Gymnastics Olympic AA final 1996 part 01

Intro
Dominique Moceanu BB
Dina Kochetkova UB

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Sports

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• Artistics
• Gymnastics
• Olympics
• Atlanta
• Dominique
• Moceanu
• Dina
• Kochetkova

[HJA1982]

My god that intro is a bit much: you would think they were war veterans.

[Darkangel127]

Me too! And she was great on all four apparatuses! I wish we had more gymnasts like her (and one who could actually try the Produnova vault)!

[unevercalled]

she wasn't wrong about kotchekova :)

[Katie27000000]

little Dominique is so pretty

[Katie27000000]

@Simba85 I think they just had a limited amount of time and a lot of people to cover.Lilia and Huilan both received their own individual fluffs later on. Khorkina wasn't nearly as famous as she would be four years later. As good as she was here, I think she reached her peak in 2000 (kind of incredible considering how old she was) at that point, they certainly gave her a lot of attention. I think she had at least two maybe three fluffs in 2000.

[Katie27000000]

@Darkangel127 yeah. All four members of that 2000 Russian dream team were good at all 4 apparatuses, which is usually the hallmark of the best all-around gymnasts, but there was something special about those four. The each had something special. I wish that all of them could have competed in the all-around. Hang that rule about only three gymnasts per country. Now it's only two. They should change it back.

[Katie27000000]

@KarenLovesGymnastics since there were so many great gymnasts, I don't know if I would say that she was the most complete gymnast ever because the competition is really stiff, so many good choices to pick from. But Produnova was definitely one of my favorites. She had a style all her own that was just magical. I was sad that she only got to go to one Olympics, and did not have the opportunity to earn more Olympic medals.

[Katie27000000]

@Dunntosh I totally agree. no one else got a 9.887 on fx here. It may have been the highest score in the entire Olympic women's competition, and I think she did it twice. I could be wrong, but didn't she get the same score in the floor finals? She was always so beautiful, elegant, and consistent.

[Katie27000000]

@gutsfinky yes it was cheesy, but we loved it!! it was the 90s. The music is pretty.

this brings back so many memories! !except now it's even better. I have most of these competitions on tape, except these tapes are old and missing some parts of the competition.I also love seeing what other people have to say. It's like watching it with a whole bunch of gymnastics enthusiasts :-)

[LCAmarkymark]

@gusir92 she was simple

[LCAmarkymark]

This is what 2012 is going to be like...some any great gymnast..Im excited

[stevenh622]

@HJA1982 They really are tho. Look how young they are and imagine being in that position with cameras and millions of people watching you. It's pretty much war. A different kind but the same idea and the possibility of death.