Maybe someone can tell me: what about this routine made it difficulty 7 but Nastia Luikin's from all-around was only 6.7. Seems to me like Nastia's was more difficulty (but I don't really know anything about how they determine that).
@lucentbeam Though turns and other dance elements can have pretty high difficulty (which Nastia has a lot of), Shawn's routine is packed with higher difficulty tumbling...much more so than Nastia. There is a youtube channel that has a D-score guide along with gymnasts routines....I forgot the name :/ I'll look for it....they explain it so much better
I gottta say, it was a great routine. At the same time, it's really annoying to watch a gold medal winning performance and not see a decent split leap,imho.
@peepers60 slo mo the split leap and the straddle jump...both with excellent flexibility and height from the beam. The split leap is 180 degrees at the peak of the jump. I have slo mo'd the vid at home a thousand times. I am tired of this criticism which is false.
@desglacons Sorry bud, but this isn't the right angle to judge a split jump/leap at. Watch it from a side view; I love Shawny, but she definitely doesn't hit 180, she knows it herself.
@481095ymg2 I will review my 2008 DVD...and see what you are talking about. If I could capture a slo mo stop of her hitting a 180 with "cheated" hips would that make up for it?! :) Still love Shawn and glad you do to! How do you know she knows she doesn't hit 180?
@desglacons If some how you could, I suppose it would. There is a video out there that supposedly proves she does hit 180, but that video really just makes it more obvious that she doesn't.
@MsILuv2Sing16 well you have to admit, Nastia's form isn't always perfect. Shawn's is more reliable. However, overall difficulty mark, Nastia's is higher. Not denying that Nastia isn't an amazing gymnast..
@Gr33nkiwi I agree her basics are worse but Shawn has perfect twisting form. Yes, she doesn't have elegant lines on bars (which I like more than Shawn's body on bars), but Nastia has the most annoying habits of leg separations.
Yes, Shawn does have better twisting form and she keeps her legs together on bars, although peoples' reactions to Nastia's twisting is usually melodramatic.
@Gr33nkiwi Yes, it's definately not as bad as Mustafina's or Nabieva's. But where do you think Liukin has better form than Johnson? On splits obviously. Not on tucks, that's for sure.
@Gr33nkiwi Nastia's vault form was piked a bit. Beam, her form was better. Her bars basics are better, but every single skill Liukin performed in 08 had a form issue besides her Gienger. Shawn did not have such form issues. Nastia would score higher on compulsories probably. She does have better basics, but worse form.
Everything Nastia did on bars/beam/floor besides her double saltos only usually had 0.1 deduction max. Yes, she has quite a few 0.1 deductions, but it was worth it in the long run. Both Shawn and Nastia had events where they went clean w/ lower difficulty or took a few hints for higher difficulty.
In the end if you look at their basics, yes Nastia does have better basics and form on almost everything. Maybe not vault, but they both have awful blocks so w/e
Im a big fan of her and Nastia because they keep you entertained, they keep it clean, BOTH are artistic, and they add thier own style to thier gymnastics. I also feel this way about alot of the other teams and thats why its so sad that nowadays alot of the women are doing the bare minimun to get all of the requirements of the routine instead of putting their personal stamp on it and the routines are getting boring :/ You can be artistic AND creative at the same time.
@MrAerial12345 Shawn Johnson had a maximum score of 16.9 where Nastia's maximum score was 16.4. So even if Nastia performed perfectly Shawn would have had to wobble.
@climbfish68 Shawn is a Power gymnast. She has just enough artistry movements in her routine. If she added any more artistry movements she wouldn't be a power gymnast she'd be an artistic gymnast and that's not what her body is built for.
@USASOCCERISAWESOME17 A somersault is considered anything where the body flips around. The somersault you are probably familiar with is technically a forward roll. The most common name for a flip in the gymnastics world is a salto.
If you watch Shawn you realize that she's very different from most gymnasts nowadays. Most don't know how to perform anymore. I find Shawn fun to watch and rather creative (even though this wasn't the most creative beam routine). She honestly does have perfection seeping from her pores and it is amazing.
