pretty sure there was at least one year where 5 passes were required. i think chellsie mentioned it in one of her new training videos when talking abt old routines
The code counted more elements in this quad. Many of the gymnasts did 5 passes. Some put a double full or front full as a side pass, rather than the diagonal. A big criticism was that the amount of elements left no room for artistry.
She is indeed training and I couldn’t be more happier :)) I really hope she stays healthy enough to at least make it to nationals. Even if she doesn’t make the team, I would just love to see her compete at her best again, it would totally make a statement to Marta, a big F**k U for thinking my career was over at the 2016 classic.
Well I was there and what you have to realize is that unlike most competitions, this was NOT an event where people competed simultaneously. It was split up so that only two events happened during a given rotation, and only one gymnast performed at a time. So usually during a competition, people are focusing on different things, but at this competition each routine had everyone's full attention. Plus if I recall correctly this was at the end of the night on the final night (for men AND women - I was there all 4 nights and the men finished the night before so this was the end of Trials altogether) so we were all pumped up. The place went wild for each routine for the most part though!
I know Bela sucks but it always makes me smile to see him jump up like that for her because there was no camera in his face to ham it up for, I think he meant it. No matter what Marta thought about Chellsie, she was insanely talented and she NAILED that routine. I'm having so much fun watching her comeback! Go Chellsie!!
I literally just watched this and started crying at the end. To see this and also be watching her comeback so intently, I'm in complete awe of her and what a wonderful person and competitor she has been and still is. I can't wait to see where this comeback takes her!
Her injuries were a misfortune throughout her career, that's why, but despite all that she was right up there with them in terms of level and execution of gymnastics.
Wow i had goosebumps from the first pass to her last amazing double pike! This was amazing and i hate how her story ended but she is coming back and will be stronger than ever!!
Every time I watch this video I want to find Marta and scream in her face for her phony standing up after everyone else. She never wanted Chellsie on the team and she had no choice to take her then she broke her by making her continue to compete over and over and over again after she proved her self time and time again that year. Marta is the reason the US team had no shot at gold that year because she wanted her pet Nastia to have all the attention and ended up costing the US a shot at a gold medal but turning Alicia into a head case and over working Sam and Chellsie so badly she broke them by the time it mattered,
Marta had Annia Hatch fake injury for Nationals cuz she wasn't sure she would make trials then she took her to the Olympics for just vault. That cost the team gold and I was so glad when they lost cuz her cheating for Hatch because she wanted her on the team. Karma got the bitch
How did that cost the team gold? What about all the breaks that Carly (vault, bars), and Courtney (off beam due to developing injury, and then major break on floor) experienced during Team Finals? They buckled when it counted and cost at least 1.8 pts. Are you saying that Chellsie wasn't really injured?
0:11 Was that a piked double arabian?! What?? And that double back pike to put an exclamation point on the whole routine. This is for sure one of my favorite floor routines.
I have never seen a gymnast look so in control of these huge skills... her spacial awareness is absolutely fantastic. Ive never really been very aware of chellsie until recently, but she is absolutely outstanding... I am so impressed....
This was such an incredible and iconic floor routine by Chellsie MEMMEL! I know that Ali Raisman received so much notoriety for her floor routines in the 2012 & 2016 Olympics. (and others) Chellsie’s Floor routine at the 2008 US Olympic Trials was so underrated!!! Even though Everyone jumped to their feet! (Even Marta & Bella) Such a highlight! Nastia & Shawn were the stars ...but CHELLSIE WAS ON THEIR LEVEL, & an international WORLD CHAMPION and a STAR. as well. .Chellsie never got the recognition she deserved. I am cheering for her for 2021. Her comeback & adult gymnastics journey has been nothing short of spectacular. She has truly served as a source of INSPIRATION FOR SO MANY.
