Lilia Podkopayeva - 1996 Olympics Team Optionals - Floor Exercise
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Beautiful
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shut up AL !!
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@geishasecrets I don't think elfie despised her I think elfie liked her a lot. She was constantly raving about Lilia's toe point and leg extension. In the majority of Lilia's floor routines she and the other two commentators don't talk because they are stunned by the routine. After Lilia's ef routine elfie called it the golden routine of the Olympics and said it was like watching the boston ballet.
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i luv this routine
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She strings together the most incredibly SMOOTH frontward tumbling I've ever seen, wow!
And that form, she keeps everything so tightly together and extended-- you probably couldn't even wedge a piece of dental floss between her legs! Somebody's certainly put in a ton of time in the ballet studio!
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one of my favorite floor performances of all time
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@tmwalkerm Well this is going to be the funny thing. When the Olympics is in London and they have home team advantage plus their team will be pretty good in 2012 I wonder if the tone changes. I have watch some gymnastics when the united states wasn't very good back in the 80's and the American commentators were critical on the Americas and praised the Soviets. So it will be interesting to see.
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@LCAmarkymark yeah, people would rather be arrogant and condescending about things like that. I'm not American, and this is in no way a slam at them, but they tend to be hyper critical on anyone other than American athletes. The above person saruhe had a good point, BBC doesn't do that, and that's fine, but not everyone is like that. Personally, I'd rather more commentators be like BBC and be neutral when it comes to "cheering" on all the athletes, not just their own.
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@tmwalkerm I keep telling them the ignore me and I work in TV news
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@steelersboy2009 lol its too hard for john he is only there because of his voice lol...I would love to visit the old soviet countries.
It sincerely annoys me how the only positive thing about Podkopayeva is said right at the very beginning, and the rest of it is spent on talking about the potential for Americans to win gold, and of the noting that she was out of bounds on her last pass. I'm an American and all for cheering on your country, but I really think it's disrespectful for them to have carried on like that.
On a more positive note, brilliant routine. She's a great gymnast, I remember being thrilled that she won gold!
saruhe 3 years ago 30
i totally LLLOOOVVVE it when the audeince lets out a huge AAAHHHHH after her first pass!!!
ivanovicsharapova 3 years ago 21