Catalina Ponor (ROU) 2011 Worlds TF FX
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Yay. I used to hate her on floor. Wish this was a keeper for EF, she doesn't do any "cheap" tumbling even if the triple is really ugly but it's her only big twisting pass.
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Catalina has been doing similar tumblings since 2004 (but who completely changes them anyway over a 12 year career) but she's always chosen unusual musics and her dance routines are always so pleasant to watch. She's always been graceful, powerful, sensual and artistic. Hope she continues until she's 40.
For 6 months back and at her age, it's truly amazing and quite a testament what she was able to do at the Worlds. Though there were some minor issues with her form during the tumbling runs, her music choice, edits and choreography/dance were the best of the competition. It all flowed so well together.
This is really a terrific and unbelievable performance!! So flawless! Happy for Catalina Ponor❤️❤️
"A little bit leggy but who cares"
Mara L no it doesn’t it’s awful. Catalina is a legend tho.
These commentators are brilliant!!
Are the Best 👏🏽👏🏽😃
Undoubtedly the best and most graceful. Such an effortless dancer as well. Incredible.
Man, that double layout was high. I'm so happy to see Cata back. She's definitely made a successful comeback!
Katalina - Bravo! I miss the gymnasts of her and previous generations when gymnastics were truly beautiful and graceful: Ponor, Amanar, Milosovich, Horkina, Podkapaeva, and many others! Thank you, Katalina for your contributions to the sport of gymnastics! You will be always remembered as one of the greatest gymnasts in the world history!
she's sooo freaking pretty omgggg!! i've never seen a gymnast this beautiful in looks and movement, (besides aliya mustafina) everything flows so well :) hope she wins ♥
She is so beautiful and elegant, I love her.
Her routine is beautiful. And she's elegant with this shoes. i love her :3
and she uses her whole body instead of only skipping and waving her arms around randomly.
now THAT is a comeback!
I actually don't think Ponor is the most graceful or artistic floor worker. What makes her stand out from the other great tumblers is that she is very self-aware. You are always getting a little bit of her in her routines, even if the choreography doesn't adequately express it. It redeems what might otherwise be an impressive, but forgettable, floor routine. And she, along with Mustafina, is such a role model for how to make a successful comeback.
withlove312 That and shes very strong and in control. Technically there are errors but it's rare that you'll see her completely lose it on an element. Even when she was 16 or 17 she just was really solid.
"Triple twist, a little bit leggy but who cares!" :D
She still got a bronze medal in the 2005 Worlds on beam, and qualified first into the 2007 World beam final (score of 16,250) and got a bronze with the team after Kramarenko got a 0 on vault. She only came back in 2011 when Belu and Bitang came back to coaching.
She is breathtaking! Go Romania!
It's great to see her back!we've been very close but I haven't seen her since I moved to the uk :/ good luck!
Talking about the Olympics, I do agree Ally should've been taken the gold, but I also think that Catalina's Execution score should've been the same as Ally (9.1). But Catalina got 9.0.
Anyways, I was SO happy the Olympics JUST beautiful performances, HIGH dificulty, great executions, I had SO MUCH fun! :)
that was awesome - my fave gymnast for sure - i love you Catalina!!!
she is great gymnast, hope she sticks around, i love her
gives me the chills when he said "just look at her face.. i am back."
WHAT?
Catalina's just great! And I truly had so much fan watching her! Beautiful everything!
I you don't like her, that's OK! But respect who like and get a life! WHO ARE you to tell these things?
Actually she's about to get 25.. and yes she is truly an exceptional athlete..thank you.
Superba!❤ Cătălina Ponor❤ FFelicitari !❤
My favorite part is at 1;10 seconds where the dance elements she is doing goes with the tempo of the music..... she sells that part the best.
Great, wonderful gymnasts, thank u s-o very much, we are very, very proud of US!
LOVE THESE COMMENTATORS! Tim and Elfie and Al make me nauseous. These guys are amazing. Talking about their granny doing gymnastics, giving many a compliment to ponor, I actually enjoy them!
That was amazing!!!!!!!!!! It was the best thing I'VE every seen.😃
Wow....I came on to watch an amazing gymnast perform. And I see all these comments. Really? Find another site for that. This is gymnastics, not history. I'm glad USA won team gold this year, but I have to add that Ponor, Vika and Mustafina all did amazing and are all champions :)
One of my very favorite gymnast (Tweddle too!)
