Yang Yilin / 楊伊琳 - BB - Beijing 2008 - All-Round Final - 荷花

[proudpotterfan]

and she's so graceful on the beam.. and never fell even once during qualifications, team finals, AA AND event finals!

[guineapigcat]

I'm so glad she won the bronze!

[thejadedancer24]

This was a great rountine!

[ccaruso81]

She's beautiful on beam, but the only thing that really bothers me is that she does everything on flat foot.

[tumbletumbletumble01]

TIGHT! some wabbles here and there but it was amazing

[88222michelle]

Her mount is so cool

[XxSportyMusicGirlxX]

I love her mount!

[thejasminetan]

i just lovee watching yang perform(:

[toomuchgoingon]

she has a nice onodi :)

[ShawnVikaKomova2012]

@toomuchgoingon From this view it looks nice. This is from qualifications /watch?v=3z_AK_1DasQ. She actually has a really ugly Onodi.

[claralinsg]

lol Jade Barbosa's song on the background

[CallieMulan]

I only can say one thing: "PERFECT"! <3

[FallenRose101]

Fantastic work from, she has lovely confidence that Chinese gymnasts today seem to lack (with the exception of Deng Linlin). Wonderful touches, indeed.

[KingdomHearts500]

she is very graceful ^_^! I love all the olympians

[emmyjo720]

They way she moves on the beam, as though she is on the floor..Such beautiful line, so fluid... Shawn is all tricks and little grace. Yang Yilin does both..

[Niwa2780]

I love the little flourishes in her arm movements after she completes each element. It's so graceful and makes her movement look so precise and polished.

[Camiii35]

A la poutre , elle n'est pas plus forte qu'une française !

[EnemysGateIsDown]

love her dancing!

[Hasoginy]

Personally I preferred Yang Yilin's grace over Nastia on balance beam despite Yang has more wobbles, but nobody can match Nastia for the full turn with leg at horizontal.

[ellovestumbling332]

@Hasoginy in my opinion i dont think yang yilin has that much grace and nastias body lines can compete with anyone

[ShawnVikaKomova2012]

@Hasoginy Sanne Wevers can.

[smileyxoxo100]

i really no offense to nastia fans but i really like yang yilin better cause yilin is so talented and graceful at gymnastics alot

[morenodelaorilla]

Can you see valerie liukin in the background when yang yilin is dismounting, he is telling nastia, oh come on she did it... do your job

[jellyxxxx]

i swear whenever she puts her arms up and lifts up her head she is soo graceful and charming and her lines in her body are absolutely gorgeous!

[wenjia1012]

I really enjoy her style so much!

[allimoballi]

i love how solid her back tucks are! they are so simple to these olympic gymnasts but i still love how effortless it looks!

[morenodelaorilla]

I love when the commentor says That Yang Yilin was leading, she is fantastic, great body lines.

[natalienat518]

her routine is fairly clean in here, i think she is underscored

[Pineappleterrorist]

Personally, I think judges are a bit biased toward American gymnasts; that routine was amazing.

[meangirlbecca]

I used to be distracted by the other Chinese gymnasts because they did a wonderful job in team finals. But after seeing this I'm loving Yang Yilin more. She's more well rounded in skills and really elegant with that slim body figure and smile and to some degree is rather down to earth. Look how she appears on the beam and every act she does- so classy and elegant! Yang is such a valuable athlete, possibly the best China has for now. She'll go far in her career, I'm certain of this.

[morenodelaorilla]

I love Yang Yilin, she was the best, Nastia might have taken the gold but Yang Yilin took people's heart.

[laltretre]

shut up all was ok but shawn should got gold and nastia silver

[Gymchamp2]

Shawn may have been able to win every other competition. But THE NIGHT OF THE OLYMPICS Nastia was clearly the winner

[morenodelaorilla]

is yang yilin going to London?

[KarpfenKarpfen]

I hope so, but she's been injured for a few months and i dont know if she's recovered yet and she missed training lots of others had in that time...

