Shannon Miller - 1996 Olympics Team Optionals - Floor Exercise

[lingsto195]

I bought a pair of her autographed high heels on ebay! :)

[1deltau]

Shannon Miler is my IDOL i ♥ her so much i wanna be like her! ☻

[posypity]

for me it was always her personality that elevated her to another level.

the way she smiled before presenting her exercises and the most

wonderful white ribbon of all time. and she just had the grace of a queen

that others couldn't match. it was just that whole blonde perfect heavenly

aura about her.

[LittlexDreamer]

She can go HIGH, that is just crazy

[dahighbar]

She could of made those double lays in Atlanta. She had enough power just an awful technique throwing her arms and head back

[flutist4440]

That hurt my back just looking at this....

[ContortionFilms]

I really love the classic music playing with this, her and nastia have a similiar style. Nastia is amazing for keeping more coregraphy in her routine

[mortella23]

POWERFUL. full in. wow

[Ineedthat06]

man i wish she hit this floor routine in atlanta

[trianon63]

so what is the name of this song, could anybody tell us ?

[zeldafreak701]

@trianon63 Two Guitars I believe.

[trianon63]

@zeldafreak701

You are right, thanks for the info, I was looking for this for over a year.

To verify this, any piano rendition will do, for example :

the YouTube video where Basil, an oriental boy is playing "Two Guitars" on the piano.

[Katelinanator]

Her routine always tells a story.Not anymore.I miss that

[catchthisbuck]

her tumbling always sucks she is great on bars and beam but floor isn't her event

[OPlush07]

Shannon Miller will forever be my favorite gymnast. I'm sure that it has something to do with the fact that she was champion during the most perfect period in the history of gymnastics, with the perfect mixture of choreography and tumbling, but really everything she did was perfect and beautiful. even when she fumbled it still looked graceful. she is just epic.

[TikiBoy382]

@OPlush07 One thing that I love about her is her routines were always filled with movement, every arm movement had its graceful place, every finger flick corresponded with the music and filled in any dead time! She was so graceful and strong and so good for such a long period of time! She's amazing!

[stevenh622]

@TikiBoy382 I agree. If you pay attention to her beam routines, they are in sync with the floor music. Kinda cool.

[LCAmarkymark]

@stevenh622 thats why I like Khorkina's beam in the All Around

[cairsahr64]

I think she should have done "Phantom of the Opera". I think she could pull it off.

[PLANETIMAGE1]

The first tumbling pass is the best one she has ever done,impressive!

[MrGemini1983]

@PLANETIMAGE1 Check out 1996 Nationals.

[peepers2221]

i hate how no one commented on her dance EVER when it was always so lovely

[dewhite001]

What are the elements of the second tumbling pass?

[bbhouk1]

@dewhite001

front handspring-1 1/2 twist-back handspring-back layout

[carschup]

She should´ve changed the beginning tumblings... but still golden shannon...

[showjumperluvr4]

beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful!!!! XD

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

I'm sorry but who would ever pick this as their floor music.

[segismundo77]

@gymnasticsloverxoxo hahaha!!! I was thinking the exact same thing!!! Only a very very very prissy girl, like Shannon Miller.

[moopoo66]

@segismundo77 Well the music is grogeous for graceful dancing , she had better dance then anyone and could interpet the music well, if you think anyone had better style or dance in their floor routine then your sadly mistaken if you think NOW gymnastics has artistry like this then your sooo wrong, their is no artistry now, and im sorry if you think beautiful dance, extension and elegance is prissy, then your are fucked up, im sorry but their is nothing prissy about classical dancing for music..

[michelelohman]

@gymnasticsloverxoxo It's Vanessa Atler's music in 2000, and I think it made a great routine for her.

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

@michelelohman I think she certainly could dance well to it because she responded to classical violin music so well I just find this particular piece of music to be rather "shrieky" and hard to listen to, she had music better music choices.