I can see how she changes in terms of personality. In her career around the 2004 olympic year she tends to play cool, but in here she shows a very friendly attitude towards her younger teammates. She understands her role as a big sister of the team, that she has an impact on the younger ones.
What a beautiful gymnast. She has done her floor better than Aly most of the time but on that Olympic day Aly did better. Glad Catalina came away with two medals.
Catalina Ponor, the best.
the music is perfect for her.
i'm happy that your triple twist is better than her...
This behavior is why Amy's Baking Company exists and why the Internet laughed at it and continues to laugh at it.
I recommend Gordon Ramsay's show "Kitchen Nightmares" who did two episodes on it.
Many guys didn't change much and that is a fact, they still don't see us equal. You are maybe more educated than others but that doesn't mean they are all like you!
Who's mad? Me? Definately NOT!
I'm just tired, these sports where you present yourself they're all about personality, it's all about the way YOU do it! Catalina has her style, I really think you guys should respect the way she does every movement. Maybe it's better for her to do this way, and theres NOT a problem about that.
@MistRDonuT94 yeah, I agree with you, I love her choreography and style too!
Love the two whips into the full in pike
@ParanoidAndroidDA this is just another example for the scoring in gymnastics to be examined and changed...I hope they make the right decisions for 2013 because a team that only does great on one event shouldn't metal...same about the All Around. Very crazy that a gymnast can fall these days and can be considered the best.
@ParanoidAndroidDA well thats just another problem with the code...the age issue...people forget that Shushunova was a young gymnast in 1985 when she won, Moceanu was 14 in Atlanta..its so hard for these gymnast to compete past the age of 18..some have beaten the odds but a majority either are so tired or just go on to college...Weiber is 16 now...so she might stay around but with college costing more, she might take a schloarship over stay the elite route. So Ponor is awesome in this vid.
she is fanatstic
bodybuilder, good one. I couldnt have found a better definition for her
@TheJambar9 actually the only problem NBC had with the routine was the triple twist..they loved the rest of the routine..as anyone should..this routine was amazing
She had 4 by the next world cup she showed at which was in Doha if I remember correctly, at this time even before worlds she had 3 passes, but at worlds she got rid of the double pike and replaced it with a double layout and re-ordered them.
Bravo,Catalina!!
I think that many people saw that.. and I'm not talking just about our country.. I think many countries who saw the competition saw also what the judges done about the gymnastics from USA. I admit they are good really good, but they also were a lil bit favorized
And to be honest, we're not so bad in fact, only that many foreigners like to believe that we are, we have many bad stuff going on - and our problem is that we wash things publicly, we give even more reasons to be seen badly - but with all that there are talented,working, intelligent and nice people too. I had many arguments with foreigners on YB because of their way of judging us, even I started to judge their countries and them, because many of them are plain ignorant.
She didn't retire immediately after 2004, she continued up to the end of 2007.
Well she would've won if she had the same difficulty score as Raisman, such a shame
You are so very correct.
Catalina Ponor will always be Catalina Ponor :)
Hi Derek, you do not have replies enabled so I can't reply to you directly, but this music is called "Rise" by Safri Duo.
I think the judges kinda of screwed her over today on floor. Her d-score might not have been as high as Raisman, but her execution was better, and for some reason they still found something in her routine to deduct a whole point.
I agree with you, like I said we got lazy, I guess and many countries like us like that. We are great buyers, what is built in my country lately are malls, malls, drug stores and stuff like that and people here, so many, complain about money but they spend all day in malls and have luxurious cars. I will not be a blind person in my patriotism and not accept these faults we have, that would mean to be really stupid.
Thats an incredible looking woman!
@ParanoidAndroidDA Well Weiber is at her max almost..the only thing she didn't compete was her double double on bars dismount...Komova gave us a watered down version of Youth Olympics 2010 and Yao was brand new...Komova will improve tons and put a lot of her old stuff in and upgrade floor as well. Weiber...not sure what else she can upgrade she is already pretty much at max.
@CopGymnast861 I gurantee you NBC would've been like "Oh oh that, that...was a HUGE error..."
