Dominique Moceanu - 1996 Olympics Team Compulsories - Beam

she is smokin hot. i was in love with her back in the day!

wow!! what a beautiful rutine!! she is amazing!! you don't see gymnastics like that very much anymore...kind of disappointing. ):

I LOVE HER! and her blogs xD

She did indeed-and if you watch Ludmilla's beam routines from back in the '70's you can see she incorporated several of her own moves into the Atlanta compulsory beam.

This is the Team Compulsories-the Atlanta Olympics were the last time a required set of exercises had to be performed by all gymnasts to show their basic skill to the judges. If you watched the other videos here that are on autoplay surely you noticed the other gymnasts doing the same exact routines in this portion of the competition did you not? After Atlanta, Optionals have been performed ever since in both Team Prelims, and Team Finals.

There used to be a compulsory round in gymnastics where every gymnast had to do the same "easy" routines but with as much style and grace as possible. From there they went to optionals to do the harder stuff.

yeah, most of the other gymnasts in compulsories didn't even hit both handstands. This was one of the highlights of the compulsories along with Lilia and Shannon.

Never thought I'd say this, but I almost wish they'd bring compulsories back. It had so much emphasis on presentation, perfection, flexibility that seems to be lost today...

well it was a complusory routine. they got rid of those after this olympics but thats pretty much what most  complusory routines had. no one would ever do that in an optional routine

The reason a cartweel is in the routine is because it's a compulsory routine, where everyone performs the same routine and it's a relatively easy routine. The optional routines are where you see the most difficult skills