I think that she was definitely the most mentally-tough gymnast on the american team, if not one of the most ever, Mostly due to Bela. To have a fall like that and perform the rest of her routine like that is something special. They don't make gymnasts like that anymore
@EuropeanGuy87 What part of American don't you understand. We come to America from all over the world and we are proud to be American. It doesn't matter where we come from.
To recover from a fall like that, at such a young age, during the Olympics, in the United States of all places ? Admiration all-round. Could anyone else have done the same ? Personally, I think not.
This poor girl... another Bela disaster....he has or had a knack for building up a gymnast so well and confident right before the Olympics... only to what it seems like wear them down to exhaustion when the event finally comes... I know she has been one of the gymnasts who has spoken against his methods...i dunno... it was like okino and zmeskal in 92' ... some could even agrue mills in 88', but that team got screwed score-wise anyway for his past stunts...
She has beam shoes because she developed a wound on her foot when she was young and never healed because of training. The beam shoes helped protect her feet. I think she really tries to point her toes, which is, by the way, a hundred times harder to do with those on. Be kind :) She tries. And I love her :) My favorite gymnast of all time!
why did no one move the springboard? i saw this multiple times through out the 1996 olympics. she could have been horribly injured had she fallen on it!
on another note, she always was a mess in event finals. watch her 1995 us nationals beam and bars event finals. she has horrible falls in both, and her beam fall is almost identical to this one.
When she recovered like this, I never looked at gymnastics the same way again. I just thought: D. Moceanu is one who *never* gives up. Ever. An inspiration to us all.
In this routine, she showed a great spirit of character. None of us, perhaps, would have simply been able to continue like that, after such a mistake. At such a young age. In the United States of all nations, when she was at the height of her power. With everybody watching. How does one do that ?!
I remember seeing this fall. Both me and my mother winced big time. But I still cannot figure out how she stuck to that beam and did not fall. She must have been reeling from the bump; how did she not fall ? With such a huge mistake ? At the age of 14 ? In front of huge crowds in her home country ? When she simply *willed* not to fall, at that moment, she did something which had never been done before, and never will be done again. We all love her for her iron will, which simply would not break.
She finished what she was gonna say but gave it a moment.... "Of course a fall on the balance beam is just as costly as a fall off the balance beam..."
@JanesCalamity I remember it too! That was crazy! She was elite for sure. I was in gymnastics at the time, so I loved (and still love) watching gymnastics.
@TheHorseyGymnast You are kidding, right? Problem with Domi is she never learned to point her toes:( All of her skills are performed with horrific flexed feet, and those gym slippers just accentuate the flexed feet one hundredfold.
@ralucagymnast I just like how high she goes, and how softly she lands. I personally don't really judge people's toe-points; some just have naturally unflexible feet. (Like me...) She isn't flexing, she just isn't pointing.
@TheHorseyGymnast Fair enough, but as an elite, worldclass gymnast her toe point should be second to none; one of the first things gymnast get drilled into them is toe point, and with ballet training, (which the Soviets and Romanians definitely had, dont know about the American gymnasts) pointing the toes should be automatic!! Her coach was Bela Karolyi, yes? coach of the greatest of them all Nadia Comaneci, yes? Her toe point was beautiful; maybe Domi was flat footed??
Dominique M. was very good, but I hate that they compared Dominique Dawes to her. Dominique Dawes had the experience and didn't crack under the pressure that much. I feel like Dominique M. got a little distracted sometimes.
Dawes didn't crack under pressure? She had two legitimate shots to win World AA titles in '93 and '94 and choked on vault both times. In the Atlanta AA, she fell on floor after leading the competition at the midway point. Dawes was a brilliant gymnast, but she really wasn't mentally tough by any means.
She did... in 1996 TF. But Dawes literally threw away two World AA titles because of vault crashes. She's still one of my top 5 gymnasts of all time, don't get me wrong. But to say that she "didn't crack under pressure," like Mikizzle15 did, is just untrue.
she fell because the audience had their flash on..and that blinds you when doing tricks on the beam..that's why the audience is prepped to ensure there isn't a flash on..hehe
my god you're a retarded fuck...do us all a favor: run a nice hot bath...grab anything sharp...jump on in and slit your wrists!
...and just for the sake of a good time...what would the point value be for your final moments of life...I say not even 0.10!
Btw, she lost more than .50 on her fall..she lost connection bonus, her DD decreased, her continuity was broken, her form in the pass was heinous, her extension is beyond pathetic - some actual flexibility would be nice! She was OVER SCORED!!!
