Chellsie Memmel is by far one of my fave gymnasts. She, in my opinion is a near-perfect balance between power and artistry. She's powerful like Alicia Sacramone, but she can still swing bars with artistry like Nastia and has a very nice line, not to mention also that she's battled injury and has come back equally as strong mentally and physically. Amazing.
@@adamtravis9380 I agree 100%! The thing I’m looking forward to with her comeback is seeing her artistry now that she’s matured. Honestly looking at her recent videos I’m begging to see her artistry and her old gymnastics is starting to undesirable who she is as a gymnast more now I think.
It's funny because relatively speaking apart from the USA during the past few quads Amanars aren't actually done by many still. Like yes, you see it more often now, but it's still a small fraction.
2012 was their best year for vaulting because 5 of the gymnasts were capable of an Amanar but 4/5 competed it which is still huge but compared to 2016 Rio only 2/5 could compete a yurchenko even though Gabby competed it in 2012. They have got a bit stronger now though but 2012 was their best year for vaulting
At 29:00 you can here Mccready talking to Aly Raisman about Alicia and the 2008 Olympics and he tells her maybe one day she'll make it there herself. that's just mind blowing to me.
looking back on this in 2017, it's so amazing to see how far nastia has come... from the commentators pronouncing her name incorrectly to being an olympian and having a cup named after her.
Anyone else watching this during the Covid stay at home order? Love watching these old gymnastics videos! In this one, it bugged me that Nastia's dad didn't kiss her unless she did a good routine. What's up with that?
chad983 I guess it’s his way of teaching personally I don’t think it’s very effective but he’s Russian and they have a reputation of being a bit tougher than most people
Maybe she doesn’t want him too. I mean all athletes are different and need different things from their coaches during practice and/or competition. Some need reassurance and comfort and some need to be left alone. So maybe Nastia was more the latter and didn’t want her dad to give her a kiss when she messed up 🤷🏼♀️
I love that Shawn still visits Chow. Nice to see with how many bad things are going on in USA gymnastics in the last few years. They really had and have a great coach and athlete relationship. Now even a friendship.
I am watching all of Chellsie Memmel's archived meets as she shares her adult gymnastics journey during the COVID pandemic in 2020. It is heartbreaking that the system broke her but it is wonderful to see her amazing form is retained a dozen years later. That she can train extremely difficult skills with intelligence and respect for her body while lovingly parenting her young children is heartwarming. Imagine if she gets that secondary nominative US spot for beam if we do have a Tokyo 2020-21ish games! She will join Chuso in literally reshaping the sport! Elite athlete mothers unite!
I love the fact that age isn't being treated like an issue in WAG anymore, in the 2007 Visa's there was some NBC fluff where Al was saying that Nastia (17 at the time) was basically worn out and at a disadvantage because of her age. Now we have the example of many female gymnasts who keep on thriving for many many years, just like the men do in MAG. I love it.
So crazy watching this in 2020 when chellsie is back and in better shape than ever. And her skills in her current training videos look sharper and bigger than her elite days hands down.
For the record, Valeri is not incredibly cold towards Nastia. They just choose to keep their personal relationship more at home unless she needs him as her dad. It is Nastia who insists on this. She is stubborn as far as sticking toward her goals in gymnastics.
Watching this and seeing Nastia got gold in the AA Beijing Olympics made me realise that "Time and Chance" happens to us all regardless of our preparation. On the day it mattered most, the universe aligned in her favour.
They harped so much on Nastia for being "old" at 18 while Chellsie at the same meet was showing us how it's done at 20 (and is still showing us at 33!). So ridiculous.
Not quite related, but just want to say I LOVE both Shawn and Nastia's leos+hair in this comp. Shawn's weaved braids were super cute, and I love her off-shoulder leo design. I've noticed she wears this design a lot, and it makes it look like a leotard-ball gown mix! It's almost her signature look, as I don't see other gymnasts do the cut. Also impressed that she made orange work lol. And as usual, Nastia looked pretty in pink. Does anyone know if there's a professional makeup artist/hair stylist that puts the gymnasts' looks together before the comp?
