Daniela Silivas - 1989 Worlds EF - Balance Beam

Daniela Silivas - 1989 Worlds EF - Balance Beam

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[audie83]

She HAD to 'water down'. Her routines were still worth a 10.00 under that code. She had a knee injury by that point and had surgery on that knee after Worlds. It ended her career along with the revolution. It was valiant of her to do what she did at Worlds-and she did a great job but go ahead and belittle her achievements all you want if it makes you feel better. You have a right to your views as well as anyone else. She still has 3 golds and a silver and there's nothing you can do but gripe.

[faeryquene]

She was so light and airy on up on her toes like Cathy Rigby said-I just love watching Silivas. Even when she made mistakes the overall beauty of her gymnastics was worth the watching.

[QueenieQue]

@MTVMANN Not necessarily. Look at the recent scoring system: in '07, Li Shanshan got a silver medal at Worlds with a fall! In '08, Cheng Fei got the bronze medal with major wobbles. I'm not saying they certainly would have medalled, but they might have given the extreme difficulty and high level of execution in their routines.

[MTVMANN]

@audie83 What did she water down? I can only see that she took a release move off of the UB.

[MTVMANN]

@serenakicksass But Silivas could stick her vaults...or near-stick them. Brandy had too much power and couldn't control the landings.

[MTVMANN]

@QueenieQue In NO scoring system should Olesya Dudnik or Yang Bo have won BB Gold for what they did...not what they COULD have done...but that what ended up doing.

[intldawn]

Certainly not the most spectacular routine in this competition, but this lady had command of this event that few people could match. Even back in '85 when she was just a pipsqueak.

[serenakicksass]

I forgot her bronze vault in Seoul was a big gift. A gift in two ways, from Shushunova who would have romped away with the gold falling and moving everyone else up a spot including Boginskaya to her default gold, and a gift since Brandy Johnson was really better.

[LCAmarkymark]

Dudnik was a whole lot better except for her landing...her routine was a 9.9 under the 2000 code of points...difficulty to the max...but Silivas was just great

[QueenieQue]

@Marketoromagnolo Silivas had by far the best compulsory routines, which, combined with her optional and EF performances set her ahead of the pack. She deserved every single one of her medals in '88. I might agree with you that her '89 medal on beam should have gone to Dudnik, or even Bo, but with the scoring system, she was the only one who had a clean routine. She is one of the best all-arounders of all time, in my opinion. You're certainly entitled to your own opinion, but I disagree.

[Marketoromagnolo]

@QueenieQue on beam Potorac deserved it, on floor Dudeva and on bars Fanrick

for vault, there is no way she deserved bronze

[QueenieQue]

@Marketoromagnolo Excuse me? How in the world could you say that her '88 Olympic medals were undeserved?