The top 10 routines performed at the 2023 Core Hydration U.S. Classic with the highest difficulty scores Individual Routine Video Credit: USA Gymnastics
I will never be over Melanie’s bar dismount. Absolutely stunning form and stuck to boot. WCC must be doing something that’s working for her, because it’s showing.
6.8 difficulty for Simone's floor routine. OMG seeing that rating made me laugh. It's crazy how good she is, she doesn't just perform the skills, she performs them extremely well.
It's not even her full difficulty either. I think her 2021 routine would be a 7.0 in this code which is insane. Not entirely sure though since I'm not familiar with the new scoring yet
You're right, it'd be 7.0 based on her maxed performed difficulty. Replace the Chusovitina with Biles II. All the other switches will be point neutral.
Skye for me was a standout. I'm not sure what it is, maybe it's that high chest on all of the landings, particularly on beam, coupled with her being rather tall for a gymnast in general, but man is she ever lovely to watch.
I agree and I have said that for quite awhile now. She has the goods in difficulty but she also has an artistic elegance about her with long lines that especially looks great on beam and bars.
I love Suni Lee and her routine was beautiful, she's such a champ. I really hope she's not pushing herself too hard with her illness, but I'm also happy to see her back.
as someone who did gymnastics for like a year as an 8yrold, i simply cannot imagine how any of this is POSSIBLE! i am completely stunned by the insane talent of these women!
Simone is absolutely breathtaking in all she does. The USA team is pure gold. They work so hard, and it shows! Suni Lee isn't even 100%, and she is just pushing through! All of them are just amazing!
Wow! That little lady Joscelyn Roberson is spectacular! I understand she only stands about 4’8”, but she’s one little ball of dynamite and definitely someone to keep an eye on! Simone, Suni, and Skye are also fantastic! Go team!!
Simone's speed is crazy haha... I played her floor routine at 0.25x speed to try to see it better, and it was STILL fast in some parts! She's a wild woman!
😍🤩😍 I'm really enjoying the progression in the choreography of the arm movements. Where a few years ago the standard arm movements didn't add much to the routine and seemed almost silly at times,, now each gymnast is using her arms and hands to communicate something unique and expressive and to show their personality and signature style. ❤
Joscelyn certainly has the difficulty but I’m sorry to be critical here, but her form needs major improvement. She shows bent knees on her layouts and lack of extension on practically all of her leaps and definitely not full splits. I fear the international judges will highly deduct her.
I mean she’s already competed at several international meets this year and her floor scores were comparable to what she scored here. Her beam was definitely overscored here though
I would take bent knees and poor extension over poor body positions or a floppy core ANY DAY in an up and coming gymnast. Those problems are much easier to fix, won’t hinder her growth, and won’t force her to relearn skills as she addresses them. So while yeah, that’s something for her to work on, I’m honestly not too worried about it.
Simone is well deserving of gold. Her routines were flawless/en pointe. Including high level elements assisted gaining high points.. and given they were executed flawlessly, gained her top points, gave her the gold medal allocation.
I noticed that. I call it the Gabby Douglas and Simone Biles effect. More little blacks girls went into gymnastics starting in 2012 and we're starting to see them shine more and more.
Technically they’re supposed to be muscular any because this is not a dance recital or rhythmic gymnastics they expect these girls to do super difficult stuff yeah be a stick which with good training does not make biological sense. So you’re right and not just because of the increased difficulty.
@@MelMeltalks31 the whole attitude, mental health and physical health changed dramatically since the Karolyi’s left and the camp closed which to me is a great thing. We are seeing positive changes and amazing skills with less injuries. I never liked the old ways as the girls looked sad and drained mentally and physically.
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Everyone is SO fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm in awe. I'm lucky enough to be able to walk on a sidewalk.................WOW SUCH TALENT and SKILL ( with acknowledgement of the hard work in training)
i'm old school i kinda miss the artistry in artistic gymnastics its all about point and difficulty now although its great to watch i feel something has been lost in the sport just my opinion
So happy about Simone! Also great to see Melanie and Joscelyn and Skye. I’m surprised to see so few vaults. Obviously scored differently than the other events, but still, there used to be so many clean amanars and quite a few chengs. Now most USA gymnasts are doing Yurchenko doubles, even in the biggest competitions. That definitely didn’t help the US team last olympics!
