2000 Sydney Olympics Vault Crashes Was the Vault Too Low in Prelims?
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- During the all-around competition in the women's gymnastics at the 2000 Olympics, it was discovered that the vault was too low. This low vault caused Elise Ray to have some scary falls and Svetlana Khorkina to have an uncharacteristic fall. Similar scary falls and uncharacteristic mistakes occurred during the first subdivision during the preliminary competition. Two of the Australian gymnasts (Allana Slater and Brooke Walker) had scary crashes on their vaults. Liu Xuan underrotated her vault. Kui Yuan Yuan and Kristen Maloney injured themselves on the vault. Kui sprained her knee and was out of team finals. Kristen reinjured the leg that had the rod put in to heal her stubborn stress fracture. Kristen Maloney had not fallen in vault in competition since early 1998. Was the vault too low?
You can see it so clearly on Svetlana's vault. Her hands prepare to touch the vault table 2 inches above the too-low set table. Even 12 years later the incompetancy of the Sydney officials is outrageous.
I watched a show on her and they said it was 5cm too low but that's all it takes because to them it's all muscle memory and a reflex to them.
The first gymnast was the closest to severely injuring head/neck.
The fact that pretty much ALL of them (All people who have trained their entire lives for this shit) messed up is a pretty big indication that there was SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE VAULT. People are seriously blaming this on the fact that all of them have terrible technique? They're the best damn gymnasts in the world and suddenly they all just lost skills they've trained for their whole lives? Yeah, no. Also, didn't they literally find that the vault was too low? There's no way to debate this if they found the damn error then it exists so stop trying to frame them and say it was their fault for this bullshit. It was not their fault.
Lorelai
It's known the vault was at the wrong height in the AA. The debate is whether it was also at the wrong height in the first subdivision of prelims. Based on the trouble many of the gymnasts had it seems possible, but since the prelim subs are run back to back with no reset of the equipment between them one has to wonder why the following subdivisions were not also affected, if this was actually the case.
Almost every gymnast who did that vault said it didn’t feel right. But of course the Olympic officials didn’t listen until an Australian said it doesn’t feel right and that’s when they found it was too low
@@Altoclarinets right- and it was fine for the team completion also? The prelims looked to me like also the springboard was too far away cause some of them their hands came down way to early and missed the vault all together. But aren’t the coaches the ones who set the springboard?
@@missmoxie9188 That is so racist. Or it would be if any gymnasts were not white back then. I withdraw my comment.
I can't believe the competition wasn't stopped when the fault was finally discovered - you can see over and over its just not where they expect it to be. Especially the girls on first rotation, they know the competition is lost from the off and that must affect them on later rotations yet it was all supposed to be put right by giving them another go? Why didn't the coaches all demand the competition be stopped and held on another day? The potential for massive injuries here is terrifying, but these poor girls were totally let down by the organisers, the coaches and judges who appeared to just brush it under the carpet. Then the horribly unfair Raducan debacle just rounded a disaster off perfectly.
+Eric Henry Totally agree. Its bad enough that it even happened (HOW did it happen?) but to just put it right and carry on regardless is scandalous. The only "good" thing is that at least none of the girls were seriously injured, but they were all horribly let down by their coaches, the judges and the IOC. And many of them only get one Olympic chance, dependent upon how their ages fit into the rota. Not only scandalous, but desperately sad.
My guess is it would've probably cost them a lotta money and so much loss to redo the entire competition. Tsk tsk.
Random Humanoid Blob the whole competition was a disaster. All the gymnasts were having the same problem of under rotation so it should've been clear to the officials that something was wrong.
I think Australia should be permanently blacklisted from hosting another Summer Olympics for the debacle.
Agree with u totally....it made these games a laughing stock. Plus the 'winner' actually win by default of the others crashes...as well as being juiced!!
This was so unsafe. But it also reminds us how scary the vault was in general with that horse. So glad they have the table now.
Honestly as someone who's vaulted on both I found the table scarier, it feels like jumping over a car. I only ever did FHS variations though, having a bigger target to hit probably makes the backwards entries easier
Not to mention how many of these tricks have a blind entry
This is terrifying.