Um what the fucking hell? You asked a question and I kindly answered you, why are you saying what you are saying? Are you nuts? Why would you post a question if you were going to reply like that when you got an answer.
listen up sugar-tits...my initial comment was done in "jest" regarding her misstep...get a fuckin' clue already!
and after my review of your existence, it really is time for you to slit your wrists OR jump on the nearest free-way and let as many cars as possible slam into you!...and remember, stick that landing!
What the hell? Your "jest" actually seemed like a genuine question, and there was no need to be such a fucking bitch. It's dumbass retards like you that pollute society. Why wonder there are so many pregnant ass teens with STDs in the world - no respect for themselves or anyone else.
What the hell? LOL! If you ever decide to step off your lame soap-box, make sure to stick your landing fuck-tard!...so when you delightfully ram your "szichophrenic-head" up your overused diseased ridden ass...do you make it a point to turn your head side to side for extra pleasure? Idiots like you who ASSume that their expertise is superior and therefore wanted are heinous and ridiculous...what I suspect is that you're a frustrated sub-par wanna be gymnast...the truth hurts BITCH!
Right, your not on a "lame soap-box" of course. Your lack of understanding and empathy is obviously what is desired by everyone. Get your uneducated, retarded ass out of here. "Oh, that bitch cost us the gold medal." Yea, it's that fucking easy. BTW: My expertise is superior to yours. Tough luck honey, and right back at 'cha. The truth hurts. Reality hurts. Uneducated bitches that don't contribute one positive piece of information, hurt.
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Seriously, if she wasn't American would anybody be giving this five stars??!! Dominique was an amazing gymnast, but here she landed on her head!! Five stars??!! What a load of rubbish.
You did see her fail to complete the sequence and fall on the beam right? If go down on the beam it's just like falling off you lose 0.500. So what you're saying is if she hadn't fallen, she would have gotten 10.00? No way!
She lost bonus pointa for not completing the sequence andmeant her routine had a lower start value. She lost half a point for falling over. 9.125 is about right.
It's the same deductions in the new scoring system. If you fall, you lose the skill itself, a connection (if it was connected to another skill), and get deducted for the fall itself. Moceanu also had a fairly noticeable wobble after the punch front.
It would still be about the same comparatively. You're right they incorporate difficulty, but that means if you fall on a difficult skill, you lose that many more points. And a punch front is the same thing as a front tuck on beam.
You don't understand what I'm saying. It is the same under the new system as the old. You fall, you lose difficulty points; old system, that means you had a lower start value, new system, that means your A-score is different. The "base score" does change if you fall and don't complete a skill. Take Alicia Sacramone for example; she fell in the team comp on beam, and lost points because she didn't complete the front tuck mount or the back pike connected to it, as well as the connection value.
@gymjuice1222 boo!! You mean the scoring where the only thing that mattered was the dismount? even though the gymnast performed so well throughout the whole routine.
In '96, you only had to be 15 in the Olympic year. She turned 15 on Sept. 30, 1996, so she was technically 14 at these Games, but it wasn't illegal back then.
man i miss stuck dismounts!!they make everything else look that much more impressive..and hows about this kid.WOW!!talk about mental toughness..at 14!!!!!!brava dominique
nastia liukin changed all that =] her stuck dismount on beam in the '08 AA was simply amazing. Dominique and Nastia are both legends of gymnastics and will always be remembered for their original style.
Compare her to Shannon Miller, Lilia Podkopayeva, Mo Huilan, Dina Kochetkova, even Alexandra Marinescu and her form deficiencies are glaring. She was really overscored even when she did good routines. Jaycie Phelps was even a much cleaner gymnast with much better form and nicer style.
Jaycie Phelps wasn't half as good as she was. She had all sorts of wobbles in her routines and it over all didn't look pretty because she was so scared her body was stiff, similar to the way miller was on the beam but she didn't wobble.
Props to her for finishing the routine almost perfectly after damn near breaking her neck! Let alone NOT falling off the beam after that. Awesome determination.
poor baby. She's too young anyway, who the hell put their CHILD to work like a slave? The gold medal isn't even worth three hundred dollars. this child should be at SCHOOL. or playing with friends. Good grief how was this allowed???
=/ She isn't working like a slave. Gymnastics is a sport which Dominique loved. The chose to do it - nobody forced her. Geez, just because she fell! It happens all the time. Everyone falls down, it's a part of life. You just have to get back up again.