Is it just me, or do British commentators seem more positive? The Americas are way too hard to impress, and seem to prefer to give negative remarks rather than praise the good work.
What I love about Shawn is that she doesn't hesitate on any of the moves - she just throws herself into everything with barely a pause. She does routines with incredibly high difficulty and everything is so solid and powerful!
@Gr33nkiwi Then fuck Nadia Comaneci and her winning in 1976 and 1980 since she didn't hit her splits on beam either. Get over it, she won fair and square. Even without her fall, Li Shanshan couldn't have beaten her. Even the great former Soviet coaches who trained legends, like Ostapenko and Alexandrov, were actually cheering for her.
@markedexclusive Umm, Nadia NEVER did a switch leap or any split jump in her routine. The one jump that she did wasn't suppose to go to splits, it was just a dance skill.
Also, Nadia could hit her splits on the floor.
Shawn's splits RARELY if ever hit 180, not to mention she cheats them horribly. Her hips are not even close to square.
Shawn Johnson wouldn't survive a minute back when the sport was actually artistic.
@Gr33nkiwi I reckon that's exactly why she's down and out at the moment: she wouldn't be able to win under the new code... they'd take significant deductions from her beam and floor routines cause they're totally lacking in artistry .
i'm sorry to all of her fans, but i wouldn't want to watch gymnastics anymore if she became aa champ in beijing. her amanar was more like a double and a quarter twist barely turned around. she had no choreography, just poses!
@jramberran I disagree. Since Li Shanshan didn't lose any CV or DV by the fall, the only deduction she incurred from the fall was the 0.80. If she would've received the 0.80 back that she lost from the fall, her score would have been a 16.100, which was not high enough to take the lead from Shawn Johnson.
@481095ymg2 You can't completely disregard the psychological significance of a fall from the balance beam though: if Li Shanshan hadn't faltered so early in her routine, I'd hazard that most (if not all) of her subsequent balance checks would not have occurred. She was definitely one of the strongest contenders for this title leading up to the Olympics. Hopefully her coaches are currently working to build her mental toughness for 2012 (if she's still training, that is...?).
@muffuffty I agree with you there, but because that really is such a gray area of how she WOULD have done had she not fallen, we really can't say anything for sure. We can use, however, "had she not fallen, she would have had an extra 0.80 to her score, which would be a 16.100 (right?)." Anyway, we can't really know.
@481095ymg2 You're right, there's just no point in wondering "What IF..." when talking about Olympic finals, otherwise there are endless possibilities!
@481095ymg2 also, you must remember that gymnastics is about your performance on the day, and ultimately under the pressure of the olympics, barely rivalled by that gymnasts surely feel at worlds, shanshan faltered, relinquishing her claim on deserving the medal. Johnson was able to stick it, and so whether johnson would have gone home with silver if shanshan hadnt fallen is irrelevant, because if she was ever not going to fall at the olympics, she wouldnt have.
@morenodelaorilla Shanshan was to win that day "IF" she hadn't fallen and messed up her routine. There is no place for "IF's" in finals, everyone can say IF something. Ex: Cheng Fei was to win the floor and vault gold medals IF she had not fallen in both of them. But unfortunately she felt and consequently she has just gotten a undeserved bronze medal in vault (and another one undeserved on beam). The same thing about Shanshan, she didn't have enough mental toughness she felt so no medal!
@gymdom Well taking into consideration the "better" aspect of both of them the highest score I have seen Johnson get was a 16.250 and Shanshan's best was 16.275. I could say Shanshan is possibly better than Shawn but it is a fact she didn't have enough emotional control to stuck the routine in the Olympic final although she has had the highest qualifying score (16.050) when actually Johnson clearly deserved to receive a better score in the qualifying too.
it was really ironic that the taller, willowy Nastia finished off her all around by nailing floor while Shawn, the 'power' gymnast won gold on the beam
@comanecisalto1 Hi, I Know enough about this sport but I do not follow the athletes lives, I do not know what they do or what their plans are. That is why I did not know that Shawn Johnson quit. Anyways, thank you for the answer.
