Yang Yun - 2000 Olympics AA - Floor Exercise

[bernardmvella]

She would have won without the fall off bb. Silver technically because I believe Raducan to be the winner.

[GymMonkeyAz]

What I love about the floor routines from the Chinese in 2000 is that they're different from all the other countries. All of them have their own style and chose great music.

[muffuffty]

Finally my question is answered: "The Chinese team has brought in 20 ballet choreographers to help with their routines..."

No wonder their performances were so beautiful. :-)

Really wish today's gymnasts would hire more ballet choreographers; there's a distinctive absence of artistry in WAG these days. So sad.

[itstheapocalypse]

@muffuffty Same here.

[PoorPublicSchoolKid]

LOVE that double pike :)

[pinkmochaxx]

Where can I find this floor music??

[mendozarun]

Why are the tumbling passes so easy?

[greyskies34]

@mendozarun well this was in 2000 where ppl didnt usually do the hard passes we do 2day and maybe tumbling wasnt her forte, but shes really good

[ShawnVikaKomova2012]

@greyskies34 Seriously? Double doubles were being done in the 80s!

[3Axel1996]

Her dance is SO mature and sophisticated here. It's hard to believe that she is one of the 2 gymnasts whose birth dates are being scrutinized here by both the FIG and IOC. She definitely appears to be well within the age limit here.

[MaebySurelyBarely]

I love this routine! She brings the artistry and the tumbling together.

Does anyone know what her music is?

[Richifaye]

This routine is the best choreography in FX I ve never seen, which Chinese girls normally do not do that. Yang Yun is the Opener.

The second Chinese Lady with beautiful Choreography on FX is Pang panpan in AA of Worlds 2006.

They both are legend to me.

[gilles574]

Watch Yang Bo in barcelona floor, amazing also, according to me :)

[bernardmvella]

@Richifaye Meg Fei's choreography was beautiful in 1997. But nowadays the Chinese have become very artistic. The current squad maybe isn't quite up to full potential, but to me Yang Yilin, Cheng Fei and Sui Lu have very beautiful routines.

[cronopio131]

I can't say how much I really love this routine. It's just fun and beautiful to watch, she's a pure joy!

[vscanzi]

I found myself in the same situation, this routine is touching in a very interesting way to me!

[babylishee]

I LOVE that toe-pointing! I wonder what her child with Yang Wei would be like :P

[yaoryu]

Sydney 2000, in this floor finals, only yang yun and khorkina lived up to the word ''artistic gymnastics''. still, i love zamo and she deserved the gold. i don't know u people, but i think at last year's olympics, only cheng fei and pavlova truly had beautiful and artistic choreography on this event. the others were not so nice to watch.

[xsmile007]

I agree! Although I did love watching Jiang Yuyuan's floor routine. It was a lot of fun.

[spartyutube]

I loved Pavlova's routine. She was the most artistic to me. But you didn't mention Nastia?

[ShawnVikaKomova2012]

@spartyutube Anyone who compares Pavlova's and Liukin's artistry is crazy. I find nothing artistic about Nastia in comparison to Anna.

[JillianChung]

her routines funny and cute!

[smartabarn]

her routine is funny! :D

[AnneSPD]

The chinese gymnast always were such a good bar workers, but few people thougt that China can show this kind of coreography. I'm still thinking that Yang Yuan or Dong Fangxiao were stunning tumblers.

[tzhang2]

come on, Dong's tumbles are much more difficult than yang's.

[AnneSPD]

Did I said the opposite?

[youcleverguy]

Her music, her dance, her routine is somehow like the Chinese Opera 粵劇, i can find this atmosphere.

[audie83]

As I understand it this magnificent routine was choregraphed by Chinese ballerinas. :)

[youcleverguy]

She is just absolutely beautiful. and perfect match with yang wei.

[Yangyun4ever]

I they have a kid, gymnastics will have a whole new meaning

[Yangyun4ever]

I meant Yang yun and Yang wei

[PoorPublicSchoolKid]

can't find a more perfectly executed double-pike. absolutely beautiful.