[adulationx]

She embodies the "artistry" aspect of this sport.

[nikirififo]

She improved SO MUCH since last World Championship, she ended up very close to Shawn here, she's so damn impressive.

[chillychillychillies]

I think she was actually better that Shawn in the all round :)

[nikirififo]

Me too, I'd rather her with the silver

[alexzjay]

It should have been:

1. Shawn

2. Yilin

3. Ksenia

24. Nastia with tragic fall that ended her career. But that's just wishful thinking.

[glenndelossantos15]

How mean! LOL

[alexzjay]

You know you wish it too :D

[Cecilia149]

lolololol very mean but i must agree.~

[jacoblack02]

I totally agree with you! Ksenia deserved the bronze, so sad that she went home without olympic medal :(

[KarpfenKarpfen]

@alexzjay:

In my opinion it should have been:

1. Yilin

2.Nastia

3.Yuyuan or Ksenia

I dont like Shawn much...

[alexzjay]

Errbody is entitled to their opinions BUT you can't deny Shawn's high level of skills. She has a G in all her routines.

[KarpfenKarpfen]

I didn't say Shawn hasn't a high level of skills, but I still dont like her, that's all... and you arent better! Wanting Nastias career to end with a tragic fall! You can't deny Nastias high level of skills either! Especially her bars routine!^^

[nodaybuttoday01]

I would agree with you wholeheartedly, except for the fact that Nastia was the best performer THAT NIGHT. She was cleaner than anyone else with good difficulty. Yilin had some extremely deep landing in FX, and Yuyuan, let's face it, fell - there is no way she could have medaled. Shawn isn't my favourite gymnast either, but she was cleaner than Yuyuan, and Ksenia just doesn't have the difficulty. So my ranking for that night would be 1) Nastia 2) Yilin 3) Shawn.

[KarpfenKarpfen]

That's true, but I just posted my opinion how I would have liked the ranking to be! I LOVE Yilin and so i wanted her to win, but Nastia was close to her and I just enjoy watchingYuyuan orKsenia so I wanted theseGymnasts to medal! It didnt depend on their performence in the final, so I dont say Yuyuan should have medaled with that performence on vault and floor! It's just that I had wanted her to medal!^^ But I agrre with you too! 0,100 points more for Yilin and your ranking would be true

[OMGITSJULIA]

personally, i think the only reason people think nastia have great form is because she is long and lean, but letese be honest, shes not that clean on bars. Her leg splitting and her dismounts drivevs me nuts, in my opnion i think nastia is pretty overated.

[nodaybuttoday01]

I see your point. But there's no doubting Nastia was best that night. Everyone goes crazy about her crossed legs on her twists, but that's only a 0.1, whereas Yilin's double pike on floor is a solid 0.3-0.5 for the deep landing plus 0.1-0.3 for the uncontrolled lunge. Nastia's bent knees past the low bar bug me, since I KNOW she can do it right. But remember, form =/= execution! One can have great form and bad execution (see Ivana Hong) or have great execution but bad form (see Nastia).

[morenodelaorilla]

I saw the british commentors after beijing and when they analysed nastia's landings everybody noted she used to bounce in those landings which can be deducted as well.

[morenodelaorilla]

I think you are right.

[ellovestumbling332]

@nodaybuttoday01 i disagree... shaun has much more difficulty than yilin not saying yilin isnt good she is good but i thought that everyone that night got what they diserved.

[nodaybuttoday01]

@ellovestumbling332 Shawn wasn't even close to completing her Amanar. The judges gave her a gift. Her 6.5 A score for VT should have really been a 5.8 with a major lack of precision deduction. She's lucky she didn't drop down to 4th let alone 2nd.

[nodaybuttoday01]

@ellovestumbling332 Plus Shawn didn't even have more difficulty than YYL... YYL definitely had higher A scores than Nastia, and YYL's bars are eons ahead of SJ's.

