1976 Olympics Nadia Comaneci Bars

[zhangshinyi]

is the full twist she did at :18 considered hard today?

[starluvr5204]

i lov how they did routines back then!!

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

I am sooooooooo stupid I always though a comaneci salto was that move at 0:23 but now I know it is that straddle move she does. Does anybody know what that move is called at 0:23?

[blimeyitsjessie]

OMG!

[yetter222]

She didn't know that she had just made history.

[gymnasticsrockzz]

Wow! No such thing as Giants in the 70's huh? Those bars were really close! but it was an amazing routine!

[TuesdayPillow]

Shaposhnikova started doing giants in '77 (or at least that's the earliest video I ever found).

[gyptax]

I cant believe how close they put the bars back then! Its so different now! But I still love this routine. And can anyone tell me why they changed the vault table?

[Paraiah]

The old horse-style vaults didn't provide enough support and spring when the gymnasts pushed off. It was easy to hurt yourself on them because they were so narrow and rigid.

[qwertykingzai]

Simply amazing dismount. I don't think anyone can do that anymore.

[leeny11]

i can do that and i'm not even elite. its one of the easiest dismounts these days

[greenkiwi689]

But this was 33 years ago, things were a lot different and the bars weren't as easy to swing/hold on to.

[QueenieQue]

Yeah, well, try doing a Comaneci salto--still one of the most difficult moves ever done on bars.

[hitsugaya1001]

its a level 5-6 dismount, qwertykingzai. i love her routine! such elegance. Everytime she transitioned, i thought she was slipping :O

[azninasiti]

she was among the first to do a dismount using high bar without using low bar

[caramelcreamsauce]

Wow these 'old' routines are so much more different than the ones I see tday!

[VolcanicICEman]

i heard the score they wanted to give her was to hing for the scoreboard so they out a 01.00 intead of a 10.00 and she went skits but then they annouced that she got a perfect score

[Ovidiu91]

I am from Romania, and I live in the same town she did. There is a highschool with her name and other gymnasis clubs in here. So even tho we are a small town, we are very proud of our Nadia Comaneci.

[ameracad]

man, that comaneci release is awesome! i have yet to see any other gymnast since do it anywhere near as well.

[HoneyGotMeHooked]

you can hear the crowd gasping... lol

[scrawneypaledude]

10.5? Outstanding for 1976.

[servemyego21]

This is even better than her EF routine! WOW.

[saintsom]

awesome !

[tranjilover]

amazing...

[GymnasticsIsLove14]

What was amazing about her handstands was that she held them straight.Today most American gymnasts can barely make it to the top

[xxxHOTTIE4LIFExxx]

wooooooooooooooooooow

[gymnastmyself8]

pretty good but fooage was a little bit fuzzy