Olympic Champions - Seoul 1988 Floor - Daniela Silivas

[saber1992]

i love how she seems like she floats through the air. Its beautiful

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

The thing that bothers me about her routine at these games is after she landed her double double short she took it out and left in just a full in. This routine is loads easier than her 1987 worlds routine where she opened with whip to a full in and ended with a full in. Here she ended with a double back. I don't think she should have downgraded the routine even when she took out the double double.

[nicki446]

she just flies.. it's like there's no gravity.

beautiful.

[jjcorella]

Speechless. Beautiful. They need to bring back compulsory at elite level

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

That compulsory routine was so far ahead of EVERYONE.

[aliana27ro]

superbe!!!quelle elegance!.je l'adore

[espinaca79]

SIlivas put herself in another league with this floor routine, one of the first routines that got me GLUED to the TV screen. She took it to extreme dimensions with the quality of extension, perfect technique and a soulful performance. Thank you Daniela, once in a while I need to watch this again to get inspired.

[ramram70]

I agree with you,..., I never get tired of watching this routine, the best ever in compulsory events

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

The true all around gold winner, she was absolutely amazing. Her score on her team optionals floor seems like it should have been a 9.990, she got a 9.987 on her floor in EF with that same mistake (landing the passage short) but in the Ef she was only do a single twist, here she does a double so they should really take the tremendous difficulty of that into account.

[ralucagymnast]

How I wish compulsories were still competed today; most of todays gymnast know NOTHING about having superb form on their elements. This is beautiful and ARTISTIC gymnastics.

[vasa78]

I just love Daniela Silivas gymnastics, so beautiful and strong, such a personality, I wish her best in life and hope to meet her once!

[iluvweezy09]

Wow i remember watching this in 1988. Daniela silivas is my favourite gymnast ever! So graceful in her movement. Gymnastics today just doesn't compare to this.

[12bmills]

She might not have won all of the gold medals, but she literally won all of the medals. LOL!

[PhillyGal4Ever]

Silivas won 6 out of 6-a sweep of all the event medals available-and she won at least one of each color-3 golds, 2 silver, 1 bronze lol. She has the whole set and should be very proud of her achievement. She was the only athlete I believe to medal in all of her sports available events.

[msalasan]

not the only one. i mean the only one in 1988. but in 1984, kathy szabo won 4 golds and 1 silver.

[PhillyGal4Ever]

I was referring to the 1988 Olympics-Silivas did not compete in 1984. At Seoul as I said she was the only athlete to medal in every one of her sports available events. I know about Kati Szabo but she did not compete at Seoul-a whole other Olympics.

[Phoeria87]

beautiful...

[okhan001]

wow, I wish the Romanians were still known for this kind of gymnastics

[PhillyGal4Ever]

So true. This was another era-and another coach-Adrian Goreac who truly competed imo the greatest Romanian teams overall. Medals aren't everything-Octavian Belu with his mostly technically precise, hardly artistic gymnasts who mostly couldn't dance benefited from the codes of his time imo.

[ralucagymnast]

Actually, Octavian Belu was the floor coach at this time; but yes, Adrian Goreac was in charge overall. Romania had a fantastic team of coaches at that time: Belu was floor coach, Maria Cosma was beam coach, and Adrian Stoica was bars coach, I assume Goreac was vault and overall head coach? Anyway, they were a great team and produced the greatest gymnasts.

[PhillyGal4Ever]

He was floor coach as far as tumbling but he did not choreograph the routines nor did he give the gymnasts dance training-he mainly spotted the tumbles, etc.

[ralucagymnast]

Yes I know, what I meant by floor coach, was that he was the acrobatics coach. It was Maria Cosma who choreographed the routines as far as I know.

[PhillyGal4Ever]

Yes it was Cosma-and artistically the Romanian choreo went downhill after she and Goreac left. There have been some nice floor routines since but nothing of the calibre imo of the 1980's squad.

[ralucagymnast]

I completely agree: the "dream team" of Octavian Belu, Maria Cosma, Adrian Stoica and Adrian Goreac produced the "dream team" of 1987-1988: Silivas, Dobre, Camelia Voinea, Eugenia Golea, Celestina Popa, Gabi Potorac. Cati Szabo et al.

[delpha3110]

yes gi i know this in my country

[espinaca79]

Excellent comment.

[Micra78]

I just watched the AA last night. Nothing even close. This girl was an artist, she looks like a swan, she floats in the air. And how come, twenty years later, nobody dares to do the back to back tumbling? That left me amazed back in 1988 and remains as the best floor routine ever.

[whamji]

i actually know her :) she is married to my friend scott, they have a beautiful family. i tell him all the time how lucky he is... and he knows it haha. ive been watching the gymnast this year, and they dont come close to how good she was!!! but she would never tell you that. she is the sweetest person in the world.

[PhillyGal4Ever]

Please tell Daniela she is still much loved and remembered by fans around the world! To me she was the greatest of her era and deserved the Olympic AA gold. She did an awesome job at Seoul and was the best one there through the course of the competition.

[nicksline]

I still can't believe she did a double double as her first pass in optionals. That's INSANE! This is 1988. She was one awesome gymnast, so much difficulty. Wish she had stuck around for 1992. Anyone know why she retired?

[Dunntosh]

She had a chronic knee injury during the 1989 season; but when the Romanian Revolution of 1989 occured, they closed the National Training Centre at Deva, where she trained, so she retired...

So sad. A loss for gymnastics...

[Desdemona103]

Truely fabulous! Originality, style, grace, tumbling, everything! Wish gymnastics was like this nowadays. Now it's just of tally of how many acrobatic elements one can do.

[audie83]

Thank you for posting these. Just how artistic gymnastics should look-beautiful toe point, body line, and form. And all done with a smile! She sold each of her performances out there on the Olympic floor. Silivas truly was a champion and I'm happy she took home 6 medals-3 of them well deserved golds.

[molly2222]

Textbook performance!!