Olympic Champions - Moscow 1980 Beam - Nadia Comaneci
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- Olympic Champions in Women's Artistic Gymnastics
Moscow 1980
Balance beam
Nadia Comaneci (Romania)
Compulsories: 10,0
Optionals: 9,900
Finals: 9,850
Total: 19,800 - Sport
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She got excellent balance. Her routines seems simple, delicate, and nimble, but her executions were flawless, flowing, and full of confidence. Amazing gymnast that's truly legendary.
I was just a young girl when I saw her movie and I was taken by her 44 years ago I was born in 7 came to know of her when I was about 8 years old and she is the reason I fell in love with gymnastics with the movie I watched I understood all the trials and tribulations that she went through and what brought me in so hard was her I'm denying love for the sport. She was a beast and there wasn't anybody who could come close to her.
The QUEEN of gymnastics
I absolutely love this "old" style of gymnastics. It's simple but beautiful and intreaging...
I agree! For all the twists and flips, I find today’s gymnastics a little boring.
Yes, today's gymnastics is boring. All flips and acrobatics.
she connects the aerial walkover and aerial cartwheel even better than the gymnasts today!!
These routines showed just how important compulsories were: a basic knowledge of the basics is so necessary. All of Nadia's elements were executed with maximum extension and amplitude, and she has, in my opinion, the best back handsprings on beam ever. Although her optional routine wasnt as difficult as some of the others, in those days, execution and form mattered, and her execution and form was flawless.
She's probably the worlds' best gymnast.
These routines are more graceful than what we have today.
Ballet on the beam, graceful, figurative, beautiful
She’s the best no one even today has that grace and elegance no one!
Agree.
Agree totally. As the current expression goes, she is the GOAT.
One of the most iconic gymnasts of all time.
Her dismounts are always flawless
@Cat One QHASH IS YOUR IMAGINARY FRIEND
@Cat One I know I'm just joking. They deleted their comments, so it looks like you're talking to no one
I don’t think i’ve ever seen a balance routine with an actual pirouette into an arabesque and a penchè. Gymnastics was really at a different stage than it is now. There was a lot more artistry and dance in gymnastics before. Now, the skill cap has raised tremendously and strength is valued more than elegance.
Concordo.
her beautiful lines and the fluidity of her movements are a reflection of years of hard work.
Never was a better or more beautiful gymnast.
Routines today aren't more difficult. The floor is springier today than in Nadia's era which makes tumbling easier. The unever bars are further apart which has changed the whole technicality of the routines. The beams have changed from wood to softer suede covered surfaces that are less slippery. What Nadia did on the equipment of her era is if anything more impressive than what gymnasts to today on their far more forgiving equipment.
Oh, she was the best. Thanks for posting all these! It's good that so many other appreciate what real gymnastics was all about back in the day.
She was as graceful as she was amazing. I too love the ‘old’ style gymnastics.
Nadia, tu ai fost și vei rămâne cea mai buna gimnastă a tuturor timpurilor!!!! La olimpiada de la Moscova, te au nedreptățit, dar, tu vei rămâne în veci eroina noastră!!!!!!! Perfectă, elegantă, grațioasa, inegalabila!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
could not agree more. if you think about it...this was 30 YEARS ago. and I have yet to see someone perform as fluidly and as confidently and as flawelssly on the beam--the most difficult event.
no one has been better IMO.
tell me the last time you have seen an aerial cartwheel back-handspring on the beam.
never.
She is the best ever.
Agree.
Absolutely
Nadia is soooooooooo good, she makes it simple like it easy, but it not, she doing things that gymnastics of today try to do. If you watch carefully, the things she does is no way EASY. She dances on the beam.
I'm very proud to be romanian. Bravo Nadia , maxim orgoliu romanesc !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations, I'm from Brazil 😢
Fii mandru de tine cand realizezi ceva bun,nu de munca altora.Si mai moale cu nationalismul impins in extrema din orgoliu...nu e departe de rasism!
@@whocares1481 ce comentariu de om dus
@@anatoma3719 Nu realizarile altora ne fac merituosi sau mai buni,ci propriul nostru efort pt a realiza ceva deosebit!Una este sa te bucuri pt realizarile cuiva,si altceva sa fii mandru pt ca e roman ca tine.Stupid!
