Gymnastics in the Olympics, 1960 - 1980

[WorldClassGym]

the best of times! thanx for sharring! excellent video!

[HAMCANrockin]

so much grace!

[MusicKathiii95]

@midcoastgymnast I think so, too!!! 

[TheGuffroy]

I like the old school gymnastics.

[ier58]

Gymnastics maybe harder now but I wouldn't have tried a double full on none spring floor if fact it's alot easier now do to a double full due to the spring floor padding on the beam There was NO!! padding on the beam back then and NO!!! thick landing mats back then either.

[jux380]

maybe gymnastics is so much harder now, but don't forget that now, the floor is really dynamic (it wasn't !!!) only since 1984; uneven bars have really changed,... I'm sure it was harder than now with our equipements... I wouldn't try a full on a hard ground :-s or shooting the bars with my stomach ^^ on thin carpets :-O

[TheLetterEFF]

haha wow gymnastics is so much harder now

[marinaijaume001]

Where is Elena Mukhina?

[LittleShinyGlitter]

@marinaijaume001 Elena Mukhina is not there. She never participated in Olympics. She was supposed to on the Moscow 80s games, but got paralyzed 2 weeks before the games. So she was never at any Olympic games.

[HattieLovesCattie]

I bet the gymnast is Nellie Kim.She lives in Minn now.

[DanishRoyalFan15]

Who is the gymnast at 3:08 ?

[Fussims]

I think is Natalia Shaposhnikova (:

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

Natalia Shaposhnikova

[grifffinity]

It's definitely Shaposhnikova!

The most artistic gymnastics montage on youtube! Great quality footage was used (no crappy copies) and were seemlessly put together! Bravo!

[Gymnastique4eva]

i love this montage coz it shows how much gymnastics changed within the space of 20 years skills became harder and people were more daring :)

[piggyoinks247]

I love old gymnastics.

Does anyone know who the first woman was to compete a flipping vault?

[wcduke]

Oprah Winfrey.

[geddy1997]

1:53 had hurt her!

[jeystonemusic]

what the fuck was that at 1:53? looks like she broke her back!

[oldaardvark]

@jeystonemusic

I thought I remembered everything she did but I don't remember that!!

[geddy1997]

you must really like old gymnastics because from what i see all of your montages are old.

[KillaKitty09]

that was awesome!

And I wonder if Dominique Moceanu is related to Nadia Comaneci, because Domi's parents are from Romania, and they're both incredibly gymnasts...AND they look alike too :D

Just wonderin...

[allimoballi]

who is it at 2:46?

[xmaestro]

Gorgeous! We need more montages like this one, it gave me goosebumps.

[Mdshdw]

The Golden Years of gymnastics. We miss you.

[isa1285]

Excellent montage! The music goes perfectly with the videos!

[dappylu]

Very nice montage.

[lnmgilbert2004]

Very nicely done!

[zpal24]

yes it looks alot easier back then, but gymnastics grew as a sport, so skills back then were being performed fr the first time. after that people were continuing to innovate, thats why it appears easy, but at the time it was all new and difficult.

[emmy0323]

Great montage, I love watching Latynina and Caslavska doing their floor routines. And the quality is fantastic, where did you get the footage?

Thanks for sharing!

[gubia]

god i wish i could do olga's back flip and freeze time. very slowly, bendy like she does it, its so beautiful,. its the best feeling ever. touch the floor with your tummmmy

[gubia]

vvery nnnnice

[paulafernan]

Man, that's awesome! Too bad I wasn't born yet to see those performances live, huh? ;/

[kevin123verstappen]

But it was definitly better performed, don't you think??

[doll1380]

This is great! I really enjoy all your montages :)

[mellk]

waaauw.. wat mooi :)

[gymnasticsboi2007]

1:53~~~~~~~OMFG!

[kevin123verstappen]

That was my first reaction too, when i first saw it.

[bbhouk1]

@kevin123verstappen where did you get these clips? they're all fantastic quality with viewpoints i've never seen before. and is that olga korbut on the beam at 2:14 to 2:16? i recognize the soviet leo but i don't remember olga doing back-handspring to korbut in 76

[sakurasoh]

Yeah!  That's Olga!!

[LFDYGymnast]

holy dear lord lol that is crazy

[grifffinity]

Greaty symmetry with the opening and ending press to handstands.

[charloadams]

Thanks for this montage! It is great!