OMG THAT WAS BRILLIANT. I get chills every time i watch it! I always think that her Olympic story would have been way different if she had been healthy and strong during them. I'm gonna miss Chellsie soooo much :')
This gives me chills everytime I see this! This was such an AMAZING routine, she got the whole audience behind her, and everyone was cheering at her...I wish she would have been healthy during the Olympics, so we could have seen this routine there!
Chellsie’s floor is a perfect example of not being the classical balletic style of dancing in gymnastics, but still being engaging and captivating. There’s this obsession with tall, skinny gymnasts with classical music and classical dancing in gymnastics, and I’m not going to sit here and act like those routines aren’t beautiful, but I think this is what modern, powerful, dynamic, and artistic gymnastics can and should look like. I think the days when gymnastics looked more like ballet and was feminine and delicate are over, and it’s time for this kind of gymnastics to be front-and-center.
OH MY GOD! FINALLY, SOMEONE WHO AGREES WITH ME. Like, let the past be the past. Live the present. this is the present of gymnastics. And I honestly love the current state of gymnastics so much more. I mean okay "delicate" gymnastics was aesthetically pleasing to watch but it never really made me want to get up and cheer and scream.
I hope she has those super recognizable drums at the very beginning for her comeback routine, which then abruptly stop and change to something completely different 😏 because she’s the old Chellsie, but so much better now!
literally just commented on how she should use a remix of this song for her new floor routine... the iconic drums would literally send chills down everyones back
Had she not injured her foot or ankle during prelims in beijing 2008, she would have competed this routine for USA instead of sacramone.. she would even have made it to Floor finals over nastia liukin.. Nastia's floor routine was so overrated.
+Frodo Sings Blame Marta. Marta killed Chellsie and Sam and she turned Alicia into a headcase. Memmel and Sacramone should have been named to the team after trials. A case could be made for even Nationals especially Alicia but Marta played her head games.
Chellsie Memmel is an inspiration! I’m glad she came back at this year’s Tokyo Olympics! Cheers to many more successes! She liked my post before. I can’t wait to meet her and the team! What a goddess 🤩🥰😘😊👊🏾💍🌹
Chellsie did the butt bounce first. (Not Simone or Katelyn). Chellsie performed it in the 2005 World Championships. Chellsie was 15 then. Simone and Katelyn were just 7 years old at the time. Incidentally, Katelyn won the 2013 AA TITLE at the American Cup beating out Simone Biles. Chellsie had just retired right before Simone turning Senior. Simone’s success came much later. It Would be just incredible to see Chellsie compete as Simone’s teammate in the Tokyo 2021Olympics. Her comeback training & routines are coming together. Chellsie would be 33 and Simone 25? Just an amazing feat! I believe it is possible. These two women are incredibly strong and both remarkable gymnasts in terms of longevity!
LOVE how she stands there for a second after her double pike with her legs together, and THEN takes a step back so deliberately. It's almost like she's saying "look at that judges. stuck that shit cold"
I am new to watching gymnastics and THIS is the most exciting video I have seen regardless of the Olympics to date. What an amazing and exciting gymnast! You have already accomplished the world Chellsie!
just look at where Karoyli is sitting right at that last tumbling pass... the entire bench explodes when she stuck the landing! I love love love this routine
I,ll never get tired of watching this, so wish we could’ve seen this in Beijing- Only gymnast in US history to get a standing ovation from the selection committee
I wish that she hadn't had coaches (*cough* no idea who *cough*) who trained her too hard between this moment and the Olympics. I'm not saying 'go to the beach and drink slushies', but a gymnast of Chellsie's age and accomplishments would have know what she needed to perform optimally. We see too many repetitive stress injuries from gymnasts' time with the Karoylis. This isn't 1980s Romania, be a bit more progressive and let the gymnasts' personal coaches, who know them better, design the specifics of an exercise/training program for national camp.
Anyone who knows ANYTHING about the American system knows that her dad had nothing to do with this. Most of the gymnasts who have since retired after having competed at an Olympics during the Karolyi reign have said publicly that the system broke them. Literally, physically, broke them. They pushed them so hard, with zero breaks, that their bodies simply couldn't hold up. Her time with her dad in charge (and let's be real, he was only "in charge" to a point) was over the second she finished this routine.