[ShawnVikaKomova2012]

@nodaybuttoday01 Jiang actually had the highest in the entire AA. I was quite surprised when I found out. I thought it would be Yang. Or maybe Semenova, Johnson, or Liukin.

[saltlakecity2002]

Shawn didn't deserve a medal at all in the AA. She was all difficulty and no choreography. And I don't think Nastia deserved a medal either, she had choreography, but it was just a bunch of poses. Here's my rankings:

1. Yilin

2. Semenova

3. Nistor

[LuvGymnastix]

Poses?

I think you mean Choreography.

Nastia's tall postures, graceful passes, and artistry is what got her the gold. I think she deserved it.

Luckily your rankings don't matter and everyone got what they deserved.

[beverlvr]

Totally agree!!!

[nodaybuttoday01]

Wow, Nistor? Really? She was probably the most overscored gymnast of this last quad. She had terrible form issues all across the board. I like her choreo on floor but she had no chance whatsoever of medaling at the Olympics. Shawn may have no choreography but does reasonably well at what she does, and Nastia hit every event that night. Why don't either of them deserve medals, especially since choreography isn't a huge part of the code?

[ellovestumbling332]

@saltlakecity2002 well you are not the one judging noone on the chinese team can compete with nastia's natural grace and shaun's great power

[Missnewyork28]

@ellovestumbling332 And Nastia can't compete with the chinese clean form and good technic. Judges don't score the grace but the technic and the forms. How come Nastia got first ? Because a lot of people got screwed just to give it to her.

[QueenieQue]

@Missnewyork28 Well, the Chinese have terrible swing, kips, and transitions on bars, as well as very weak floor routines (with the exception of Cheng Fei). Nastia had the best combination of grace, power, flexibility, and form on this night. It's been two-and-a-half years, get over it already.

[YouStoleMyTube]

@QueenieQue I'll agree that the Chinese have weak floor except for Cheng Fei. But so does Nastia, her only double salto is a double front tuck.

And the width of her straddle is 5 miles wide!

[Missnewyork28]

@QueenieQue Blablabla always the same. Nastia is graceful because she has good body lines. If she was short and less thin, neither the NBC trio or people would find her fabulous. She has no power, she is not that flexible, and she is not that graceful. Chinese are actually the best bar workers, they have kips for sure but it's still much more beautiful than Nastia sloppy legs and cowboyed dismount.

[QueenieQue]

@Missnewyork28 Like I said, it's not just kips, the Chinese really struggle with swing and transitions, too. It makes the entire routine look painfully struggled, which to me is not enjoyable to watch. IN MY OPINION, I would rather watch a routine with a few form errors that flows really smoothly (i.e., Khorkina) than watch a routine with impeccable form that has no swing whatsoever. You're free to disagree with me, but it gets tiring arguing on Youtube.

[ShawnVikaKomova2012]

@QueenieQue I'll get over it once other people get over Gutsu beating Miller. Gutsu was better. People don't get over things easily. I still am super upset about Yang Yun not getting silver in 2000 on bars and Kui Yuanyuan not getting gold in 1997 on beam. Point is, 2 and a half years isn't a long time.

[imshoppaholic]

@QueenieQue Nobody really knows Gymnastics will agree with you at all.

[QueenieQue]

@imshoppaholic Not true. Lots of people have gotten fed up with the Chinese bars, and the horrid lack of choreography on beam. Yilin wasn't so bad, but others on her team were. It's time to bury the hatchet, though.

[ellovestumbling332]

@alexzjay thats just rude to want someone to fall with a career ending fall... i want that for most of these underage chinese gymnasts but i am not saying anything

[alexzjay]

@ellovestumbling332 you just said it.

[ellovestumbling332]

@alexzjay thts true bcause they have cheated for so many olympics and have duisgraced what the olympics are about

[becmaaa]

Simply great....

[StarXNite]

so graceful!!

[klgymnast1993]

wonderful!!

[youcleverguy]

Beautiful!