Liu Xuan 2000 Olympics EF BB

[azngen1233]

hawt hawt hawt

[Timmykw924]

It is so good and wonderful

[IseCastles]

beautiful yang bo

[nicki446]

the Chinese leotards from this era never fully covered the girls' behinds... It's a wonder they weren't disqualified.

[shannonigan9]

What a gorgeous routine! Her leaps were so precise, so risky!

[bernardmvella]

Look at how far she pulls her head back around 1:05, it's amazing. And wasn't that layout was stuck fantastically.

[Hasoginy]

The first time I saw this and compared to Lobaznyuk's routine, I also wondered why Lobaznyuk didn't win. After a few more viewings, I think Lobaznyuk's long pause before the tucked Arabian and her forms in leaps in jumps might cost her that gold.

[TikiBoy382]

did she she win a medal?

[AndromedaAiken]

@TikiBoy382 Yes, she won the gold.

[azngen1233]

@TikiBoy382 gold

[youtu13ejunkie]

She's an actress and singer now:) really proud of her as she closed up her career as a gymnast so perfectly and now she's contributing to film making taking on roles that involve martial arts:)

[sillytab]

@youtu13ejunkie notice how different she is now? sharper features, no more baby fat, bla bla bla... makes me wonder if she went under the knofe before.. ;P

[lronSausage]

did she do surgery b4 becoming an actress? her eyes and nostrils r very balanced now unlike as seen in this vid

[spike378]

@lronSausage of course

[Tifaly85]

@lronSausage make up

[sillytab]

@lronSausage agree.. she has sharper features now.. :)

[LapSiLap]

This was her last performance and she got gold :O Thats so perfect

[SaintMichaelMoore]

Take your eyes off my wife, you bastards!!!

[monkey407]

@SaintMichaelMoore WHAT!! She's married to me.... now in my bed. >.<

[Chutson353]

It's taken me a long time watching a lot of competitions to recognize that there is great difficulty in those "lose sight of the beam" jumps and hers have amazing height and no hesitation at all - hit pause on one of them and just catch the amplitude of her leaps.

[Vitor90CS]

1:04...SOOOOO AMAZING JUMP...BEAUTIFUL!!!!

[AlixPelletier]

She makes that bhs + bhs + layout pass look so elegant!

[TheSienna29]

The Chinese usually have many little balance checks in their routines. I must give her credit for her beautiful posture and stretched out legs.

[bbhouk1]

it's good and everthing, but i saw several balance checks and i saw none in Lobaznyuk's. i wish Lobaznyuk had won. No offence to Liu, i love the chinese beam workers from 88-02 but this just shouldn't have won, not with those balance checks, however slight they were.

[NYCBlonde]

Beautiful set. I always love to see them waving to the crowd afterward.

[ants2876]

Good routine but she is lucky that Raducan and Karpenko werent in beam finals, and that Ling Jie messed up her routine in beam finals.

[uwoeric]

I love how she did the routine of her life for her final competitive routine and it won her the ultimate prize. What a dream come true for Liu Xuan!

Personally, I think her and Lobaznyuk could have both justifiably won the gold, but I'm happy for Liu.

[iloveyourstory]

almost had a wedgie ;) lol

[richiefaye]

Her difficulty is 5.9 as per today current new code by FIG.

The slow motion for it as difficulty level as below:

C, B+B+E, C+C, A+C, D, A, E, B+B+D

Linkage bonus:

B+B+E = 0.2

C+C = 0.1

B+B+D = 0.1

New code requires the most 8 difficulty movements plus connected bonus score as difficult value score.

So Liu Xuan's difficulty as today is 5.9.

As the current BB world Champion Deng Linlin's difficulty is 6.4, so this routine is still capable to medal in big competetion.

[nikirififo]

Did you read what I posted? There's no connection bonus for leaps, and where did you see B + B + D? And a ring stag is a B jump

[richiefaye]

For non-professional gymnastics audience's note:

You might think this routine is quite easy.

But I am telling you in a professional way:

- the first pass: B + B + E ( 0.2 linkage bonus )

- switch jump + Ring Jump ( C + C 0.1 linkage bonus )

- Yang Bo Jump ( D )

- Switch Jump into Ring ( E )

So, she has quite enough to start from 10 at 2000, her difficult value still very high in new code nowadays, and she was truely deserve the GOLD.

No Doubting at all.