[moopoo66]

@gymnasticsloverxoxo ya im sorry but i read your comments on a lot of videos of shannon and everyone knows that you are an obsessed Lilia fan and despise shannon because she actually was better on beam then Lilia, so you go around making ridiculos comments, your are just jealous Lilia never had this type of dance, and you can't accept that someone was better

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

@moopoo66 I absolutely do not despise Shannon miller and it offends me that you say so. She is the best gymnast America had and will ever have. I am also not an obsessed Lilia fan, I feel her grace and strength was superior to other gymnasts at her time and I have never seen any other gymnast replicate her style. You need not to be going around making statements like that when you haven't a clue what you are talking about.

[NurdyRhythm]

I miss the Magnificent Seven floor routines. It felt as though each girl had music/choreography to fit her personality. You had not just classical, orchestrated pieces, but also more contemporary sounding songs of different genres. Not only was it fun to watch them on t.v., but you could also each girl was comfortable, even if floor ex. wasn't her strength. Now, a lot of routines seem to stifle a gymnast's personality, which is discouraging since floor ex. is really the most expressive event.

[PLANETIMAGE1]

I know those fat legs worth a lot of respect and money,pigs praise pigs' legs.

[moopoo66]

@PLANETIMAGE1 who has fat legs? Shannon? Her legs are all muscle, and they aren't even that thick so idk wtf ur talking about

[GymnasticsISlife96]

such pretty choreo!! i met her and she was soo nice!!!

[gymnist2009]

also i love the music

[gymnist2009]

she came to my gym bk gymnastics long island west bablon

[gymnist2009]

i love this routine it so beautiful

[LMA629]

look how far her back arches at 1:08-1:09!!

[boytoyville]

Sucks that Shannan couldn't hit an optional floor routine at the games. What a shame.

[chameleongymnast123]

i love her front handspring to a randi to a back handspring to a layout step out so much!

[djmbjork]

it's a rudi...not a randi. a randi is 2.5 twists and a rudi is 1.5...fyi

[gymnast768]

haha yup. if u wanna see a randi, chameleon, look up nastia liukin. shes the best GIRL ive ever seen do a randi. bridget sloan does one too, but nastias is slighty better in my book. as for men, many do a randi better then girls. im not being a men favorer, but men do get randis around better. dont believe me look it up.

[andreak1013]

Blech, I was never a fan of this music. So shrill and grating.

[GymMonkeyAz]

i miss these days. alot more choreagraphy involved rather than 6 tumbling passes.

[SupernaturalLover67]

@GymMonkeyAz I know, i was thinking the same thing. Gymnastics has lsot a lot of its beauty. It's not very "artistic" anymore--it's just "how many crazy tumbling lines can I fit into 90 seconds?". Same with beam. No dance anymore.

[nicksline]

Surely she could've done a piked full in and then a double twisting front layout instead of the rudi to get to a 10? If she was doing the tuck full in fine, i'm pretty sure she could've managed a piked one. It just seems ridiculous for her to pull a double layout with her injury and when she consistently failed to land it.

[901234565432109867]

That full in had a funky landing.... she does full ins really weird!

[oskrriv92]

i think her start value its 9.8

[azuritefire5]

i thought her st was out of a 1o, the front handspring front full layout front gave 3 tenths is this code, the full in gave one, and she has two tengths from the rudi back handsping step out layout...so with out the double layout she had a 10. all you needed was .6 of a point to be a 10 sv.

[oskrriv92]

i am sorry, I do not speak english

[metsdudenj]

Hmm I think Shannon should have kept a full in for her first pass, I think the double layout was an element she couldnt do once she got heavier and older, A full in out of a whip would have given her a 9.9 start value, correct me if im wrong

[jomc03]

yup i agree the first tumbling pass its very difficult only dawes done it excelent in the US team...i guess a full twisting double back would be more easy for her

[DuhustBus000]

she couldnt do it cause she had tendinitis or something which wont let her make the huge lunge back needed for a dbl. if you look at 96 nationals she does it perfectly

[metsdudenj]

i dont think it was the issue there, she didnt have good form on that move, and honestly, i dont think she was ever an explosive tumbler. She even had a funky double layout on the bars as well. I thought she had a wrist injury, but i wasnt aware of tendonitis preventing the lunge back. I think she should have kept the routine like Moceanu did and she would have gotten 9.75 at least

[serenakicksass]

She would have had no prayer in the AA with only a 9.7-something on floor though. She only scores in the 9.7-something range on vault and bars too. So she had to try for a big floor routine.

