The gymnasts in these times had much more flow in their movements and the whole exercise was like one piece of art. Nowadays, the gymnasts do some "ballet-like"-waves as if it was a useless duty,then they stop for seconds to concentrate on the next jump. No dancing art anymore, and no one seems to listen to the music or dance to the music. so sad. :( Nelli Kim was great!
Well they concentrate more on your tumbling skills now. Times have changed as does other things! If you want to watch more dance elements, watch college gymnastics!
actually even usa made a doc on her during olympics 1976 but stupid sovjet didnt make her front figure despite she was the best scoring on her team before olympics.
@Catherine H. her father was a Sakhalin Korean and her mother was a Tartar so neither of them were ethnically Russian although they were born and raised in Russia. Sakhalin Russians of Korean descent lived on the Sakhalin Island off the coast of Russia. Tartars were Turkic speaking people living mainly in Russia
The Soviets had several great athletes going for medals and indeed gold in many disciplines, it did not make sense to promote an individual. Weaker and smaller countries on the other hand...
Very talented Nelli Kim , a ethnic Korean from Kazakhstan , USSR . very nice routine , graceful on the floor , she was flawless . 1976 I was 7yrs old and a fan of Nelli Kim , Olga Korbut and Nadia Comanici .
Her father was a Sakhalin Korean and her mother was a Tartar. C'mon, her last name is Kim, that's very Korean. And you can see it in her facial features, too.
I miss my adolescence. When me and my friends would get together, and we talked about the Olympics! And the olympic gymnast Nelly Kim was one of our favorite gymnasts! Not only for talent but also for beauty,
I believe it was actually blue but for some reason it shows as purple in the footage. The Soviet gymnasts wore either Blue or Red tracksuits and leotards as their team colours.
What was the floor made of in those days? Nowadays you can see the super springiness when a gymnast merely steps on it. In Rio you could see the edges of the floor bounce up and flap around with the impact of the tumbling, but back then in the seventies, the floor area looked like a relatively hard surface with little 'give'. All the more amazing to see a double tuck back from the legendary Nelli, on a non-sprung floor!
Not very good coverage, but even with the terrible close ups I can tell it was a lovely routine. But seriously, can we all stop complaining about how gymnastics was sooo much better in those days?
I enjoy to see her execution a lot, she is perfect, she transmites many things: energy, vitality, elegance, grace, accuracy, precision, really great. She is the best those Olympic games!!!!.
Gymnastics history would be so different if Nellie had scored the first 10 and not Nadia. Although Nellie is very well known in the gymnastics world, so many people outside of gymnastics know (or know of) Nadia. I feel a bit sorry for her in a way. She was a beautiful gymnast with the most pretty face.
Nelli Kim ganadora del all around en Moscú 1980 una gran gimnasta una verdadera artista y estrella de la gimnasia mundial qué no ha tenido el reconocimiento suficiente a su enorme talento..... felicidades por estos videos que muestran El talento y de las grandes gimnastas de la era soviética
Nelli once appeared on the BBC's Sports Personality of The Year programme and offered to do a demonstration on the beam, but Steve Rider wouldn't let her. It was sometime in the late 1980s and she was wearing her ordinary clothes but was still prepared to have a go. What a sport !
What a landing on that last diagonal. I've been following Olympic and gimnastics for years, and I've never seen anything like Comaneci and Kim. She has landed perfectly, on both foot at the same time. I'm not an expert, but I've never seen anything like those two. Maybe I am wrong and nowadays gymnastics are better and harder, of course, I'm not really knowledgeable, but still...
EscuchaYcalla I recomend you can see Elene Davydova in Olympics games1980, She is really perfect and got 10 on Floor, on vault was spectacular and also on uneven bars was wonderful. It is a shame that she could not go to Los Ángeles, because she had won more medals.