[LiangJackShan]

If she didn't fall on the beam, I bet she would of won 1st place.

[eMthegymnast]

no she would have goten bronze. BRONZE

[adamluis100]

Um, no. Add that .5 deduction for the fall off the beam and she would have surpassed Amanar's score by nearly two tenths.

[audie83]

Amanar and Olaru should have never been near the podium with such weak bar routines. I think Raducan's vault, beam, and floor exercise justified a medal-but only bronze at the most.

[yaoryu]

totally agree with you on this one! i think lobaznyuk should at least medal in the AA event. Besides Sveta,I was thinking Zamo, Karpenko and Katya as the more deserving AA medalists. Pity they made mistakes. Really not happy with the AA event here

[faeryquene]

If only-sigh. Where would she have stood versus Raducan?

[adamluis100]

If she had not fallen off the beam, she would have come in second by about 1 tenth. Of course, after Raducan's disqualification, she would have been offered the title of Olympic All-Around Champion.

[faeryquene]

Thank you-that AA broke my heart into a thousand pieces. The vault fiasco just CRUSHED me, then I tried to get over it but one by one some faves fell-Yang Yun included-Raducan I liked best on the Romanian team because she could dance so I was glad that at the very least she won gold over Amanar and Olaru-then the drug-fiasco. Worse Olympic AA EVER in history for me anyway. :(

[uwoeric]

Everyone loved her in Sydney, but this routine would have been an even bigger HIT if she had performed it in Beijing. Wonderful choreography and dance!

[csurvivor7]

Plus they are saying that she might have been under age in Sydney. So if she did it in Beijing she wouldn't have had any problem with her age! She really is an amazing gymnast

[Bucephalus2008]

The Chinese lied about the age of Yang Yun. She was not 15 but 14 yrs. old.

[stingstungme]

So why does she still have her bronze medal?

[micaronie13]

idk, but that is a good question :)

[keckks]

Because she's a great gymnast and deserves it?

[stingstungme]

Oh so rules dont apply to everyone. Yeah that makes since. Marion past her drug tests so why not give her back her medals. That makes total sense.

[keckks]

...Doping is something an athlete chooses to do (BTW nearly everybody in Marions finals was doped, they just aren't stupid enough to get caught). I do not think that a chinese child gymnast gets to decide anything she does or does not.

[stingstungme]

Her, her family, and her country decides to go along with a lie.

[keckks]

So you really believe that Chinese child gymnasts "decide" anything for themselves? ... I do not think so. This is China, not Europe or the US.

[stingstungme]

If the rest of the world follows the rules then China needs to as well. Just because they are China doesn't excuse everyone that plays along with it. People and governments need to be held accountable. Other countries had to bench athletes that had great ability but were too young, why should the world make exceptions for China. What does that say about your values? If you lie about little stuff then you will lie about big issues. It's a no brainer to me. The age limit is there for a reason.

[yaoryu]

remember kim gwang suk? she didn't really have a say, her country decided for her, she just had to go along with it. i think it's a communist thingy, an athlete from comunist states just have no saying in their sports, the coaches and officials think and decide for them. such a pity

[audie83]

It has not been proven-that's why.

[stingstungme]

Her voluntary admission is proof enough for me. The system is a farce.

[audie83]

It's enough for me too and her backtracking and saying she 'misspoke' is an insult to the common intelligence. It's very sad. I hope for the sake of the sport's integrity and fairness to all that eventually China (not Yang Yun it's not the athlete's fault) but their federation is somehow punished.

[TheJwaffle]

She recently admitted that she was 15 at the time, making her ineligible at these olympics...

[TheJwaffle]

oops i meant she was 14

[micaronie13]

yeah, she admitted it in a documentary, but she looks older than the chinese gymnasts in 08, now that makes me really wonder about the ages!!! :)

[audie83]

She has since backtracked (probably under pressure from Chinese authorities) and has stated that she 'mispoke' in the documentary and that anyone could make a mistake. Anyone imo who wins an Olympic medal is not likely to forget it-or how old they were at the time.