The horse is better with easy vaults especially front handspring because you can see where you can put your hands. The table is better with harder vaults.
Horse is superior. We can tell you have ZERO experience.
This would be like " oops we accidentally filled the Olympic swimming pools with molasses.
Sorry you trained your whole life."
"oops we accidentally gave you a deflated ball lol now play"
"Oops no water in the pool, just run"
@@patsk8872 that would end up being easier
actually, something kinda similar to this happened in Athens with swimming. there was a lot of things wrong with the aquatic center that year, but the biggest problem for swimmers was that the pool was warm. it was just normal warm pool water, but swimmers don’t swim in warm water. we swim in ice cold water because it affects our body in a way that helps us swim faster. every single competition pool has cold water unless you’re like 8 in a summer league. the warm water directly affected the athletes, almost no records (olympic or world) were broken that year, which is crazy because olympic swimming is where records are constantly broken. imagine finally going to the olympics for swimming, just to end up having your worst time in the last three years because the pool was shitty.
@@olympian00 unfortunate
I don’t understand how 5 or 6 world class athletes miss a landing one after the other and neither the judges, officials or coaches start questioning something. But 18 girls vaulted before they figured it out and that was only after an Australian gymnast insisted it was wrong.
shame
Anyone else remember what a mess the floor exercise was? I forgot about the vault problems, oddly enough, but I remember the floor was too firm so gymnasts had to use too much strength to finish rotations so they wouldn't hurt themselves, but that caused SO MANY of them to land out of bounds - way more than normal.
Micki Merner Poor vicktoriya karpenko
Andrea Raducan writes in her book that the UB felt really bad. Because of a very strong air conditioning system and maybe different apparatus it was too dry
Karpenko got the worst of it because if she hit floor she would be our champion
It sounds like every single aspect of this Olympics was ruined and completely unfair!
@@sapphireblue3686 That is correct. It is shunned and NEVER mentioned or discussed by almost all gymnastics fans--as if it never existed.
Scary! I can't believe how many crashes it took before someone noticed!!!
Australian gymnast Alana Slater discovered it during warm up for the 3rd rotation. She was 16 and had the guts to speak up and say the apparatus felt off. Many other athletes blamed themselves for mistakes before being told the vault was set incorrectly. Its just a sad situation overall. Gymnastics at these games will forever be tainted in so many ways. It actually makes me rather angry thinking about all the hard work the athletes put into getting there, and the staff could not make sure the vault was set correctly? WTF!
@@FigureNastics I had read that other girls or their coaches asked about the vault, but it wasn’t until the Australian gymnasts said something that they checked. It was just complaining until it affected the home team.
@@kimberlygilliam6112 Complete and utter bull. The gymnastic officials weren't Australian.
@@kimberlygilliam6112 Alana was complaining the whole competition to her coach Peggy and Peggy repeatedly went to the judges about it & they did nothing until it kept happening
So many years ago and it still pisses me off that this happened. I watched gymnast after gymnast eat the mat. They got no block due the horse being so low, USOC/FIG is lucky no one was seriously hurt or died. People, this has nothing to do with bad technique...that's insulting to the athletes.
"eating the mat" is a slang term for Oral Sex in my homeland.
@@rstidman LMAOOOOOO
@@rstidman what is your homeland?
@@tishabyte Washington DC
@@rstidman lmao I thought you were from sme non American English speaking country.
After the third world class gymnast almost missed the vault entirely. Someone should have broken out a measuring tape and checked the horse
I think it was just such an obvious thing that it didn't cross anyone's mind until one of the gymnasts herself brought it up
@@MsJubjubbird Several girls DID bring it up and were gaslit and told they were being overly emotional.
@@petalchild well many athletes blame the apparatus when they don't do well. How many times do we hear the floor is too hard, the courts are too slow, the trac is too firm, the pitch is too dry, the balls are too fluffy etc. No one could have fathomed such a mistake would be made. When Alana said something they had to listen as she is Australian
@@MsJubjubbird How exactly does her being Australian grant her credibility?
