rap her abdomen against the bars looked so painful. I wonder if she would have been able to have kids if she hadn't been deprived of the opportunity.
StargazerLily I always wondered how much that hurt when they hit their abdomen on the low bar?
It does hurt! We used to put foam under our leotards to soften the blow. I still have small scars on my hips from beating the bar 35 years later!
Horrible Nadia's floor choreo. What a 😳
The commentators are trying not to laugh at nadias rountine🤣
9.80 Comaneci mas que verguenza. No justice
21:52 Poor Nadia was given the ugliest choreography ever on floor in this worlds. Whoever made the 'dance' moves for that one should have been fired..
Blame Geza Pozar...
Crimes against artistry.
Probably another geza pozar mess
@@nicksline Yep, you are correct! What a disaster that choreography was.
Nadia hated it. She talked about it in her autobiography--they kept giving her these ridiculous "cutesy" dance moves and she would argue that it looked stupid b/c she was no longer a little kid, and she was basically told to shut up and do what she was told.
was it fair for an Amerinian athlete to give first place on the uneven bars? there was no such nipple in men, and similar elements from the male crossbar were approximately pulled by 1 adult or maybe by a candidate for the master of sports
тренер мрасть толька и мог бесзащитную девачку муштравать.а лену жалка есле вас есще интиресует видосы про нее перехадити сразу черес каментарй.
Yup gift it to Nadia again
She earned them all.
Ridiculous how much politics was involved with the judging in scoring. You can’t blame Nadia. None of it was her fault.
Nadia is the most difficult bunch of double feasts! This is not serious.
9.8?!I'm shocked!
why are you such liars?
Kathy Johnson's floor was incredible. So talented.