@Sublue I'm pretty sure she didn't quit. In fact she said she hopes to make the U.S. team for the 2012 Olympics in London. She may have taken a break but she didn't quit.
I am a huge fan of the commentator - I think she is very good - Is her name Minica Phelps? Anyhow, I think she does a great job verbalizing the routines.
Yes, its Monica Phelps; I also love her commentary. She is very knowledgeable, and doesnt talk crap, unlike some of the American commentators. God they are bloody awful; make me cringe when I watch the videos on here and hear some of the absolute rubbish they say.
I really like that the commentators like her. i was actually a little surprised by that just because I always thought other countries were much more apt to like the more graceful gymnasts.
yeah I thought they were into more graceful, ballerina-like gymnasts too. i remember one of the commentators for shawns floor routine at worlds said she looked "boyish"
Shawn couldn't have done it any better and she saved the best for last. She's one of my favorites, Luikin's great too, Nastia knows how to glide and look really graceful, her long legs make her look taller than she actually is. Coming from a guy, I like gymnastics I am thrilled.
Yeah Shawn!!!
You are the best! I love you!
-3-3-3
gymlay0er 3 days ago
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way to beat those slant eyed cocksuckers
frank53681 2 weeks ago
she looks rather cute,nice leotard .
meadowlane37 3 weeks ago
Well, look at nastia afterwords.
freezzertime 1 month ago
no doubt in my mind that shawn is absolutely awesome... but nastia was cheated out of her medal! her performance deserved the gold!
misstery07 1 month ago
Wat are you mostly good at beam uneavan bars, valt or volt however you spell that
87kensie 2 months ago
Maybe someone can tell me: what about this routine made it difficulty 7 but Nastia Luikin's from all-around was only 6.7. Seems to me like Nastia's was more difficulty (but I don't really know anything about how they determine that).
lucentbeam 2 months ago
@lucentbeam The dismount
Irishpeacegirl 2 months ago
@lucentbeam Though turns and other dance elements can have pretty high difficulty (which Nastia has a lot of), Shawn's routine is packed with higher difficulty tumbling...much more so than Nastia. There is a youtube channel that has a D-score guide along with gymnasts routines....I forgot the name :/ I'll look for it....they explain it so much better
Yuri92001 1 month ago
WOW....SPEECHLESS
tobylover6378 2 months ago 2
love you!
lidrho 2 months ago
I LOVE that leo!!!!!!!!!!!
klegler1664 3 months ago
Shawn is my role model :)
starrock779 3 months ago 2
i wish i could do this kinda shit....
XTaYKaYD 4 months ago
I love Shawn Johnson! She is my favorite athlete<3 and i really hope she will make the 2012 olympics!<3 GO SHAWN JOHNSON!!!!<3
shawnjohnsonDK 5 months ago
I gottta say, it was a great routine. At the same time, it's really annoying to watch a gold medal winning performance and not see a decent split leap,imho.
peepers60 5 months ago
@peepers60 slo mo the split leap and the straddle jump...both with excellent flexibility and height from the beam. The split leap is 180 degrees at the peak of the jump. I have slo mo'd the vid at home a thousand times. I am tired of this criticism which is false.
desglacons 4 months ago
@desglacons Sorry bud, but this isn't the right angle to judge a split jump/leap at. Watch it from a side view; I love Shawny, but she definitely doesn't hit 180, she knows it herself.
481095ymg2 4 months ago
@481095ymg2 I will review my 2008 DVD...and see what you are talking about. If I could capture a slo mo stop of her hitting a 180 with "cheated" hips would that make up for it?! :) Still love Shawn and glad you do to! How do you know she knows she doesn't hit 180?
desglacons 4 months ago
@desglacons If some how you could, I suppose it would. There is a video out there that supposedly proves she does hit 180, but that video really just makes it more obvious that she doesn't.
481095ymg2 4 months ago
@desglacons Not to mention she cheats her hips on her switch split leap.
481095ymg2 4 months ago
how old is she?