@@pedromoreno4492 La artisticidad es subjetiva. Las rutinas de Kim en mi opinión tenían buena coreografía y desde luego que sabía interpretar la melodía de su rutina. Nadia a mi parecer sí, tenía más carisma. Pero en sí sus coreografías no eran tan pulidas como las de las soviéticas y menos si las comparas con las de Ludmilla Turischeva o María Filatova que realmente danzaban en suelo.
Muy bien nelly kin pero le falta esa gracia elegancia q tiene nadia comaneci ese ejercicio en piso merecio un 10 para nadia lo hizo tan bello tan natural elegante patecia q estaba jugando en el patio de su casa ella era adorable con tan solo verla competir
yep... makes the routines cleaner too. I hate it when they banned the backstep. Gymnasts have to struggle to stick their landings, which results in more stress, and if they can't, it just looks ugly.
You are correct.Todays the gymnasts have more power like McKayla Maroney in the vault but she or the others can not sticktheir landings in a perfect position like Nellie Kim did.In the olympic games in 2012 i remember only the uneven bars when A.Mustafina got in a perfect position.Elisabeth Tweddle miss the gold with an awful landing.To me Nadja Comaneci her the beam routine in 1976 was much cleaner than in the olympics in 2012.I miss those gymnasts in 1976.Nadja and Nellie and the others
En esos 70 muchos seguiamos y practicábamos la actividad y siempre de acuerdo al codigo FIG opinamos que habia superado a Comanecci pero como siempre como venia de Rusia le fue negada su primacia relegandola a un puesto inferior. A pesar del doble que unica ella presento en su serie aumentando su dificultad para la puntuación .
Nadia was injured and still won bronze. She left out a double back and finished with a layout, instead of the double full. She was best on floor, until she was injured.
Francis Thanks for that?? Had been confused in regards to Nellie Kim's nationality Always thought she was Chinese but now thanks to you I know she was an ethnic Korean who grew up in Eastern Europe Knew from her face she had to have Eastern roots And as a young gymnast it was like you Nelli Kim, Olga Korbut, Nadia Comaneci who inspired me and whom I won't forget!! 🎐🎎🎏 Modern gymnastics is just not the same as it used to be... it's as if the "art" was quite literally hammered out of it....
@@leightonsteven7059 Perhaps she felt it wasn't necessary, as she had worn the official leo during the team comperition. I was actually more surprised to see Ungureanu wearing a Soviet red leo in the AA
Why? you can't even see the legs and the form of the gymnast in this video. Besides, in this years the code was completely different for determining the 'correct' score.
I painted picture of her on the balance beam I think and it was in the women's sports office in HS. I had a crush on her most likely. I was in HS I got those every 10 minutes.
@@annapavfan4680 Not to be rude, but you are incorrect. Several of the biggest skills in the code from the double layout to the Chusovitina were debuted between the 80s-90s bearing in mind that the floor only became sprung in 1976. Skills such as the double layout, double front, Silivas and Chusovitina are all examples, yet none of these women had the bulky muscular physiques of some of the gymnasts you see not only today, but also of 6 years ago (when the OP was made). Even current gymnasts, Riley McCusker, Morgan Hurd, Trinity Thomas have very feminine physiques coupled with immense power. Bigger skills do not equate bigger muscles; bigger muscles are the result of the conditioning methods that were being used.
I quite agree, Nellie was always considered a power gymnast, but she looked so graceful. Her power made her vaults and floor routines look awesome.,it went against her slightly on the bars and particularly the beam, but her dismounts were still amazing
That would mean she needed to make 4 small mistakes to score 9.8 She didn’t make any, you can’t even say the routine was easy. The 10 was deserved, as was her gold medal
Perfection is always a relative thing--and her two closest competitors, Ludmilla and Nadia, had both scored at around 9.9 before Nelli's performance--so the judges found themselves in a position of more or less having to award the 10 to Nelli. That said, this routine would've been hard to mark down in any case.
