Roza Galieva - 1992 Olympics Team Compulsories - Balance Beam

[bardtoob]

The top scores were: 1. Bontas-9.900 2-tie. Miller-9.887 2-tie. Gutsu-9.887 2-tie. Onodi-9.887 5-tie. Bogunskaya-9.875 5-tie. Chusovitina-9.875 7-tie. Milosovici-9.862 7-tie. Okino-9.862 9. Lysenko-9.837 10. Gogean-9.800 Galieva outperformed at least 5 gymnasts on this list.

[Felipemajo]

This routine was the best Ive seen on this competition. Gutu's was a disaster!!!

[NaomisCellPhone]

I agree that Roza Galieva was magnificent in her BB compulsory. A 9.95 in view of how the apparatus was scored.

However, Gutsu's routine was not a disaster. Solid throughout, dynamic, exceptional form...she only wavered on a full turn.

[lostlyrarose]

@bardtoob that whole list is pretty crazy... but Bontas at the top was the worst. 4 big bobbles. Miller certainly deserved that spot.

[visceraltuning]

I thought Gutsu fell on the Beam . . . Oh, that's right. That's why Galieva did Gutsu's compulsories for her.

[muffycat26]

Gutsu fell on beam in team optionals. Galieva and Gutsu both did all the compulsory and all the optional routines. That is how it was done then. Anyway for both to have been eligible to qualify for the all around practicaly both would have had to compete on every routine in both rounds.

[lashenova]

No, back then every team member competed on every apparatus, and the lowest score was dropped. The top three scoring gymnasts from each country (Compulsories, Team Optionals combined) were qualified to do the AA. Gutsu fell in Team Optionals, and placed 4th on her team. The team coaches decided that Roza was too inexperienced and that they had a better chance at AA gold with Gutsu. Thats when they faked an injury for Galieva to allow Gutsu to compete.