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2010amberj 6 months ago
shes amazing
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27lovecheerforever 7 months ago
how rubbish is english commintating, am english and I would rather listen to americans :L
Ibenscott94 7 months ago
i do gymnastic and if i could choose someone to train me it would be her!!
Princessbabexoxo 7 months ago
@MsILuv2Sing16 well you have to admit, Nastia's form isn't always perfect. Shawn's is more reliable. However, overall difficulty mark, Nastia's is higher. Not denying that Nastia isn't an amazing gymnast..
b05620 7 months ago
@b05620 I mean i'm not denying that Nastia IS an amazing gymnast :p
b05620 7 months ago
@b05620
Shawn's form is MUCH worse than Nastia's.
Gr33nkiwi 7 months ago
@Gr33nkiwi Seriously?
ShawnVikaKomova2012 6 months ago
@ShawnVikaKomova2012
Yes.
Gr33nkiwi 6 months ago
@Gr33nkiwi I agree her basics are worse but Shawn has perfect twisting form. Yes, she doesn't have elegant lines on bars (which I like more than Shawn's body on bars), but Nastia has the most annoying habits of leg separations.
ShawnVikaKomova2012 6 months ago
@ShawnVikaKomova2012
Yes, Shawn does have better twisting form and she keeps her legs together on bars, although peoples' reactions to Nastia's twisting is usually melodramatic.
Gr33nkiwi 6 months ago
@Gr33nkiwi Yes, it's definately not as bad as Mustafina's or Nabieva's. But where do you think Liukin has better form than Johnson? On splits obviously. Not on tucks, that's for sure.
ShawnVikaKomova2012 6 months ago
@ShawnVikaKomova2012
Nastia's vault form was better. Crappy block, but no worse than SJ's.
Beam in general on basically everything. All bar basics, (minus her giants, although that just seems to be the way WOGA teachers them).
Just overall better basics. Put it this way: If SJ and Nastia had to do compulsories Nastia would probably score higher on all 4.
Gr33nkiwi 6 months ago
@Gr33nkiwi Nastia's vault form was piked a bit. Beam, her form was better. Her bars basics are better, but every single skill Liukin performed in 08 had a form issue besides her Gienger. Shawn did not have such form issues. Nastia would score higher on compulsories probably. She does have better basics, but worse form.
ShawnVikaKomova2012 6 months ago
@ShawnVikaKomova2012
Everything Nastia did on bars/beam/floor besides her double saltos only usually had 0.1 deduction max. Yes, she has quite a few 0.1 deductions, but it was worth it in the long run. Both Shawn and Nastia had events where they went clean w/ lower difficulty or took a few hints for higher difficulty.
In the end if you look at their basics, yes Nastia does have better basics and form on almost everything. Maybe not vault, but they both have awful blocks so w/e
Gr33nkiwi 6 months ago
@Gr33nkiwi Johnson's block is a lot worse. But I agreed with everything you said.
ShawnVikaKomova2012 6 months ago
@b05620 On their overall difficulty marks if they hit all their routines, Shawn has a 26.3, Nastia has a 26.1.
ShawnVikaKomova2012 6 months ago
i love her! she hardly ever breaks her form. Unlike Nastia.. although i do love them both :D
b05620 8 months ago
@b05620
LOL, Nastia's form and basics are MUCH higher than Shawn Johnson's.
Gr33nkiwi 7 months ago
even if she hadnt fallen shawn still would of won
and she fell witch means she sucks and shaw ROCKS
plunkers0 8 months ago
Im a big fan of her and Nastia because they keep you entertained, they keep it clean, BOTH are artistic, and they add thier own style to thier gymnastics. I also feel this way about alot of the other teams and thats why its so sad that nowadays alot of the women are doing the bare minimun to get all of the requirements of the routine instead of putting their personal stamp on it and the routines are getting boring :/ You can be artistic AND creative at the same time.
TreMcfarland 8 months ago
@MrAerial12345 Shawn Johnson had a maximum score of 16.9 where Nastia's maximum score was 16.4. So even if Nastia performed perfectly Shawn would have had to wobble.