No, I do agree with an earlier comment. It is pretty public that Nelli Kim underscored Silivas' routine. Those were the days when they showed the individual scores from the judges and you could see how biased the were. Even the commentators were very upset she did that. I'm sure the footage is one youtube somewhere. I lost respect for her after that as she favored the Russians with better scores.
+Bengt Boman if we are going to get technical, prior to the Soviet Union, it was Soviet Russia. Irregardless, this was not the point of my post. I don't respect Nellie Kim because as a judge (in my opinion) she was incredibly biased and awarded the higher scores to the Soviet Union and lower scores to other better deserving gymnasts from other countries. Of course now as spectators we don't see what each judge from their respective countries award (which is a shame in the name of transparency), but Kim had a reputation of scoring her own nation higher scores and giving slightly lower scores to the competition so her nation would win the medals. How can you respect someone that does that? Everyone turns a blinding eye to this, but the fact remains she was able to manipulate who won medals back in the day which enormously affected certain gymnasts in a very negative away. Ironically now, she lives in The United States and is in the gymnastics hall of fame.
Still a perfect routine though and not boring at all. Unlike most other gymnasts Nellie kept evolving her routines and changing her music, it kept it at the forefront of competition throughout her career
The gymnasts in these times had much more flow in their movements and the whole exercise was like one piece of art. Nowadays, the gymnasts do some "ballet-like"-waves as if it was a useless duty,then they stop for seconds to concentrate on the next jump.
No dancing art anymore, and no one seems to listen to the music or dance to the music.
so sad. :(
Nelli Kim was great!
True
Its terrible. Watching Simone Biles I get bored.
Exactly
Well they concentrate more on your tumbling skills now. Times have changed as does other things! If you want to watch more dance elements, watch college gymnastics!
also the floor is like a giant springboard now to make the jumps higher for good filming and photographs
Fun fact: Singer Nelli Furtado (who's Canadian) was named after this gymnast! Her full name is Nelli Kim Furtado
omg are you serious?! i did not know that! i am a Nelly Furtado fan, and 1/2 Korean, and I studied in Russia for a bit. This makes my day!
@@EphesianRose yes! Nelli's parents were watching the Montreal Olympics and loved Nelli Kim
It's with a Y! Nelly Kim Furtado 😊
@@KayKay114 oh I always mess that up! :P thanks!
@@kras118 - so cool!
she should be celebrated as much as Comaneci for a perfect 10 . don't know why the soviets back then didn't promote her much
actually even usa made a doc on her during olympics 1976 but stupid sovjet didnt make her front figure despite she was the best scoring on her team before olympics.
They were too busy with their noses up Ludmilla's butt all the time. She got all the glory until Olga stole everyone's heart!
@Catherine H. her father was a Sakhalin Korean and her mother was a Tartar so neither of them were ethnically Russian although they were born and raised in Russia. Sakhalin Russians of Korean descent lived on the Sakhalin Island off the coast of Russia. Tartars were Turkic speaking people living mainly in Russia
Soviet Union was still racist. Kim was not pure Russian.
The Soviets had several great athletes going for medals and indeed gold in many disciplines, it did not make sense to promote an individual. Weaker and smaller countries on the other hand...
I remember watching this live in 1976. This is the best vintage floor routine. Well deserved Nellie .
Very talented Nelli Kim , a ethnic Korean from Kazakhstan , USSR . very nice routine , graceful on the floor , she was flawless . 1976 I was 7yrs old and a fan of Nelli Kim , Olga Korbut and Nadia Comanici .
+FRANCIS COX Not at all she is from Tajikistan.
+Bengt Boman I read her father was half korean, but I am not sure
Her father was a Sakhalin Korean and her mother was a Tartar. C'mon, her last name is Kim, that's very Korean. And you can see it in her facial features, too.
+Erik Baran exactly
she's from Tajikistan not Kazakhstan
She nailed that double back salto.
