1996 Olympics - Team Final - Part 10

1996 Olympics - Team Final - Part 10/12

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• Dominique Moceanu
• Dominique Dawes

[gymnastics46]

you gotta give dominique mouceanu some credit .. for 2 reasons in my mind

1) she was going for a stick... she wasn't holding back playing it safe with a hop she wanted to hit... just opened up too soon

2) she kept her composure after the fall... unlike some athletes who break down in tears after every mistake...

it was however still dissapointing to see her fall on both vaults .. after the first one iw ould have told her to overrotate a bit & take a step... better then a second fall

[Mikizzle15]

Yeah. Now, gymnastics is all about power and not so much grace, with the exception of Nastia Liukin.

[BoraBoraGirl2001]

Poor Dominique. She hadn't been training vault much because of the stress fracture, so she was pulling out too early.

[commenttosay]

I am happy to read intelligent comments about my all time favorite Moceanu. She was an incredible athlete and her vaults broke my heart after a flawless competition that so greatly contributed to the USA's lead. It has always frustrated me that Bela let both Dominique and Kerry open up so early- going for a stick, without correcting them...that he let Dominique make the same mistake twice. It was just a shame that it could have been prevented.

She will always be the star of the games to me! 10!

[toribuss]

Dominique Dawes is really pretty!

[BigThunderFan]

@tmwalkerm yeah i know 

[BigThunderFan]

@BigThunderFan exactly she had no time to prepare her leg for that landing and i think the whole team understood that she wasn't going to be able to stick that vault but she did try so you have to give her credit for that and it was lack of training that did it to her caz in gymnastics you have to train every day so that you can be the best that you can be and to not let her compete in the all around was in the long run good for her caz she can't do further injury to her leg

[tmwalkerm]

@BigThunderFan yeah, easy to see that now in hindsight, shoulda coulda woulda doesn't cut it unfortunately.

[BigThunderFan]

@tmwalkerm she hated that she was put into that position and i think dom and her parents were mad that she was put into that position with being so not prepared for that moment considering he wanted to save her leg for the olympics and the out come was that she fell on both vaults that we know she could have stuck the landing if she would have had training on vault and if she had fell on that vault before the competition she had time to do something more simpler then that particular vault

[tmwalkerm]

@BigThunderFan yeah I agree with you there. Considering she didn't work with Bela after the Games, and she had so much trouble with her parents after that, something happened there....guess we'll never know the truth, its her word against his. Too bad, she was a talented kid, I loved her form and style when she got older.

[BigThunderFan]

@tmwalkerm the thing is i think after this maybe she did start to hate bela caz he was saving her up for the olympic games and then she went down like that and it was just horrible that he did that when i would think that he would have tried to make her practice before the olympics instead of throwing her out there with so many months off with an injury like that very bad injury

[tmwalkerm]

@BigThunderFan thats true, but then she should have done an easier vault.