This was a really memorable routine. That head landing was big news at the time. anyone remember the scores she got on this? i was surprised how she just got back up and finished the routine flawlessly.
Surprising that Bela Karolyi could produce a gymnast like Nadia Comaneci, who had the best form EVER,(still havent seen anyone better to this day)didnt emphasise toepoint in Dominique. She is very flat-footed on all of her elements. No toepoint at all.
I didn't realize it then (because I was a year older) but now, I'm thinking she was only a kid when she competed at the olympics. Granted, other members of the team where in their teens (18/19yrs) as well but think of psychological pressure one has at fourteen when commentators go, 'of course'. snide bitch. well, in retrospective, she won the team gold... and went down in olympic history as a member of the mag. seven... :-)
Pretty incredible that despite nearly knocking herself out she had the tenacity to grab hol of the beam and not fall off! I'm surprised she stood up after that fall, let alone remembered and completed her routine!
poor dominique. she had a lot of bad luck in her career, i think if she had not made so many mistakes, she would of been a world and olympic champion!that fall must of hurt. and stop saying dominique had bad form. sure it's skill was not perfected like nadia, but she was a great gymnast, one of my faveourite
Well obviously if she hadn't made all those mistakes she would have been a world champion.
Isn't that what potential champions try not to do ? DUHHHHH.....! Anyway having said that, I quite clearly remember her copping gold in the individual all-round competition at the 1998 Goodwill Games. That games will be remembered sadly enough for the accident that left a female Chinese gymnast paralysed.
Please, she was no World or Olympic Champion caliber gymnast. The only thing she ever won individualy was a beam silver at the 95 Worlds, and that was a collasal gift.
I just think this is amazing how well she did on this routine considering the 'bump to the head' at the beginning - and she didn't even properly fall off then... not saying anything about form but if she was as young as 14 (and even if she was older) she had guts just to finish the routine like she did here
One of the most overhyped gymnasts in U.S history. There was all this hype how great she was and what did she ever accomplish. One EF silver at Worlds on beam, that was it.
@EuropeanGuy87 that is not true about AMERICANS... seriously CAca faces these days
anonymousgissele 3 weeks ago
I think that she was definitely the most mentally-tough gymnast on the american team, if not one of the most ever, Mostly due to Bela. To have a fall like that and perform the rest of her routine like that is something special. They don't make gymnasts like that anymore
wimbyfan13 2 months ago 3
OOOOOOOUUUUUCHHHHH!
MsPelicanus 2 months ago
She's a Romanian in blood gymnast she is made of steel ...that's why she recovered..and did not cry like American gymnasts
EuropeanGuy87 2 months ago
@EuropeanGuy87 What part of American don't you understand. We come to America from all over the world and we are proud to be American. It doesn't matter where we come from.
1548207 2 weeks ago
Ow! I am surprised that she was not dizzy after that. True champion!
Hereismytwocents2011 2 months ago
Fake
sep6000 2 months ago
why does it take a fall in a routine to make her preforme her best?!?!?!
mortella23 3 months ago
She fell in the 1995 Nationals as well...good thing she hit the team optional routine; otherwise it wouldn't be the Magnificent 7
NedSCUBAyah 4 months ago
when i was watching her compete she always get hurt lol
IXIWineIXI 6 months ago
cannot believe she recovered from that. amazing!
andyfleming82 6 months ago
did the commentator say shit? hahahahhahaha
caillinnumberonefan 6 months ago
one of my earliest childhood memories was watching this routine haha
PoorPublicSchoolKid 7 months ago
@PoorPublicSchoolKid mine too :))) i was 6, she was the first gymnast i ever saw, LOVE her!
iceballerina88 3 months ago
A true gymnast can go out and do it with the most pain on earth
Bubblepoper13 7 months ago
She recovered so well from that fall ! A true gymnast doesnt let a slip up ruin the rest of the routine !
happybunny2007 7 months ago
she is so cute and what a scary fall...or mistake since she didnt really fall off
msms68 7 months ago
I love the cameras flashing in the background before and during the mount! It makes the arena look amazing and spectacular!
makT890 7 months ago 2
what was her score
Neuhaus96 8 months ago
@Neuhaus96 9.125
dencod18 8 months ago
that fall really freaked me out...im glad shes ok
unevercalled 8 months ago
She was 14
zeldafreak701 8 months ago
how old is she here?
truebunhead 9 months ago
Painful fall to watch but her recovery and dismount was the best part!!!