She was not even at her top difficulty or technique and had deductions on vault for a spotter and bars for separation of her legs ! With little things on beam and floor and she cleared even last years worlds competitors.
There’s something off in a system that allows a double pike vault to be significantly lower in score than some of the other routines of different apparatuses. Not to mention there’s questions as to whether FIG will lower it’s difficulty.
Because they’re not equivalent. Each event is unique and the FIG has to balance the scores so that one event is not out of proportion with the others. Keeping all things the same, vault scores tend to be higher because the execution errors are limited to a single vault, while on floor/beam/ bars a gymnast can make many more executions mistakes during all the tumbles, dance elements and releases.
On bars, if Simone connected her pack salto to toe on to komova back to high bar, then her entire starting series would be connected. Does that give her much bigger connection value and D score?
Black athletes instagram sports is amazing! Men are so outstanding and women are just as equal The US is very blessed instagram that area. Simone Biles I would like to see you add the flip others do on the balance beam and also something spectacular on the floor. Of course keeping your routine as is now! I’ve watched you for many many years and am breathless and amazed, sitting on the edge of my seat during your every performance. I congratulate you on all you have accomplished and for putting your health and mental health your first priority. May God bless you and all US athletes.
Sunissas bean is at the same value as Simone s and that's just if she added a tenth to her dismount to a D plus the 2 tenths she'd get as bonus for having ad level dm
Her E score on floor is fine. The top 4 international floor score this year came from her. Vault is very similarly scored at international standard. On beam, she improved her choreo to avoid some composition deductions. I think removing some switch half / sideway straddle jump can improve her score actually.
@@sallygreenfield6991 Just lots of bent knees and flexed feet overall. I think she's very good and I like her, but she looks messy. There's still plenty of time for improvements.
It's really awful how they give such low difficulty to Simone's vault and her named beam dismount that is no longer even worth performing in an effort to discourage other athletes from attempting skills that are completely out of their rich for their "safety".
Some people in these comments are being very uneducated about Roberson and it shows. Yes, she needs to be doing different kinds of leaps. A lot of the ones she's currently doing do not suit her. But you have to match style to skills for every gymnast, this is not unique to her nor her fault. She is relatively new on the scene, and young. I believe WCC will adjust her routines. I'm old enough to remember how people treated Shawn Johnson for her muscles and I'm not about to let y'all do it to this girl, too.
She’s improved a lot in a few months. I was ready to be super critical but watching her floor routine in this her artistry has improved a lot & she already has super difficult tumbles. I’d like to see better feet, not sickled, but that’s just my pet peeve. If she continues to improve at the same rate, she’s going to be unstoppable.
I think she’s definitely one to watch. She reminds me a lot of Shawn Johnson. Folks were worried about Jade Carey before Tokyo and she walked away with a gold medal.
I love how people think domestic scoring is her unique problem. Beam scoring has been a challenge to not just general audiences but gymnastics fans. Keeping beam rhythm with sufficient choreo between elements is highly encouraged in this beam code. People have to look at these pause, empty steps, rhythm on most routines before claiming that she's uniquely overscored. One thing for sure is that she should replace some split elements by double turn or non-split elements. But there are some aspects in the beam code that can balance out these deductions, if other gymnasts keep doing minimum in rhythm and choreo.
Obviously I’m a huge Simone fan…though it grinds my gears when comments are made making light of twisties and mental health. In addition to everything she is already training for, having counseling for mental health is an entire workout in and of itself. The other thing is after watching all of these events and simply staring at the screen in awe of these amazing athletes, what’s disappointing to me is the repetitive nature of the elements in every routine. I love patterns and constantly in general but I expected more variety in routines. I’m a bowler, not a gymnast. Not hating or trivializing the difficulty. Just making an observation as the friendly neighborhood OCD lady with dogs and cats 😂😂
I’m a coach and I agree. The way the code is structured right now, especially at elite, favors a specific type of athlete with very little originality. There’s a reason why china has fallen behind and why the highest scoring gymnasts tend to look the same. Artistry < power, turns and leap connections are valued abysmally low (aside from the wolf turn). Anything which requires flexibility is the same (sheep jumps, ring leaps, etc). That’s why you hardly ever see anything interesting on beam. It’s pretty disappointing.