@@petalchildbecause Australia was the host nation during this Olympics
Honestly surprised no one had serious injuries.. so many opportunities for broken necks and pulled ligaments
The British gymnast Annika Reeder was hurt badly enough to withdraw from the remainder of the competition...
@@angelpecica9857 I just watched that- her injury occurred when she hit the springboard. Looks like the board was placed too far back and she hit too far forward. This was my theory even before seeing Annikas vault- because several gymnasts came down for the block with their hands not even on the vault but 6 inches too early and their hands just slid down the front of the vault. But it’s so weird cause I thought the coaches set the springboard
@@76helpingdogs I think I can explain why so many of the gymnasts unfortunately placed their hands that way..:
Imagine that they have practiced with the right height all their life making it an automatic movement. In the back handspring those gymnasts would have placed their hands right if the horse was higher because they move in an “oblique” - don’t know the exact English word - but the hands move both backwards and up: ↖️
The Chinese player's career ended after that tournament. He was only 16 years old.
Think about it. If the vault was too low the gymnasts were basically just tapping the vault as opposed to using it to push off. The ineptness of not only the person in charge of moving the vault, the person in charge of checking it, but the judges and other officials that saw the first 5 girls miss and then another 13 before an Australian gymnast insisted it was too low. It makes me angry watching this. It’s such a lack of respect.
This is the definition of serious crippling injury/fatality due to organizer's entirely thoughtless negligence.
If I were a gymnast (or their parent, especially their parent) doing this, after seeing this incident, I would ask my coach to double check every vault for me before I risked death to perform these skills. I know it had to feel wrong. Their every move is basically muscle memory from correctly doing this same vault over and over thousands of times. So when so many girls kept choking, the best gymnasts in the world at the most important meet of their life why did not a single person say let me just double check everything is correct real quick (since it only takes a 2 minutes or so)....also, even more important, why did it take so many gymnasts falling to speak up. Knowing what I know now about the way gymnasts are isolated, groomed, and bullied by authority figures in the gymnastics industry I can see these underage children not having the confidence to think maybe it wasn't MY FAULT...I'm sure their coaches immediately jumped down their throats when they fell and never even considered someone else may have erred. This is the only Olympic sport I can think of that involved young children and they should be protected. Extra protected. The Karolyis used to not let them use a cell phone to speak to their parents when they were at camp. Does that not creep yall out? That should never be allowed in this day and age. All minors need parental access at all times with no repercussions.
Ice skating has predominantly 14 and 15 year olds as well, but it seems as though they are favored against the adults.
this was the WORST year for gymnastics, EVER. vault being set too low, the aa champion gets her gold medal taken away because of cold medicine, the chinese team cheating to get a medal (and then having that medal stripped and given to the americans 10 years later); everything that could go wrong, did. let’s just forget these olympics even happened honestly like who’s w me
Ella Loussia I’m with you
I was training for these Olympics, but decided around 1998 that my chances of being selected were very low, and retired and concentrated on my education instead. I've often wondered about that decision, but I think it was the right one. It looks like everyone had a miserable time. The '90s were a difficult period to be an elite gymnast, not belittling today's gymnasts, but funding was very low for it in our country then and welfare backup was non-existent.
+ the floor was broken too.... sooo
Here here.
@cloud nine Agreed!
If one or two girls don't have their day that's normal, but the officials and coaches should've noticed something was wrong if even the best vaulters miss.
Some gymnasts got serious injuries there!
If someone had a major injury because of that mistake.... lord knows the lawsuits would have been sky high
Even without major injury... The person who set that vault put all of the athlete's lives at risk, that is enough for a lawsuit !!
@@m.lizziebrooks8889, the British gymnast Annika Reeder was hurt badly enough to withdraw from the remainder of the competition...
@@angelpecica9857 her injury Occurred when she had the spring board. It looked like the spring board wasn’t forward enough and she hit it too far forward. This is in line with my theory that the spring board was place too far back for some of them because you can see that some of their hands come down too much forward and slide down the front of the horse during the prelims.