firewwall1 9 months ago
wowu saw that after the second crooked layout
mmoran3 10 months ago
I feel so bad for her. did she even get to finish all of her routine?
stepitup25 11 months ago
the best gymnast ever go dominique!!!
misspinkprincess11 11 months ago
Terrifying fall, amazing dismount! (:
houndscheer1996 11 months ago
Amazing that she stayed on the beam and finished her routine! Wow.
danasuperstar 1 year ago 3
omg john tesh is so obnoxious..well they all are..but at least tim and elfi reacted normally
elfi:Oh! Tim: oo! ouch! John(10x louder then everyone in the arena) o..OH OHHHH!!! OH MY GOSH!
like wtf
good routine though lawlss
peepers2221 1 year ago
To recover from a fall like that, at such a young age, during the Olympics, in the United States of all places ? Admiration all-round. Could anyone else have done the same ? Personally, I think not.
cairsahr64 1 year ago 14
id lose my mind...for real.
SamJay57 1 year ago
This poor girl... another Bela disaster....he has or had a knack for building up a gymnast so well and confident right before the Olympics... only to what it seems like wear them down to exhaustion when the event finally comes... I know she has been one of the gymnasts who has spoken against his methods...i dunno... it was like okino and zmeskal in 92' ... some could even agrue mills in 88', but that team got screwed score-wise anyway for his past stunts...
garaa9696 1 year ago
She has beam shoes because she developed a wound on her foot when she was young and never healed because of training. The beam shoes helped protect her feet. I think she really tries to point her toes, which is, by the way, a hundred times harder to do with those on. Be kind :) She tries. And I love her :) My favorite gymnast of all time!
iamhonestlyaliar 1 year ago 2
My favorite gymnast(:
yaypudding1996 1 year ago
why did no one move the springboard? i saw this multiple times through out the 1996 olympics. she could have been horribly injured had she fallen on it!
on another note, she always was a mess in event finals. watch her 1995 us nationals beam and bars event finals. she has horrible falls in both, and her beam fall is almost identical to this one.
bbhouk1 1 year ago
How tall was she??
She looks so tiny!!
chocolatefan1711 1 year ago
@chocolatefan1711
she was like 4' 8" here
bbhouk1 1 year ago
With such a fall, and such a gutsy recovery, who cannot love this girl ?
cairsahr64 1 year ago 2
When she recovered like this, I never looked at gymnastics the same way again. I just thought: D. Moceanu is one who *never* gives up. Ever. An inspiration to us all.
cairsahr64 1 year ago
Dominique was incredible...even the way she catches herself on her fall is amazing somehow.
andyouseethelight 1 year ago
it was a pretty good save though(: they should call it the Mocenau ;D
hermione12 1 year ago
Coolest mount ever!
spershall 1 year ago 3
does anbody know the score she got on this routine??
girlwiththebows 1 year ago
wow late reaction john tesh.. asshole
luv4cookie1 1 year ago
luv the mount
lilypod3 1 year ago
OMG!!! I think she slipped her foot in the 2nd layout that costed her a medal
natalienat518 1 year ago
In this routine, she showed a great spirit of character. None of us, perhaps, would have simply been able to continue like that, after such a mistake. At such a young age. In the United States of all nations, when she was at the height of her power. With everybody watching. How does one do that ?!
cairsahr64 1 year ago
lol!!!!
geraniels 1 year ago
I remember seeing this fall. Both me and my mother winced big time. But I still cannot figure out how she stuck to that beam and did not fall. She must have been reeling from the bump; how did she not fall ? With such a huge mistake ? At the age of 14 ? In front of huge crowds in her home country ? When she simply *willed* not to fall, at that moment, she did something which had never been done before, and never will be done again. We all love her for her iron will, which simply would not break.
cairsahr 1 year ago 6
seems like all of the US beam rutines are the same in this olympics
brittshitdinklburgha 1 year ago
Houston still loves you..
SlowRealization 1 year ago 2
What was her score??
gymnast6446 1 year ago
she fell so gracefully... and sticked her dismount perfectly.
idefyustars 1 year ago 3
Elfie: "Of Course...."
lol wtf
markedexclusive 2 years ago 2
She finished what she was gonna say but gave it a moment.... "Of course a fall on the balance beam is just as costly as a fall off the balance beam..."
stevenh622 1 year ago
im a level 10 and my sussones look the same. i do 3 of them in a row after a a standing switch leap :) i love D>M she is a graceful woman
gymnast857 2 years ago
i love how she acts like the fall was part of the routine-0:20-watch until 0:31,throughout that it looks like she was MEANT to fall!!!!!!!
rinnaluv 2 years ago
@rinnaluv The sign of a good gymnast
Rebeccabwfc 2 years ago
im confused. Back then, gymnastics in the us look like the chinese gymnasts now
dancelife450 2 years ago
She's 14 here, that's why. In 1996, the age limit was 14. Now it's 16.