5 tumbling passes?? Great execution. Who came here after seeing her training for 2021?
I did!!!
@@mezzoBella I that's the first time I've seen 5 passes and it's an old video! Mind blown!
pretty sure there was at least one year where 5 passes were required. i think chellsie mentioned it in one of her new training videos when talking abt old routines
ME!
The code counted more elements in this quad. Many of the gymnasts did 5 passes. Some put a double full or front full as a side pass, rather than the diagonal. A big criticism was that the amount of elements left no room for artistry.
you know it's good when you still get hype after 10 years of seeing this
She is training again! She is still freaking amazing
She is indeed training and I couldn’t be more happier :)) I really hope she stays healthy enough to at least make it to nationals. Even if she doesn’t make the team, I would just love to see her compete at her best again, it would totally make a statement to Marta, a big F**k U for thinking my career was over at the 2016 classic.
Peter Rodriguez *2012 classic lol but yes
i literally don’t know why this doesn’t have at least a million views yet
Chellsie is going to kill it in the Olympics next summer! 😊👊🏾
2008 was the most entertaining USA team ever. We had some hardcore badasses.
I agree-the teams today seem lackluster
I agree
@@eburns7736 you must be blind
Sister Catrina thank you cause 08 was the wackiest boring quad ever
@QPHashSS77 Except for Vanessa Atler
Most underappreciated gymnast in my lifetime. She was so clutch.
And now she’s back!!!
@@cats7414 ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
just WOW. it's so rare to see an audience get so into just the dance portion of a routine, she killed it! and her tumbling was fantastic too
Well I was there and what you have to realize is that unlike most competitions, this was NOT an event where people competed simultaneously. It was split up so that only two events happened during a given rotation, and only one gymnast performed at a time. So usually during a competition, people are focusing on different things, but at this competition each routine had everyone's full attention. Plus if I recall correctly this was at the end of the night on the final night (for men AND women - I was there all 4 nights and the men finished the night before so this was the end of Trials altogether) so we were all pumped up. The place went wild for each routine for the most part though!
That double pike though.
You know you're a badass when you could still be winning a medal with this routine from 12 years ago. 🤯🤯🤯
Who’s here after she has officially confirmed that she’s making a COMEBACK!!!🥳😁
I am!!!🥳🥳🥳🥳
Me too! Chellsie is going to kill it next summer!
No she’s not
I think she can totally do it. Go, Chellsie!
@@JanitaShowaars She is. I don't know why you can't accept that.
i love her face when she's about to do a big pass. i swear her eyes have fire behind them
GLAD TO KNOW SHE'S BACK FOR TOKYO.
she literally gave me chills that night. i’ll never forget watching this live. LEGEND. so proud of her
You’re really lucky to have been there. What a brilliant way to end an event.
Lucky duck to get to see this live!!
This is the routine of the quadrennium! What I would not give to have seen it at the Olympic Games!
I know Bela sucks but it always makes me smile to see him jump up like that for her because there was no camera in his face to ham it up for, I think he meant it. No matter what Marta thought about Chellsie, she was insanely talented and she NAILED that routine. I'm having so much fun watching her comeback! Go Chellsie!!
@@sallygreenfield6991 how did Chellsie do that? what happened
wait marta didn’t like chellsie?
Just came back for my daily doses....
I've always had a crush on Chellsie Memmel! I love women's gymnastics!,😍😘 #Girls #WifeGoals#WomenAreAwesome
I remember watching this at the Olympic trials in person I WAS 4! this was one of the routines that made me want to be a gymnast!
this is my favorite routine ever. I love the standing ovation the judges gave her!
This honestly was a floor and a half routine from chelsea. Pure perfection
I literally just watched this and started crying at the end. To see this and also be watching her comeback so intently, I'm in complete awe of her and what a wonderful person and competitor she has been and still is. I can't wait to see where this comeback takes her!