@@coach.pattie i actually prefer the new code i hate how it used to be about a whole bunch of anorexic women forced to keep their child bodies just for the artistry and dance elements. i like seeing the diversity and beauty that there is now.
@@coach.pattiecouldn’t agree more. It’s so tiresome seeing the same leaps & tricks over & over again & even though we know why they’re doing it, it’s still annoying & has stripped a lot of the beauty from the sport. I’d rather go back to watching the old compulsory routines because although the skills weren’t as difficult, every competitor strove for technical perfection. Today we see the same moves by a lot of girls, often poorly performed.
That was what Simone was complaining about at the events leading up to the Olympics because they kept giving her a lower score on certain skills that she was performing
Until she competes it internationally it's a provisional value, I think USAG feels that the tucked yurchenko double would be a 6.2 so the piked would be a 6.4. I guess we'll find out at Worlds if she competes it?
@@aguti7920 The COP does say it has to be below 135 for downgrade. Hers is certainly more than that, although with considerable deductions. The international judges can only downgrade switch side technique for switch half which the domestic judges did for Classics.
I enjoy watching these videos but it seems the accent is only on the US team to show how difficult their routines are. I’m certain other countries have similar routines of difficulty.
Props to the black athletes. Let’s not take away from our Asian Americans though, Morgan Hurd, world Champ, Suni Lee, Olympic Champ and medalist. We’ve got Hispanic Americas like Laurie Hernandez. The diversity is amazing.
Melanie de Jesus dos Santos is basically a nobody… whose routine was absolutely, insanely, FLAWLESS. She was thee most graceful thing I’ve ever seen on uneven bars, from beginning to end. Stunning. Suni killed on her beam- love watching her. Listen- I love watching Roberson on the floor because she doesn’t have the traditional body type and it’s… fascinating to see how she relies on gravity😂, but that beam was incredibly sloppy and the score was inflated. Simone is the GOAT… nuff said 😊
Umm, Melanie is literally one of the biggest names at every international event 🤦♀️ she’s perhaps the best bar worker in the world. You probably don’t know her because she competes for team France, but I promise you she’s not a nobody lol aside from Simone and Suni, she’s the biggest name in this whole video 🥴
@@TimotheeChalametsPeach you literally missed my entire point. When it comes to names like Simone and Suni, Melanie is a WHO? You said it yourself, GENIUS: “you probably don’t know her because…” THAT is my point, Rocket Scientist. If she’s not known all over the world, and clearly she is NOT, she’s not “the best bar worker in the world” 🙄. All her medals seem to be European- not a single World Champion Title- Stop being so confrontational and UGLY, when I literally paid her an awesome compliment. Sit tf down and STFU.
Interesting that Europeans think Americans are watching their countrys athletes. We are not. I read that her highest medal is just a Bronze. If bronze is the highest she’s gotten, compared to Simones 26 GOLD, then she’s a nobody in the US. Their feelings are just hurt because they are not on Americans radar 🤷🏼♀️ How you can compare ONE BRONZE to 26 GOLD 😂😂 Other countries have to understand that Americans are not rushing to the tv to catch a Bronze athlete.
@jenjen1734 Disagree, every diehard gym fan I know in the U.S. knows the well known international gymnasts. The only fans I've met who only care about the U.S. are more casual and just watch the Olympics every four years.
Am I the only person annoyed by Simone Biles feet or do many people say this? It use to bother me that it seems like she rarely points her toes but now I’m wondering if that’s just how her feet look?
I have mixed feelings. Do these women have insane acrobatic skills? Yes, absolutely. However, their form is lacking. Watch gymnasts from the 70s, 80s, and 90s… you’ll see what I mean.
Those gymnasts were not doing anywhere near the level of difficult in their routines like these gymnasts thanks to the open ended code. If these gymnasts just had to do basic routines like Nadia their form would be better.
Wow Skye has clearly worked super hard on her execution and it shows
Her leaps have significant improvement.