It sounds crazy now, and even a few years ago when you posted that originally....but the Code of Points changes every quad, and this one had some crazy scoring issues.... Nastia Liukin scored over 17 on UB! Just crazy.
Lol no, they are still rare. Most elites can't do it. Currently 3 US Seniors do it in competition, and most countries have zero elites that can do it. USA between 2012 and 2016 had a bunch of Amanars, which is an anomaly overall.
@@neversaygoodluck it became really common in during 2011-2016 when it was valued higher, but after they changed all the vault ratings, most gymnasts don’t think it’s worth it anymore.
guys plz stop hating on Nastia. a lot of people say that shes too tall and her form is horrible. i mean she didnt have the best performance at visas, but at the olympics, she won five medals. i think her form on bars is beautiful and on beam, shes so graceful. on floor her form isnt the best on that double front, but when she does her twisting skills, her form is basically perfect. also on her leaps, she gets great hight and her flexibility is practicall perfect, she hits 180 degree splits on each one. on vault, she does things easier than some of the others, but if she does something easy with perfect form and a stuck landing, it would be better than if she did an Amanar vault and possibly injure herself. also, you dont have to compare Nastia and Shawn. i really like both of their gymnastics. shawns tumbling on floor is so difficult but she does it so effortlessly. on vault, she does a really hard Amanar vault and she has so much power and hight. bars is a weaker event for Shawn but she is still really good at it. her dismount, the Ray is rated G in cop. on beam, i think she had the hardest routine in the world. so good.❤
It's still considered difficult. Which is pretty amazing considering they were doing DTY`s in the 80's lol. I'm shocked that we're still seeing FTY's in major world competitions.
it’s so crazy when Shawn was hitting the floor you couldn’t hear it at all but nowadays you can hear the girls SLAMMING into the floor because of how the sport has progressed..it must be so bad for their legs!!
Ty for telling me what Shawn Johnson's beam routine score was since the video cut out and there was no way of knowing what her score was.I checked it out and she got a 16.050
ivana hong turned 15 on dec 11th in 2007... that's the minimum age allowed to compete at worlds as gymnasts were grandfathered because it is used as a qualifier for the Olympics... she'd be 16, just barely, by the end of 2008.
1:02:00 - Is it just me, or should that mat be pulled more towards the front of the bars? It seems to be at a place where the gymnast could dismount with their feet half-on and half-off the mat, causing a fall!?
I have an inkling that nastia didn’t have good nutrition because she struggled so much with endurance and kaitlyn ohashi trained with her and said they had challenges to eat 500 calories a day...???
Comments section a little aggressive anybody says something against Nastia and people go crazy. Like everyone is allowed their opinion and guess what Nastia does not care if you like her or not so let people say what they want about over scoring or sloppy execution. Nobody is being nasty and calling her fat or stupid so get over it.
Bridget messed up on bars in qualifications and Marta didn't usually put people up in TF if they messed up in quals. (See also Mohini Bhardwaj getting thrown onto the beam lineup because Marta refused to use Courtney McCool after Kupets tweaked her leg.)
I have a couple things to say. My FIRST thing is about Nastia. Why is Tim so hateful. What she does is hard and it's annoying to keep hearing him repeat her floor wasn't as good. Are u doing FIVE hard gymnastics passes basically in a row? No, you sitting on your butt hating on people. And why are people saying Nastias vault was better than Shawns? Shawn got a higher sore because of her difficulty, even though Nastia might've had better lines. TWO. Alicia Sacramoni. Like, after her beam routine he said that her beam routine wasn't very good but it's the best she could do? Like come on, again, ur sitting on ur butt, you job is to inform no to criticize AMAZING gymnast. And Shawn. Shawn and Nastia is like Simone and Madison Kocian. Shawn and Simone have the power and heighth and Madison and Nastia are good at bars and beam and have beautiful lines. I guess my point is we shouldn't critique other gymanst because we can't do have of what the do and this is coming from a competitive gymnast.