The last double back pike!!! Never have I seen a more perfect landing!
I’m like “what the hell?! YOU STUCK THAT CHELLSIE!”
Who's here before Chellsie competes at Classic 21' tomorrow?
it's crazy how I've never heard of her in the fame of nastia and shawn, she's amazing
Her injuries were a misfortune throughout her career, that's why, but despite all that she was right up there with them in terms of level and execution of gymnastics.
That last double pike😍😍 WOW, this whole routine is a wow, she’s a wow
2021 needs more landings like this. Nicely done.
I love Bela Karoyli's reaction after Chellsie landed her double pike it always gives me chills WOW!!!
Usually, beam and bars are my favorite events to watch. But this- this sent chills down my spine!
Omg she's incredible.. those landings were spot on
Wow i had goosebumps from the first pass to her last amazing double pike! This was amazing and i hate how her story ended but she is coming back and will be stronger than ever!!
She’s in better shape now...after having 2 kids and being out of the sport for years! Rooting for a successful comeback in 2021!👏🏼👏🏼
Here after she said she’s officially coming back.
the definition of an ICONIC performance!!
always come back and watch this every few months... gymnastics at its finest
Back to watch it again and again
I’m here again 😭
ICONIC.
holy crappppp. i didnt think that she would be this good. honestly i never paid attention to her until i saw this. damnnnnnn.
One of the all time best floor routines! 5 tumbling passes, all great landings!
I've never heard of her before--wow she seems like one of the best ever. Also she is one with her music here, so beautiful.
This routine gives me chills ugh! What a star she will always be!!!
The Queen is back!!!!! 2021!!!
Every time I watch this video I want to find Marta and scream in her face for her phony standing up after everyone else. She never wanted Chellsie on the team and she had no choice to take her then she broke her by making her continue to compete over and over and over again after she proved her self time and time again that year. Marta is the reason the US team had no shot at gold that year because she wanted her pet Nastia to have all the attention and ended up costing the US a shot at a gold medal but turning Alicia into a head case and over working Sam and Chellsie so badly she broke them by the time it mattered,
Marta had Annia Hatch fake injury for Nationals cuz she wasn't sure she would make trials then she took her to the Olympics for just vault. That cost the team gold and I was so glad when they lost cuz her cheating for Hatch because she wanted her on the team. Karma got the bitch
How did that cost the team gold? What about all the breaks that Carly (vault, bars), and Courtney (off beam due to developing injury, and then major break on floor) experienced during Team Finals? They buckled when it counted and cost at least 1.8 pts. Are you saying that Chellsie wasn't really injured?
Oscar Widales Benitez Chellsie was in contention for the 2004. Before she was injured.
Appaddict01 That’s right. I think she should have made that team, in fact. My previous was for the post talking about Carly and Courtney.
Not Saying haha Annia Hatch delivered at the Olympics.
0:11 Was that a piked double arabian?! What?? And that double back pike to put an exclamation point on the whole routine. This is for sure one of my favorite floor routines.
Yes it was! :D
YES, it was a DOS SANTOS I 😍
The music adds to it also - very engaging to listen to. The tumbling is amazing!
Chellsie was an absolute BEAST during her heyday(prime).
I swear that Drum Set in the Floor Ex music. Totally hyped up that amazing double pike.
still get chills, 15 years later
I watch this at least 3-4 times a week 😂
I have never seen a gymnast look so in control of these huge skills... her spacial awareness is absolutely fantastic. Ive never really been very aware of chellsie until recently, but she is absolutely outstanding... I am so impressed....
I have actually watched this video one hundred time. She's flawless. I love it!