Stonymypony 8 months ago
All these olympic gymnasts could EASILY do lv 5 all star cheer...
tumbletumbletumble01 8 months ago
i luve shawn!
kayliecruz01 9 months ago
Shawn is a good gymnast, I just wish she'd put some artistry in her movements so she'd be less boring to watch.
climbfish68 9 months ago
@climbfish68 Shawn is a Power gymnast. She has just enough artistry movements in her routine. If she added any more artistry movements she wouldn't be a power gymnast she'd be an artistic gymnast and that's not what her body is built for.
littlemshlywood08 9 months ago
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littlemshlywood08 9 months ago
Mind over matter. I'm always impressed with feats such as this.
mergatroidal 10 months ago
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USASOCCERISAWESOME17 10 months ago
@USASOCCERISAWESOME17 A somersault is considered anything where the body flips around. The somersault you are probably familiar with is technically a forward roll. The most common name for a flip in the gymnastics world is a salto.
481095ymg2 10 months ago 41
@USASOCCERISAWESOME17 atualy a summer salt and a back flip is kinda the same thing summer salte is juste how the british say back flip
femfem237 7 months ago
@USASOCCERISAWESOME17
btw you spelled somersault wrong...
icebrg42 6 months ago
will somebody please post the entire beam final, and will somebody please post the entire qualifications from these olympics please pleasee please :)
4EverGooners 1 year ago
she is such a little beast!! :)
LoveDanceCheer1 1 year ago
If you watch Shawn you realize that she's very different from most gymnasts nowadays. Most don't know how to perform anymore. I find Shawn fun to watch and rather creative (even though this wasn't the most creative beam routine). She honestly does have perfection seeping from her pores and it is amazing.
musicisinmeforever 1 year ago
Soooo amazing.
Deffintly the best.
bieberbeliever22 1 year ago
damn idk how gymnist do that i would probably fall off right when i got on lol
alexcheeze16 1 year ago
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BobbieK1997 1 year ago
Is it just me, or do British commentators seem more positive? The Americas are way too hard to impress, and seem to prefer to give negative remarks rather than praise the good work.
Undermedveten 1 year ago 2
2:46 heheheehe no comments
RuthiMC 1 year ago
i wish i had her confidence!!!!!
Mrsllamagirl 1 year ago
What I love about Shawn is that she doesn't hesitate on any of the moves - she just throws herself into everything with barely a pause. She does routines with incredibly high difficulty and everything is so solid and powerful!
nicki446 1 year ago
I am no expert, but I think she did very, very good!
cairsahr64 1 year ago
kk the announcer doesn't know anything. I mean seriously, "A Backwards summersault." What is this, pre school? Jeeez.
shortie9858 1 year ago
This is so breathtaking...
ChariceBillboard 1 year ago
Urg, sorry Shawn but I can't support a BB winner who can't even hit their splits.
Gr33nkiwi 1 year ago
@Gr33nkiwi Then fuck Nadia Comaneci and her winning in 1976 and 1980 since she didn't hit her splits on beam either. Get over it, she won fair and square. Even without her fall, Li Shanshan couldn't have beaten her. Even the great former Soviet coaches who trained legends, like Ostapenko and Alexandrov, were actually cheering for her.
markedexclusive 1 year ago
@markedexclusive Umm, Nadia NEVER did a switch leap or any split jump in her routine. The one jump that she did wasn't suppose to go to splits, it was just a dance skill.
Also, Nadia could hit her splits on the floor.
Shawn's splits RARELY if ever hit 180, not to mention she cheats them horribly. Her hips are not even close to square.
Shawn Johnson wouldn't survive a minute back when the sport was actually artistic.
Gr33nkiwi 1 year ago
@Gr33nkiwi I reckon that's exactly why she's down and out at the moment: she wouldn't be able to win under the new code... they'd take significant deductions from her beam and floor routines cause they're totally lacking in artistry .
muffuffty 1 year ago
@markedexclusive Picture proof of why Shawn DOESN'T deserve this title:
images1 (dot) fanpop (dot) com/images/photos/2000000/shawn-Johnson-on-Beam-shawn-johnson-2033921-533-800 (dot) jpg
Gr33nkiwi 1 year ago
@Gr33nkiwi Make sure you fix the dots, and erase all the %2 that come at the end of Shawn's name.