BCONTRAT 2 years ago
the age limit was fifteen. You have to turn 15 by the end of the olympic year
stevenh622 1 year ago
@BCONTRAT thats ridiculos!
luv4cookie1 1 year ago
@dancelife450 no only domi does
luv4cookie1 1 year ago
Is it just me..or do beams these days not make so much squeaking and thudding during the routines?
lotus8998 2 years ago 2
I remember watching this on TV when it happened live. I could not believe that she recovered so well after hitting her head on the beam like that!!
JanesCalamity 2 years ago 57
@JanesCalamity I remember it too! That was crazy! She was elite for sure. I was in gymnastics at the time, so I loved (and still love) watching gymnastics.
allergymonk 1 year ago
@JanesCalamity probably happened one billion times while during practice
bniagara 3 months ago 3
she has THE prettiest sissone in the world
TheHorseyGymnast 2 years ago
@TheHorseyGymnast You are kidding, right? Problem with Domi is she never learned to point her toes:( All of her skills are performed with horrific flexed feet, and those gym slippers just accentuate the flexed feet one hundredfold.
ralucagymnast 1 year ago
@ralucagymnast I just like how high she goes, and how softly she lands. I personally don't really judge people's toe-points; some just have naturally unflexible feet. (Like me...) She isn't flexing, she just isn't pointing.
TheHorseyGymnast 1 year ago
@TheHorseyGymnast Fair enough, but as an elite, worldclass gymnast her toe point should be second to none; one of the first things gymnast get drilled into them is toe point, and with ballet training, (which the Soviets and Romanians definitely had, dont know about the American gymnasts) pointing the toes should be automatic!! Her coach was Bela Karolyi, yes? coach of the greatest of them all Nadia Comaneci, yes? Her toe point was beautiful; maybe Domi was flat footed??
ralucagymnast 1 year ago
ah! i feel so bad for her on that first pass!! omg my friend is doing that mount that she did!!
politicallycorrect14 2 years ago
Dominique M. was very good, but I hate that they compared Dominique Dawes to her. Dominique Dawes had the experience and didn't crack under the pressure that much. I feel like Dominique M. got a little distracted sometimes.
Mikizzle15 2 years ago
Dawes didn't crack under pressure? She had two legitimate shots to win World AA titles in '93 and '94 and choked on vault both times. In the Atlanta AA, she fell on floor after leading the competition at the midway point. Dawes was a brilliant gymnast, but she really wasn't mentally tough by any means.
kalibeast 2 years ago
dawes? i thought moceanu was the one who fell on both vaults
TheHorseyGymnast 2 years ago
She did... in 1996 TF. But Dawes literally threw away two World AA titles because of vault crashes. She's still one of my top 5 gymnasts of all time, don't get me wrong. But to say that she "didn't crack under pressure," like Mikizzle15 did, is just untrue.
kalibeast 2 years ago
o thankz
TheHorseyGymnast 2 years ago
yes Dominique M. fell on her vaults in the Olympics..Dominique D. fell on her vaults in Worlds 93 and 94...hehehe
jamesbug2002 2 years ago
shes good every gymnastist must fall or mess up then it wont be gymnastics if everyon was perfect. and noones perfect lol.
paradee12 2 years ago
she fell because the audience had their flash on..and that blinds you when doing tricks on the beam..that's why the audience is prepped to ensure there isn't a flash on..hehe
jamesbug2002 2 years ago
o. cant that get u kicked out nowadays?
TheHorseyGymnast 2 years ago
it should..i mean, like in tennis, cellphones should be in silent mode..or should be turned off..
jamesbug2002 2 years ago
Next to when Gina Gogean attempted to break the beam in half, this is about the worst.
GymFloozie 2 years ago
she does some things really well but her form and toe point on the easy stuff is horrific
flip4u02 2 years ago
Lucky Shannon Miller was there for the US to win!
airliberte 2 years ago
at 0:20 it looked like it realy hurt
diazjasmin68 2 years ago
yep 14
NoSuchThing2009 2 years ago
0:20 what a hard guy.