This was such an incredible and iconic floor routine by Chellsie MEMMEL! I know that Ali Raisman received so much notoriety for her floor routines in the 2012 & 2016 Olympics. (and others) Chellsie’s Floor routine at the 2008 US Olympic Trials was so underrated!!! Even though Everyone jumped to their feet! (Even Marta & Bella) Such a highlight! Nastia & Shawn were the stars ...but CHELLSIE WAS ON THEIR LEVEL, & an international WORLD CHAMPION and a STAR. as well. .Chellsie never got the recognition she deserved. I am cheering for her for 2021. Her comeback & adult gymnastics journey has been nothing short of spectacular. She has truly served as a source of INSPIRATION FOR SO MANY.
an absolute queen
OMG THAT WAS BRILLIANT. I get chills every time i watch it! I always think that her Olympic story would have been way different if she had been healthy and strong during them. I'm gonna miss Chellsie soooo much :')
She’s amazing I never got tired of seeing!!!
That was just so cool. Not many times you describe routines that way but this deserves it
15 years ago & still my favorite floor routine I’ve ever seen. She is so powerful yet graceful. Truly so exciting & stunning to watch
Chellsie and Shawn are my favs of all time !!!
it just occurred to me that she stuck her dismounts on fx, bb, and ub on this second day.... incredible.
I always coming for this video so good
She is the best always!!!! I’m so glad she is coming back for Tokyo 2021
This gives me chills everytime I see this! This was such an AMAZING routine, she got the whole audience behind her, and everyone was cheering at her...I wish she would have been healthy during the Olympics, so we could have seen this routine there!
Underrated
We need her on the Olympic team. If she can still pull of this quality of tumbling. Her form on so many things is super.
I got chills. She is incredible.
Back here cause homegirl is training for Tokyo!! Biles + Memmel all the way!
Chellsie’s floor is a perfect example of not being the classical balletic style of dancing in gymnastics, but still being engaging and captivating. There’s this obsession with tall, skinny gymnasts with classical music and classical dancing in gymnastics, and I’m not going to sit here and act like those routines aren’t beautiful, but I think this is what modern, powerful, dynamic, and artistic gymnastics can and should look like. I think the days when gymnastics looked more like ballet and was feminine and delicate are over, and it’s time for this kind of gymnastics to be front-and-center.
OH MY GOD! FINALLY, SOMEONE WHO AGREES WITH ME. Like, let the past be the past. Live the present. this is the present of gymnastics. And I honestly love the current state of gymnastics so much more. I mean okay "delicate" gymnastics was aesthetically pleasing to watch but it never really made me want to get up and cheer and scream.
I hope she has those super recognizable drums at the very beginning for her comeback routine, which then abruptly stop and change to something completely different 😏 because she’s the old Chellsie, but so much better now!
literally just commented on how she should use a remix of this song for her new floor routine... the iconic drums would literally send chills down everyones back
SHE DID!!!!!!
SHE DOES HAVE IT!!!🤩
MARTA STOOD UP!!!!!!
I wish that I watched this trial as it was aired TV. So beautifully amusing.
Had she not injured her foot or ankle during prelims in beijing 2008, she would have competed this routine for USA instead of sacramone.. she would even have made it to Floor finals over nastia liukin.. Nastia's floor routine was so overrated.
+Frodo Sings OMG ikr! Beijing 2008 could have been totally different had she not gotten injured!
+Frodo Sings Blame Marta. Marta killed Chellsie and Sam and she turned Alicia into a headcase. Memmel and Sacramone should have been named to the team after trials. A case could be made for even Nationals especially Alicia but Marta played her head games.
I dislike Nastia's floor routine at Beijing so much...
naig91
Jiang Yuyuan was robbed. Nastia twisting form was gross and her scores were so over score. Judges cheated
her double front is ugly asf too (Nastia's)
She looks just as good RIGHT NOW!
that perfect landing at the end!!!!!
This was literally perfect! I can’t wait to see what she has up her sleeve, I think it’ll be even better!!!
IVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE STICK LANDINGS LIKE THIS EVER AND IM 50 1/2 YEARS OLD JUST PERFECT
Her first pass….. dude that is probably the best landing I’ve ever seen on a Dos Santos….
