Alina Kabaeva hoop 2004

Athlete: Alina Kabaeva
NOC: Russia
Event: 2004 Olympic Individual AA Final
Score: 26.800
Final Score: 108.400
Rank: 1st (gold)
Comments: Although this was her lowest scoring routine of the final, she didn't have her 2000 olympic mistake in it. So it's all good.

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[aleksanderl]

Good? Not good at all. I could find three mistakes here!

- She had du perform an adjustmant for her catch at 0:55 before entering into the front walkover.

- She didn't complete the split kick to kick the hoop back into the air at 1:34.

- She had a lot of difficulty reentering the hoop after her final toos at 1:39.

Very disapointing, I think that all these mistakes are bigger than the one she did in Sydney.

[jeyzi]

0:55 : Since she caught the catch cleanly, then passed to the other arm, it's not an error.

1:34 : She lost her CAP value for that element and received a penalty for not having enough CAP elements. Her artistic score was only a 9.0, which was lower than her other routines and Tchachina's routine.

1:39 : She should have received an execution deduction and loss of CAP value for this.

[jeyzi]

There are more mistakes I could point out, too, if you want. When I said "it's all good", I meant it was good for her that she didn't completely screw up.

Kabaeva's not the only person whose mistakes are overlooked.

[Solyle37]

All of you are pointing out mistakes in her routine. Did you go to the Olympics and perform faultlessly? Don't critisize Alina so much until you learn that routine so that you don't drop a single mark. Not saying don't point out mistakes just don't say things like she didn't deserve the gold

[abrahamnextel]

I wonder if she ever got nervous doing that thing with the hoop (1:16) after what happened to her in Sydney

[abrahamnextel]

this kind of music really suited Kabaeva, and so far this is my faourite routine from her (even with the mistakes)

[verittohhh]

wua me encanto esa coreografia y es impresionante la flexibilada que tienen las gimnastas es increible!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hpobsessor1]

If you're saying Kabaeva should have beaten Bessonova because her routines were harder, then Tchachi definitely should have gotten gold! Her routines were harder and more precise and, other than the ribbon mistakes, had way fewer mess-ups. But, to call Kabaeva a "bag of fat" is not fair either, she is tiny!

[Missnewyork28]

@crazyRGfangurl Besso should have scored higher in clubs, ribbon and ball. She was very clean. She made a mistake during her hoop routine, but it was still good. Kabaeva's ribbon was a hot mess, nothing good, her ball routine was a disaster, she lost balances, low releve, unprecise catches and so on. Kabaeva's hoop was her best routine at the time but still not any better than Besso or Tchachi. Alina should not have been gold, that's a fact.

[niramet]

yes i undertand anything comentary but she is the winner and nothing we can to make ok

[smaramba1]

@aleksanderl she also had a loss of balance at 0:22

[strengthofwill]

this music makes me think of Maria Petrova's Clubs routine too much to really enjoy it...and the choreography's just not very...it doesn't pull you in. It's just a series of elements she can sort of perform. Everything went downhill for Alina after 2001...uggh.

[crazyRGfangurl]

@5757liliya well i don't now then do u have any ideas? cuz bessonova's score was 106.700: Ribbon 26.725, Clubs 26.950, Ball 26.525, Hoop 26.500 and kabaeva's score was 108.400 Hoop 26.800, Ball 27.350, Clubs 27.150, Ribbon 27.100