Thegymdawg 2 years ago 2
i saw this when i was 6 live.. i think i cried when she fell haha. i was training in gymnastics then.. its tough stuff
mkh008 2 years ago
i got lucky and watched this live and my heart hit the floor when that slipup happened.
riztar 2 years ago
i could watch her stick that dismount all day and not get bored.
tombarnes123 2 years ago 3
Now that's tough...holding on after that and getting right back up to finish ~
Iceickled714 2 years ago 3
im working on this mount now and let me tell you it killssss your shoulderss!
dreambigten0 2 years ago
just what is the point value for her head-butt on beam?
pwrtumblr 2 years ago
It counts as a fall, .500 or half a point.
gymnasticsloverxoxo 2 years ago
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my god you're a retarded fuck...do us all a favor: run a nice hot bath...grab anything sharp...jump on in and slit your wrists!
...and just for the sake of a good time...what would the point value be for your final moments of life...I say not even 0.10!
Btw, she lost more than .50 on her fall..she lost connection bonus, her DD decreased, her continuity was broken, her form in the pass was heinous, her extension is beyond pathetic - some actual flexibility would be nice! She was OVER SCORED!!!
pwrtumblr 2 years ago
Um what the fucking hell? You asked a question and I kindly answered you, why are you saying what you are saying? Are you nuts? Why would you post a question if you were going to reply like that when you got an answer.
gymnasticsloverxoxo 2 years ago 30
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listen up sugar-tits...my initial comment was done in "jest" regarding her misstep...get a fuckin' clue already!
and after my review of your existence, it really is time for you to slit your wrists OR jump on the nearest free-way and let as many cars as possible slam into you!...and remember, stick that landing!
:)
pwrtumblr 2 years ago
What the hell? Your "jest" actually seemed like a genuine question, and there was no need to be such a fucking bitch. It's dumbass retards like you that pollute society. Why wonder there are so many pregnant ass teens with STDs in the world - no respect for themselves or anyone else.
hitsugaya1001 2 years ago
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What the hell? LOL! If you ever decide to step off your lame soap-box, make sure to stick your landing fuck-tard!...so when you delightfully ram your "szichophrenic-head" up your overused diseased ridden ass...do you make it a point to turn your head side to side for extra pleasure? Idiots like you who ASSume that their expertise is superior and therefore wanted are heinous and ridiculous...what I suspect is that you're a frustrated sub-par wanna be gymnast...the truth hurts BITCH!
KISSES!
pwrtumblr 2 years ago
Right, your not on a "lame soap-box" of course. Your lack of understanding and empathy is obviously what is desired by everyone. Get your uneducated, retarded ass out of here. "Oh, that bitch cost us the gold medal." Yea, it's that fucking easy. BTW: My expertise is superior to yours. Tough luck honey, and right back at 'cha. The truth hurts. Reality hurts. Uneducated bitches that don't contribute one positive piece of information, hurt.
hitsugaya1001 2 years ago
i got to meet her!! she is really nice :D
xokatieeeexo01 2 years ago
This mount and her floor routine was the reason i got into this sport.
lilgirllmh 2 years ago
Jesus
iloveyourstory 2 years ago 3
Full props to her for getting up and finishing. Her head must've been throbbing after that.
SATCfan69 3 years ago 7
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Seriously, if she wasn't American would anybody be giving this five stars??!! Dominique was an amazing gymnast, but here she landed on her head!! Five stars??!! What a load of rubbish.
SonyaNatalia 3 years ago
maybe its the way that she got up and carried on afterwards even though that must have been so painful that makes people want to give it 5 stars!
lilmisslollyboo 2 years ago 7
Its the quality of the video that counts, jeez. It has awesome quality not to mention she gets back on and finishes, she was so determined.
gymnasticsloverxoxo 2 years ago
well at least she made up for it in the later rounds
mightymojnir 3 years ago
What later rounds? Wasn't this her last event? The All Around and team finals were over (and she stuffed up on vault there).
Dominique is great, but the 1996 Olympics were not her best.
SonyaNatalia 3 years ago
Ah, her final event was floor. But she didn't get a medal there.
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gymnasticsloverxoxo 3 years ago
You did see her fail to complete the sequence and fall on the beam right? If go down on the beam it's just like falling off you lose 0.500. So what you're saying is if she hadn't fallen, she would have gotten 10.00? No way!
She lost bonus pointa for not completing the sequence andmeant her routine had a lower start value. She lost half a point for falling over. 9.125 is about right.
