Alina Kabaeva Ball 2004

Athlete: Alina Kabaeva
NOC: Russia
Event: 2004 Olympic Individual AA Final
Score: 27.350
Final Score: 108.400
Rank: 1st (gold)
Comments: This was a beautifully executed routine. A very high Artistic value helped make this her highest scoring routine.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• alina
• kabaeva
• ball
• 2004
• athens
• olympics
• olympic
• games
• gold
• gymnastics
• rhythmic

[CiaranVanDon]

I would like to see Ronaldo try this lol :)

[juliette2630]

Wonderful! However for the gold routine pls see Tchachina's performance ...

[dumler888]

Молодец! Супердевочка)

[KalinkaRG]

@ogredan100 I also thought Kabaeva won because of more risky routines, but then I saw the detailed scores and Kabaeva had values higher than Ira not only in Technical Value (which corresponded to the actual D1) and in Artistic value (which also evaluated apparatus elements, if I'm not mistaken), but also in Execution... :| And so I'm a bit confused, because Alina's routines were no way cleaner than Ira's ones, because Kabaeva made some mistakes in all her routines. Little mistakes, but she did.

[xxangierulzxx]

She did amazing and deserved the gold

[ogredan100]

After watching this and Tchachina's performance, I realized that Alina really did deserve gold. While Tchachina's overall looks much better, her routine didn't have half as many risks as Alina'a did. And Alina brought in some interesting moves likes rolling on the floor while having the ball locked.

[ikeern09]

I love this routine and the music ! <3

[Missnewyork28]

@Zsukki She got gold because Vinner has influence on judges and because she was Viner's favorite. Bad happaratus handling, unfinished skills, sloppy execution, unaccurate catches with mistakes sometimes, flat feet on the scorpion pirouette, it's not even a pirouette, there is no relevé. Tchachina and Besso had way better execution, with no major mistake for Besso and one mistake for Tchachi, good apparatus handling, accurate catches. Kabaeva got lots of gold she NEVER deserved. A shame

[PensGirly1187]

I love this routine! But it really looked like she used a lot of energy to do her jumps. It didn't look very, flowy and graceful, it sort of looked like it was tough for her to do those jumps. Because in other routines she can leap more than 5 feet off the ground, and not struggle at all. But this routine, she made it look like her legs weighed 75 pounds... Don't yell at me for this, it's only my opinion.

[Zsukki]

@Zsukki and besides this, the gold medal don´t say kabaeva was without any failure, it just tells you that her performances were all-arround-better than the performances of the other girls. even it was just 0.001 point in the end.