I think when it comes to Moceanu and Bela's training methods, you have to keep in mind that Bela probably got to take more liberties when it came to his questionable training methods. Her parents idolized him because he was Nadia's coach and they wanted him to do whatever was necessary to make her champion.
no offense to Dominique Moceanu I love her..but.. Kerri Strug made the olympic team in 1992 when she was only 14 years old so why did everyone make such a huge deal with Dominique did..Kerri was just as good as her. But like why did they make such a big deal with dominique if kerri did it before...its not like it didnt happen before domi
I've always wondered if the reason Bela and Dom split was because of her parents, he seemed to take their side, and with what happened after Atlanta, makes you wonder. Just a theory, I have no idea if that's true :).
Why did they show fottage of Betty Okino when Dawes was talking about her injuries?! That makes me mad everytime they do something about Dawes and show a picture or video of Betty Okino. They clearly look different. Dawes wore a bun her whole career, minus 2000, Betty wore a braid. Betty was like 5'-4" or something, Dawes was only like 5'-1". smh. Get it together.
She definitely wasn't the biggest threat as far as skill, but she was a threat as far as favorites. You gotta admit, even though Dominique Dawes didn't have the best form, she was very likeable in the clips of her. And her floor routines were always conveying something beautiful and when she cried, you cried. So I think they probably meant it as in she was the one that everyone liked. Even if she wasn't your favorite. And she was the only one who didn't make big mistakes in the Olympics.
@fnrsgrl I don't understand how someone else can make her realize she had an Olympic dream... her parents had that dream for her before she was born... I'm not sure how fair that was to her really... it's easy to call her ungrateful but if she hadn't made it to the Olympics maybe you'd see it in that light.
@MelleAndKev To "realize" something means to achieve it--I meant that they had helped her get to the Olympics, not that they helped her to see that she had such a dream. It's an alternate meaning of the word. Dominique has, on her blogs and such, been very critical and sometimes downright nasty toward her parents and coaches, so yes, I do think she has been ungrateful or, at the very least, ungracious.
@tomsk14 it's amazing to those of us born within the years leading up to the fall of the USSR how much the previous generation STILL is suspicious of those countries!
i told my grandparents i was learning russian & one asked if i was going to become a spy. she was kidding, but still...
People like Moceauneau's parents, who planned for her to be a gymnast before she was even born, are scum who would deny their children free will. It doesn't always end in a gold medal and it's no surprise she sued them for emancipation at one point. Don't have children if you want them to live out YOUR dreams.
I mean I would like my child do be a gymnast but I'm not going to force her/him. I'll probably put her/him in a gymnastics class but also let her try out other things and if she/he finds he/she likes Soccer or Ballet more thats fine with me!
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Disgusting, you think Shannon looks good after butchering herself with a bad nose job, obviously botox and collagen in her lips too, she doesn't look normal or human anymore, yeah right that looks great, and you want to sell that look to women, how pathetic!
Twilli this is clearly transference of a frustration of your own inadequacies and inability to change them. She electively decided to make a personal change that she felt would change her personal appearance to her liking. And if I or anyone else supports her in her decision (and agree that that decision was a good one) thats our prerogative. So youre privy to it its called individuality and your butchering of ones individual preferences is both disgusting and pathetic!
and you are a hypocrite because you don't respect my and alot of other's opinion that plastic surgery is mutilating and abnormal, so I guess we're even, asshole. I find your condescending and hypocritical attitude disgusting and pathetic, the same for butchering your body because you feel you're inadequate and have a false sense of what others tell you looks good and/or normal! Screw you!
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and lastly you're an asshole for wanting to make money off making women look ugly, cheap and fake! If it's for medical reasons such as injury or to correct a birth defect it's fine, but to make someone look unnatural when they are perfectly fine and get paid for it makes you the lowest greedy form of human being!
To the contrary, I respect your right to dislike reconstructive/plastic surgery...just not your transference of abhorration to others. Nonetheless, I'm flattered by your bitterness! :)
Shannon Miller had a nose job and her teeth done. They almost look too big for her mouth.