Yes, yes, yes
I will never be over Melanie’s bar dismount. Absolutely stunning form and stuck to boot. WCC must be doing something that’s working for her, because it’s showing.
Did she switch from France to USA?
her whole routine, that nabieva was stunning!
Reducing the number of straddles to handstand would be an improvement.
@@saragrant9749No. she was there as an invitational. She still competes for France.
@@lottie8970 oh ok. Really neat that they invited her!
6.8 difficulty for Simone's floor routine. OMG seeing that rating made me laugh. It's crazy how good she is, she doesn't just perform the skills, she performs them extremely well.
It's not even her full difficulty either. I think her 2021 routine would be a 7.0 in this code which is insane. Not entirely sure though since I'm not familiar with the new scoring yet
You're right, it'd be 7.0 based on her maxed performed difficulty. Replace the Chusovitina with Biles II. All the other switches will be point neutral.
@@murasakino101 New scoring? Did they change the code of points again??
Imagine if a transwoman could compete with a 6.9D. ❤️
@@user-jc6tj2xt1p I think this is one sport where men cannot beat women. They're good on their own apparatus
Skye for me was a standout. I'm not sure what it is, maybe it's that high chest on all of the landings, particularly on beam, coupled with her being rather tall for a gymnast in general, but man is she ever lovely to watch.
I agree and I have said that for quite awhile now. She has the goods in difficulty but she also has an artistic elegance about her with long lines that especially looks great on beam and bars.
I love Suni Lee and her routine was beautiful, she's such a champ. I really hope she's not pushing herself too hard with her illness, but I'm also happy to see her back.
What’s her illness?
@@emmysfilmlife2639 She has kidney disease
@@emmysfilmlife2639it’s a kidney issue that’s all we know
@@emmysfilmlife2639 an unspecified kidney disease
@@emmysfilmlife2639kidney disease
Simone, Suni, and Skye are SOO talented!
And joycelyn
@@spamgarbage6999she's messy asf
I love Jocelyn's smile after she sticks her floor and beam passes. She's so fun to watch!
It's amazing to see Sunisa Lee doing that routine when she's not even 50%. She is amazing
Not even at 50% and she blew the routine out of the water with a clutch performance to qualify to U.S. championships! A true Olympic champion
as someone who did gymnastics for like a year as an 8yrold, i simply cannot imagine how any of this is POSSIBLE! i am completely stunned by the insane talent of these women!
Skye's beam mount was really unique!
Joscelyn really impressed
Amazing that Simone's floor is the most difficult. Often bars and beam can reach higher D than floor and vault.
also that bars is simone's weakest event yet she outscored most on that event
@@ghostt4634she does a very efficient UB routine. Not flashy but enough to keep her way ahead of the competition.
@@ghostt4634her bar routine may have outscored but it had a lot of mistakes. A LOT
And this was her watered down floor routine! Absolutely insane to have your watered-down, easy routine have a 6.8 D-score
@@EnginemodeV1286Lwhat were those mistakes?
Simone is absolutely breathtaking in all she does. The USA team is pure gold. They work so hard, and it shows! Suni Lee isn't even 100%, and she is just pushing through! All of them are just amazing!
Wow! That little lady Joscelyn Roberson is spectacular! I understand she only stands about 4’8”, but she’s one little ball of dynamite and definitely someone to keep an eye on! Simone, Suni, and Skye are also fantastic! Go team!!
Joscelyn was soooooo gooodddd
My 8 year old niece is 4.8
Her balance and steadiness on the beam were incredible, plus all the moves she had.
She slayed it 🙌💪 !
She was awesome for sure 💕
Melanie is CRAZY!!!! Dear god! I wasn't ready!!!
Simone's speed is crazy haha... I played her floor routine at 0.25x speed to try to see it better, and it was STILL fast in some parts! She's a wild woman!
It seems that Jocelyn Roberson is not among the flexible gymnasts but she can really manipulate momentum well.