Gr33nkiwi 1 year ago
@Gr33nkiwi chill out
xbaiettoxx3 1 year ago
@xbaiettoxx3 So you admit I'm right.
Gr33nkiwi 1 year ago
@Gr33nkiwi not at all. im telling you to chill because your being ridiculously annoying for no reason
xbaiettoxx3 1 year ago
@xbaiettoxx3 I was replying to someone's reply to me. So, yes I had a reason ...
Gr33nkiwi 1 year ago
Amazing.
squirtgun44 1 year ago
i'm sorry to all of her fans, but i wouldn't want to watch gymnastics anymore if she became aa champ in beijing. her amanar was more like a double and a quarter twist barely turned around. she had no choreography, just poses!
afgymnast96 1 year ago
@afgymnast96 nastia only looked graceful because of her long legs and thin body. Shawn would look that way if she were given that body....
sukishayna 1 year ago
@sukishayna if she were given that body, it would still look different. Nastia is more flexible than Shawn
afgymnast96 1 year ago
@afgymnast96 If Shawn had Nastia's body, it means she would also have her flexibility ....
Missnewyork28 1 year ago
@Missnewyork28 true!
afgymnast96 1 year ago
@afgymnast96 So it won't look different
Missnewyork28 1 year ago
@Missnewyork28 yes, but it would mean that they'd be two Nastias on the team :)
afgymnast96 1 year ago
I love Shawn, but if Shanshan didn't fall Johnson would have taken silver.
jramberran 1 year ago 4
@jramberran I disagree. Since Li Shanshan didn't lose any CV or DV by the fall, the only deduction she incurred from the fall was the 0.80. If she would've received the 0.80 back that she lost from the fall, her score would have been a 16.100, which was not high enough to take the lead from Shawn Johnson.
481095ymg2 1 year ago 44
@481095ymg2 Well well, I guess you're right after all.
jramberran 1 year ago
@jramberran Thank you for your honesty. : )
481095ymg2 1 year ago
@481095ymg2
Shanshan received for than just the fall for her mistake. I'd actually be surprised if the judges even counted the skill.
Gr33nkiwi 1 year ago
@481095ymg2 You can't completely disregard the psychological significance of a fall from the balance beam though: if Li Shanshan hadn't faltered so early in her routine, I'd hazard that most (if not all) of her subsequent balance checks would not have occurred. She was definitely one of the strongest contenders for this title leading up to the Olympics. Hopefully her coaches are currently working to build her mental toughness for 2012 (if she's still training, that is...?).
muffuffty 1 year ago 4
@muffuffty I agree with you there, but because that really is such a gray area of how she WOULD have done had she not fallen, we really can't say anything for sure. We can use, however, "had she not fallen, she would have had an extra 0.80 to her score, which would be a 16.100 (right?)." Anyway, we can't really know.
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susanita359 1 year ago
@481095ymg2 You're right, there's just no point in wondering "What IF..." when talking about Olympic finals, otherwise there are endless possibilities!
susanita359 1 year ago
@481095ymg2 also, you must remember that gymnastics is about your performance on the day, and ultimately under the pressure of the olympics, barely rivalled by that gymnasts surely feel at worlds, shanshan faltered, relinquishing her claim on deserving the medal. Johnson was able to stick it, and so whether johnson would have gone home with silver if shanshan hadnt fallen is irrelevant, because if she was ever not going to fall at the olympics, she wouldnt have.
artyowen92 10 months ago
@artyowen92 I agree.
481095ymg2 10 months ago
@muffuffty she retired in late 2008, and has not shown any sign of wanting to come back
afgymnast96 1 year ago
@muffuffty I didn't know Li Shanshan was still training? She announced retirement December of 2009, I believe.