A guy from the USA "you think you know better, why don't you complain there", as if they will take us into account! We don't ask for much, I'd say, from others, just to be respected, to be treated fairly and to be free to make our economy better, we know we can do it but we are forced to follow some rules that no one does but we are the only ones who have to. Every time they don't like how we handle something. Do we butt in your countries so much - no, we respect them, why do you in ours.
@CopGymnast861 the judges are looking for error,is their job to do that but the rest of us we can apreciate the good thing she does and not be so harsh with a gymnast that she trained just 6 months.
No doubt Catalina is skillful. She's been doing it longer than most current gymnast. One of the test for a gymnast is to be able to still do it well passed 16. Funny because I have to keep telling people that "it's not a beauty contest" as well because the world is pretty shallow. I like artistry as much as the next person and Americans have the least. But sticking the landings and not falling is more important now than artistry.
@ParanoidAndroidDA I agreed with most of the gold medalist based on this code. I thought that Afan was the clear winner on floor Sui Lu on beam....Komova on bars and damn...Vault was easy with Maroney...but All Around was iffy for me as well as team but I can see where the judges came from....its just so confusing this code...I want to know how they will change it
@ramaiana60 If you don't like that I hated her on floor it was because she was hugely overrated and overscored and she didn't complete half the dance moves she attempted weren't completed, like the triple-popa and the double tuck jump which the judges blindly credited her for time and time again. Secondly, her twisting had (and has) worse form than Liukin, Mustafina, and even Nabieva. I never said I hated her on beam though, where she was always the best when she competed (and still is IMO).
Mistakes were more permissible with the old code because they could actually drop a score. The 3 up, 3 count rule minimizes room for error. Remember Russia in the 2007 WAG when one of them missed the vault and they lost all hopes of getting a medal. They need to fix rewarding Difficulty over execution. Cheng Fei and Maroney getting medals in the Olympics was insulting to those who didn't fall. You could also name Li Shanshan in 2007. They havent done anything to fix that.
2:27 🤣agree 10000% with you 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
The biggest problem for my country, is that we are ruled by other nations and not by ours, and again we were many times treated with so much lack of respect that many, here, thought that only by kissing butts he/she will achieve smth, and the problems is that they do. Lately it seems that professionals aren't really wanted anymore in this world, many companies don't like their workers to think and many times they might have a good idea.
Talking about rich lands, like I said, the way I see it we sort of have to act like they aren't even there, when we entered NATO, UE we didn't enter for free, I think it cost us more than it cost on so many other countries. Since we entered we just succeeded traveling easier...we didn't evolve anywhere else, richer countries win so much money from us and they sort of put stops to every good project here, I think many don't really want us to evolve much, we're a good market - I repeat.
WHAT. THE. FUCK. SHES EVEN BETTER THAN IN 2004!!!!!? OMG
if anything I couldn't believe that Romania was so close...did someone fall on vault for them...I know Izbasa was not there but if she was this would have been a different story for Romania..I am excited to see them grow this year right before the Olympics
FABULOUS! Catalina (Katy Gold) = Queen
Beautiful DLO!!! own, she's QUEEN. But, Catalina's Best FX performed in PT (DLO + jump)
foarte frumos felicitari bine ca ne mai rearcam si noi prin lucruri mai pozitive din partea Romaniei
Sorry about replying so late....you know - work -. Well I do agree with you on one side that we do have one good thing about science we can travel faster, we can speak with people that are very far away and we sort of have easier lives, much cures...in that aspect one could say that everything is good but let's take the bad part: socializing when driving (1/2)
@ChainChomp2 Personnaly, I'm a Romanian gym fan, but, I don't really like Ponor. Myseriously, I likke her floor, not so much, but I like it.
Even if I prefer Ana Porgras' one :)
I'm also a American gym fan ! :D And I'm french ^^
Have you seen people lately to work with the same dedication, we stay on YB and FB, that is not work, but some win from our leisure time. I did journalism but I renounced watching TV or reading too much the media, it's like we're formed to be, world-wide even, like this - lazy, not caring, racists etc. You are right, I will not be a blind patriot, I know where our faults are but I also know that many exaggerate them greatly.