She is amazing
The camaraderie is absolutely moving
2:30 that dismount though!!! 🎯
i cant do a single cartwheel so i cant gauge what makes something more difficult than the other. 😅
Good grief they are amazing I am like how the heck do they do this I am mesmerized. Clearly they the audience are as well 😮
Skye's beam mount is my favorite
Loved Joscelyn's beam and floor Had never seen her before. Melanie's bar dismount is beautiful. Skye is so talented
😍🤩😍 I'm really enjoying the progression in the choreography of the arm movements. Where a few years ago the standard arm movements didn't add much to the routine and seemed almost silly at times,, now each gymnast is using her arms and hands to communicate something unique and expressive and to show their personality and signature style. ❤
Joscelyn certainly has the difficulty but I’m sorry to be critical here, but her form needs major improvement. She shows bent knees on her layouts and lack of extension on practically all of her leaps and definitely not full splits. I fear the international judges will highly deduct her.
I mean she’s already competed at several international meets this year and her floor scores were comparable to what she scored here. Her beam was definitely overscored here though
Yes, I feel the same way. Her beam leaps weren't 180 and there are bent knees and flexed feet. I expect she's working to improve there.
I would take bent knees and poor extension over poor body positions or a floppy core ANY DAY in an up and coming gymnast. Those problems are much easier to fix, won’t hinder her growth, and won’t force her to relearn skills as she addresses them. So while yeah, that’s something for her to work on, I’m honestly not too worried about it.
The most important parts of her form (for function, not aesthetics) are fantastic
I feel the same about her!
Simone is well deserving of gold. Her routines were flawless/en pointe. Including high level elements assisted gaining high points.. and given they were executed flawlessly, gained her top points, gave her the gold medal allocation.
The U.S. has so many amazing black athletes. Recognize black excellence!
I noticed that. I call it the Gabby Douglas and Simone Biles effect. More little blacks girls went into gymnastics starting in 2012 and we're starting to see them shine more and more.
I remember Dominque Daws , back in day , she was always so graceful
@@Kim-J312Agreed! Betty Okino, Diane Durham, Luci Collins, and Dionne Foster are on the “excellent” list, too. 🙂
@@toomuchpassion2361it shows how important representation is!!!
Will Melanie Dos Santos still compete for France in the future?
CONGRATS SIMONE ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
I actually love how the female gymnasts today are somewhat muscular. They don't look as graceful as the lean and thin ones but makes up for power.
I do, too! All of the US gymnasts look incredibly strong and healthy.
Technically they’re supposed to be muscular any because this is not a dance recital or rhythmic gymnastics they expect these girls to do super difficult stuff yeah be a stick which with good training does not make biological sense. So you’re right and not just because of the increased difficulty.
@@MelMeltalks31 the whole attitude, mental health and physical health changed dramatically since the Karolyi’s left and the camp closed which to me is a great thing. We are seeing positive changes and amazing skills with less injuries. I never liked the old ways as the girls looked sad and drained mentally and physically.
I always love skyes on beam. Her confidence is growing.
They all are so amazing!! ❤
They are all so good! Continue what you're doing ladies.
joscelyn's move at 3:33 absolutely floored me. i've never seen anything like it- literally replayed it 5+ times to understand what she did.
It's an Onodi
Gymnastics has gone to a whole other level … I love it! 🤸🏾
Athletic Excellence 🥇
Jordyns reaction to simones vault is so wholesome. 4:10 for anyone who's wondering
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Everyone is SO fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm in awe. I'm lucky enough to be able to walk on a sidewalk.................WOW SUCH TALENT and SKILL ( with acknowledgement of the hard work in training)
Amazing!
i'm old school i kinda miss the artistry in artistic gymnastics its all about point and difficulty now although its great to watch i feel something has been lost in the sport just my opinion
Agreed!
Jocelyn's was the most artistic.
Skye looks fantastic
JAW DROPPING!
Bravo!!
True majestic 🤩
Beautiful routines by all of the women!
Go USA🎉❤! USA! An incredible team heading for Olympics! You're ALL amazing!
Outstanding fun to watch, those women absolutely fly. Wish the scores had been included b/c I thought they were all 10's!!
Oh Melanie looks soo good!
So happy about Simone! Also great to see Melanie and Joscelyn and Skye.
I’m surprised to see so few vaults. Obviously scored differently than the other events, but still, there used to be so many clean amanars and quite a few chengs. Now most USA gymnasts are doing Yurchenko doubles, even in the biggest competitions. That definitely didn’t help the US team last olympics!