ShawnVikaKomova2012 11 months ago
@ShawnVikaKomova2012 Ah, good to get confirmation. Thanks. :-)
muffuffty 11 months ago
@muffuffty No problem :)!
ShawnVikaKomova2012 11 months ago
@481095ymg2 although she still wouldn't have beaten shawn, the judges probably also took off points for overrotating the skill, but I'm not sure
afgymnast96 1 year ago
@jramberran No, she wouldn't have. Shanshan had several hesitations throughout the routine, not only the fall.
AliciaDupres 1 year ago
@jramberran no she wouldn't of... Shawn Is A much better gymnast.
edwarddurazo 1 year ago
@jramberran No she wouldn't have. No one scored over a 16.0 in these Olympics other than Johnson and Liukin.
EdGringo78 1 year ago
@EdGringo78 what are you talking about?Do you mean just on beam?Or on the american team?
afgymnast96 1 year ago
@afgymnast96 I'm talking about just the balance beam.
EdGringo78 1 year ago
@jramberran you are totally right
morenodelaorilla 1 year ago
@jramberran you are totally right, li shanshan was to win that day.
morenodelaorilla 1 year ago
@morenodelaorilla Shanshan was to win that day "IF" she hadn't fallen and messed up her routine. There is no place for "IF's" in finals, everyone can say IF something. Ex: Cheng Fei was to win the floor and vault gold medals IF she had not fallen in both of them. But unfortunately she felt and consequently she has just gotten a undeserved bronze medal in vault (and another one undeserved on beam). The same thing about Shanshan, she didn't have enough mental toughness she felt so no medal!
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gymdom 1 year ago
@jramberran event finals is the best of the best.. is Shanshan was the best, she wouldn't have fell.
gymdom 1 year ago
@gymdom Well taking into consideration the "better" aspect of both of them the highest score I have seen Johnson get was a 16.250 and Shanshan's best was 16.275. I could say Shanshan is possibly better than Shawn but it is a fact she didn't have enough emotional control to stuck the routine in the Olympic final although she has had the highest qualifying score (16.050) when actually Johnson clearly deserved to receive a better score in the qualifying too.
Pedro5109 7 months ago 2
I love her beam!!! its one word: AMAZING!!!
allieato 1 year ago
that girls awesome
cUpCaKeGiRl1415 1 year ago
oh my god i am shawns #1 fan she is the only reason why i am still in gymnastics i wish that nastia split the beam so shawn would win I LOVE SHAWN 8)
jusjerk24 1 year ago
it's so amazing seeing all those people watching one person. You have to be really confident to do that!!!
GymnasticsISlife96 1 year ago
amazing routine!!!!! & love the leo!!
LMA629 1 year ago
I used to be very skeptical about the skills Shawn Johnson has. But now I see she does have talent everyone says she has.
ThePingShowJL 1 year ago
she is my hero i love her
gymnast294 1 year ago
her layout step up was kinda low. It's pretty scary.
mycajona 1 year ago
WOW she is just amazing
pinkgymnast2000 1 year ago
Well, she's certainly not dead. How stupid. We just saw her speak live this week.
emacat1215 1 year ago
it was really ironic that the taller, willowy Nastia finished off her all around by nailing floor while Shawn, the 'power' gymnast won gold on the beam
StewNWT 1 year ago 2
que perfeição, não conheço ninguem com tanto talento nesse aparelho é a melhor sem duvida nenhuma
antoniomarques3124 2 years ago
rumors goin around that she died.... look at all these news videos....
ecfcheer214 2 years ago
she's 18-19 now and yes she stopped it. she has gained weight and lost muscle, and lost a lot of talnent quickly. :(
defygravitybewicked 2 years ago
omgg she quit??!! wtff i didnt no!! thats so sad! ))):
gymmfreakkk 2 years ago
if youve been doin gymastics 4 lik your whole life nd all the time i bet u want 2 quit 2
sammy9787 2 years ago
she loves the sport but :(
RemberTheNameGymnast 2 years ago
hi, how do you know that she quit?