Difficulty helps with the score but the gymnast have to perform the vault really well. So what Tim is saying is that Nastia performed hers better to help her execution score.
Nastia had a great landing but had a supreme lack in both height and distance, where as shawn gets great height and distance and had a soso landing. Also nastias vault is SO EASY compared to shawns
Notice around 29:30 u can see the commentators behind nastia and Shawn. At that exact moment they were talking about Shawn and nastia both. I wonder if they could hear the commentators?
I don't know the scoring specifics for this quad, or if this was even a possibility... but if Nastia connected her Pak to something, and swapped out her low-to-high bar transitions for something a little more complicated like Maloney and a Van Leuuwen (Chow/Chow-half ect, whatever, just not a stalder counter) how much would her D-score have gone up by? Or, would it not have mattered with all of her pirouetting difficulty? I just wonder how high a potential D-score could have been for her.
i'm not entirely sure...but i do know that the 2008 quad was not as connection heavy as the later quads. here they still counted 10 (?) skills instead of 8 and so these routines were honestly just a marathon, especially on floor with the 5 passes instead of 4. nowadays you really rack up difficulty score by connecting everything together (which is why suni is so successful on bars - almost her whole freakin routine was connected) but here everybody was just chucking the most difficult stuff they could do, which is why you see shawn johnson doing like two release moves when she wasn't great at bars. i'm also not sure if it would've been physically possible for nastia to connect her pak with something. she always had such an arch in her back and was so close to the bar when she caught it, i don't think she could have connected anything out of it. she wasn't tall by non-gymnast standards but marta never let them move the bars around to accommodate their height so she might not have been able to do any shaposh-type low to high transitions without hitting her feet. sorry, i'm 4 years late to the party LOL
"He is not just an Olympic gold medalist, there is a lot of them" Probably the worst phrase I have ever heard, it's like the other gold medal is less worthy?
Chellsie Memmel is by far one of my fave gymnasts. She, in my opinion is a near-perfect balance between power and artistry. She's powerful like Alicia Sacramone, but she can still swing bars with artistry like Nastia and has a very nice line, not to mention also that she's battled injury and has come back equally as strong mentally and physically. Amazing.
Molly Spencer I love chellsie but she's not exactly artistic on floor or beam at all. Good at bars but not artistic
If not injured she could have made a run for the all around
Well I hope you’re keeping your fingers crossed for her comeback! I agree. I always have felt so bad for her. Bad luck after bad luck
@@adamtravis9380 I agree 100%! The thing I’m looking forward to with her comeback is seeing her artistry now that she’s matured. Honestly looking at her recent videos I’m begging to see her artistry and her old gymnastics is starting to undesirable who she is as a gymnast more now I think.
And she sweetly fixed Ivana's number. What a love.
I love watching Shawn on the beam. Absolutely amazing!
Isn't it crazy that in 2008 Shawn was one of the only gymnasts that performed the Amanar, and now so many do it.
first American to do it!
It's funny because relatively speaking apart from the USA during the past few quads Amanars aren't actually done by many still. Like yes, you see it more often now, but it's still a small fraction.
So many? Not that many people do it. I can only think of Biles and Jade Carey.
Gift Horse Wieber, Raisman, Douglas, many more!
Gift Horse and McKayla Skinner
watching Mattie Larson now absolutely breaks my heart knowing everything she was going through.
unlocked what was she going through?
Sarah Elizabeth Casey plus the notoriously problematic coaching style at AOGC, her home gym - Mackayla Maroney also spoke out about this.
Yeah, she admitted to being sexually abused by Nassar. It’s very sad, man. I hate it for her and the girls. 😔
iiSprouty the Larry Nassar sex abuse
Renee Pope-Munro what was the coaching style issue that her and Mackayla spoke about? Genuine question. Never saw info on it before.