True! Although she still shouldn't have stolen credit from poor Maria Filatova and Olga Korbut, who also did it during optionals.
Thinking that it was 1976...OMG!! Nelli is one of the best gymnasts ever
I miss my adolescence. When me and my friends would get together, and we talked about the Olympics! And the olympic gymnast Nelly Kim was one of our favorite gymnasts! Not only for talent but also for beauty,
Beautiful!
Beautiful and perfect routine. And Nellie looks elegant and gorgeous with the purple leotard.
I believe it was actually blue but for some reason it shows as purple in the footage. The Soviet gymnasts wore either Blue or Red tracksuits and leotards as their team colours.
el primer 10 perfecto en la historia de las olimpiadas en ejercicios en suelo... NELLI KIM
SIII.PARA LAS PULGAS DEL TIO SAM??
I had a serious crush on her back then. In 1998 I wrote to her in Minnesota and she was kind enough to send me a pic and autograph. :D
Dude she was hot and im 38. I'm just running across her yesterday and good Lord she was hot. I see why you had a crush. Exotic looking
She was the only gymnast in the early years of gymnastics who didn't cowboy her double back on floor!
I guess that was reason enough for her to not give her teammates who competed it before her naming credits and keep it all to herself 💀
el primer diez en suelo en la gimnasia artistica femenil en los juegos olimpicos!! NELLI KIM
She is queen of the floor she won the gold !
A beautiful gymnast, Nelli Kim’s routine is ruined by the appalling filming which fails to show her graceful leg and footwork for much of the time.
What was the floor made of in those days? Nowadays you can see the super springiness when a gymnast merely steps on it. In Rio you could see the edges of the floor bounce up and flap around with the impact of the tumbling, but back then in the seventies, the floor area looked like a relatively hard surface with little 'give'. All the more amazing to see a double tuck back from the legendary Nelli, on a non-sprung floor!
Gorgeous double back
Bravo! Bravo! She won, no doubt about! lol
Nellie Kim rockin' the full turn in tuck since 1976.
Not very good coverage, but even with the terrible close ups I can tell it was a lovely routine. But seriously, can we all stop complaining about how gymnastics was sooo much better in those days?
This wasn't the tv coverage, except for the last part. Most likely filmed for a retrospective.
We are not complaining how good it was we are celebrating how good it was.
I enjoy to see her execution a lot, she is perfect, she transmites many things: energy, vitality, elegance, grace, accuracy, precision, really great. She is the best those Olympic games!!!!.
Gymnastics history would be so different if Nellie had scored the first 10 and not Nadia. Although Nellie is very well known in the gymnastics world, so many people outside of gymnastics know (or know of) Nadia. I feel a bit sorry for her in a way. She was a beautiful gymnast with the most pretty face.
She was indeed and still is beautiful. What a talented lady.
But this was in the same Olympic edition, right? It's stupid to just talk about Nadia. Nelli is a pioneer just as much as she was
Nelli Kim ganadora del all around en Moscú 1980 una gran gimnasta una verdadera artista y estrella de la gimnasia mundial qué no ha tenido el reconocimiento suficiente a su enorme talento..... felicidades por estos videos que muestran El talento y de las grandes gimnastas de la era soviética
No. Elena Davidova (URSS) fue la ganadora del all around en los JO de Moscu, 1980. En segundo exquo Comaneci y Gnauck.
imagine winning three golds in one olympic and still being over-shadowed
Yes she didn't receive the recognition she truly deserved. She will always be my favourite gymnast.
Нелли Ким Молодец !!! Стабильная артистичная Гимнастка !!! Класс !!!
Nelli once appeared on the BBC's Sports Personality of The Year programme and offered to do a demonstration on the beam, but Steve Rider wouldn't let her. It was sometime in the late 1980s and she was wearing her ordinary clothes but was still prepared to have a go. What a sport !
