Daniela Silivas - 1988 Olympics Team Compulsories - Floor Exercise

[martinkracklauer]

Bring back the compulsories. Please, please bring back the compulsories. They're the basics from which all great gymnastics is derived...

[MTVMANN]

Many people think this is the best Compulsory FX ever!

[ViardotVSGrisi]

I remember when the compulsories were discarded, most people were praising jesus, claiming how boring they were, etc. now we see how much we have lost. Little robots working towards injuries...

[nabojsa]

the best compulsory exercise EVER! perfection in motion!

there's really not much more to say than that :D

[hanakyne]

magic i love her !!! silivas for ever !!! 

[bearchamp69]

wow!!! This routine was especially made for Daniela. Just breathtakingly gorgeous.

[nicki446]

Just so beautiful. She moves with such joy and energy - it's like she's flying.

[tedsler]

omg the height she gets in all 3 tumble passes - it is unbelievable. beautiful, just beautiful :)

[autoneto]

the best compulsary ever . better then 1996 Lydia!

[choustonlv]

arguably one of the greatest performances in the history of gymnastics.....

[mortella23]

She just floats in her layout stepouts gorgeous!

[MNGYM26]

That ending is glorious! Perfect with the music.

[MNGYM26]

I'll be honest with everyone and myself. I have always felt that no one could touch the Soviets on floor compulsory but I am wrong. This is the most ABSOLUTE perfect compulsory floor routine I have ever seen! It actually moved me and I am now speechless.

[MargaretLeighh]

I love how she extends her body in all of her elements. I loved how the compulsories really focused on the fluidity and grace of gymnastics. So much of that is lost these days.

[jjcorella]

Pure beauty

[Holycani]

what did she score?

[QueenieQue]

I wonder what a judge nowadays would score this. I'd love to see them deduct her...and then the audience would stampede...

[Dancing24]

wow, can't we go back to those choreographies? wonderful

[jessicacarmon]

now in days she's consider a level 6

[QueenieQue]

@jessicacarmon You dipshit, this is a compulsory routine. She was one of the most incredible gymnasts of all time. Compulsories are basic skills that all competitors have to perform; this is not her optional routine.

[7544263]

Far too beautiful for words. One can't but be enchanted by the beauty, grace, and perfection of this compulsory. This girl had everything the sport could ever ask for:difficulty, grace, elegance, control, artistry. THIS IS ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS to all those robots nowadays. If they could just look back in time and try to adopt something ino their routines. She was a one and only far better that Comaneci and anyone else that ever came along. Love you Silivas, True Queen of Gymnastics.

[hanakyne]

silivas dany w as just perfect every thing i see about her is so graceful !!! french gymnast loves you dany !!!

[ayrescaxias]

Gold.

[espinaca79]

She was enjoying this performance. Look at her face at the begining of the first tumbling run, she looked on fire!. Every once in a while I come to see this vid, just to get inspired...

[spartyutube]

To me, the most perfect compulsory routine I've ever seen.

[gall111993]

this routine looks waaayy too easyy for her!!

[mrsTorrard88]

@gall111993 you know this is compulsories right?

[Timtation69]

Oh just beautiful! SHE PERFORMED IT LIKE A SUPERSTAR!

[escaflowne9282take2]

her timing is just impeccable!

[TwisterFlipp95]

I like that the romanians were taught not to take the step on the second pass, it looks better if they dont.

[ramram70]

wow,..., how was the choreographer of this routine?,..,this is ARTISTIC gymnastic,.., no one is better than Silivas for this routine,...,perfect body line, flexibility, rhythm,..., love it.

[krendjospai]

Shes not only a brilliant gymnast but a perfect ballerina. Bravo Daniela, BRAVO!

[utoob9999]

that was a masterpiece. amazing. it looks like she wasn't even working that hard and was having fun! one of the best gymnasts IMO

[mulliganbrian]

Wow wow wow wow wow!!!

Silivas is the very last gymnast Romania produced that had complete control of not only her tumbling, but her dance as well. This routine highlights her mastery of the sport of artistic gymnastics. We all know there were plenty of strong tumblers after her from Romania, but no one combined the artistry like she did.

[faeryquene]

I would have given this a 40.00 myself.

Just love this routine to bits.♥

[jamesbug2002]

Daniela SIlivas for President!

[stgybo]

Ya' know, everytime I want to see something beautiful I come back to this routine. It is absolute perfection. Puts a huge smile on my face everytime, beginning with the hand flick after raising her hands for the first time. NOBODY flicked their hands from the core of their body like Daniela did. Heck, that flick started from the core of the earth.

[stgybo]

I just had to watch the routine again. How many routines still hold up after 20+ years? Maybe a Nadia routine? Maybe a Yang Bo BB routine circa 1989? Silivas is legend for this routine. IMHO.

[espinaca79]

Thankx for your post. 've always felt the same way!

[PhillyGal4Ever]

Omigosh-You and I both! I think I come to this video at least once or twice everyday-I need my Silivas compulsories fix especially after watching some fine gymnasts' 'artistic' gymnastics that offends my senses.

[Kevinsf]

Bring back the compulsories!!!!!

[indiatree]

She absolutely deserved the 10 here...it was perfect. But when the judges then gave Shushonova a 10 on FX compulsories for a much weaker routine, it made the 10 sort of meaningless. The judges ruin everything.