Getting more and more excited, as I watch, about the possibility of Chellsie Memmel returning to competition...
Alicia’s brows, chunky highlights and French tips are total nostalgic vibes
hard to believe usa was once weak on vault
@@codyfinnegan9197 they brought bridget sloan to beijing just to do a DTY lmao
2012 was their best year for vaulting because 5 of the gymnasts were capable of an Amanar but 4/5 competed it which is still huge but compared to 2016 Rio only 2/5 could compete a yurchenko even though Gabby competed it in 2012. They have got a bit stronger now though but 2012 was their best year for vaulting
Everything Ellie thats so true!
Now 2021 they will have
Simone: Biles 1 or biles 2 ( TTY)
Morgan Hurd: Cheng
Jade: Amanar
Sunisa lee: DTY
Ikr nastia qualified for finals with a one and a half twist 😂😂😂😂 now some 2 and a half’s don’t make it
At 29:00 you can here Mccready talking to Aly Raisman about Alicia and the 2008 Olympics and he tells her maybe one day she'll make it there herself. that's just mind blowing to me.
I didn't hear it till i went back and listened. bizarre! but so neat at the same time :)
Is that the announcer voice that is going on? All I heard it say was “Beijing”
Michelle Toren I can’t hear it 😭
Shawn doing a full twisting double as her LAST tumbling pass (out of 5!) is just insane.
Saria Kokiri my thoughts always!!
...and Simone ends her routine with a double-double...
ms. x in my mind no one is comparable to Simone or will ever be. League of her own. However that comment is 5 years old.
Simone ended her 2016 floor routine with a full twisting double back
looking back on this in 2017, it's so amazing to see how far nastia has come... from the commentators pronouncing her name incorrectly to being an olympian and having a cup named after her.
Emma Schuren she named the cup after herself lol
To this day how they pronounced her name during these years pissed me the F off every time
And to becoming a commentator herself
Anyone else watching this during the Covid stay at home order? Love watching these old gymnastics videos! In this one, it bugged me that Nastia's dad didn't kiss her unless she did a good routine. What's up with that?
I always get an akward feeling when I notice their odd relationship. Coach/parent is just such a foreign concept to me.
Have watched all the Olympic gymnastics and USA Olympic trials too in this lockdown
chad983 I guess it’s his way of teaching personally I don’t think it’s very effective but he’s Russian and they have a reputation of being a bit tougher than most people
I am I've watching gymnastics , I have watched a lot of
the older ones also
Maybe she doesn’t want him too. I mean all athletes are different and need different things from their coaches during practice and/or competition. Some need reassurance and comfort and some need to be left alone. So maybe Nastia was more the latter and didn’t want her dad to give her a kiss when she messed up 🤷🏼♀️
Watching this in late 2017. Sam is so underrated...she was amazing💕
I thought her bars were good! The commentators are too hard on her :(
Shawn on the beam is absolutely amazing. I never fear she will fall or make major mistakes. She seems bonded to the beam gods.
Memmel here...discussing expectations...and NOW she's looking to make 2021 team!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!!!!
i just love listening to the commentators when they don't know we can hear them. makes me giggle
I love that Shawn still visits Chow. Nice to see with how many bad things are going on in USA gymnastics in the last few years. They really had and have a great coach and athlete relationship. Now even a friendship.
So cute. Chow sounds like the exception in USA gymnastics as well as Kelly Hill and a few others.
Yes. Now the US is known as amanar-palooza.
I'm watching this instead of the 2014 one.............. I miss Shawn.