I remember watching Nelli as a child - she was my inspiration & my favourite 😀
What a landing on that last diagonal. I've been following Olympic and gimnastics for years, and I've never seen anything like Comaneci and Kim. She has landed perfectly, on both foot at the same time. I'm not an expert, but I've never seen anything like those two. Maybe I am wrong and nowadays gymnastics are better and harder, of course, I'm not really knowledgeable, but still...
EscuchaYcalla I recomend you can see Elene Davydova in Olympics games1980, She is really perfect and got 10 on Floor, on vault was spectacular and also on uneven bars was wonderful. It is a shame that she could not go to Los Ángeles, because she had won more medals.
She was as light as air. I thought she was incredible.
Mejor expresión artística y dificultad que Nadia pero estaban en América y como es costumbre les robaron medallas a las rusas!
El mejor comentario.
Más dificultad en suelo, sí. Pero Kim estaba muy lejos de Nadia en expresión. Las rutinas de Comaneci cautivaban, esta no.
@@pedromoreno4492 muy cierto
@@pedromoreno4492 La artisticidad es subjetiva. Las rutinas de Kim en mi opinión tenían buena coreografía y desde luego que sabía interpretar la melodía de su rutina. Nadia a mi parecer sí, tenía más carisma. Pero en sí sus coreografías no eran tan pulidas como las de las soviéticas y menos si las comparas con las de Ludmilla Turischeva o María Filatova que realmente danzaban en suelo.
Muy bien nelly kin pero le falta esa gracia elegancia q tiene nadia comaneci ese ejercicio en piso merecio un 10 para nadia lo hizo tan bello tan natural elegante patecia q estaba jugando en el patio de su casa ella era adorable con tan solo verla competir
From Kazakh USSR!
is that legendary Nadia wearing # 13?
Nice to see the girl who first got me watching gymnastics again :-D
Anybody knows the Name of the song? It's not Piano Jam as some others claimed i guess
There were no springs on that floor.
Maravilhosa
наша родина СССР
she's from Shymkent, Kazakhstan
yep... makes the routines cleaner too. I hate it when they banned the backstep. Gymnasts have to struggle to stick their landings, which results in more stress, and if they can't, it just looks ugly.
Вот-Ким-Давыдова-пробки запомнились остальные-нет-однодневки-
Always loved Nelli Kim - she was superb. Pity the viewing of the routine was ruined by rubbish camera angles!
Beauriful ! Bravo perfect 10 00 👏
the best the most beautiful of all time
Нелли Ким Легенда Супер !!!
You are correct.Todays the gymnasts have more power like McKayla Maroney in the vault but she or the others can not sticktheir landings in a perfect position like Nellie Kim did.In the olympic games in 2012 i remember only the uneven bars when A.Mustafina got in a perfect position.Elisabeth Tweddle miss the gold with an awful landing.To me Nadja Comaneci her the beam routine in 1976 was much cleaner than in the olympics in 2012.I miss those gymnasts in 1976.Nadja and Nellie and the others
素晴らしい！彼女が世界一です！
Уже в Монреале Нелли Ким " сделала" Команечи, которая с тех пор не выиграла ни одного чемпионата мира ни одной Олимпиады в многоборье
Моя лапушка моя красавица ! Самая самая лучшая!!!!С ней связана моя гимнастика мои успехи!
So preety and talanted nelli ❤
En esos 70 muchos seguiamos y practicábamos la actividad y siempre de acuerdo al codigo FIG opinamos que habia superado a Comanecci pero como siempre como venia de Rusia le fue negada su primacia relegandola a un puesto inferior. A pesar del doble que unica ella presento en su serie aumentando su dificultad para la puntuación .
@unickgodess chill :S you maybe even weren't born then xd
There aren't many stuck landings anymore because the difficulty in gymnastics is getting harder.
ネリイキムは美人ですね🇯🇵
It s just me..or...Grishina reminds Nelli Kim,doesn t she?!?