Iubirea nu are nationalitate,e universala,nu nominalizeaza!
Invata pe viitor sa atacu subiectul cu argumente nu persoana insultand-o!
Incearca sa intelegi un mesaj inainte de a da un raspuns!
Que perfección y elegancia de esta niña Nadia, ninguna como ella
Nadia is always my greatest heroine in gynastics.
Agree. btw I have to remark that "gynastics" is a brilliant pun re women's gymnastics. lol!
nadia has always been my favorite gymnast. ever. it's very apparent here in her beam work. i still don't think anyone today is as fluid, as solid, or as poised as nadia was. i think as she got older she was even better. more poised, elegant, and just as smooth as butter. and of course perfect. still my favorite to watch after 30 years. awesome and i'm sure she's inspired miillions of people all over the world. her commitment to doing amazing things was astounding
So much peace,the love is in the air!Her body has such an atletic expression,beautiful proportiones ..she is so majestic,natural and elegant!You can make therapy watching her moves.Adorable!
She is the queen of gymnastic) she also speaks fluent in russian, french, english and Romani of course^^
The girls today and yesterday owe it all to this woman! She was the Best!!
She made it look so easy.No one can hold a candle to this gymnastics genius.
Elegance,grace,poise,focus,determination,drive,acrobatics,perfection.
Agree 100 %
Totally correct.
NADIA bola charizmatická, veľmi talentovaná a vynikajúca v tvrdej svetovej konkurencii. Pred rozdelením Československa som niekoľko rokov sledovala všetky dostupné gymnastické športové prenosy 😍NADIA was charismatic, very talented and excellent in tough world-class competition. Before the division of Czechoslovakia, I watched all available gymnastic sports broadcasts for several years...
This is the real GOAT
To those who say gymnast today is more advance. True. But comparing the balance Nadia has, nobody that i've seen was this confident and surefooted.
Jd L I so have to agree with you Jd L. Nadia's beam routines are very pretty, yes. What these young ladies do on the beam now is crazy difficult.
joseph johnson First, this is a compulsory exercise. And the design of the beam as we know today by far favors difficult elements next to the primitive beam from Nadia's day when the beam was essentially naked wood while today's beam is patted and leather/suede. I do not believe anyone can do a standing back tuck 1/1 on the wooden beam from Nadia's days.
Vette gaddia You must not have watched the entire video. Nadia's compulsory beam exercise is shown, as well as her optional beam exercise (not sure if it is team or all-around) and event finals. The beam may have changed, but there is no doubt that today's gymnasts continue to push boundaries in terms of difficulty. I'd rather see beautifully executed simpler skills, than chucked but difficult ones.
***** Angie, artistry is declining so fast in this sport. But, what kills me is that the gymnasts with good execution are not rewarded enough for straight arms, glued legs, pointed toes. It seems it is worth it these days to chuck skills because the sloppy gymnasts still get good scores.
***** Douglas gets super amplitude on UB. That's why the judges love her. I agree they should reward the gymnasts with extension and form and deduct from those who lack it.
They reward Biles for super amplitude on FX. But do not seem to deduct her for having lower amplitude on UB. I have to say Biles is improving on that deficit, though.
and for the record no one has -- or has done -- a better front aerial than her on or off the beam. ever. but it's a sight to behold on the beam. wow.
1980: artistic gymnastic
2012: Power gymnastic
true story
I totally understand why people think that it's weird that she got a 10 on various routines that appear extremely simple compared to those of Nastia Liukin and Aliya Mustafina, and etc, however, you guys need to remember that regardless of the difficulty, compared to those who competed with her, Nadia was the best. She performed the best routines and she did them well so at the time, what she did was impressive and 100% deserved the score she got. Would she be able to win gold medals if she was a teenager during the 2010s? We dont know. What we do know is that she was able to do so in the 70s/80s, and we also know that gymnastics has evolved and shouldn't compare because it wouldn't be fair to any of the olympians.
I think that people have also forgotten that equipment was different in 1976. For example, back then, the tumbling floor was just that - a floor. No springs. Doing the tumbling passes that Nadia did, and doing them off a "dead" floor, requires a strength that I doubt today's gymnasts could duplicate. The springboards in vault were the old fashioned type, and they also used the old vaulting horse, not the modern vaulting table. I think that if Nadia was around today, she would absolutely be able to compete.
