Nastia Liukin regains the world title on balance beam
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- Nastia Liukin (USA) returned to the Worlds this year to take back the balance beam world title she had won in 2005. After a solid performance with minor wobbles, Liukin dismounted with a two and a half twist that put her 0.125 ahead of Romania's Steliana Nistor, winning back her title. (WCSN, WCSN.com)
Definitely miss Nastia!, she was a unique talent. She was, in her fathers own words a "fragile" gymnast. She may not have been very powerful (for a gymnast),but they took her strengths and turned her into an Olympic Champion and THAT should be an inspiration to all gymnasts!!! She made I t with basically front tumbling only and while I appreciate the strengths in the double doubles, etc...the grace and elegance at its finest....
i was very much like her (NOT as good of course) but i wasnt a very powerful tumbler when i did competitive gymnastics. my russian teachers really liked me because i was so flexible, but the gym i was at favored power gymnasts. i do ballet now so i wish i had someone who couldve played to my strengths. who knows maybe i couldve become really good. oh well
+Queensofprep870 yes, she was a rare talent. the gymnastics world is geared more towards the power gymnasts, BUT..have you seen the gymnasts from the Netherlands? they have managed to use the code to their advantage by upping their D scores with dance elements. They do pretty simple tumbling passes, which may not win gold medals but they are doing well and are gorgeous to watch!! I was the opposite, I was a power gymnast and despised dance class lol.
@QPHashSS77 Artistic gymnastics is supposed to showcase the artistry and dance as it's also a compulsory requirement... You have no idea what ballerina's go through in order to execute their moves as gymnasts would be considered weak compared to their lower body strength as dancers usually showcase lines of artistry that gymnasts these days don't have as they're too obsessed with coming up with more difficult power tumbling moves to where most of the apparatus including beam, bars, and floor have basically become compulsory as there isn't any diversity within the combinations in bars with stalders, van leuweens, jaegers, tkatchevs, beam with at least a full, backhandspring with two layouts, WOLF TURNS, and double double, double pike dismounts. With floor, the tumblings include Silivas, Chusovitina, double saltos in general, and a single turn. And with VAULT, I usually see a double twisting or an amanar or a handspring front 2 and a half to the point where there isn't any uniqueness towards vault anymore. Try practicing in pointe for 6-8 hours without having your feet hurt to the point where it's numb and a toenail comes off!
@@jojox9791 thank you for pointing out the netherlands. they are powerful, but they sure are elegant. e.g. sanne wevers
@@kiersontitus7322 ive been a ballerina for 3/4 of my life and i was a gymnast also. i must say, ballet is harder in my opinion. it takes a lot of core strength, leg muscles, balance, timing, technicality, emotion/expression, etc. to be a great ballerina. ballet comes with a lot more requirements than gymnastics does. whereas i enjoy watching gymnastics more, i think ballet is far more elegant, peaceful, graceful and for sure, a lot more work.
I love how she was giving out her autograph when she found out she won and she just immediately drops the pens after finishing with a huge smile. and runs and hugs her dad it's was so adorable
Back then Nastia connected the Onodi and the wolf jump a tad bit more than she did in the 2008 Olympics, but here she still did not really connect her free front walkover and her back walkover. Starting from 2008, she also began to see the beam a split-second before landing on her switch split ring leap. Other than those, all her beam routines were done with mind-blowing execution. Still my favourite gymnast to this day.
She was so elegance and gracefull.
Nastia's mom was a rhythmic gymnast and so that plays a part in the gracefulness of Nastia.
Alex Arulf Nastia’s Mom would leave the gymnasium when she marched out with her teammates. She could not stand to watch Nastia perform her routines. Have a tape of the 08 all-around in Beijing and it ran over. She ran to call her mother but apparently her mom had turned off her phone.
She looks tall and has really long legs and arms, a beautiful gymnast:)
if doing gymnastic for 10 years.
i'm from the netherlands and she always was my idol.
she does everything so perfect.
i stoped with gymnastic because it was so hard to came on the top.
and i'm proud of her that she never gived up
she is great!
sorry for bad english ;$
I am so glad she won back her world title.
She’s so graceful! She is one of the very best at gymnastics
I love Nastia so much, miss her in gymnastics!!! Why do they have to pronounce her last name wrong? Not trying to be mean, but it bothers me when they pronounce her last name wrong,
Incredible gymnast and an incredibly beautiful woman.
she has such beautiful lines :)
Nastia-beauty and grace personified in gymnastics! Love ya! GO USA! GO USA!
i love how happy she is to win its nice to see!!