[nikirififo]

Ring jump is B (2.208 2009 Code), and there's no more bonus for leaps connections

[markedexclusive]

Not to take away from her win, but I think Kui Yuanyuan could have won this final if she didn't hurt herself during prelims.

[Peaceplatform]

Ekaterina's routine was sublime too; so hard to split them. If there'd been a more noticeable wobble from either you could pick sides with more confidence.

I honestly can't decide which routine I think was performed better.

[MeanestCoachEver]

Lobo took forever to set up that Arabian, though. That was the difference for me.

[flip4u02]

ekaterina should have been given the gold here to be honest i think prodonova was just as good as liu...in a diff way of course

[intergalacticmutiny]

Her first pass was gorgeous, but I think to be honest she only deserved silver.

[fcavalheiro]

I love Lobazniuk's face, hahaha.

[GymFloozie]

She's such a cutie!

[iloveyourstory]

even with a slight buttock hanging out? lol

[GymFloozie]

It worked for Milo. What the hell.

[EnemysGateIsDown]

I love how she changes the momentum of her routine, especially from 0:44 - 0:47

[snazziest212]

For just casual gymnastics viewer, her routine doesn't look difficult. She makes it looks easy. Whenever casual viewers watch beam they'll say "WHERE ARE THE FLIPS?" A lot people don't understand the difficulty of her jumps and other elements done on beam besides "flips". She does a switch ring, an E rated element. I don't believe this to be necessarily a gold medal beam routine, but nonetheless it is still very good and has high difficulty.

[liweiwei2008]

@snazziest212  yep, she did 3 leaps and jumps with head held back, that is insanely difficult for any beam worker

[SonyaNatalia]

Beam was the biggest disappointment at the Sydney Olympics.

This is a messy routine, with a lot of little wobbles, and some terrible choreography.

But then nobody looked good on beam that year. Looking back, 1992 and 1996 medallists were impressive and gorgeous to watch, and then in 2004 and 2008 beam was amazing again.

But 2000 was the year of everybody doing that stupid cartwheel double twist dismount, and the year where acrobatic combinations were few and far between.

[mydogwearsacape]

are you serious? beam sucked in 2004 because jumps and leaps started getting very devalued and all people were doing was scrambling to fulfill the forward+backward acro series, which few actually do well. the only one to do anything interesting with that EGR was ponor, and even then there were way prettier gymnastics out there. i also fail to see how to a liu/lobaznyuk/produnova podium is "disappointing," especially compared with 2004's ponor/patterson/eremia podium

[verybadtongue]

This is a wonderful exercise.She's so elegant!

[QueenieQue]

This is a beautiful routine, but the vanishing leotard makes it very distracting!

[NewMinako]

Well this balance beam is not very diffult except for the first pass, today beam are more difficult

[SrhLun]

yup, I agree 100%

[pong0622]

because it was 2000. and now is 2009.

[pong0622]

i think nowadays, judge prefer difficulty more than execution

[garyj79]

Agreed....but no where near the same class in terms of style!

[JLFAN2008]

Liu Xuan's routine probably doesn't look that difficult, because she worked very hard to make it look easy. Also, her routine was legitimately worth a start value of 10, under the then-existing Code of Points.

[yueshili]

last year, 10 elements went to A score, this year 8. Back to 00 they only needed 4-5 elements higher than B to give a 10 start value. This routine has to 2 E and 2 D in today's code, it was more than enough back then.

[markchan007]

Although I am a Chinese, I like ekaterina's routine than Liu Xuan. That routine was beautiful and attractive.But I don't agree that Liu Xuan had less difficulty. She also had 2 difficult skills which are a E difficulty skill today.

[markchan007]

I like ekaterina's routine more than Liu Xuan.

typing mistake

[youcleverguy]

Queen of the beam

[youcleverguy]

she's beautiful and cheerful.

[Number1LobaznioukFan]

9.825?

ROFL!!

Ekaterina's routine was cleaner and harder. Liu only won because the judges slammed Ekat for pausing before going into her arabian.

I'd like to see Xuan do an arabian. Oh wait..That's right, she can't. All she can do is throw her legs up in the air.

This gold is a joke.

[WSggs]

I saw at least 3 tenths worth of deductions on this routine.

[Selecious]

i really didn't prefer this over ekaterina's. not even over produnova's either.

[66QQ66]

BB gold medal should never be given to an athlete who can even do a proper split jump. Tell this to ekaterina.

[Number1LobaznioukFan]

BB gold should never go to someone with MORE balance checks and LESS difficulty. Tell this to Liu Xuan.