[micaronie13]

DID SHE FINISH THIRD????????????

[uwoeric]

She finished 5th, after a fall on BB.

[wkelucky]

it is a pity that yang yun did not attend 2008 olympic

[darkmoonchaxx]

she retired

[jessjay123]

at the old age of... 22....

[uwoeric]

She retired in 2004, a few months before the Olympics, making her "officially" 19 years old, but she was really 18.

[audie83]

Yang Yun is truly as Elfi says a Gifted Dancer. One of the best, most unique most beautifully danced, and choreographed floor exercises I've ever seen. This is one of my all time faves. The naysayers who have no use for dance in artistic gymnastics should watch this and learn what the sport is REALLY supposed to look like in this event.

[skoobysnaxxx]

at 1.20, that is the most perfect double pike I've seen...ever.

[GymnasticsAddict]

The 2000 Chinese Olympic team were definitely the cutest! Jiang Yuyuan would have fit right in there. =] I'm so glad at least the chinese are keeping the artistry these days!

[yaoryu]

the chinese, the russians and the ukrainians are still keeping the artistry these days. i love these countries' gymnastics teams

[GymnasticsAddict]

I whole-heartedly agree! If only every gymnast had the artistry of these countries, I wouldn't feel so bad saying I truly get bored watching the US gymnasts on floor. I would love a competition solely between the Chinese, Russians, and the Ukrainians, every routine would be a treat to watch!

[gilles574]

she's beautiful, reminds me a bit of the grace and elegance of yang bo, the most beautiful gymnast ever !!

[hellowjp]

I love the background music, Beijing Opera?

[NonMatchingUnderwear]

Haha without a doubt - nothing else has a tune that weird! Love it though!

[waitingtx]

It's a ethnic traditional chinese tune~ you wouldn't feel weird if you're born in China :_)

[MaebySurelyBarely]

Do you know the name of her music - I absolutely love it yet no one seems to know what it is!

[isa1285]

Now that is a floor excercise! Not like today's that is tumbling, tumbling, tumbling, tumbling & tumbling!

[Yen0389]

OMG, you totally got down to the problem with today's gymnastics, it's all about power and tumbling and not enough grace and artistry. I am an artist at heart and I really miss these types of routines, and think they should redo the whole Code of Points.

[isa1285]

I hate the new code of points!! It's all for the difficulty and nothing for the artistry and well excuted routines.

If your routine is superdifficult, no matter you fall, is more probable that you medal, than if you do a simpler routine but well done.

[Yen0389]

If you want to see artistry mixed with power, check out French gymnast Ludivine Furnon's floor exercise in 2000. She won the European championships on floor.

[KarenLovesGymnastics]

You should check out Daria Joura in 2007.

[audie83]

That one too is one of my all time favourite floor exercises. But Yang's style is very different, very balletic and sublime elegance. This floor exercise in another era would have won Gold at the Olympics.

[audie83]

Ludivine's 2000 FX at Euros is one of my all time favourites! And imo one of the best choreographed.

[jlwham]

One of my fave flr exercises ever. V. effective use of Chinese dance elements; the choreography was fantastic and the music fitted very nicely into the routine.

Many gymnasts try to 'jazz up' their routines with fast paced, crowd pleasing choreography/music. Seems more gimmicky than stylish(e.g Moceanu's flr ex in 96 olympics)

While Yang's tumbling may not be 'powerful' I think power tumbling is over rated. Her tumbling was fluid and graceful and it flowed seamlessly into her dance elements.

[vermillionss]

carlys routine comes to mind to in terms of "fast paced crowed pleasing choreograph/music", and that was the definition of gimmiky.

[audie83]

I would never mention Carly's routine in the same breath as Yang's superb effort. Carly's routine was worthy of a junior level gymnast-barely.

[jamesbug2002]

the best routine! todays gymnasts should look at her...flexibility is there and execution! damn!

[tide32athlete]

I love this routine. It's very well choreographed. Her coaches did a good job with the routine as well since she's not a powerhouse tumbler, but still managed to get a great score with somewhat easier passes.

[acrofreak]

perfection