Hereismytwocents2011 4 months ago
I think when it comes to Moceanu and Bela's training methods, you have to keep in mind that Bela probably got to take more liberties when it came to his questionable training methods. Her parents idolized him because he was Nadia's coach and they wanted him to do whatever was necessary to make her champion.
zeldafreak701 7 months ago
"they walked into an arena ready to polish their gold medals already, they had the swagger with them" hahaha, that line cracked me up, love Dawes!
PassionsEpisodes777 8 months ago
@PassionsEpisodes777 I thought I was the only one who laughed at that. hahaha. She said it so proper and seriously!! lol.
Mikizzle15 1 month ago
Shannon Miller has DEFINITELY had some work done on her face.
ftrmrswhite 10 months ago
@ftrmrswhite the nose,i guess, it was always her problem...
THEGREATATZUMI 7 months ago
no offense to Dominique Moceanu I love her..but.. Kerri Strug made the olympic team in 1992 when she was only 14 years old so why did everyone make such a huge deal with Dominique did..Kerri was just as good as her. But like why did they make such a big deal with dominique if kerri did it before...its not like it didnt happen before domi
mortella23 10 months ago
@mortella23 Just because she was the it girl. Everyone expected her to be the next Nadia because she was Romanian and she was Bela's new 'chosen one'
xoxPatriots83ily 10 months ago
some people cant keep a secret? lol
amwanjiru 1 year ago
Dominique Dawes' split at 5:43....that's my girl!!
dmann3g 1 year ago
@tramngu I agree, she has so much charm and just sparkles no matter what she's doing, she's amazing :).
tmwalkerm 1 year ago
I've always wondered if the reason Bela and Dom split was because of her parents, he seemed to take their side, and with what happened after Atlanta, makes you wonder. Just a theory, I have no idea if that's true :).
tmwalkerm 1 year ago
Why did they show fottage of Betty Okino when Dawes was talking about her injuries?! That makes me mad everytime they do something about Dawes and show a picture or video of Betty Okino. They clearly look different. Dawes wore a bun her whole career, minus 2000, Betty wore a braid. Betty was like 5'-4" or something, Dawes was only like 5'-1". smh. Get it together.
Mikizzle15 1 year ago
@Mikizzle15 U know, all blacks look alike...
dmann3g 1 year ago
@dmann3g Of course. lol.
Mikizzle15 1 year ago
amanda was definitely my favorite on this team
bbhouk1 1 year ago
@tramngu I agree, Amanda seems to have a lot of spunk and her smile just sparkles :). She's definitely one of my favorites.
tmwalkerm 1 year ago 2
dominique did remind me of nadia
SAX713 2 years ago
Oh yeah. True.
Mikizzle15 2 years ago
She definitely wasn't the biggest threat as far as skill, but she was a threat as far as favorites. You gotta admit, even though Dominique Dawes didn't have the best form, she was very likeable in the clips of her. And her floor routines were always conveying something beautiful and when she cried, you cried. So I think they probably meant it as in she was the one that everyone liked. Even if she wasn't your favorite. And she was the only one who didn't make big mistakes in the Olympics.
Mikizzle15 2 years ago 2
Moceanu kinda annoys me.. she seems to crave attention.
FlippinTitan2010 2 years ago
@FlippinTitan2010 Big time! Also, she's not very appreciative of those that helped her realize her Olympic dream.
fnrsgrl 1 year ago
@fnrsgrl I don't understand how someone else can make her realize she had an Olympic dream... her parents had that dream for her before she was born... I'm not sure how fair that was to her really... it's easy to call her ungrateful but if she hadn't made it to the Olympics maybe you'd see it in that light.
MelleAndKev 11 months ago
@MelleAndKev To "realize" something means to achieve it--I meant that they had helped her get to the Olympics, not that they helped her to see that she had such a dream. It's an alternate meaning of the word. Dominique has, on her blogs and such, been very critical and sometimes downright nasty toward her parents and coaches, so yes, I do think she has been ungrateful or, at the very least, ungracious.
fnrsgrl 11 months ago
Lol notice the dark scary music everytime we hear 'Russia', ' Eastern Europe....'