Don't we all😢
I've now watched too many US Nationals to remember what happened in each, except for the 2007 and 2008 ones haha
I am watching all of Chellsie Memmel's archived meets as she shares her adult gymnastics journey during the COVID pandemic in 2020. It is heartbreaking that the system broke her but it is wonderful to see her amazing form is retained a dozen years later. That she can train extremely difficult skills with intelligence and respect for her body while lovingly parenting her young children is heartwarming. Imagine if she gets that secondary nominative US spot for beam if we do have a Tokyo 2020-21ish games! She will join Chuso in literally reshaping the sport! Elite athlete mothers unite!
What is a nominative spot? And I want her in 2021 too
I love the fact that age isn't being treated like an issue in WAG anymore, in the 2007 Visa's there was some NBC fluff where Al was saying that Nastia (17 at the time) was basically worn out and at a disadvantage because of her age. Now we have the example of many female gymnasts who keep on thriving for many many years, just like the men do in MAG. I love it.
Back when 14.250 was bad on floor.😂
It still is pretty bad for an elite gymnast
Fast forward to the scores nowadays in 2018😂
LOL YESS hard to believe especially in the 17-20 code. They are brutal
@@lindsayandrews4081 Not anymore
I actually hate this code of points. I refuse to acknowledge high thirteens and low fourteens as good scores on BB.
Love that beautiful Colgate smile from Shawn Johnson. The world needs more Shawn Johnson’s. She is a great gymnast. She is as tough as they come.
Nastia’s UB was cleaner here than in Beijing. Her handstands were fantastic.
So weird to see Nastia competing and not hear her commentating
Nastia’s routines
Floor 21:58
Vault 38:42
Bars 1:01:01
Beam 1:20:25
love Bridget, I wish she would have been used more at the Olympics!!
Yeah they definitely would have, but she was still recovering from the knee injury as well as other nagging injuries
She definitely should of been used on bars instead of shawn
She did the all around in the qualification
@@omrianhussain4704 Shawn scored higher in qualifications and for team finals most countries just go with the top 3 for qualifications.
So crazy watching this in 2020 when chellsie is back and in better shape than ever. And her skills in her current training videos look sharper and bigger than her elite days hands down.
For the record, Valeri is not incredibly cold towards Nastia. They just choose to keep their personal relationship more at home unless she needs him as her dad. It is Nastia who insists on this. She is stubborn as far as sticking toward her goals in gymnastics.
Watching this and seeing Nastia got gold in the AA Beijing Olympics made me realise that "Time and Chance" happens to us all regardless of our preparation. On the day it mattered most, the universe aligned in her favour.
17:00 Gosh...Bridgette had THE best inside stalder.
They harped so much on Nastia for being "old" at 18 while Chellsie at the same meet was showing us how it's done at 20 (and is still showing us at 33!). So ridiculous.
Its funny that in 08 USA was a bit weak on vault and now they're by far the best in the world :)
Not quite related, but just want to say I LOVE both Shawn and Nastia's leos+hair in this comp. Shawn's weaved braids were super cute, and I love her off-shoulder leo design. I've noticed she wears this design a lot, and it makes it look like a leotard-ball gown mix! It's almost her signature look, as I don't see other gymnasts do the cut. Also impressed that she made orange work lol. And as usual, Nastia looked pretty in pink. Does anyone know if there's a professional makeup artist/hair stylist that puts the gymnasts' looks together before the comp?
They did their own hair and makeup
whew Amber looks so relieved to have gotten through that vault. good for her for going for it !
Can’t believe I’m watching this in 2020, but I love watching my favorite gymnasts way back when.
Same here. Of course tonight is 2008 Olympics Team final and AA on a local sports channel which I plan on watching so I'm reviewing it.
Im watching this again in 2024
can you post the 2008 olympic trials? I was there and want to relive it!!
a 16 on floor for Shawn? She's my fave gymnast of all time but that was just a ridiculous score. less than 0.4 of deductions doesn't even make sense.
Mel Hudson i feel like it didn't prepare her for Beijing.
Mireya L that's how I feel. I feel like the scores from this championship were a bit high.
Scoring was different back then, the code of points has changed.