All the gymnasts are so easy to describe in one word;
Nastia: Elegant,
Shawn: Strong,
Sacramone: Powerful,
all the Chinese Gymnasts: Delicate
That was funny how she stopped in the middle of signing an autograph to run and hug her dad/coach. So cute! I really hope Nastia returns for the 2012 Olympics.
regardless of looks or likes, shawn is a great athlete and a great competitor
I loved her incredible grace last time round. She clearly has a ballerina's form, which makes for the grace and beauty of her movements.
why do people feel the need to say bad things...she is amazing...yes 2007 was not her year...but she is back better than ever
loved when she and her dad hugged. just pure happiness.
Her mom didn't come the past events Nastia was part of in Stuttgart where Nastia messed up but when she showed up to cheer her daughter in the beam final loud enough for us to hear Nastia got gold :D!
THAT SWITCH RING THO
Excellent performance there by Nastia Liukin!!! She really did get alot of height on her two and a half twist! Great performance and beautiful, excellent work. I love Nastia, She's great. Her flick layout layout was a little wobbley, but, she pulled it back, great!
AND they are best friends, and shared a room at the Olypics :)
yeah i agree. y did everybody thumb down my first comment? it's true that this wasn't her best. nastia is my favorite gymnast. what was her best is the olympic beam final. i still think that she deserved gold here, though.
Nastia lives about a town or 2 over from me. She is such a good gymnast.
she's sooooo graceful!!!
I agree DavidArchuletah!!!! She deserved that 2nd gold medal!!
Nastia's balance beam performance is the best
Daniela Silivas and Svetlana Khorkina had that quality also--looks especially spectacular on bars and beam.
Ok, to all the people who have crap to say about Nastia or her routine...screw off. Seriously, your all just mad your not the kind of gymnast she is. Face it, you'll never be as amazing or as talented as her. So she had a wobble or two...who cares. Shes done multiple flawless routines in competition and she deserves to win. Now get over yourselves and accept the fact that shes the best. She wouldn't have won the olympics if she wasn't.
It's amazing how people can do that. I love it. :)
my favorite gymnast
Though Gabby Douglas was brilliant in London, the absence of Nastia Liuken at those 2012 Games kinda ruined the gymnastics event,,,,hope she comes back,,,,,nobody else has her grace and long legged lines.
Raeanna5! Love your posts! The truth always will prevail. Nastia was trained in the U.S, is a U.S citizen and is just as much a Texas girl as any other Texas gal!! Love ya Nastia! Go USA
pssh. i can do that. hold my beer.
lasing kaba pre
i always love her leotards.
they're all so pretty!
her reaction is so happy its nice to see :)
beautiful free walkovers
Nastia te adoroo
she is my favorite gymnast
i love nastia luken and shawn jhonsen they are so good at gymnastics:} he he they are coooool
I miss her so much!
Dio che linee meravigliose *_______*
E' sempre un grande piacere guardarla
"All those wobbles"? I saw two.
Higher starting value for risk shows that even if routine is not polished, you can win.
i love her so much.
finalmente ha vinto una ginnasta non solo potenza e sopratutto non una bimba..
l'eleganza e la grazia fatte persona..ed è anche bella..complimenti.
I think that's an onodi it's pretty elegant :)
with her body, she'd be an amazing rythmic gymnast, or even ballet.
Skinnyness doesn't benefit you in those sports, those sports just happen to be riddled with eating disorders and body shaming and therefore have many very skinny athletes. I was a ballerina so I know first hand at least for ballet
GREAT JOB NASTIA YOU DESERVED IT GIRL
She's beautiful and her routine is aswell.
Wow Nastia!! You are great!
Amazing!
in awe....absolutely amazed
I'll admit I don't know much about gymanstics other than what I've seen on the Olympics, but to me she is very artistic and elegant. I was mesmerized by her Olympic performances because she looked so much like a ballet dancer. I felt she brought a maturity and elegance that the other gymnasts lacked. To each her own I guess.
America is a country of immigrants. ALL of us (except native Americans) are immigrants.
Valeri and Anna came to America with their baby daughter for the same reason ALL immigrants come here.
Nastia is as American as apple pie.
Congratulations to the elegant Nastia Liukin for her Gold Medal performance!!!!
Something great about this is she pulled it off so it looked like part of the routine even if it wasn't!
she looks so much like ana porgras...both amazing beam workers, so elegant!
she just does beautiful gymnastics, it dosent hurt that she is just pretty much all legs!! i was an elite gymnast 1998-99, and i am built , alot like she is. It was really hard for me because you could see every mistake i made because of my long legs. it is alot easier for the girls who have short legs because it sort of hides little mistakes. When you have long legs like that you have to really watch your form.