Lol.....COMMUNISM arggghhhh
tomsk14 2 years ago 62
@tomsk14 it's amazing to those of us born within the years leading up to the fall of the USSR how much the previous generation STILL is suspicious of those countries!
i told my grandparents i was learning russian & one asked if i was going to become a spy. she was kidding, but still...
sprinklefriend 1 year ago
@tomsk14 or bella karyoli lol. I feel like he always has dark music behind him haha
rubinco 10 months ago
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shannon miller was pretty before the plastic surgery...blah now she lost the beauty
luv4cascy 3 years ago
I'll tell you what it was for Dominique, it was for your parents glory, not yours, but I'm sure you figured that out by now.
bobd007 3 years ago 3
People like Moceauneau's parents, who planned for her to be a gymnast before she was even born, are scum who would deny their children free will. It doesn't always end in a gold medal and it's no surprise she sued them for emancipation at one point. Don't have children if you want them to live out YOUR dreams.
bobd007 3 years ago 8
Well said....
tomsk14 2 years ago
I mean I would like my child do be a gymnast but I'm not going to force her/him. I'll probably put her/him in a gymnastics class but also let her try out other things and if she/he finds he/she likes Soccer or Ballet more thats fine with me!
csurvivor7 2 years ago 3
D. Moceanu was too young. And had way too much pressure put on her.
flowergirl1313 3 years ago 12
now we have china to deal with.
schatzi321 3 years ago
Amanda grew up gorgeous.
audie83 3 years ago 6
I was gonna say! She looked a tad goofy back in 1996 but now she's stunning! Dominique (Dawes and Moceanu) look pretty great too!
AnnaPavlovaFan 3 years ago 2
oh dominique must have nealy quit gymnastics all because of her parents
liukin95 3 years ago 5
poor Domi. :(
tvloonie111 3 years ago 6
i know many disagree but i think shannon miller looks great...but then again im in medschool and want to be a plastic surgeon. haha.
krell88 4 years ago 2
I think she looks great. I think a lot of people don't want them to grow up and be the cute little girls that they were at 14, 15, 16 etc....
MissGreenie 3 years ago 4
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We want them to grow up, just not butcher themselves and look sub-human like Shannon does now!
twilliger123 3 years ago
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Disgusting, you think Shannon looks good after butchering herself with a bad nose job, obviously botox and collagen in her lips too, she doesn't look normal or human anymore, yeah right that looks great, and you want to sell that look to women, how pathetic!
twilliger123 3 years ago
Twilli this is clearly transference of a frustration of your own inadequacies and inability to change them. She electively decided to make a personal change that she felt would change her personal appearance to her liking. And if I or anyone else supports her in her decision (and agree that that decision was a good one) thats our prerogative. So youre privy to it its called individuality and your butchering of ones individual preferences is both disgusting and pathetic!
krell88 3 years ago
and you are a hypocrite because you don't respect my and alot of other's opinion that plastic surgery is mutilating and abnormal, so I guess we're even, asshole. I find your condescending and hypocritical attitude disgusting and pathetic, the same for butchering your body because you feel you're inadequate and have a false sense of what others tell you looks good and/or normal! Screw you!
twilliger123 3 years ago
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and lastly you're an asshole for wanting to make money off making women look ugly, cheap and fake! If it's for medical reasons such as injury or to correct a birth defect it's fine, but to make someone look unnatural when they are perfectly fine and get paid for it makes you the lowest greedy form of human being!
twilliger123 3 years ago
To the contrary, I respect your right to dislike reconstructive/plastic surgery...just not your transference of abhorration to others. Nonetheless, I'm flattered by your bitterness! :)
krell88 3 years ago 3
I agree. I mean, you can tell she's had surgery and all, but it's not like she turned into Michael Jackson or something. She's pretty.
fnrsgrl 3 years ago 7
What does Moceanu mean by "Eastern European mentality"?
akawhippy 4 years ago
like a communistic or dominating lifestyle.
that they were controlling i suppose.
hopelesslove0 4 years ago
oh, just like gymnastics coaches in those eastern european countries used to treat gymnasts, by brutal training methods?
akawhippy 4 years ago
hey...they won...
ghlover2001 3 years ago 2
Moceanu is my favorite, totally. =D
luisafernandasanchez 4 years ago 4
i am opsest with that lovley moceanu's face
xplosive08 4 years ago
I know!! She was the leader after compolsery as well as optional team. HELLO, hardly down to just good beam work.
TheMadDane 4 years ago 4