Musickt196 Yes but it didn’t change from Visa to Beijing 2008.
It sounds crazy now, and even a few years ago when you posted that originally....but the Code of Points changes every quad, and this one had some crazy scoring issues.... Nastia Liukin scored over 17 on UB! Just crazy.
Crazy to see how rare amanars were only 9 years ago. Almost every elite gymnast competes one today.
Lol no, they are still rare. Most elites can't do it. Currently 3 US Seniors do it in competition, and most countries have zero elites that can do it. USA between 2012 and 2016 had a bunch of Amanars, which is an anomaly overall.
It's rare in 2020 as well. Most elite gymnast in the US do the double
"almost every elite gymnast" lol where...
@@neversaygoodluck it became really common in during 2011-2016 when it was valued higher, but after they changed all the vault ratings, most gymnasts don’t think it’s worth it anymore.
Always been a fan of Chelsea and Shawn. They seem relatable, friendly, and I don’t get any vibes of pretensions from them,
Me too!
I feel that way about Jana also
I,honestly hope Chelsea makes it back for 2021.
I love janas dismount !!! I wish she made the team.
I never knew Bridget was such a beast on bars!! I don’t remember that!
Haha they thought this was chellsie's comeback
I just love Alicia
I'm sorry but is Mehi a vampire? The guy looks exactly the same here as he did in Rio.
Mihai*
Ha you can hear Aly in the background at around 28:00!
Baby beast shawn! She's amazing and so young here!
Loving rewatching this and these USA heroes. During this difficult time of Coronavirus quarantine, this is uplifting. USA rocks. ⚡️🤸♀️🤸♂️🤸♂️⚡️
July 2020.....Chellsie is training again!!
How do they decide what order of apparatus the gymnast goes in at Nationals?
Chellsie is my queen! Always 😍♥️
Shawn Johnson is amazing,she does every difficult routine so easy.Her beam routine was fantastic,what score did she get for her beam routine?
16.000
Ivana has amazing form on her tumbling passes!
One of my fav floor workers
I really wish Nastia would stop hiking up her leo. I’m seeing parts of her I never ever wanted to see.
guys plz stop hating on Nastia. a lot of people say that shes too tall and her form is horrible. i mean she didnt have the best performance at visas, but at the olympics, she won five medals. i think her form on bars is beautiful and on beam, shes so graceful. on floor her form isnt the best on that double front, but when she does her twisting skills, her form is basically perfect. also on her leaps, she gets great hight and her flexibility is practicall perfect, she hits 180 degree splits on each one. on vault, she does things easier than some of the others, but if she does something easy with perfect form and a stuck landing, it would be better than if she did an Amanar vault and possibly injure herself.
also, you dont have to compare Nastia and Shawn. i really like both of their gymnastics. shawns tumbling on floor is so difficult but she does it so effortlessly. on vault, she does a really hard Amanar vault and she has so much power and hight. bars is a weaker event for Shawn but she is still really good at it. her dismount, the Ray is rated G in cop. on beam, i think she had the hardest routine in the world. so good.❤
Omg back when dty was considered difficult
chushiben
Huh? But DTY is still difficult nowadays?
It's still considered difficult. Which is pretty amazing considering they were doing DTY`s in the 80's lol. I'm shocked that we're still seeing FTY's in major world competitions.
@QPHashSS77 It's called a Baitova, named after Svetlana Baitova, a gymnast from the 80s, so.
If Chellsie wouldn't have been injured and had a DTY still in 2006 she would've crushed it
Fingers crossed on her comeback
@@bethm5791 agreed
it’s so crazy when Shawn was hitting the floor you couldn’t hear it at all but nowadays you can hear the girls SLAMMING into the floor because of how the sport has progressed..it must be so bad for their legs!!