Железная Леди,идеально, мощно,безупречно.
Desde la época de la Unión Soviética las gymnastas Russas son, fueron y serán las más elegantes
Nelly Furtado was named after her!
Перфектное выступление!
she is korean by the way =)
half tatar half korean :)
She is Soviet of Korean extraction.
モントリオールオリンピックではコマネチが超有名だが、獲得した金メダルの数では二人とも３つで同じだったが、なぜかキムは忘れ去られコマネチだけが日本人の記憶に残っているようだ。コマネチというと１０点満点の演技が有名だが、キムも床と跳馬で１０点満点を出している。個人的はキムのほうが可愛かったので好みだった。
金メダル
キム・・・団体総合、床、跳馬
コマネチ・・・個人総合、平均台、段違い平行棒
Who video taped this? I don’t think it was zoomed in enough /s
Nadia was injured and still won bronze. She left out a double back and finished with a layout, instead of the double full. She was best on floor, until she was injured.
Brilliant 😄
Just when Nelli thinks she's queen of the floor, along comes Nadia! Lol.
Nelli won the gold on the floor in 1976, and shared gold with Nadia in 1980
So I think she more than held her own
Nadia could manage only one somersault in Montreal whereas Nelli executed a double which is why she was awarded the Gold medal.@@leightonsteven7059
...anyone else here to try and match which Nellie Kim FX music MyKayla almost picked?
She was 19
Francis Thanks for that?? Had been confused in regards to Nellie Kim's nationality Always thought she was Chinese but now thanks to you I know she was an ethnic Korean who grew up in Eastern Europe Knew from her face she had to have Eastern roots And as a young gymnast it was like you Nelli Kim, Olga Korbut, Nadia Comaneci who inspired me and whom I won't forget!! 🎐🎎🎏 Modern gymnastics is just not the same as it used to be... it's as if the "art" was quite literally hammered out of it....
The Purple Leotard is very nice for the era.
I liked it also , but do you or anyone know why she didn’t wear her national colours.
She seems to be the only gymnast from this era , who doesnt
@@leightonsteven7059 Perhaps she felt it wasn't necessary, as she had worn the official leo during the team comperition. I was actually more surprised to see Ungureanu wearing a Soviet red leo in the AA
It matches her complexion very well. She wore the official costume in 1980 which didn't suit as much.
She wore blue which is one of the national colours but it shows purple in the video. @@leightonsteven7059
Her leotard was blue but it appears purple in the video. @@MrMartinportnoy
🐑🕊️🌈
Why? you can't even see the legs and the form of the gymnast in this video. Besides, in this years the code was completely different for determining the 'correct' score.
I painted picture of her on the balance beam I think and it was in the women's sports office in HS. I had a crush on her most likely. I was in HS I got those every 10 minutes.
❤❤
at 1:23 nadia comaneci ;)
Whats the name of the song? Its stuck in my head everyday 😄
+wenaldy
Kygo - Piano Jam
They didn't have spring floors during this time.
She had such a feminine graceful figure. Unlike many female gymnasts of today who have very masculine builds.
Bigger skills. Bigger muscles. Get over yourself.
@@annapavfan4680 Not to be rude, but you are incorrect. Several of the biggest skills in the code from the double layout to the Chusovitina were debuted between the 80s-90s bearing in mind that the floor only became sprung in 1976. Skills such as the double layout, double front, Silivas and Chusovitina are all examples, yet none of these women had the bulky muscular physiques of some of the gymnasts you see not only today, but also of 6 years ago (when the OP was made).
Even current gymnasts, Riley McCusker, Morgan Hurd, Trinity Thomas have very feminine physiques coupled with immense power. Bigger skills do not equate bigger muscles; bigger muscles are the result of the conditioning methods that were being used.
I quite agree, Nellie was always considered a power gymnast, but she looked so graceful.
