Jaycie Phelps - 1996 Olympics Team Compulsories - Balance Beam

[Stonymypony]

In some ways I miss compulsories but I never liked that if you didn't hit the compulsories there was no change of going to the AA. Compulsories for me were always a great way for gymnasts to get out their nerves like Jaycie so they can hit hit hit in the team competition. And that is exactly what Jaycie did except she had no chance of going to the AA because of this.

[zeldafreak701]

@MckSkeeze Don't be a jerk. Get your ass up on a balance beam in front of millions and we'll see how well you do.

[08dressageGal]

I feel bad for her. Must have been nerves.

[iloveyourstory]

Poor Jaycie!

[boytoyville]

Such a bad routine. This routine was scored so low as well because she forgot to do TWO leaps after she fell! She only did one.

[omegalavender]

Jaycie Phelps for life, somedays you can do the damn thing. Somedays you cannot at all, this was one of the days for Jaycie Phelps. Besides; we all see it every time the Olympics come around. Our favorite girls mess a few things up under pressure or they go for the gold under pressure. I've seen a few gymnasts that suck so hard in training, but under pressure they do the damn thing. Jaycie Phelps will always be a favorite of mine... XD

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

I would not consider Jaycie a "cool competitor" she got very nervous

[garyj79]

True....however Dom Dawes was equally as bad up there and she was more used to huge competition atmosphere......Dawes looked liked she was kacking herself up there!

[hinginator]

wow, what a hot mess!!

[boytoyville]

She forgot to do two leaps after she got up from her fall. What did this score?

[poKELIop]

she seamed really scared

[dodgedakota1979]

this was a compulsory routine - everybody had to perform it! shannon miller's routine rocked!!!

[gohlkex3]

a level 5 could do that routine!!

[audie83]

You do know it was compulsories right? Those were set exercises everyone had to do the first day of Team competition. Optionals were done in Team Finals.

[gohlkex3]

yeah i know thats why i said it

[audie83]

When you wrote that 'a level 5 could do that routine' no where is it indicated in your remark that you knew it was a compulsory exercise-which were simply basic moves composed to show the judges where each gymnast stood as far as his or her basic gymnastics.

[audie83]

continued: Your comment simply seems to suggest that these moves are easy-which as you can see by all the elites that had trouble with them they were most certainly NOT in an Olympic venue with 40,000 people looking on-and millions more watching on tv. These elements counted towards making it to the AA, Event finals as well as the Team event which made it that much harder. Few at ANY level could successfully complete these moves under such pressure and conditions.

[gohlkex3]

in no way did i say that to disrespect the gymnasts! sorry if people took it that way but i just said that because compulsories are very easy! and why do u care so much about what i think?

[audie83]

I don't care per se about what you think-but I will always add MY opinion on what I perceive to be misinformed remarks. Sorry if it troubles you. I thought this was an adult conversation but perhaps I am wrong.

[nlm2183]

And just to complement what you said, these skills were expected to be done a certain way, not just any way. The U.S. team did some of the skills in such a way that they felt would make them stand out, and it made some skills a little harder to do. Even if someone not at their level could do those skills, they might not have been able to do them as well. Plus, the way the elements were strung together, there was an element of trickiness in some of these routines.

[bettycoltrane85]

gainer back handspring, fouette, and front handspring? i wish i coulda done those things at level 5.

[tvloonie111]

Domi m. did the best in compulseries.

[soundacceleration]

it looks exactly like Shannon Millers routine...at least to a first time eye of both.

[audie83]

It WAS exactly the same-everyone had to do the same exact routine. This was the Team compulsory exercises. 1996 was the last time gymnasts had to do them.

[audie83]

Very close-except that Shannon did not have that slight wobble like Domi had-otherwise Moceanu would have outscored Miller-she had a tenth taken off for the step on the landing-a tenth added back to her score and she would have had the highest compulsory beam score.

[gymgyul]

yip yip yip uh huh uh huh she did

[kalibeast]

Poor thing... she deserved a better Olympics.

[rfillangi]

Kind of like Courtney McCool in 2004. One mistake on beam and it was all gone.

[monyac]

Yes and what a shame :(

[GlobalGal1976]

@kalibeast I don't know what you are talking about. She had a very good Olympics. Yes, she had a fall on beam. However, she still won a team gold. And as the first or second gymnast up on nearly every event, she never had a shot at AA or event finals anyway, which I'm sure she was well aware of.

[crownblkprince]

@GlobalGal1976 Very true. But looking at how things panned out, I'm sure she was kickign herself about the fall. She had the chance to make up serious ground on the other girls and wasted the oppportunity as 4th up.