Aw, going back down memory lane
Ty for telling me what Shawn Johnson's beam routine score was since the video cut out and there was no way of knowing what her score was.I checked it out and she got a 16.050
Do u know what Shawn Johnson's beam routine was?
ivana hong turned 15 on dec 11th in 2007... that's the minimum age allowed to compete at worlds as gymnasts were grandfathered because it is used as a qualifier for the Olympics... she'd be 16, just barely, by the end of 2008.
1:02:00 - Is it just me, or should that mat be pulled more towards the front of the bars? It seems to be at a place where the gymnast could dismount with their feet half-on and half-off the mat, causing a fall!?
I wish Shawn would have used these passes with her 2007 choreography and music I preferred those much more!
who is the big man with the blue shirt on during Shawn's floor exercise ?
That time when you could have a 17 on bars
I love Shan Johnson
does anyone hear aly at around 28??? aw!!!
I have an inkling that nastia didn’t have good nutrition because she struggled so much with endurance and kaitlyn ohashi trained with her and said they had challenges to eat 500 calories a day...???
How did nastia get .6 off vault with a stuck landing and shawn got only .5 off with a low shoulder and .3 step
Shawn's SV was a full point higher than Nastia. She did the Aminar and Nastia didn't.
And now chellsie does another comeback and she is better than ever on vault she actually trains the amanar
Comments section a little aggressive anybody says something against Nastia and people go crazy. Like everyone is allowed their opinion and guess what Nastia does not care if you like her or not so let people say what they want about over scoring or sloppy execution. Nobody is being nasty and calling her fat or stupid so get over it.
Remember when people thought no one could be better than Shawn and nastia
I kinda feel like Ivana Hong was better than Nastia tho
@@nathan10120 not better but def underrated
I absolutely love Shawn’s leo here
Why was Shawn competeing bars over bridget sloan in team final.....
Harry Wayne because Bridget had a lower core in the qualifications round that's why.
Ikr Bridget definitely should of been in the to for sure
Bridget messed up on bars in qualifications and Marta didn't usually put people up in TF if they messed up in quals. (See also Mohini Bhardwaj getting thrown onto the beam lineup because Marta refused to use Courtney McCool after Kupets tweaked her leg.)
everytime i see bridget talk to or hug marvin sharp i get uncomfy
Anyone know the music in the background around the time they are showing Shawn on bars? :)
I couldn't hear over nbc yapping.
I have a couple things to say. My FIRST thing is about Nastia. Why is Tim so hateful. What she does is hard and it's annoying to keep hearing him repeat her floor wasn't as good. Are u doing FIVE hard gymnastics passes basically in a row? No, you sitting on your butt hating on people. And why are people saying Nastias vault was better than Shawns? Shawn got a higher sore because of her difficulty, even though Nastia might've had better lines. TWO. Alicia Sacramoni. Like, after her beam routine he said that her beam routine wasn't very good but it's the best she could do? Like come on, again, ur sitting on ur butt, you job is to inform no to criticize AMAZING gymnast. And Shawn. Shawn and Nastia is like Simone and Madison Kocian. Shawn and Simone have the power and heighth and Madison and Nastia are good at bars and beam and have beautiful lines. I guess my point is we shouldn't critique other gymanst because we can't do have of what the do and this is coming from a competitive gymnast.
Difficulty helps with the score but the gymnast have to perform the vault really well. So what Tim is saying is that Nastia performed hers better to help her execution score.
+Alison Watson but if she did because her vault was easier
J White I agree you took the words right out of my mouth as far as comparison!
Love shawns routine but I hate the music... I feel like there’s no beat to follow.
Michaela Leach I’ve always found that there are parts where I cannot hear any music at all 😂 It’s too quiet in places
9.5 execution on vault for shawn but a 9.4 execution for nastia? BULL
Nastia definitely had the better vault.
+Kae Kae Jones But less height..
