Kim Zmeskal - 1992 Olympics AA - Balance Beam
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She won the world .........gold . First time for the US .......She was awesome
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She is incredibly elegant if you compare with American gymnasts today...(sigh)
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@ants2876 Nah, everyone here in the States pretty much loves Paul Hamm :) But thanks for caring so much!
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@grafgirl27 Kim wasnt perfect on TO, she was far from her best vaults,she took a hope forward on her bars dismount, a bug on her beam mount, and was short on her famous three whips to double tuck, besides downgrade her floor routine because was injured. She usually was near perfect on vault, pretty consistent on bars and beam and great on floor, check part 5 of 1992 Houston salute where she did one of her best and more difficult floor routines
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@grafgirl27 probably with her best routines injured Kim would have been between 3th to 6th, but a healthy Kim who knows, because her huge floor difficult, her almost perfect vaults and her consistent beam and bars could give her gold or silver. In AA all big names did well except Kim.
Ironic how Shannon in 96, was injured and with a lot of pressure didnt do well at AA too. Both were good gymnasts with different talents
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@ants2876 You or me will never know the thruth about that, but if you see Kim's career she was pretty consistent except OG, where she was injured, if Kim was the best on TO injured, (I know that Tatiana fell on beam and Miller didnt her best, but anyways Kim was injured), it doesnt need to be very smart to think that a healthy Kim could be an AA, and floor contender. But I wonder if you dislike Kim what are you doing here looking her videos. Just asking
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@russianskatingfan WRONG. She mad a big mistake on her first pass and a small but visible on her last, at that point junges were punishing on Kim, and keeping up Miller who was AA runner up, 92 floor champ Bontas and of course AA champ Gutsu. Bontas and Miller should got 9.90 or less than that. Gutsu had a very dificult routine so her score was fair
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@russianskatingfan WOW you really hate on Kim, the results in Barcelona Olympics doesnt reflect Kim's abilities in gymnastics, a healthy Kim could be an AA contender even if you said the opposite, everyone who knows about gymnastics can see it, she wasnt the most artistic gymnast, but she could dance, and her floor compulsory can shows it.
She was the best at TO, even with her leg injury, even with a downgrade floor routine, with not her best vault, or a not perfect landing on bars.
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@LadyBeaverhausen you are right. The scoring in team finals was easier and higher than the scoring in the all around finals so Kim's scores on beam and floor would have been lower than 9.912 and 9.925 for her same hit performances, dropping her even further from the medals. Thanks for playing.
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You silly bitch. Anyone with an ounce of knowledge about the sport knows that you cannot compare scores across rounds of competition, but only how gymnasts score relative to one another. Learn things, cooze.
No she won Worlds with the performances of her life, far better then her. Many of her competitors did not perform as well as they did here as well though. Even with her best routines she would have only been around 6th in the Olympic AA to be honest.
grafgirl27 3 years ago 9
Gutsu was pretty consistent in team finals!?! Gutsu FELL on beam in team finals. Miller did not perform anywhere near as well in team finals, and had faulty landings on both vault and beam. Zmeskal was at her absolute best in team finals, while none of the other top girls were.
Kim scored 9.937 on vault and 9.900 on bars in the AA, with hit routines. Add her 9.912 on beam and 9.925 on floor from team finals for hit routines. She still does not medal in the AA even with those all added.
grafgirl27 3 years ago 4