@@76helpingdogs Mmm, unlike the vault height, springboard settings are something that gymnasts obsess over, and you rely on your coach or teammates to help you with your particular distance every single time you take a turn. So, while it’s possible that an individual gymnast had a mistaken placement, I think it’s unlikely to have been a chronic problem affecting dozens of gymnasts. Now, the height is definitely something that a) you dont have to modify between each turn, and so it’s something you can basically ignore as a gymnast b) vaulting tables can look different and even the heigh settings were not 100% standardized so it might not even be obvious by eyeballing the notches in the legs of the table.
Anyway, I’m convinced by watching the terrible lack of blocks from super solid vaulters like Kristin Maloney that the height was indeed wrong at this session as well, and possibly others.
@Jesus is King Jesus fucking Christ, stfu
the Sydney olympics were such a hot mess for gymnastics
I agree, all screwed.
The worst city and country.
Possibility the most shameful abrogation of responsibility by sports officials at an Olympic event EVER. Nobody took responsibility and no apology was ever issued.
Yep. A total shitshow beginning to end. An eternal shame for Aussies. Period.
I really cried after seeing this. Responsibilities pigs. These girls trained all their life for this moment, and you ruined their futures! Shame on you!
raducan tested positve because of nurofen, a pill she took in that morning for a cold she had with the doctors permision...she was so unfairly treated it's unreal.
I hated these Sydney Olympic games. I remember watching these games as a girl and just feeling so sad for everyone--it didn't contain the same excitement that other Games had... So many crashes and injuries and disappointments.
Sarah McClure it was definitely a blot on the sport. Then the team medals were rearranged. The Americans missed out on 10 years of being Olympic medalists.
A far cry from 1996.
If you were an American, the 1996 Olympics was good. There were no equipment foul-ups at least. But the crowd was so noisy that the poor athletes performing Floor Ex couldn't hear their music. You can't tell me that didn't affect their performance!
Astrin Ymris im pretty sure it mainly affected Rosa gaileva
@Anne-Maree Peters it was absolutely garbage. Let’s not sugar coat it.
Andreea Raducan said in her memoir that there was something wrong with the training horse - she said she could only land her vaults right in competition.
Janafan4Ever Simona Amânar said something similar in International Gymnast when she was inducted in the Hall of Fame. She also said Octavian Belu claimed they were the only ones to complain about it.
Some of the smaller gymnasts, like raducan, might’ve had an advantage with a shorter vault though
The vault incident robbed Khorkina her shot at the gold medal, shook Elise Ray enough to place way out of the medals, and Raducan's incident was the cherry on top of a disastrous Olympics. If it was actually the same case in the prelims, those who were responsible should be fired & given a lifetime ban. Even though the girls can sue them, they were already all robbed of their time to shine and hit, so it still doesn't do them too much justice
I wonder if they could sue bc of the unnecessary injuries this caused
Kristin Maloney at 1:35: you cannot see it from this angle, but on BBC's coverage, the camera angle showed the other side of the vault. One of Kristin's hands missed the horse, which is why she couldn't fully complete her vault. Judging from the other bizarre vaulting mistakes shown here from prelims (I have never so many major errors in vault), I believe that it was also incorrectly set during Prelims.
This was SCARY to watch!
GrangerDangerx I know. people have been paralyzed on the vault. I'm glad they changed it.
I also think it's amazing that Kristen was able to still rotate and twist enough to even do that first one as good as she did...
After listening to a podcast, allegedly the horse was too low in one of the podium training sessions as well so if it was low in prelims, it would not surpise me! Shocking to say the least!
This was such a mess. And the fact that they didn’t tell them they could te do their vault agin was messed up. They went on on their next routine with their minds screwed. Horrible
sydney was the total unffair olympic games with gymnastics, omg!!! so many issues
The fact that one of them had to be carried off the mat because she couldn't walk, should tell you something is wrong.
0:05 to 0:26 Elise Ray
0:27 to 0:34 Svetlana Khorkina’s timing is off
0:35 to 0:37 The vault height is reset
0:41 to 0:51 Allana Slater (AUS) . She was the first gymnast to notice the incorrect vault setting.