+Kae Kae Jones Nastia's vault was a full point lower than Shawn's start value (Nastia's was only out of 15.5 and Shawn's was out of 16.5).
it's also about what they do in the air and how their form is, not just the landing
Nastia had a great landing but had a supreme lack in both height and distance, where as shawn gets great height and distance and had a soso landing. Also nastias vault is SO EASY compared to shawns
Notice around 29:30 u can see the commentators behind nastia and Shawn. At that exact moment they were talking about Shawn and nastia both. I wonder if they could hear the commentators?
Yes they can. All the gymnasts on the vault lane can hear the commentators
shawn! love her leo here!
Amber Trani: (decides to do a run by instead of a vault)
Tim: “ and this is a major error”
Lol
Meanwhile she didn’t touch the vault and can redo it. So I’m like wtf?? Major error what. Maybe mentally but 😂
Thank you! Argh. Not an error.
I think Shawn Johnson and Sam Peszek look very similar, their body types and their gymnastics
Yes I agree! They’re both shorter and very strong and powerful.
Can't believe in 2008, vault was the US' weakness! I JUST remembered (don't know why) that Shawn's Amanar was the only one back then!
“Oh, 2 tenths for one step out?”
Alicia was NOT shy lol. But I’m assuming the second tenth is from finishing after her music ended?
At 1:10:23, why does that guy think its ok to try to give shawn a hug while she’s bending over, what a creep
You Thought That’s Andy Memmell, Chellsie’s dad and coach.
Thecatspajamas891 right? Not remotely creepy. Another athletes dad 😂. I read the comment from the you thought person too and was like !!?
men! the days on it was possible to see a score of 17,050
Shawn ❤
Chellsie and Ivana's vaults were underscored. Nastia and shawn were OVERSCORED
Nah shawns was but nastias was definitely underscored
Does anyone else watching Shawn on floor with her dancing think of Gabby Douglas?
I love Nastia's leo, and yes marloessss10
Lol what was up with the crew playing clips and the commentators not knowing which they were?
Who thinks Andrew should make a reaction video to old shawn videos?
Hell yeah
I love Natias :) #PinkNation
What’s Shawn’s beam score? Good job in editing the video, whoever you are. *sigh
16.050
Durade sandstorm was playing during warmups lmao
Does anyone know what happens to the coach's gym when they travel with the gymnast? Like Chow, what happens to his gym?
They have other coaches there............
+Kayla jones Ikr so obvious...😑
No need to be a jerk about it.
Alicia on beam always seems to focus too much on arm movements. They don’t add anything for me and are quite distracting.
i think the same
like a robot! LOL
I don't know the scoring specifics for this quad, or if this was even a possibility... but if Nastia connected her Pak to something, and swapped out her low-to-high bar transitions for something a little more complicated like Maloney and a Van Leuuwen (Chow/Chow-half ect, whatever, just not a stalder counter) how much would her D-score have gone up by?
Or, would it not have mattered with all of her pirouetting difficulty? I just wonder how high a potential D-score could have been for her.
i'm not entirely sure...but i do know that the 2008 quad was not as connection heavy as the later quads. here they still counted 10 (?) skills instead of 8 and so these routines were honestly just a marathon, especially on floor with the 5 passes instead of 4. nowadays you really rack up difficulty score by connecting everything together (which is why suni is so successful on bars - almost her whole freakin routine was connected) but here everybody was just chucking the most difficult stuff they could do, which is why you see shawn johnson doing like two release moves when she wasn't great at bars. i'm also not sure if it would've been physically possible for nastia to connect her pak with something. she always had such an arch in her back and was so close to the bar when she caught it, i don't think she could have connected anything out of it. she wasn't tall by non-gymnast standards but marta never let them move the bars around to accommodate their height so she might not have been able to do any shaposh-type low to high transitions without hitting her feet. sorry, i'm 4 years late to the party LOL
i actually rly like shawns bars
Yeah so crazy solid. Legs together, toes pointed to perfection!
"He is not just an Olympic gold medalist, there is a lot of them"
Probably the worst phrase I have ever heard, it's like the other gold medal is less worthy?