Ludmilla Tourischeva 1975 World Cup UB (Bars collapse)

[TheRealBatabii]

cool until you realize how clumsy she was to knock the whole thing over.

[1bravenewworld]

Does anyone know where to get the rest of it? Looks like a documentary and I would love to watch the whole.

[cdas]

@1bravenewworld Hi! I believe it's from a documentary about Olga Korbut. They where discussing how Ludmilla was preferred to Olga by the Soviet leaders because of her discipline. You can watch it full at veoh: watch/v427328HP5YGY4S

Enjoy!

[borisattva]

"cool guys don't look at explosions"

[Parchisi2004]

Thumbs up if tvtropes.org brought you here :)

[1bravenewworld]

Is this part of a documentary or something? Would be glad I someone could tell me the name or even link it...

[cdas]

@1bravenewworld Try at veoh.com/watch/v427328HP5YGY4S

[1bravenewworld]

@cdas thanks so much! ;-) I hope I'll get around to watching it soon

[stevemisog]

and I was there watching it. It happened right in front of where I was sat. Oh Yeah. I'm cool.

[delacroixwalrus]

And, once again, TVTropes makes videos popular.

[buccaneer1990]

@delacroixwalrus Haha. Exactly.

[69Sarmat]

Вот это выдержка! Браво, Людмила Ивановна!

[custardaghost]

You can see in her dismount how she twisted ever so slightly and had to kick out with a hopped one-foot landing so as to avoid the front right corner of the falling apparatus striking her. This is far more than just being "too cool to care" - as she bounced off the lower bar she had already perceived the danger and effortlessly adjusted her flight and landing.

Lyudmila Tourescheva - the last of the old-school 'classical' gymnasts (before it became all scrawny 14 yr olds) - and Soviet icon.

[PiccoloNamek]

Bad. Ass.

[nooblangpoo]

Cool Girls don't look at destruction.

[hapt1K]

not a single fuck was given 

[Grubnar]

In Soviet Russia, YOU happen to accidents!

That is one cool lady.

[NumPad]

0:17 looked painful. =/

[unfit242]

She doesn't even look. Bad of ass.

[ludmila03000]

mince alors je pensser que C bars étais solide . jadmire cette gymnaste elle porte le même nom que moi

[MerlinTheDraconic]

They practice that in Soviet Russia.

[Spiegel1989]

Chuck Norris, eat your heart out.

[RichLN]

Not only is Ludmilla the most graceful woman I've ever seen in sport, she's also the one you'd most like alongside you in the trenches.

[MrMartinportnoy]

I wonder how the Soviet system could freak you out not to react in this situation... The bars could have fallen on her head

[qzpm1980g]

@MrMartinportnoy

lol

[MrDiatretarius]

Молодец

[leahloorox]

Does anyone know what she got on this routine?

[WiccanHighPriest0]

That's so dangerous. The organisers should be fined MASSIVELY

[chortpoberi83]

наши девушки самые лучшие!!!

[PycckuuBouH]

Cool guys don't look at explosions. Russian women are cooler than cool guys.

[zulfik33]

Я оглянулся посмотреть не оглянулась ли она...

[JuanDeSoCal]

Regardless of how cool she was before this happened, afterward she was the coolest in the world.

[Applegoesback]

@JuanDeSoCal

+1

No one could formulate it more exactly! Bravo!

[stevelau1933]

She deserves a really good score just for that. It is like Shaq taking down the backboard but in gymnastics.

[KillaKitty09]

just aswell they collapsed after she dismounted,

if it happend during she could have seriously injured herself :S

[evilmick66]

Cool guys don't look at explosions. Cool girls don't look at large collapsing structures.

[Lvivckiy]

Вы глупые,неужели не понятно что хотели её завалить.

[d3vilh]

The power of Soviet sport!

[Strong2611]

Вот какие должны быть спортсмены.

Браво!

[DriveDealer]

Офигеть!!! Стальная баба, стальной характер!

[SnegoBarsa]

Она невероятная! Сила духа, воля и... женственность

Настоящая!

[sergeistalin]

Так а чем всё кончилось ?????

[MrSergiusGrey]

Сила советского спорта =)

[zionravescene]

Unflappable, professional, and above all EPIC.

[Beaumain]

As she told in an interview, while performing she already felt the bars were about to collapse. But she decided not to break her performance. When they fell at last, it was no surprise to her, she knew it will happen. Her wonderful composure is not that she didn't look back, but that she continued her performance, KNOWING that bars may fall in any second. It is a miracle they fell only AFTER.