Are you freakin kidding me?! She. is. AMAZING!!!!
It's never too late. There was a 30 something year old who won the silver on the vault. Don't give up yet.
Lol, I'm calm... It's just Nastia Liukin is like, my favorite person ever, and beam is my favotite event, so I get a bit defensive. And oh, you're welcome for the speech. Haha (:
i love anstia liukin she is amazing!!:) she inspires me!!:)
Nastia was raised here since she was two. She is a U.S citizen. My whole ancestry is from France, yet it was so sweet when Jason Lezak beat the French in the swimming relay. I was jumping up and down for the USA. I a U.S cititzen. So whats the point about Nastia being born in Russia? Go USA! Its not like she boarded a plane here 1 year ago and then decided to compete for the USA, unlike what Becky Hammon did playing for Russia.
@OneThingITrulyKnew Ya they did but the reason the crowd cheered was because she recovered.
girl, calm down!!
you're right, i don't know anything about this stuff but i also don't talk any shit about it or about her, i'm just talking about what it looks like to ME so don't be pissed!
and thank you for the lecturing btw ^.^
its crazy how people can do a flip on a freaking beam! its crazy i wish i could do that
She is so talented! nice!
That people is call stupid, Liukin is the best in the world :)
SHE DID AWESOME
SPECTACULAR JOB, Mademoiselle!! fantastic!! bless you
best twister ever
She's just beautiful.
Nastia Liukin best Gymnast ever:))
1:51 she's looking for her score, and you can see in her smile the exact second she sees it! She's so cute.
My mom and my friends and a lot of people say I look a lot like her!! And they say I'm flexible like her too. I'm NOT as flexible as her, she's amazing!
she looks so pretty! she is amazing! my favorite gymnast! XD
Nastia = Tremendous.
Her legs alone are taller than the Chinese!!!
fan ye was actually as tall as her at that time，and yang yilin is 165cm now which is the same height to khorkina
Nastia is actually only five foot two. It's just that her legs are long in proportion to the rest of her body. She has her mother's build - if you watch videos of her mother, gymnast Anna Kotchneva, she has the same long-legged look although she's actually just as petite as Nastia.
she is great
She makes it look SOOOOOOO easy!!!!1
Well most spectacular stuff results in falls or major deductions for wobbles. Nastia has the risk as you saw in the first pass, lovely routine, she only gave away 0.575 deductions.
she should be a dancer , not only would the grace help but the balance
She was wiping off a tear I think cause her dad kissed her on the other cheek.
Just because Nastia won! Grace verses power :S Err, Nastia wins! Shawn had a big balance check on beam, didn't complete her two and half twist on vault and she had a step on her landing on bars. Nastia didn't budge, she had one small step on bars and that's it!
I think Nastia is very pretty too! She is my fave gymnast.
well when i was really little i remember the high school i go to now having one, and all they had to pay for was the gas to get to meets (which they fundraised for) the leo (which their parents bought) and the fees to hold a meet and pay the judges (which was also covered by fundraising.)
what i like about nastia is that her muscles in her legs don't show like crazy like shawn johnson
i get really jealous really easily. i mean, i wish i was her, doin my dream, but i know its already 2 late. im 13 and started when i was 8. i cant even do have of da things she does!!!! but with her, i am able 2 just watch, and be amazed. KEEP IT UP!
@XxXHorseLoverXxX1 Its because they have no memorise it off by heart for every competition, and they have to feel comfortable when performing it! :D
It's because of the differences in training techniques mainly- her Dad who was also her coach, is Russian, and the Russian coaches tend to stress conditioning exercises and diet that keeps the athletes slimmer, that's why you are a bit less likely to see chunky Russian gymnasts than in the US, or in this case- Russian-trained gymnasts. It's not a hard and fast rule though, for example, Shannon Miller was quite slim and had an American coach.
@mewnyanko She did great in comparison to the other gymnasts. Shawn fell multiple times, Li Shanshan fell on a full turn, Steliana Nistor was well Steliana Nistor, Catalina Ponor was overtime and the other gymnasts didn't have the difficulty.
i wish i had a gym team at school. we have everything from football to a bowling team, and they just ignore the requests for a gymnastics team.
=(
She is elegant and beautiful. Nice routine.
i totally agree.. she was very shaky here
Good in gymnastics👌👌
I feel like she would be good at ballet :)
I always liked her because she actually doesn't look like a little kid. Her figure looks more like a girl that's just in really good shape, as opposed to alot of them that look like they're 10.
As much as I like Shawn Johnson, Nastia was the better performer in the Olympics, stuck 3/4 landings in the AA, and overall had a little more difficulty. Shawn got silver, which is what she earned that night.