Amazing athlete
lets see the jump back in the first pas her for in the second pass and her landing was a little off and that 3 twist was not as good as it could be... add those up and i think it makes the deductions. But for the record I think she is an amazing gymnast and i like her a lot
I LOVE CATALINA
FOR ME, SHE IS THE BEST
FROM- BRASIL
Mostly along the line of double tucks (especially when there is a double pike elsewhere in the routine), doing jumps/leaps, no matter how unclean, out of tumbles both difficult or relatively easy...point being Ponor went all-out with her tumbling as opposed to others who participated and didn't do anything hinting exploitation to getting a good score.
Actually it was 4 years she competed in 2005 and 2007 worlds but do not get me wrong still impressive.
one beautiful lady
She had some big execution errors on her passes so I can't see all the praise. Judges care about that triple full.
Word on that,my friend!!!
Somehow that is why I am still in my country, why should I be treated with disrespect by others. I think of myself as an inexperienced person in many fields but with the power to adapt. The problem with politics here, even more obvious than in other countries...is the desire to get rich fast, the rest may all die of starvation. Politics is dirty everywhere anyway, but here tends to be more obvious and we do complain but we don't do anything, maybe that's how we were manipulated to be,don't know.
She's awesome! She looks so decided when doing her routine, but I think she could be a bit more delicate, if she did, she would look more graceful! Anyway, I love it!
Sorry if that seemed like offending a bit but I wanted to make my point a clearer. Now considering this, the idea of never marrying might not be the best choice...think of one thing...you can be different than other guys and help her. In my family this is how it is, they do everything together and though dad doesn't know how to cook, he always helps. I don't know, the level of crimes,accidents etc is in many countries bigger than births. Have a nice day.
she's a classic in herself :P
@ChainChomp2 Thank you :)
So why don't you go there, and teach her how to do a non helicopter leg twisting?
You guys should respect, this is the way she does it, I don't any issues and so some the judges because the scores are always amazing!
When I concerns me I would have liked to be born 100-200 years ago.
Gold medal to the commentators!
beautiful woman in my opinion
Look Sandra Izbasa at the floor, she fell - she got 8th place, in exchange at vault the girl who fell on her butt - got 2nd place! Does that seem fair! I saw the vault competition, first jump our Sandra had, had a high level of difficulty, but they marked it worse than they marked the jump where Maroney fell on her butt, they were probably expecting the 2nd jump to have a huge mistake but it didn't, so they had to give her a better mark or it would have been too obvious, like it wasn't already.
@ParanoidAndroidDA Well I think the age thing is overrated..like I said before Shannon Miller, Gutsu, Bogi in 1988 all were very young gymnast at the olympic level and were just fine and the list is many of gymnast under the age of 15 that were competing on the world stage level...this is why they could make it to 2 or more olympics..now we are lucky to see them at 1.
And you know what is the worst thing, tired of being poor or of not being able to win fair and square money many succumb into stealing, begging, prostitution etc. I will tell you one thing, when we weren't in NATO, UE and when we were still communists you could see no person on the street here, everybody had a house and a place to work, everybody had money to buy stuff the bigger problems was that there were fewer problems, but now we have so many shops but many don't have so much money anymore.
Well I wouldn't say that now USA is what it was, but yeah it still offers more for people, even I work for USA but in my country but I guess it's a matter of wage, maybe in the US many feel that there are more possibilities and that the wage is much better. The way I see it it's all the time a matter of how big are your dreams, if you want luxury, if you want an above average life style or one full of problems.
Argue now with people from the US some would say "we rule the world, we're the best, look how many medals we got", and it's like not really nice to compare a nations of 300 million people where most of the athletes are actually of another nationality with another who just has 20 million people and brings its talents there and what is worse that I would say we were treated really unfair at gymnastics, intentionally we received the worst marks...but many prefer to be blind
REALLY???? she's coming back? she said that she's gonna retire in an interview after floor final! so this means she retired and came back 4 times???
And you know what is even worse, that they got these filth inside the Olympic games too, the powerful countries, though they have good athletes decided to "help" them a bit, not only in economics we have a top but in Olympics too. I just can't help it not to be annoyed, after we, inside less powerful countries try our best they like have a problem even giving us a medal that we deserved, this girl Catalina was robbed twice at these Olympics, and the whole team as well.
shes GREAT!!!!!!