0:52 to 1:00 Liu Xuan (CHN)
1:01 to 1:03 Brooke Walker (AUS)
1:04 to 1:20 Chinese Kui Yuanyuan’s Olympic Games were over after this vault
1:21 to 1:33 Slater’s second vault is even worse than the first.
1:34 to 2:24 Kristen Maloney
Found this on a website, I think it's correct.
Ugh. I swear those Olympics were cursed....
It was too low. Idiot staff had no idea what they was doing
1.21: THAT is scary.
1. She is extremely close to land on her neck
2. If she had not felt that she was lacking almost al momentum and from early of fought like hell to at least get passed her head I don’t she how she would not have broken her neck!
I remember of Danielle Hypolito in her firt Olympics, after her fall and the problem with the horse, the judges didnt understand she wanted to repeat, all the gymnasts were given a second chance and she was elliminated, she was waiting her name to be called but It never was.
Yes, I remember that. I remember it was a translator from Portugal who misunderstood what she said and the poor gymnast didn't have another chance.
Right, and the fact that they reset the vault part way through the competition and some of the girls got to do showcase tumbles (which they stuck) after the reset vault means nothing I guess?
Bad year for gymnastics
Honestly they should have restated the whole all around Final after it was discovered that the vault was to low
Danny Devito for 2020 they didn’t??
Right anyone that vaulted on the wrong height should have had the chance to redo any event after that.
Can’t even finish watching this video. So many of them were SO close to getting a serious injury.
The fact they didn’t star the competition all over again tells how much respect FIG has for its athletes. The girls were hurt from the falls and were devastated, after all no one can win an all around competition with a fall.
It was the equipment technician's fault. He lowered the vault from the men's competition but didn't bother to measure it to see if it was the correct setting.
Theyre lucky nobody broke their neck
That’s what I thought. Julissa Gomez broke her neck on a Yurchenko when her hands missed the horse... so scary
Sydney was an absolute disaster. They’re incredibly lucky none of these girls were permanently injured. I’ve blocked this Olympic competition from my memory vault (ha) because it was just horrible, a disgrace. And as others have commented - especially now, these girls have such a small window of opportunity to make the Olympics, it is saddening that these games were plagued by so many problems, what might have been their one moment in time has been tainted forever. Kerri Strug did her 2nd vault in ‘96 partly because she had worked so hard to get there and she didn’t want to spend the rest of her life wondering if they could have won if she did it. I’m sure at least a few of the girls who competed in Sydney are haunted by wondering about the MANY “what if’s” of these games. 🙁
Kui yuanyuan injured her knee at 1'15, later had a knee surgery and then retired.she and Svetlana Khorkina are my favorite beam gymnasts.so sad
Strug and the vile Bela Karolyi had nothing but dollar signs in their eyes. That vault was completely unnecessary for the team's win. Strug was never one of the team's stars and never won any individual world or Olympic medals; this was her one shot at big $$$$$$$$$$$$ and notoriety. That is all.
@@genlyai5055 They didn't know the vault wasn't needed until after Roza Galieva underperformed on floor.
@@Kaboomboo Wrong. They knew in plenty of time. $$$$$$$$$$$. That is all.
I remember seeing Khorkina mentioning it on an interview, but gosh you have to think about the previous divisions. how many athletes were injured on this apparatus? what a shame, hope this never happens again.
This olympics was the reason they changed the vault from the horse to the tongue. Best decision the ever made, that horse was dangerous regardless of height.
Actually the new vault had been in development for a few years prior. Even before the 1998 Goodwill Games in NYC when the Chinese gymnast Sang Lan was paralized from the chest down in practice. There was also a US gymnast Julissa Gomez who paralyzed in 1988 from a vaulting incident and later died from her injuries.
There should have been a mutiny. No excuse after the first two misses
I am not a gymnastics enthusiast, but got to read a BBC news article about this whole debacle which led me to this video. If it weren't for Allana Slater, nobody would have called out this mistake and it could have resulted in more grievous injuries. Can only feel sad for these wonderful athletes who would have spent their entire life training for this moment, only to be let down by some official who had the measurements all wrong.