HJA1982 3 years ago 3
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gymnasticsloverxoxo 3 years ago
It's the same deductions in the new scoring system. If you fall, you lose the skill itself, a connection (if it was connected to another skill), and get deducted for the fall itself. Moceanu also had a fairly noticeable wobble after the punch front.
QueenieQue 3 years ago 2
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gymnasticsloverxoxo 3 years ago
It would still be about the same comparatively. You're right they incorporate difficulty, but that means if you fall on a difficult skill, you lose that many more points. And a punch front is the same thing as a front tuck on beam.
QueenieQue 3 years ago 2
The difficulty is the base score, it never changes.
gymnasticsloverxoxo 3 years ago
You don't understand what I'm saying. It is the same under the new system as the old. You fall, you lose difficulty points; old system, that means you had a lower start value, new system, that means your A-score is different. The "base score" does change if you fall and don't complete a skill. Take Alicia Sacramone for example; she fell in the team comp on beam, and lost points because she didn't complete the front tuck mount or the back pike connected to it, as well as the connection value.
QueenieQue 3 years ago 2
Agree. At the Beijing Olympics, many gymnasts lost some difficulty points because they fell or didn't manage to complete the elements required.
oklahomatornadoes 3 years ago
@oklahomatornadoes I hate the new scoring system, bring back the 10.0!
gymjuice1222 1 year ago
@gymjuice1222 boo!! You mean the scoring where the only thing that mattered was the dismount? even though the gymnast performed so well throughout the whole routine.
glenndelossantos15 1 year ago
Why did I get thumbs down on that?
gymnasticsloverxoxo 3 years ago
because some people are childish and dont realise you made a valuable point! :)
lilmisslollyboo 2 years ago 3
Thank you very much
gymnasticsloverxoxo 2 years ago
we call them punch fronts im pretty sure...=] - an elite gymnast
dreambigten0 2 years ago
I thought you had ot be 16 or 15 only if your 16th birthday is in the same year as the olympics to enter the Olympics, but she is 14.
LiangJackShan 3 years ago
The rules were different back then.
wc213 3 years ago
In '96, you only had to be 15 in the Olympic year. She turned 15 on Sept. 30, 1996, so she was technically 14 at these Games, but it wasn't illegal back then.
QueenieQue 3 years ago
Ouch!!
lilamber123 3 years ago
man i miss stuck dismounts!!they make everything else look that much more impressive..and hows about this kid.WOW!!talk about mental toughness..at 14!!!!!!brava dominique
ivanovicsharapova 3 years ago 3
nastia liukin changed all that =] her stuck dismount on beam in the '08 AA was simply amazing. Dominique and Nastia are both legends of gymnastics and will always be remembered for their original style.
TwisterFlipp95 3 years ago
What was her score?
gymnasticsloverxoxo 3 years ago
what does EF stands for?
glenndelossantos15 3 years ago
event final
puritee55 3 years ago
oh. thanks...!!!!!!! lol
glenndelossantos15 3 years ago
you're welcome.
puritee55 3 years ago
Compare her to Shannon Miller, Lilia Podkopayeva, Mo Huilan, Dina Kochetkova, even Alexandra Marinescu and her form deficiencies are glaring. She was really overscored even when she did good routines. Jaycie Phelps was even a much cleaner gymnast with much better form and nicer style.
russianskatingfan 3 years ago
Jaycie Phelps wasn't half as good as she was. She had all sorts of wobbles in her routines and it over all didn't look pretty because she was so scared her body was stiff, similar to the way miller was on the beam but she didn't wobble.
gymnasticsloverxoxo 3 years ago
That was phenomenal the way she not only didn't fall off the beam, but finished the routine well and stuck the landing!!
missjpace 3 years ago 2
Props to her for finishing the routine almost perfectly after damn near breaking her neck! Let alone NOT falling off the beam after that. Awesome determination.
LittleCloserBoi 3 years ago 5
Even with the fall this is beautiful gymnastic especially the mount and her dismount
NewMinako 3 years ago 3
however...she didn't fall off the beam!!!
thalialuvmx 3 years ago 2
she didn't fall off the beam, but it still counted as a fall because she used the beam to stop her fall.
arlhello 3 years ago
and besides, last I heard winning a gold medal nets around $30,000, maybe more.
oobah2 3 years ago
i wonder.....
what was bela karolyi's reaction???
moosegirl69 3 years ago 4
Poor thing! She's lucky she didn't break her neck!