[cherylannemason]

@Beaumain I had kind of wondered myself, just looking at her expression afterward, if she'd had some sense of the equipment being not quite right. Pretty amazing show of poise, indeed!

[grodarh]

Невероятно!!!

[surfer2ua]

забавно получилось

[latentsense]

офигеть, вот это самообладание

[DUDENOFF]

Невероятно. Просто преклоняюсь перед силой духа и волей этой женщины. Она пример того, чем мы были тогда, и во что превратилась Россия сейчас... :(

[Fellinius]

Hell yeah!!!

[AbayNMN]

А самообладание! Сталь!

Даже не оглянулась...

[sostav]

Тут не столько самообладание, сколько полная концентрация на выполнении упражнения. Такое нередко бывает и в обычной жизни - просто человек не особо понимает, что происходит, и делает свое дело дальше.

[AbayNMN]

По поводу "не понимания" не соглашусь. Её глаза, взгляд в момент схода и после, как раз говорят о другом. Скорее это отношение крепкого духом человека к привратностям судьбы.

[sostav]

А такая крепость духа как раз в таком вот спорте (где приходится сильно концентрироваться, сжимать всю волю в кулак) и воспитывается. Так что все взаимосвязано.

[AbayNMN]

Что-то заставляет не согласится с Вами полностью...:)

Это можно сказать практически о любом виде спорта. Но все ли ведут себя так?Именно личные качества Турищевой Людмилы Ивановны, характер - проявились в этой ситуации. И лично меня восхищают.

[sosodevious]

@AbayNMN

I would disagree, if only I could read cirilic :D

[SabrinasUSAfan]

Do you want to know the definition of "cool?" WATCH THIS VIDEO! Ludmilla Tourischeva is one of my favorite athletes of all time. Skill, strength, style and class...The bars collapse - had it happened 2 seconds earlier she might have been badly hurt - and she doesn't even blink! If only more athletes today - regardless of sport - would emulate her class and grace...

[MusicMadSuperAwesome]

What a legend. Lands it perfectly - and doesn't even look behind her.

[RishkaMy]

фанастично

[pilotivanovich]

nice!

[originalgeekpie]

Apparently a metal hook which supported one of the cables snapped; which is the loud bang you hear.

[Natalie9911]

why did the uneven bars collapse

and what was her score

[ralucagymnast]

@Natalie9911 A tension adjuster, which is a hook which holds the bars upright and taut, had been straightening out and gave way; and her score was 9.8:)

[missmouse35]

this is like iin pretty good qualty for it being from 30 years sgo!

[evaliaro]

she's just amazing. AMAZING. i'd have died of fear in her place.

[RecoveredLib]

Such calmness under pressure!

There'll never be another Ludmilla. She was, and always will be, truly one of a kind.

[custardaghost]

Lyudmila was the last graceful, elegant, womanlyl perfomer before it came down to pig-tailed pubescents bouncing about killing themselves for ambititious coaches. Gymnastics was curing itself - til the Chinese got away with fielding 12 yr olds

[alasathia2]

Talk about bringing down the house.

[mka800]

I'm wondering if the person who set these bars got hired 25 years later to set the vault in Sydney. May be the same person.

[tomsk14]

@mka800

LOOOOL

[wg390]

gymnasticsloverxoxo

Seems it is huge problem for you

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

What is a huge problem for me?

[violaroadkill]

your weight.

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

I was not trying to disrespect her I was just stating that she seems to weight enough to make the bars collapse.

[violaroadkill]

I've seen bars collapse a couple of times - it's a technical problem. It would be quite difficult for anyone to pull them down themselves - you try it.

[gemuetlichkeit1982]

ENOUGH about gymnasts and their weight. It is time for everyone to get over it already.

[cherylannemason]

I don't know that weight per se was an issue--gymnasts were as a rule noticably taller and heavier in those days than has become the norm since the late 80s. Give her credit, I'd say, for being a cool customer and saying in effect, "I completed the routine, judge it for what it was."

[HJA1982]

What a finish!

[GiantWaffle]

i wonder if they called it a equipment malfunction? I hope not that was flawless.

[zamolxis7]

oh god, she was great!!!

[cruelmercy]

it almost looks like she didnt notice it fell over, hehe.

[Shaquandalika]

lmao the way she was jumping off them damn bars no wonder they fell apart.

[boytoyville]

What did the judges do with this?

[SchwarzeWitwe2]

Gave her a 9.9

[NYCBlonde]

And she went on to sweep the All-Around and the event finals. Love her!