This incident also gave me a fresh perspective on how even the smallest of errors can make or break an athlete's performance in a competition. A few millimeters could endanger and even end a gymnast's career. After watching this video, I have nothing but the highest of respects for all these gymnasts.
This was so horrible! People could have died and been seriously injured. It also completely affected the competition. I will never forget this, especially when Elise Ray fell on her back.
I felt so bad for Kristen Muloney :( She's had so many injuries, that must have really sucked.
My question is HOW did no one see this before the competition started? If multiple gymnasts kept falling short on their vaults, that should be a clue something is wrong with the equipment!!
I was amazed that at this level of competition it wasn't mandatory for judges and FIG officials to inspect the vault before use each day.
I was so mad about the 2000 Sydney gymnastics vault. They had it set too low and a lot of gymnasts crashed and burned. They eventually put the apparatus at the correct height and offered redos but confidence was already gone for many.
Nothing short of a scandal. They should have restarted the whole competition. Offering some athletes to redo their vaults (with a corrected vault height), after they had either injured themselves or lost all hope to achieve their initial goals and thus had their subsequent performances affected, was nowhere near enough sufficient.
Being a former gymnast, I don't even need to see them vault to already know it was too low, but I felt so bad for the girls who were hurt because of error. ):
It really didn't have a bad effect on Andrea Radacan because she was already shorter than a lot of the gymnasts.
Gymnastics at the 2000 Olympics were an absolute mess. I was super young when it aired but I remember watching old tapes my mom had recorded of those games & I watched them & I remember thinking “can we just pretend these games didn’t exist?” Lol
01:04 Still so sad for Kui Yuanyuan. Might have realized her dream of becoming bb world champion if there hadn't been that accident...
The fact the Allana Slater, the host competitor, exposed the vault's irregularities.
I give Elise Ray all the credit in the world for continuing to vault after nearly landing on her head. Couldn’t be me.
Those gymnasts could've gotten seriously hurt, and I think a few of them did. I can literally see that the vault table is too low. There's obviously something wrong with it if best gymnasts in the world fall. Honestly, 2000 was just embarrassing.
I doubt any one of the gymnast who fell are going to believe YOU can tell the vault was 2 inches lower than it should have been. If Korkina didn't know, you certainly wouldn't have.
The vault was obviously too low, but after they "fixed" it, to me it seemed as if it was too far away because the gymnasts were leaping forward over a huge distance and their hands looked like they barely reached the vault.
So, the Olympics were in Australia and the Australian gymnist noticed the error? Weird coincidence.
During Allana Slater's vault the fucking commentators had the audacity to say it was because of her technique and calling her "not a very strong vaulter"
Everyone who had done the vault should have been given the opportunity to not only redo their vault, but also the any other rotations that they had done since the vault.
That is only fair.
It would have taken too long and the athletes would have been too tired to do all the events. Plus part of the aa is the athletes should be able to perform after a fall. They let anyone who wanted to vault again redo their vaults, under the provision that they could not use their old score if they elected to go again. Some took up the offer whereas some declined
I'm Australian, and am old enough to remember the 2000 olympics well. I am not surprised in the least that it was too low. If you knew the rubbish that went on behind the scenes you wouldn't be either
First girl is lucky to be alive
The music choice was so bad!!!
Oof. My mother remembers watching all of the gymnasts falling due to the horse being set too low. They were distraught for the rest of their performances!
I just read in someone’s comment thread that the Olympic committee didn’t do anything till one of the Australian gymnasts said something. This is a lawsuit waiting to happen & it should. Some of these girls got seriously injured & it hurt their career in the long run. All so your team that you didn’t have enough confidence could win a damn medal? Could you imagine if svetlana ACTUALLY injured herself on there & was taken out?
Should've have a re-do for the whole day. Incompetence!
The vault was set 5cm low! who makes a mistake like that in one of the biggest comps?
A lot of them didn't get their blocks because when they reached to hit the vault it wasn't there.