She's so mature too: she just carries on regardless!
Eugenie404 3 years ago 5
oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man....
LaraCruzCroft 3 years ago
score?
dragu88 3 years ago
9.125
6th place
moosegirl69 3 years ago
It makes me think of a Tom and Jerry episode:
She crashes, little stars appear, and the sound of twittering birds resonate throughout the stadium.
neoliberalism 3 years ago
poor baby. She's too young anyway, who the hell put their CHILD to work like a slave? The gold medal isn't even worth three hundred dollars. this child should be at SCHOOL. or playing with friends. Good grief how was this allowed???
summern7 3 years ago
=/ She isn't working like a slave. Gymnastics is a sport which Dominique loved. The chose to do it - nobody forced her. Geez, just because she fell! It happens all the time. Everyone falls down, it's a part of life. You just have to get back up again.
frozenxxkisses 3 years ago 3
With the permission of her coach, herself since the age of three, and her parents. She wasn't a poor aby when she won the gold.
USGoingForGold 3 years ago
This was a really memorable routine. That head landing was big news at the time. anyone remember the scores she got on this? i was surprised how she just got back up and finished the routine flawlessly.
ashleyisachild 3 years ago
Surprising that Bela Karolyi could produce a gymnast like Nadia Comaneci, who had the best form EVER,(still havent seen anyone better to this day)didnt emphasise toepoint in Dominique. She is very flat-footed on all of her elements. No toepoint at all.
ralucagymnast 3 years ago
She had much better form in 98 when she wasn't competing with so many injuries and a better coach.
lashenova 3 years ago
even though she totally biffed on her head, she didnt let one fall turn into more
4evergymnastics 3 years ago 2
It makes my head hurt just watching.
KarenLovesGymnastics 3 years ago
crazy. she fell on her head....
havarahel 3 years ago
I didn't realize it then (because I was a year older) but now, I'm thinking she was only a kid when she competed at the olympics. Granted, other members of the team where in their teens (18/19yrs) as well but think of psychological pressure one has at fourteen when commentators go, 'of course'. snide bitch. well, in retrospective, she won the team gold... and went down in olympic history as a member of the mag. seven... :-)
calmtides 3 years ago 2
that mount was incredible.
BrooksCommaPhil 3 years ago 2
Yes, it was introduced by another legendary Romanian gymnast, Daniela Silivas. It actually bears her name, in the Code of Points; the Silivas mount.
ralucagymnast 3 years ago
Ouch!
AliceC2101 3 years ago
How old is she here? PS 5 stars!
AliceC2101 3 years ago
14 13
kenz13west 3 years ago
she was 15 when she competed in the olympics
csluka88 3 years ago
oh well in one video it says little 13 year old ...
soo my bad
kenz13west 3 years ago
she was actually 14...
sara19917 3 years ago
damn its like she didnt even feel that!!!
gymnasticsforever95 3 years ago 4
Pretty incredible that despite nearly knocking herself out she had the tenacity to grab hol of the beam and not fall off! I'm surprised she stood up after that fall, let alone remembered and completed her routine!
NonMatchingUnderwear 4 years ago 5
poor dominique. she had a lot of bad luck in her career, i think if she had not made so many mistakes, she would of been a world and olympic champion!that fall must of hurt. and stop saying dominique had bad form. sure it's skill was not perfected like nadia, but she was a great gymnast, one of my faveourite
ursonikki 4 years ago
Well obviously if she hadn't made all those mistakes she would have been a world champion.
Isn't that what potential champions try not to do ? DUHHHHH.....! Anyway having said that, I quite clearly remember her copping gold in the individual all-round competition at the 1998 Goodwill Games. That games will be remembered sadly enough for the accident that left a female Chinese gymnast paralysed.
senorsalazar 4 years ago
Please, she was no World or Olympic Champion caliber gymnast. The only thing she ever won individualy was a beam silver at the 95 Worlds, and that was a collasal gift.
grafgirl27 4 years ago
what was her score??
luisafernandasanchez 4 years ago
9.125
LBoogie101984 4 years ago
I just think this is amazing how well she did on this routine considering the 'bump to the head' at the beginning - and she didn't even properly fall off then... not saying anything about form but if she was as young as 14 (and even if she was older) she had guts just to finish the routine like she did here
lizzle7654 4 years ago 2
One of the most overhyped gymnasts in U.S history. There was all this hype how great she was and what did she ever accomplish. One EF silver at Worlds on beam, that was it.
russianskatingfan 4 years ago