[mzmissa]

The double layout was simply too hard for Miller at that time. That's all there is to it. In my opinion, she was overhyped a lot at these games. Aside from beam, she really didn't have that much of a chance to medal on the other events. Floor & vault were out of the question and even her bar routine performed at 100% wouldn't have bested Chow or Wenjing. How fitting was it to win gold on beam too, though I believe she would've taken bronze at best had Huilan & Yuanyuan been in the event final.

[metsdudenj]

I agree about the double layout, but I disagree about the hype. Moceanu was hyped in the US before her injury and Miller quietly won the US championships, but wasnt considered a favorite after the 95 Worlds. She was in medal position after 2 events and a clean floor and clean vault ( which she could easily do) could have given her an AA medal easily. I agree she wouldnt have beaten Podkopaeva. On beam she was amazing, but the Chinese couldnt hit consistently; she deserved the beam gold

[mzmissa]

Yea, Miller deserved gold out of the group who made it to event finals, but she wasn't the athlete with the best beam set at the Olympics. It's a shame the Chinese were inconsistant. Yuanyuan, by far had the most package in her beam routine.

[gayskatingfan]

I agree with that but what would have happened if all the women hit their best routines in the AA. The only ones to do so were Gogean, Milo, to a degree Lilia (but Lilia wasnt really her very best in the AA). Lets say Dawes hits floor, Miller hits floor, Amanar doesnt have her mistake on a required double turn on floor, Dina hits vault, Khorkina hits bars, Galieva hits floor and vault, Moceanu hits beam and floor, and little Mo hits beam and floor. What happens then?

[agators212]

if everyone hit their routines like they were supposed to i think mo huilan would have won. even with that big mistake on balance beam dismount she still got a 9.8. judges were prolly willing to give her a 10 had she hit. and floor she would have had a high 9.7 or a 9.8, because she did make floor finals.

[pappysprite]

As much as I love Lilia, I think she was grosely overscored on unven bars...but she is amazing.

[gayskatingfan]

I thought Lilia was underscored on beam and vault though, especialy vault.

[pappysprite]

I respect your opinion, but you do have to admit her error on UB was pretty obvious and should have received a bigger reduction. Some errors are subtle and you can accept a score even if you don't like it, but this was obvious - so much so the commentators had to remark about it.

[dmann3g]

@pappysprite Clearly..its because if you have pretty toe point, nothing else matters..just ask all of the commenters on youtube

[TikiBoy382]

I agree...if she would have got her double layout all the way around on the floor in her AA or went back to her old opening tumble run...she would have been on the Medal podium for sure in the AA!

[jpalmettoguy]

she should have done her whip to full in. i dont know why she was so persistent with the double lay. LOVE HER THOUGH!

[moopoo66]

@TikiBoy382 she did the double layout bc she couldn't do full in pikes bc of a hamstring injury

[TikiBoy382]

I do believe she deserved the Beam Event Finale Gold...watching all the others and then Shannon...she had the difficult skills and had a sparkle and flow to her routine that the others didn't...just my option. She has beautiful lines on the beam, along with all the other events!

[mzmissa]

Aside from "the Miller" skill, I prefer Podkopayeva's routine here. But still Miller was far greater on beam than Shawn Johnson will ever be. Really do miss all the gymnastics from the 80s to the early 00s.

[gymfan82]

She was injured. She wanted to do three whips through to a full in piked but her hamstring was injured and that prevented the training

[TuesdayPillow]

I dunno, her double layout at Nationals looked pretty darned easy for her. I think she may have had a lack of proper training due to tendinitis and sometimes, gymnasts develop strange mental blocks with new skills before big competitions.