1Timoteo41 2 years ago
i dont know :/
RemberTheNameGymnast 2 years ago
are you naive? hasnt been in the gym for what will be 2 years this upcoming summer. 2 YEARS!!! shes made it clear that hollywood is her preference.
comanecisalto1 1 year ago
@comanecisalto1 Hi, I Know enough about this sport but I do not follow the athletes lives, I do not know what they do or what their plans are. That is why I did not know that Shawn Johnson quit. Anyways, thank you for the answer.
1Timoteo41 1 year ago
@sammy9787 Ive done gymnastics since I was 3, and im now 19 and definitely dont want to quit!!! :)
artyowen92 10 months ago
i dont understand why she quit that was a stupid move
NotMySweats 2 years ago
When you train 40 - 60 hours a week for, idk, at least 8 years, you kind of get robbed of a life.
vipergtsrf50z3 2 years ago
she never trained that much. she trained about 20-25 a week
comanecisalto1 1 year ago
isnt she only 19?
LilMissieStarr 2 years ago
shes so good
flexikids 2 years ago
Wow!!! Sad she quit gymnastics.
Sublue 2 years ago 2
@Sublue whoa she quit ?!
zbhqx3 2 years ago
@Sublue I'm pretty sure she didn't quit. In fact she said she hopes to make the U.S. team for the 2012 Olympics in London. She may have taken a break but she didn't quit.
FricksBabyGirl 1 year ago
My name is shaun johnston so i find this funny
shaun8889 2 years ago 2
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gymnasticsluvah15 2 years ago
go to the olympics then talk!
cubygirl 2 years ago
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gymnasticsluvah15 2 years ago
I never ever ever get tired of watching this phenomenal performance.
jsk8snrich 2 years ago 2
she really is the best at it huh!!!!
Ambiant2102 2 years ago 5
I am a huge fan of the commentator - I think she is very good - Is her name Minica Phelps? Anyhow, I think she does a great job verbalizing the routines.
pappysprite 2 years ago
Yes, its Monica Phelps; I also love her commentary. She is very knowledgeable, and doesnt talk crap, unlike some of the American commentators. God they are bloody awful; make me cringe when I watch the videos on here and hear some of the absolute rubbish they say.
ralucagymnast 2 years ago
I agree with you - she is so knowledgeable and always has the right thing to say. Of course I could listen to her wonderful accent for hours.
pappysprite 2 years ago 3
Its actually Christine Still, Monica Phelps retired from commentating in 2002.
MostepanovaFan 2 years ago
This is Christine Stills...Monica Phelps was the really patronising one who was rude about the gymnasts and she never commentated on the BBC...
emmyjo720 2 years ago
@ralucagymnast It's Christine Still, not Monica Phelps.
susanita359 1 year ago
how can she be so confident!
Dancer96x 2 years ago
I really like that the commentators like her. i was actually a little surprised by that just because I always thought other countries were much more apt to like the more graceful gymnasts.
fr3ckles 2 years ago
yeah I thought they were into more graceful, ballerina-like gymnasts too. i remember one of the commentators for shawns floor routine at worlds said she looked "boyish"
BrittanyxKilla 2 years ago 2
She is so comfortable on beam!
gymfreak852 2 years ago
what place did she get?
janjanone 2 years ago
Um... 1st...
JohnPhilipSousa519 2 years ago 2
I know her.
WackyRedhead 2 years ago
I cnt belive she like 17 That was so good
AshleyWyles 2 years ago
shawn is amazing !
katelynnn96 2 years ago
love her
laltretre 2 years ago
she really ecspect to win
laltretre 2 years ago
shawn is SO good!!!!!!!!
blueydoop 2 years ago 3
Shawn couldn't have done it any better and she saved the best for last. She's one of my favorites, Luikin's great too, Nastia knows how to glide and look really graceful, her long legs make her look taller than she actually is. Coming from a guy, I like gymnastics I am thrilled.
vidEvWill 2 years ago 2
how old is she?????
flippyprincess 2 years ago
She was 16 here at the Olympics...Now she's 17...
lDelaya 2 years ago 3