[66QQ66]

Loba still has no chance, for taking a nap on the beam, lol

[sqekcx]

but then the old CoP isnt really about difficulty

[JLFAN2008]

Yes it was -- even before the perfect 10 got abolished. After all: once the compulsories got abolished, gymnastics became mostly about difficulty -- as evidenced in the complete revamping of the Code after the 1996 Olympics. The difficulty level required got raised even more after 2000.

[Richifaye]

Less Difficulty?

So what dose 2 E level elements peroformed in this routine means to you in 2000???

You just showing your lack of gymnastics knowlege to everyone.

[Selecious]

i don't understand why my comment or joaopumper's comment is being spammed. it's an honest opinion. it's not like i'm saying liu xuan didn't deserve it, she rocked her beam routine, i just didn't like it as much as ekaterina's.

[tomsk14]

I hate that anything thats not deemed as 'praise' gets thumbed down on youtube.

for the record, i LOVE Liu Xuan, she was my favourite of the day. BUT....There are many many balance checks in this, not wobbles, but slight slight hesitations. The score appears on the high side, but I'll probably get 15 thumbs down for saying that.

[Selecious]

well you get a thumbs up for me

[glenndelossantos15]

You get a thumbs up for me too.

[wkelucky]

she was fantastic!

[erik127chan]

9.825!!!! incredibly sensational job!

[linange]

great

[okhan001]

I like Ekaterina's reaction at the end :)

[LaGinnasta]

sooo cute :)

[UglyMaleee]

hot!

[NastiaLiukinFan]

SOrry, I have understand you was thinking that Ekaterina won over Liu XUan XD

[kfro1976]

I saw a movie trailer for 'CJ7' (a Chinese sci-fi/comedy film to be released soon), and I believe Liu Xuan was in it! If it wasn't her, then it was someone who looks just like her. She's so beautiful. I'm not surprised to see that the movie industry wanted transform her into an actress. Love her.

[Angkaili94]

What role is she playing?

[wg1989]

it isn't her. -.-

[ljlslt]

Yes. I think the actress you saw in the movie is her. She is a entertainment star in China now, and She is a such gorgeous girl!

[l1u1v1a1n1i1m1e]

i wish they would pronounce the name right ;o;

[rorcon]

:) they come close enough, they really can't do it 100%, but it's good enough for westerners.

[sleepingcat747]

liuxuan is not the best bb athlete in chinese gm history,even can't rank number5.but she grasp the chance then became an olympic champion.now she is a Entertainment star,although she is not the top one.

[gilles574]

The best is definitevely yang Bo !

[mari901]

Liu Xuan is not even close to being the best. Her teammates at the time, Kui Yuanyuan and Ji Liya both had far better beam routines than her, but they didn't hit in prelims and she got it as a result.

[Richifaye]

You did not mention about the first BB World Champion for China, Mo Huilan.

Anyway, Liu Xuan's routine is gougers and truly deserved the Gold.

[NastiaLiukinFan]

But she has won over Lobaznyuk! Katja was placed second and Elena Produnova took the bronze

[wytys]

Perfect gymnast

[pong0622]

yung bo jump was very beautiful

[Davylp]

I remember her most from when she did one arm giant swings on the bars into a release, but it was outlawed... Anyone else remember? She could gon to jail...hhehejk!

[mistybabe5489]

it wasnt made illegal, its still in the code of points, they just value most one-armed skills the same as two-handed skills.

[itchyorion]

i saw a lot of minor balance checks from this angle (compared to NBC)...boo

[monkeyguitarist]

Yep, she stoped competing in gymnastic, but go to university and study hard. Very good girl.

[chinatheatre]

She is finishing her college degree in journalism this year! See a video clip of Liu Xuan and Ling Jie's University Life.

[kdan531]

i was soo happy tht she got this gold and i really liked andrea raducan but i was also happy tht xuan got bronze in the AA

[waterequalsh2o]

Beautiful girl.

[banmido1234]

she retired after 2000 olympics but i think she is quite pretty...

[killbot86]

does anyone know if she competed in the 2004 Athens olympics?

[skata524]

No, she didn't.

[sy2885]

After 2000,she had out of commission.And she is a star in entertainment.sorry my english is not good.

[killbot86]

what do you by she is out of commission?? She was pretty young at 21 years of age to retire though....

[ultimategymnast]

nope gymnastics is a tough sport and that is an average age!

[bbhouk1]

@killbot86 she competed in 1996 though