Gymnastics In The Summer Olympics - Part 9 of 16

Nice documentary about the olympic history of artistic gymnastics from 1956 to 1996. It's in French.

1984 Olympics, Los Angeles (USA)
Gymnasts: Mary Lou Retton USA, Ecaterina Szabó ROM
(If you recognise other gymnasts please comment)

Check out my channel for more of this documentary!
Competitors and results here:
http://www.gymn-forum.com/results/Olympics/1984_Los_Angeles/1984_Games_main.html

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• artistic
• gymnastics
• gymnastique
• artistique
• szertorna
• torna
• olympic
• games
• olimpia
• 1984
• los
• angeles
• united
• states

[turkeybaby2]

isnt that vault kinda easy compared to whats required to get that score today?

[skata524]

Yes, it is. However, don't forget that 200 years is a big time in gymnastics, it's not fair to compare gymnasts for different eras.

[sassyfloridian]

MaryLou Retton with her unpolished style clearly got overscored, she succesfully fooled the judges on the landings, and the partisan crowd did its part. I'm American, but I can see the difference between good and better...

[radicaldaniel]

Mary Lou was great but was so overscored during this competition...for example that 10 on floor with that big step forward in the third pass...

[zeldafreak701]

Ummmmm Szabo got a ten on her beam routine with a very obvious hop on the dismount. Mary Lou Retton overscored? Yeah sure. But no more than anyone else.

[eugvh18]

marylou's floor routine was not a ten at all thats a fact marylou strong gymnast like szabo but szabo came back with revenge in event finals and herself as best gymnast at the olypmics games of 84 and and won more gold medels than marylou and shut everybody's mouth about marylou how great she isbut ecaterina is the real golden girl of 84 games as gymnast magazine puts it on their front cover and pretty too,I'am sure marylou knows but my real favorite gymnast to win was Lavinia Agache

[Gr8Success]

nadia comaneci

[jmelende4]

Mary Lou, how does it feel to cheat the olympic gold medal to Ecaterina Szabo, by far, better gimnast than you. I guess you made a fortune with that, but...can you sleep well at night?

[PrincesseLoveSP]

Szabo was robbed !

[llanffayyr]

jury shameful help Mary Lou Retton against Szabo in the general competition, the Romanian would then dominated the individual events

[jukarosales]

4:34 Lo sacan a Bela karolli, no puede estar ahi. jajaj.. wow...

[greysrocks25]

absolutely! that's why i'm starting to like the not-so-new scoring system. it was just getting ridiculous, they were all striving for a 10, but the judges were helping them and practically handing them out!

[Anax68]

I'ts funny, Peter Vidmar got a 9.90 because of a small hop on the PB in the AA. and Mary Lou got a 10.00 with a noticeable hop on FX...In the AA. I guess that the men judges were more accurate on doing their job than the women judges. I guess Mary Lou must be grateful for that. Or maybe it was about time to have a woman on the Wheaties Boxes!!!