2000 Sydney Olympics - Women's Team Final Part 3

Women's team final in gymnastics at the 2000 Sydney Olympics:
-Tasha Schwikert UB
-Romania Fluff
-Simona Amanar BB
-Dominique Dawes UB
-Tatiana Yarosh FX

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Gymnastics
• 2000
• Sydney
• Olympics
• Women's
• Team
• Final
• Tasha
• Schwikert
• Romania
• SImona
• Amanar
• Dominique
• Dawes
• Tatiana
• Yarosh

[missmouse35]

@mrpatriot83 i totally agree. raducan was def. unrightfully stripped of her gold. Amanar, who is technically the aa champ said tht she didn't want the gold medal, she wanted the silver because thats what she earned. that just goes to show u how unfair it was.

[krell88]

Tasha has one of the best alternate stories imo.

[xrictinaaa1]

The romanian fluffs always made me fall in love :)

[dmann3g]

They put Dawes last on vt..which I get..for padding purposes..but if they had done that w UB, she wouldve scored even better

[Mbookfreak]

@krell88 one of the best alternate performances too!

[AlexCorralMexico]

OMG!  This comentators are ANNOYINGGGGG : (

[tmwalkerm]

@kakumei77 yeah, Dawes used to be an awesome vaulter, but in 2000 she didn't seem to have the power or the harder skills that the "younguns" had. Don't get me wrong, I love Dom but Tasha had the un-affected-ness that let her just go out there and do her thing without letting the pressure get to her.

[kakumei77]

@tmwalkerm I agree! I think Tasha should have done more difficulty in her routines but I guess it was such a late notice she couldn't change it a lot. But they should have let her do vault in the finals instead of Dawes cause Tasha had a difficult vault as well!

[tmwalkerm]

@kakumei77 Alyssa was an alternate? Tasha was waaay more consistent and powerful than she was. I mean Alyssa was good, when she was concentrating and focused, which wasn't that often. Tasha was the total package, I'm glad that she got the chance since she never was even in the running.

[kakumei77]

@tmwalkerm When Morgan got injured, it was supposed to be Alyssa Beckerman who was the next line as the alternate from trials. But Bela thought Tasha was a better pick even though she wasn't even mentioned as an alternate but they ended up letting Tasha go.

[tmwalkerm]

so did the US not have any alternates on the original team? Just curious why Tasha would have been the first person they called to replace Morgan, or if it was her scores from trials that put her next in line. Either way, she did well and didn't crack under the pressure, good for her.

[TheRomanitza]

love to watch again and again go romania!!!