Her power made her vaults and floor routines look awesome.,it went against her slightly on the bars and particularly the beam, but her dismounts were still amazing
Omg she’s my old gyms owners sister
Does anyone know the name of the music?
@Reyertjuh I already was born!!!
Looked as if she stepped out of bounds.
Pure beauty!
Why did not show the landings? I am not happy with the camera men.
Because this belongs to a film about Nelli Kim.
@singer6005 Actually she is 54. She was 16 or 17 here.
She was 19 then
Oh yeah. You're right. Thanks:)
whats song name? somebody knows?
The commentator said it was a salsa.
А вы знали, что в честь Нелли Ким была названа певица Нелли Фуртадо?)))
трансляция ESPN. занятно, очень занятно
corrrr
shes probably 46 bye now
She is 64 or 65. She was born in 1957.
İs her mother etn tajik ,uzbek or russian?
Tatar from Uzbekistan...
Kazakhstan Shymkent 🇰🇿
Tatar
what's the name of the song ?
+Rodrigo Santos
Kygo - Piano Jam
+Виктор Цой I searched for it but everything I find is completely different.Can you give me more information?
Thank you so much!!!
This was definitely a 9.80 floor exercise routine. All the way 9.80.
No. It wasn’t. This was a beautiful routine. She deserved the 10.00.
That would mean she needed to make 4 small mistakes to score 9.8
She didn’t make any, you can’t even say the routine was easy.
The 10 was deserved, as was her gold medal
Perfection is always a relative thing--and her two closest competitors, Ludmilla and Nadia, had both scored at around 9.9 before Nelli's performance--so the judges found themselves in a position of more or less having to award the 10 to Nelli. That said, this routine would've been hard to mark down in any case.
@@cherylannemason Nelli's double somersault was the decisive factor in a close run competition.
No, I do agree with an earlier comment. It is pretty public that Nelli Kim underscored Silivas' routine. Those were the days when they showed the individual scores from the judges and you could see how biased the were. Even the commentators were very upset she did that. I'm sure the footage is one youtube somewhere. I lost respect
for her after that as she favored the Russians with better scores.
She didn't do it only once or only at one competition. I still hope karma's gonna get her.
+pappysprite Kim is not from Russia. She competed för the Soviet Union.
+Bengt Boman I don't know where you get your information, but Nellie Kim was born in the Soviet Union. This is a fact.
pappysprite Yes of course, but Soviet Union was not Russia. It consists of many different areas that today are different countries.
+Bengt Boman if we are going to get technical, prior to the Soviet Union, it was Soviet Russia. Irregardless, this was not the point of my post. I don't respect Nellie Kim because as a judge (in my opinion) she was incredibly biased and awarded the higher scores to the Soviet Union and lower scores to other better deserving gymnasts from other countries. Of course now as spectators we don't see what each judge from their respective countries award (which is a shame in the name of transparency), but Kim had a reputation of scoring her own nation higher scores and giving slightly lower scores to the competition so her nation would win the medals. How can you respect someone that does that? Everyone turns a blinding eye to this, but the fact remains she was able to manipulate who won medals back in the day which enormously affected certain gymnasts in a very negative away. Ironically now, she lives in The United States and is in the gymnastics hall of fame.
None of the 10's you posted are as original as the shapes and movements and surprises you made in your routines.. They dont compare.
Nadia is the best
Except when compared to Nelli.
She NOT DESERVED 10!NO!Not deserved gold medal.She was overscored.
Non of the other gymnasts performed a double somersault. That is why she was awarded the gold medal.
Boring, uninspiring routine. *yawn*
But we can all agree that it's better than any of today's routines
Pretty amazing to me.
@@gfolkins1 You aren’t wrong though! 😯
@ChanoineStraub I agree. Still boring though
Still a perfect routine though and not boring at all.
Unlike most other gymnasts Nellie kept evolving her routines and changing her music, it kept it at the forefront of competition throughout her career