Chellsie Memmel is an inspiration! I’m glad she came back at this year’s Tokyo Olympics! Cheers to many more successes! She liked my post before. I can’t wait to meet her and the team! What a goddess 🤩🥰😘😊👊🏾💍🌹
Impressive floor routine. Remarkable performance. This was so fun to watch. What a gifted gymnast.
Chellsie is really into the music
When I’m sad I watch this
I love this floor and her floor from 2011. both are masterpieces of their own. Ready to support her all the way through 2021.
That double LO gets me every time 😍
She's my favorite gymnast of all time :)
Who's here because of her comeback on 2021 Olympic??
Such an iconic routine
what i think was the greatest moment at the 2008 olympic trials.
Chellsie did the butt bounce first. (Not Simone or Katelyn). Chellsie performed it in the 2005 World Championships. Chellsie was 15 then. Simone and Katelyn were just 7 years old at the time. Incidentally, Katelyn won the 2013 AA TITLE at the American Cup beating out Simone Biles. Chellsie had just retired right before Simone turning Senior. Simone’s success came much later. It Would be just incredible to see Chellsie compete as Simone’s teammate in the Tokyo 2021Olympics. Her comeback training & routines are coming together. Chellsie would be 33 and Simone 25? Just an amazing feat! I believe it is possible. These two women are incredibly strong and both remarkable gymnasts in terms of longevity!
Chellsie Memmel also did the butt bounce in 2003 in World Championships in Anaheim!
I'm hoping and praying that she has a performance like this again at this years trials. love this gymnast!
LOVE how she stands there for a second after her double pike with her legs together, and THEN takes a step back so deliberately. It's almost like she's saying "look at that judges. stuck that shit cold"
The crowd was loving this. She was amazing. I'm going to miss her so so much.
i must say. this is one of the bet and most solid routines i have EVER seen.
she is sooo fierce, i love it
I am new to watching gymnastics and THIS is the most exciting video I have seen regardless of the Olympics to date. What an amazing and exciting gymnast! You have already accomplished the world Chellsie!
Absolutely immaculate
just look at where Karoyli is sitting right at that last tumbling pass... the entire bench explodes when she stuck the landing! I love love love this routine
This routine was definitely the highlight of the trials!
Amazing! :)
No matter what happened in Bejing.. she has this moment right here.
This routine was the highlight of this competition!
Amazing tumbling by Chellsie! I would have loved to see this at the Olympics.
BRILLIANT! So beautiful. Just gorgeous.
I,ll never get tired of watching this, so wish we could’ve seen this in Beijing-
Only gymnast in US history to get a standing ovation from the selection committee
And she came back! I coud not imagine this!!! A great gymnast!
CHELLSIE WHY DID YOU HAVE TO BE HURT AT THE OLYMPICS WHY WHY WHY ALL THE FEELS.
Amazing routine and now she's coming back in 2021& I can't wait!
i really LOVE chellsie memmel
i'm obsessed with this routine. its perfection.
I wish that she hadn't had coaches (*cough* no idea who *cough*) who trained her too hard between this moment and the Olympics. I'm not saying 'go to the beach and drink slushies', but a gymnast of Chellsie's age and accomplishments would have know what she needed to perform optimally. We see too many repetitive stress injuries from gymnasts' time with the Karoylis. This isn't 1980s Romania, be a bit more progressive and let the gymnasts' personal coaches, who know them better, design the specifics of an exercise/training program for national camp.
her dad is her coach
Emily Sarah Not to mention Chellsie was always a rock in competition.
Anyone who knows ANYTHING about the American system knows that her dad had nothing to do with this. Most of the gymnasts who have since retired after having competed at an Olympics during the Karolyi reign have said publicly that the system broke them. Literally, physically, broke them. They pushed them so hard, with zero breaks, that their bodies simply couldn't hold up. Her time with her dad in charge (and let's be real, he was only "in charge" to a point) was over the second she finished this routine.
The same happened with Jordyn Wieber in London. So sad
wait marta didn’t like chellsie?