Simona Pauca 1984 Olympics Optionals Beam

[vioreldarie67]

(4) Barna -- puntea suspinelor. Eu nu m-asurca pe ea decat cu cricul si-as tremura ca piftia.

[vioreldarie67]

(3) APRECIEZ munca ta de-o viata !

[eugvh18]

exceptionally difficult and innovative routine, such shame Simona couldn't continue competing after 84 olmypics, with personal problems with Romanian coaches and her father, she was such cutie on the team and talented too, her beam routine was shocker at 84 like she showed amercan crowd like look me what i can do on the beam better szabo and Mary Lou and she showed alright with10 and a gold with szabo

[MrMartinportnoy]

@eugvh18 Hi, could you tell me more about her post-olyimpic years, what happened to her? I've always been curious about this, after being so successful in '84 she disappeared, thanks

[eugvh18]

@MrMartinportnoy after the games she went back to trainng national team and made some tv commercal in romania because they notice she a cute little girl that was so popular making her sweetheart, her father felt that the coaches wasn't really paying attending to her so her father pull out the team and now she has her own gym in romania and she got two kids

she was amazing gymnast with great looks

[ludan68]

It's funny because if you watch it thoroughly, seems that the floor excercise music, matches her beam coreagraphy. By the way, it was Mary Lou Retton's music which is a Romanian folk tune !!!

[mattimattiusa]

She got a 10 when she landed her dismount with her feet far apart and had to bring them together? No way.

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

@mattimattiusa You would have to know nothing about gymnastics at these Olympics to think this was not a ten. This was by far the most difficult beam routine being done, Look at her tumbling skills, most of those skills became popular in 1991, seven years later. Not to mention people were getting tens with hops on their landings so this was an 11.00.

[mattimattiusa]

@gymnasticsloverxoxo A non-perfect landing is a non-perfect landing, and that's what hers was.

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

@mattimattiusa In 84' leg separation was not a deduction, watch any other ten awarded routine, many of them had leg separation. By the '84 standards this was a ten, and to be honest it was the most worthy 10 in these Olympic games along with ma Yanhong's EF bars.

[Tribute2the80s]

This looks like a Frank Endo video. :)