ChooseYour Poison I agree with that. The equipment was very different. And besides all gymnastics is today is a power sport. There aren't that many gymnasts who are graceful in their routines. The fact that Nadia lands lightly on the beam says something. That is not how things are done now. Gymnasts have now have a better advantage because their equipment is better.
The sport has not evolves. It became a series of tricks, acrobatics and long stops to prepare the next trick. Movements are not fluid and there is a lot of hand moviments. It is ugly and boring
She is too incredible!! she is the best on the world for ever. extraordinary!!
I truly don't know.
It was, in lack of a better word, perfect.
Just beautiful.
Her beam turns are gold standard. fluid, continued motion and zero balance check.. Just perfect.
We love you Nadia Comaneci ever and ever..no matter we are in 2013 and still watching old '80 videos of perfection
WOW!! Beautiful
She didn't have a childhood, my heart goes for her.
Her and Michael Jackson. Get over it.
All I can say is the compulsory routine is stunning. The fluid pace, the lines, the hands (exquisite), the form, technique and the gorgeous pirouette! Wow. Nadia is the best beam worker ever. As Bela said ...she had an amazing ability to perform under pressure, and the beam has got to be the most high pressure apparatus in a major competition. Go Nadia! It's hard for me to believe she lost 1980 Olympic all around by .05 (5 one hundredths of a point).
In 1980 in Moscow she was robbed - the title had to go to a soviet gymnast. Look up Davydova's routine and see if it compares.
Her piroutte is perfect!!!! Just perfect!!
utoob9999 The 1980 games was one of the most controversial games ever. Her score 9.95 flashed for a few seconds before it went blank. A group of people came to the judging table and they had to stop the games to finalize her score. It took nearly half an hour. It was a huge example of soviet influence and a highlight of the Cold War in my opinion
@QPHashSS77 from all your posts here i take it that you dont like Nadia :)
aerial walkover to aerial cartwheel! the most amazing at that time!!!!
my all time favourtie. This is what beam should be! Dancing in the air:):)
That turn she did in the compulsory was georgeous!
cj222100 agreed! I’d like to see turns like that more often.
@skata524 thank you for sharing this beautiful video of gymnast Nadia Comaneci.
Beautiful girl, perfectly proportioned - power and elegance.
Her leaps do actually hit splits, from a different angle you can see that. The leaps didnt have to be over 180 degrees splits though. If you look at Nadia's 1979 European Championships beam routines you will see her split leaps were actually perfect.
Creo que como ella, no habra otra. Era la perfección técnica y carisma puro.
god she is so PERFECT
extraordinaire Nadia toujours au top bravo !
They can't even touch her.Nadia still best!
Agreed.
When I was younger, our primary school (in Romania) was gymnastics oriented, we had all the apparatus for gymnastics. I remember I tried once to get onto that damn bar, with no success lol.
I grew up super fast, and by 3rd grade I started playing basketball with the 5th graders.
*Um pouco mais velha mais dando o ar ainda da sua graça a Jovem Nádia Comanecci.*
Grande gênia a ginástica.
Her tumbling series are so graceful in the air, thats how you win in the meet, moves like that, making it look easy, again anywhere were Nadia compete she well win some kind of title
Intotdeauna mi-a placut de ez, era super buna....Bravo....pacat, ca n-o mai vedem la televizor...
omg the pirouette! beauty
I agree. And miss a lot these artistry on gymnastics :(
Love love love the pirouette en the 1st routine, so precise
EXTRAORDINARIA
I'd include Teodora Ungureanu, Natalia Shaposhnikova, the late Yelena Mukhina, Daniela Silivas, Aurelia Dobre, Yang Bo, and Kui Yuan Yuan to name a few truly gifted beamers.
People say that the routine are more difficult today then they were years ago. I have to disagree, yeah the do more things are the balance beam, a lot of them get unbalance, and don't have that grace Nadia has. She did a simple spin and didn't stubble a bit, where Gymnastics today, would do the same thing and get unbalance. I think she had more sticker training and then most gymnastics today have.