Wow these ladies are awesome
The thing that gets me is that these incredible gymnasts are expected to play to the audience as well as perform these unbelievable tasks!
These beam routines are baller
Those routines Simone did wasn’t even at her top difficulty and still beat everyone
She was not even at her top difficulty or technique and had deductions on vault for a spotter and bars for separation of her legs ! With little things on beam and floor and she cleared even last years worlds competitors.
@@MelMeltalks31 exactly just imagine when she adds the difficulty back in to her routines
Just imagine if she adds more difficulty to her uneven bars and beam routine nobody can touch her on vault and floor
There’s something off in a system that allows a double pike vault to be significantly lower in score than some of the other routines of different apparatuses. Not to mention there’s questions as to whether FIG will lower it’s difficulty.
Because they’re not equivalent. Each event is unique and the FIG has to balance the scores so that one event is not out of proportion with the others. Keeping all things the same, vault scores tend to be higher because the execution errors are limited to a single vault, while on floor/beam/ bars a gymnast can make many more executions mistakes during all the tumbles, dance elements and releases.
I feel ya. That vault D should be higher.
I thought it was going to get a 6.6 D value?
@@mrpartsExcept uneven bar workers have a decided advantage this quad. It’s 2008 all over again.
@@Appaddict01 Yes, last year 14.4 was qualifying score, while other events are about winning score. FX in particular becomes low scoring event.
Mdjds was my fav bars of the competition
Jocelyn beautiful routine fun to watch.
Simone all power always pushing limits!
Wow such towering routines no holding back
Very beautifull
Such amazing women, so spectacular!
Melanie bars!🤩
Suni beam!! Her leaps are so pretty she is most graceful on the beam.
I want someone this quad to do a Patterson dismount
On bars, if Simone connected her pack salto to toe on to komova back to high bar, then her entire starting series would be connected. Does that give her much bigger connection value and D score?
Skye is amazing!!!! I just wish her feet were nicer😬.. that's where Suni always gets me.. she has dancer feet:) 😍😍😍
Continue to be God's amazing athletes! I'm so proud of you all 👏! Share it with others 😂❤
Black athletes instagram sports is amazing! Men are so outstanding and women are just as equal
The US is very blessed instagram that area. Simone Biles I would like to see you add the flip others do
on the balance beam and also something spectacular on the floor. Of course keeping your routine as is now!
I’ve watched you for many many years and am breathless and amazed, sitting on the edge of my seat during
your every performance. I congratulate you on all you have accomplished and for putting your health and
mental health your first priority. May God bless you and all US athletes.
I do not discriminate, I acknowledge excellence…not color. 😊
Sunissas bean is at the same value as Simone s and that's just if she added a tenth to her dismount to a D plus the 2 tenths she'd get as bonus for having ad level dm
She hasn’t done a D level dismount since 2019
I worry about Roberson's E scores internationally.
Her E score on floor is fine. The top 4 international floor score this year came from her. Vault is very similarly scored at international standard. On beam, she improved her choreo to avoid some composition deductions. I think removing some switch half / sideway straddle jump can improve her score actually.
IDK, her form and execution is pretty darn good. I'm wondering what it is that you are seeing that makes you say this.
@@sallygreenfield6991from my perspective she’s amazing! BUT… GET THOSE SPLITS, and work on her artistry!
yes, the switch half is problematic. @@cocoroni1031
@@sallygreenfield6991 Just lots of bent knees and flexed feet overall. I think she's very good and I like her, but she looks messy. There's still plenty of time for improvements.
It's really awful how they give such low difficulty to Simone's vault and her named beam dismount that is no longer even worth performing in an effort to discourage other athletes from attempting skills that are completely out of their rich for their "safety".
Melanie is incredible! Wow my fav by far! J has the shortest thickest legs Ive ever seen, how does she do it?
Some people in these comments are being very uneducated about Roberson and it shows.
Yes, she needs to be doing different kinds of leaps. A lot of the ones she's currently doing do not suit her. But you have to match style to skills for every gymnast, this is not unique to her nor her fault.
She is relatively new on the scene, and young. I believe WCC will adjust her routines.