[pink0twinkie]

<3.<3

[dunjica77]

she flows like water...

[xuarxu]

That was a piece of cake for her

[PhillyGal4Ever]

Thank you so much for posting this!

Silivas deserved a 20.00, This routine was light years ahead of the competition imo. Simply sublime routine. The best. It is because of her compulsories that I will always believe she should have had a comfortable lead over Shushunova-and ultimately won the AA gold.

[PhillyGal4Ever]

I meant 'posting'!

[espinaca79]

This is the type of performance that if you took a picture at any minute, you would get a beautiful image.

[WarrenBeattySplendor]

This routine has it all: exhuberance, great lines, extension, amplitude and dynamic dance. Daniela Silivas was marvelous. This routine is forever etched in my mind because it is absolutely phenomenal.

[stgybo]

I agree. I just wish someone had convinced her to keep her '87 hairdo.

[espinaca79]

Who cares about the hairdo with the quality of this routine!

[PhillyGal4Ever]

I actually thought the hairdo was cute-and natural-her own curls. The 88 Games was the first time I saw Daniela so I had no other hairdo to compare it too. She was obviously turning into a young lady and thought a perm was a grown up thing to do. I like her hair better though at the 1989 Worlds and later at the Chunichi and Tokyo Cups. She looked very pretty.

[BlackSatechi]

This was the most beautiful compulsory routine ever done in Olympic history.

I could watch it all day and never tire of it.

[woofiegrrl]

For the record, this earned a 10.000

[WSggs]

A well deserved one at that.

Flawless.

[PhillyGal4Ever]

Shushu should not have been scored so close in compulsories (except for vault) compared to Silivas' compulsory sets.

[WSggs]

I completely agree. It was evident Silivas consistently operated on a different parallel when it came to very basic movement and execution. Which is what compulsories were always about.

[WSggs]

To add to that, Shush leeched off of her top Soviet status to gain unwarranted scores.

Boginskaya and even Baitova should have wiped the floor with Shush in compulsories.

[PhillyGal4Ever]

Shushu certainly did benefit from her placement in the team lineup (last I think on every event in compulsories). Silivas had to go up second to last in compulsories on vault to the weakened Aurelia Dobre. It may have affected her final score on that event. Dobre really should have gone up first or second. Potorac should have gone last (she looked the strongest on vault for Romania) with Silivas just before.

[PhillyGal4Ever]

ITA-Mind you I love Shushu-she had to me the best fx of her career in optionals. But in compulsories-she was good-but not GREAT like Silivas in overall qualities.

[WSggs]

I love Shushunova as well. I think she was very dynamic and certainly did a lot for having the bodily restrictions she did. But overall, I think she lacked a lot. Silivas wasn't any revolutionary vaulter but for for her size and weight she was wasn't bad at all. I think overall she had the complete package.

[VTABBBFE]

Wonder how many current gymnasts could dance like Silivas?

[GinnyFrings]

Yes, no one

[emmyjo720]

Anna Pavlova, Nastia Luikin, Cheng Fei all could...

[wassimelbenny]

does anyone knows what kind of music is this? I am interested to play it, or here the original version.

[escaflowne9282]

it's a piano arrangement based on Mouvement number 3 by French-Canadian composer Andre Gagnon

[mmoran3]

all i know is they said carol stabochevski

[TuesdayPillow]

She was one of the few that tried to get all her leaps to a full split.

[rexus82]

i love silivas

[vscanzi]

Woah! She could fly... lol

[gw2012ogm]

i swear she could!

[gymnasticsforever17]

watch brandy johnsons layout in the ocmpulsories of the 1988 olympics...its HIGHER then anybodys!!! even silivas

[audie83]

Silivas still has the better looking form on the move-and I doubt it was much higher-how do you measure that watching on screen?

[SquirtGymnast]

Are they all the same routines

[audie83]

Yes-before the 2000 Olympics they were still competiting compulsory excercises in the first day preliminary team competition-it really separated the women from the girls. And Silivas was the greatest compulsory gymnast overall ever imo.

[uwoeric]

Breathtaking routine! It's so sad that the Romanians have regressed so much in artistry since Silivas' time. This routine was absolutely gorgeous.

[ramram70]

amazing!!!

[espinaca79]

She was on fire! Could you see the expression on face during the routine. Every second of this routine is perfect. My all time favourite performance.

[nwedi]

I think that is the best compulsory floor routine ever performed!

[spartyutube]

I think so too! Super amplitude on everything!

[stgybo]

I think I agree with that statement too. So supple. So powerful. Wonderful carriage. Presence. A real "float" to the whole routine.

[Holygrail2]

This is an amazing performance. I didn't get a chance to see this particular run-through in '88. Perfection.

[escaflowne9282]

I think the dive roll could be performed one foot in front of the other, or with 2 feet together on the exit. The Romanians all did the latter variation while the Soviets did the former. I LOVED this routine and her performance of this was jsut magical. Who actually was the best Soviet at Floor compulsories was Omelianchik. Sadly, she was left off the team :(

[mrparke007]

I love how she two-footed the landing on the dive roll. Very non-Silivas and more Shush. Silivas always performed this FX comp better than Shush.

[kittenfish143]

She performed it better than anybody else!!! Nobody leapt so high and gracefully as she did!