Kristen is tougher than a marine. All those injuries and she still was the best tumbler in Sydney.
how could you get that wrong in the biggest competition there is?
Oh, you can't be more wrong! They didn't push because they didn't have anything to push from! When you train your whole life with the horse of same height,you expect the horse to be there when you want to push. It wasn't. That's why they fell.
How did NO ONE NOTICE that it was at the wrong setting? This is crazy
Didn't anyone find it just a little suspicious that so many gymnasts were having sudden vaulting issues??? Seriously, one of those girls could have been killed due to such carelessness in measurement!
I think they didn't realize it cause the thought didn't cross their minds to even question it. Of course it HAD to be right this is the Olympics, only the most famed sporting competition ever. I think it was easier to believe for the Olympic Committee with their overblown egos that of course all these girls were making mistakes... it couldn't possibly be their measurements. Sad though cause they all had the same issue. There is no reason for all those world class girls to suddenly miss.
i would say most likely it was wrong. those gymnasts were like in the top 30 in the world. they would't all stuff that bad, it's too many exceptional vaulters missing their hands and stuff. i am almost certain it's wrong. You can miss your landings but not that many hand slippings. You might get one or two per session tops.
This is TERRIFYING to watch. Also, they have so much power, and the position of everything is just destroying all of their potential.
That was so dangerous. Why didn't they measure it? Those gymnasts were robbed.
2:05 Kristen Maloney literally had a metal rod in her shin. Couldn’t have felt good.
Thank God no gymnast got seriously injured or worse. This huge mistake is similar to chains of events & mistakes that have led to air crash disasters.
omfg why the hell did it take so many falls an injires for them to work it out???!!!
Just at 0:44 you can see by how much she bends that she isn't used to such a low fault. And so many falls are definitely not normal in an Olympic level. You can clearly see they lacked the height or rotation to finish on their feet, they didn't have the time.
What a weird way to edit this incident... Music totally random
This is an interesting post: I had never thought of the horse height before the AA finals. But come to think of it, lots of women struggled on the vault even before that night. I believe that it cost Zamolochikova some berths in the individual finals -- as she made uncharacteristic mistakes on one of her best events (of course, the injury to Produnova got her into the AA finals, anyway; and Khorkina pulled out of the vault finals). Produnova fell in the vault during the team finals.
this song has been haunting (reels/shorts/tiktok/whatever) lately and I can't watch the videos set to it because I'm too busy thinking of this haunted one
There was probably one girl who at least landed feet first was like “this is it this is my moment everyone is doing so bad”
You can clearly see from the one gymnast i dont know her name that her hands were no where close to the vault the vault wasso low . Not to mention some of the girls had absolutely no where togo when it came time for dismount. What a shame
all you gotta do is look at the video and see that the gymnasts were not getting full height for their vaults. the officials should have noticed it sooner if you see gymnast after gymnast miss on the same vault. Something is definitely wrong there.
Came to watch this after the new podcast Blind Landing! They have so much detailed information but I wanted to see it for myself.
I'm not sure who was fired for this mistake but it could have cost someone's life. a little imprecision on the height of the horse and you land on your head, tear a ligament, break a leg (literally), etc.
I am crying after having watched this - shame on all of the officials that allowed this to continue.
Someone could have died, or become paralyzed. Big, big shame for a host country.
I'm amazed it's back. The whole point of taking it off was that if it was going to affect her at all, it would have done so negatively. Also in case you hadn't heard, Simona Amanar was given some as well before the AA. Because she is taller it was not deemed to be an illegal amount, or some reason like that.
Sydney olympocs was the worst for gymnastics...
Should the organisers be sued for injured athletes !!!! Crazy
0:48 I remember stupid tim saying ‘yeah I think this vault is too hard for her’ I guess you’d just never expect the vault height to be the problem, at the Olympics!
Dim is one of the leading morons of all time.
Debieron haber puesto una demanda! Pusieron en riesgo la integridad y vida de las gimnastas!! Qué horror, la competencia debió haberse suspendido 😡
These vaults just made gymnasts get injuries like SO MUCH INJURIES.