I'm old enough to remember how people treated Shawn Johnson for her muscles and I'm not about to let y'all do it to this girl, too.
I’m shocked at the negative comments. I was super impressed by her! Obviously she’s young but her potential is enormous and evident!
She’s improved a lot in a few months. I was ready to be super critical but watching her floor routine in this her artistry has improved a lot & she already has super difficult tumbles. I’d like to see better feet, not sickled, but that’s just my pet peeve. If she continues to improve at the same rate, she’s going to be unstoppable.
I think she’s definitely one to watch. She reminds me a lot of Shawn Johnson. Folks were worried about Jade Carey before Tokyo and she walked away with a gold medal.
I love how people think domestic scoring is her unique problem. Beam scoring has been a challenge to not just general audiences but gymnastics fans. Keeping beam rhythm with sufficient choreo between elements is highly encouraged in this beam code. People have to look at these pause, empty steps, rhythm on most routines before claiming that she's uniquely overscored.
One thing for sure is that she should replace some split elements by double turn or non-split elements. But there are some aspects in the beam code that can balance out these deductions, if other gymnasts keep doing minimum in rhythm and choreo.
Obviously I’m a huge Simone fan…though it grinds my gears when comments are made making light of twisties and mental health.
In addition to everything she is already training for, having counseling for mental health is an entire workout in and of itself.
The other thing is after watching all of these events and simply staring at the screen in awe of these amazing athletes, what’s disappointing to me is the repetitive nature of the elements in every routine. I love patterns and constantly in general but I expected more variety in routines.
I’m a bowler, not a gymnast. Not hating or trivializing the difficulty. Just making an observation as the friendly neighborhood OCD lady with dogs and cats 😂😂
ur comment literally answers why u see so much of the same stuff. everyone tries to boost their difficulty to win so they do the same skills
I’m a coach and I agree. The way the code is structured right now, especially at elite, favors a specific type of athlete with very little originality. There’s a reason why china has fallen behind and why the highest scoring gymnasts tend to look the same. Artistry < power, turns and leap connections are valued abysmally low (aside from the wolf turn). Anything which requires flexibility is the same (sheep jumps, ring leaps, etc). That’s why you hardly ever see anything interesting on beam. It’s pretty disappointing.
@@coach.pattie i actually prefer the new code i hate how it used to be about a whole bunch of anorexic women forced to keep their child bodies just for the artistry and dance elements. i like seeing the diversity and beauty that there is now.
@@coach.pattiecouldn’t agree more. It’s so tiresome seeing the same leaps & tricks over & over again & even though we know why they’re doing it, it’s still annoying & has stripped a lot of the beauty from the sport. I’d rather go back to watching the old compulsory routines because although the skills weren’t as difficult, every competitor strove for technical perfection. Today we see the same moves by a lot of girls, often poorly performed.
@@ot12stan61agree
What happened i thought the Yurchenko double pike was a 6.6 D value? That was the D value at the 2021 US classic.
its only temporary currently since its not technically is the code of points yet so its up to judges
That was what Simone was complaining about at the events leading up to the Olympics because they kept giving her a lower score on certain skills that she was performing
Until she competes it internationally it's a provisional value, I think USAG feels that the tucked yurchenko double would be a 6.2 so the piked would be a 6.4. I guess we'll find out at Worlds if she competes it?
Biles is the best, ever 💗
I can't wait until Wolf turns are gone.
I think Simone has pushed every one. They knew what they were up against but she keeps getting better.
Interested to see how Biles' floor would score at world champs given new code's artistic focus. Almost zero dance here compared to Gadirova etc.
She will crush her.
She does enough to avoid most artistry deductions - she has different choreography going into the corners, connects with the music etc
@@Bxyxox yep. Like I said interested to see, as it's a very different type of gymnastics to what we've seen winning internationally in the last year
Do the female gymnastics wear some type of chest protection
2:55 i am sorry but no international judge would give her credit for that switch leap half, she needs to take it out
International judges already credited those with 150-160 degree this year. They mainly devalue switch side technique. Hers is 160.
