Olga Strazheva - 1989 Worlds EF - Uneven Bars

[PDQChopin]

This was back in the era where sticking the dismount was everything. Better to have crazy skills early and an easy dismount.

[luv4cookie1]

did she win? She did like 4 release moves!

[irafa2]

The mount is a Radochla somersault, also performed by Maria Filatova and it looks more impressive.

[pappysprite]

Loved that original mount...so original!

[Starlight697]

that was fantastic!

[emma2710gymnastics]

wow, there wasn't an empty swing in that routine (except for the giant into the dismount) you don't always see that these days

[intldawn]

Well said. Fabulous. And that reverse hecht was enormous! Great Shaposhnikova, as well.

[backflipboy27]

Awesome!!!

[Yernar]

Stunning.

[uwoeric]

Great mount, and what an enormous Tkachev considering how close the bars were back in the day. What was up with all the double tucked dismount though?

[mrparke007]

You couldn't get the momentum then to throw a dlo or similar, and I THINK a dtuck was worth the same amount as a full-in. A great example of a complete failure in the code of points.

[Darkangel127]

Well, Dudnik's BB routine had the same SV as Boginskaya's! Go figure...

[lingketon]

beautiful double tucked tho!

[tide32athlete]

Wow, that was a heck of a routine!