I dont know a thing about gymnastics. All I can say it that it impresses me very much. I just wanted to point that even if routines are harder today, her balance is stunning. Looking at her you forget she s standing on this bean where ones two feet dont fit... Am I right in saying that i havent seen any other gymnast with such a great natural balance?
look up for Nastia Liukin. in my opinion she's the next comaneci
although she hasn't got perfect 10
You're absolutely right. I don't know anything about gymnastics but I can see that this is perfection.
I'm no expert either, but her balance clearly could not be bettered. A stunning gymnast. I can't imagine a better one.
Esta atleta al pasar los años ha sido insuperable en la viga de equilibrio realmente parece q nació arriba de ella te recordamos con gran cariño 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Flawless and magical...
She doesn't look like she even knew she was on the beam, except for one balance check in the third routine. I like some of the stunts from more recent times (except for the bent knee stunts that aren't flips), but you can't beat that elegance and flow.
ШЕДЕВР.
Fascinated!
Felicitări NADIA!
Trăiască ROMÂNIA!
shes really great
Her movements are everything.
Scores were determined based on the average of your compulsory and optional routine from the team competition, then added to your score from event finals. So three routines were factored into the medal decisions. Now, event finals (and AA) are "new life"-- everyone start from scratch. The change was made for the '92 quad.
La mejor de todas, la numero uno !
My hero ❤
Perfect
beams back then were truly a hunk of wood that was varnished. now they have a padding on them and a covering that reduces the slick feel. the floors then were simply a mat, no spring. none in the least. so their dismounts were basically on the floor with a padded carpet.
Nadia is the best on all apparatus! I like how the mediocre quality of the 80s TV gave the "Whoosh, whoosh" effect on her aerial walkover to aerial cartwheel. Every time I saw that part, I was like: "Holy crap! Nadia is a ninja!" lol. The queen forever. :)
She was not very good at vaulting, which is why you rarely see her vaults in these clips.
Unbeatable on bars and beam though
Te amo Nadia quiero un perfecto 10 como vos 💞💕💕💕💕💕
omg that pirouette thing she did made me gasp, such beauty!
Not to mention that they also had to learn a whole set of routines called compulsories. Most of today's top gymnasts wouldn't survive those deceptively 'easy' but exacting compulsories.
it was all about the beauty of the human body - it was like watching centuries of art in one moving sequence of images- now it's like a Cirque du Solei performance - all playing for the american tv audience who wants to see the Panda do new and more dangerous tricks else the inevitable switch to HBO
Breathtaking!
la mejorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr era y lo seguira siendo
Além de serem boa no que fazia ,era muito humilde.........Igual a essas meninas NÁDIA E OUTRAS Ñ EXISTE NUNCA MAIS.
Some real classy comments below. Yes, it's totally fine to comment on a young female athlete's body shape in a rude way and of course it's ok to degrade modern gymnastics and hold it up to some narrow, bygone standard, because as we all know, sports should always remain the same, right? RandalynFaith is right, gymnastics is gymnastics and all these girls work hard and do amazing things.
Ok, even if the US had been involved in the 1980 Olympics they had NO match to this woman!
Up until the 1990s, the US was horrible in international meets.
grace pure grace
@jhar26 agreed. I think it evens out in the end, she was impressive b/c of the type of material she was given to work with, but if our gymnasts today had the same type of materials and did the same type of jumps and such as they do today, would it be possible? I think it's also b/c nadia trained on this stuff.
I honestly think this girl has never fallen off a beam in competition! o_O
@tranvozcaya Thats right: gym today is just that: "stunts". What happened to grace and precision of movement??? Todays gymnasts struggle with a full turn on beam, most of them cant manage that without wobbling all over the place. Gymnastics was never meant to be "stunts". Thats why gymnasts like Nadia spent a lot of time at the ballet bar; look how beautiful, light, precise and elegant her moves are. Some of todays gymnasts sound like canal horses on the beam.
Espectacularmente única...una leyenda.
Best ever.
Just epic!!!!
que hermosa mujer.... seria la musa perfecta
Se mueve como una gacela. Hermosa.
her arabesques are awesome too
Every move disciplined precision
you can't really compare, because gymnastics today require higher difficulty and therefore more mistakes. Nadia and 2012 gymnasts are different generations, who's to say nadia would blow the world today if she was of this current era?