@@cocoroni1031 normally they are more strict at the world championships or Olympics
@@aguti7920 The COP does say it has to be below 135 for downgrade. Hers is certainly more than that, although with considerable deductions. The international judges can only downgrade switch side technique for switch half which the domestic judges did for Classics.
There were a bunch of leaps in this video that should've gotten deductions for not being anywhere near 180.
@@cocoroni1031 WHAT ? You can do a leap with 135 degrees - and it counts ? ! ! !
#BlackGirlMagic
#BlackExcellence
#Goated
#GOAT
Hate to call that beautiful young woman a “GOAT,” But she sure is!!!!!
Gymnastics and Ice Skating have become a more difficult and dangerous sport.
i am a level 3 and i can't do this
A série de trave da Suni deve ser 6,3 ou 6,4 porque ela perdeu uma das conexões
I enjoy watching these videos but it seems the accent is only on the US team to show how difficult their routines are. I’m certain other countries have similar routines of difficulty.
Simon is never a point of some people's comedy. Obviously hers got her shit together. Let me see you do the beauty she expressed
Props to the black athletes. Let’s not take away from our Asian Americans though, Morgan Hurd, world Champ, Suni Lee, Olympic Champ and medalist. We’ve got Hispanic Americas like Laurie Hernandez. The diversity is amazing.
Suni such grave
Gosh someone clearly needs to lose at least 10 to 15 lbs.
That background music is really distracting.
Melanie de Jesus dos Santos is basically a nobody… whose routine was absolutely, insanely, FLAWLESS. She was thee most graceful thing I’ve ever seen on uneven bars, from beginning to end. Stunning. Suni killed on her beam- love watching her. Listen- I love watching Roberson on the floor because she doesn’t have the traditional body type and it’s… fascinating to see how she relies on gravity😂, but that beam was incredibly sloppy and the score was inflated. Simone is the GOAT… nuff said 😊
Umm, Melanie is literally one of the biggest names at every international event 🤦♀️ she’s perhaps the best bar worker in the world. You probably don’t know her because she competes for team France, but I promise you she’s not a nobody lol aside from Simone and Suni, she’s the biggest name in this whole video 🥴
@@TimotheeChalametsPeach you literally missed my entire point. When it comes to names like Simone and Suni, Melanie is a WHO? You said it yourself, GENIUS: “you probably don’t know her because…” THAT is my point, Rocket Scientist. If she’s not known all over the world, and clearly she is NOT, she’s not “the best bar worker in the world” 🙄. All her medals seem to be European- not a single World Champion Title- Stop being so confrontational and UGLY, when I literally paid her an awesome compliment. Sit tf down and STFU.
A nobody?? She's probably one of the most well known European gymnasts
Interesting that Europeans think Americans are watching their countrys athletes. We are not.
I read that her highest medal is just a Bronze. If bronze is the highest she’s gotten, compared to Simones 26 GOLD, then she’s a nobody in the US. Their feelings are just hurt because they are not on Americans radar 🤷🏼♀️ How you can compare ONE BRONZE to 26 GOLD 😂😂 Other countries have to understand that Americans are not rushing to the tv to catch a Bronze athlete.
@jenjen1734 Disagree, every diehard gym fan I know in the U.S. knows the well known international gymnasts. The only fans I've met who only care about the U.S. are more casual and just watch the Olympics every four years.
Doping.
With all the gymnastics skills that have been banned… may we please, please add wolf turns to the list??
Sooo tired of them!
Is that why you banned Russia from competing?
Suni Lee is so good on balance beam, but she has zero charisma while performing it.
Am I the only person annoyed by Simone Biles feet or do many people say this? It use to bother me that it seems like she rarely points her toes but now I’m wondering if that’s just how her feet look?
It IS how her feet ARE.
They so big
Actually not even a single one of them is taller than 5’3. They are very petite
I have mixed feelings. Do these women have insane acrobatic skills? Yes, absolutely. However, their form is lacking.
Watch gymnasts from the 70s, 80s, and 90s… you’ll see what I mean.
Those gymnasts were not doing anywhere near the level of difficult in their routines like these gymnasts thanks to the open ended code. If these gymnasts just had to do basic routines like Nadia their form would be better.
Even though the routines on beam are difficult, they are so boring: same skills, same connections, same dismounts. Bleh