Gymnastics Olympic AA final 1996 part 10

Lavinia Milosovici FX, Dominique Dawes VT2, Dominique Moceanu UB, Simona Amanar VT

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Sports

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• Artistic
• Olympics
• Atlanta

[salubrioussalute]

"this is very difficult to do"

these commentators are idiots

of course it is difficult to do

it is the fricking olympics

[divnast7]

Simona's Vault was SICK AS FUCK!!! AWESOME!

[unevercalled]

I think the fact that moceanu did all these money spinning things outside of gymnastics distracted her and ultimately made her fail in her nxt bid. she shoulda trained harder

[emmyjo720]

You can see that dismount from bars hurt Dominique...she was lucky too, she looked very close to missing the low bar a couple of times.

[beautifulsarah100]

I know 1:38 wasn't Tesh's fault, but still. Poor Milo.

[russianskatingfan]

@GymFloozie No it is because Simona got the highest AA score of any gymnast in the World in team optionals. It was a huge 39.387. In fact had she done that in the AA final she would have blown Lilia away for the gold. Simona was just a stronger contender for the AA than Marinescu. That is why she replaced her. Simona was ALWAYS going to replace someone after she fell. She was the Romanian anchor on 3 of 4 events in optionals. Marinescu was outscored by Milo and Gina so it was her.

[ShaefDawg]

@benrobinson77 It's cause she twists so fast in the air.

[benrobinson77]

amanar's vault looks like a single twist instead of a double. strange

[emmyjo720]

The Romanians are seem much, much happier with Forminte. Someone like Ana Pogras would not have happened with B&B, they ironed out individuality.

Gina Gogean could have been more like that she started out dynamic and quirky dispite her shyness. By 1993 it had been watered down.

[LaVoix555]

OMG was that Forminte with Simona after VT??? MAN WAS HE DIFFRENT!

[LaVoix555]

asa e, Americanii sunt indivizi fie ca castiga (pe nedrept) sau nu!

[GymFloozie]

@AnaCiubotaru The way I had it scored was:

Atlanta 1

Romania 0

I'm glad the U.S. won team gold, but I soooo loved the Romanian team of this era. It was a nightmare for them. But they came back and kicked ass in Sydney.