Balance Beam Through The Years | Olympic Memories
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Enjoy watching the evolution of one of the most spectacular Olympic disciplines - The Balance Beam! In the early days of women's artistic gymnastics, the beam was based more on dance than on tumbling. In the 1960s, the most difficult acrobatic skill performed by the average Olympic gymnast was a back handspring. The Balance Beam difficulty began to increase dramatically in the 1970s. Olga Korbut and Nadia Comăneci pioneered advanced tumbling combinations and aerial skills on beam; other athletes and coaches began to follow suit. The change was also facilitated by the transition from wooden beams to safer, less slippery models with suede-covered surfaces. By the mid-1980s, top gymnasts routinely performed flight series and multiple aerial elements on beam. Today, balance beam routines still consist of a mixture of acrobatic skills, dance elements, leaps, and poses, but with significantly greater difficulty. It is also an individual medal competition in the Olympics.
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I like how for comaneci they put both the compulsory and the optional routines since she won twice in a row, absolute icon of the sport!
Now with Biden in presidency we hope to see more minorities in gymnastics
@@hugodaniel8975yeah of course we’ll see them as long as they’re as good or better than the girls that are not minorities.
@@josiefa5852 yes. It’s important to understand that the Olympics need to be favourable towards the best of the best but not always the minorities if they are not good. It shouldn’t be a pity party but everyone should always be introduced to any sport.
@@trendymaths2467 completely agree, but I think a lot of people believe minorities aren’t given the same opportunity in this sport simply because they are minorities. I don’t think that’s true.
@@hugodaniel8975 What does that have to do with gymnastics?
I would love if wolf turns were finished like this - very elegant. 1:20
I think adding that ending would be the only way I would ever like that skill. The extension shown here is gorgeous!
That was gorgeous!
@@elgenewaynedequit8700 Probably the same d score as the turn because it’s just a lunge into a split - just brownie points for artistry :-P
Yes...arms flail all over the place today
I wish they would just just stop performing the wolf turns they look ugly, and no one does them any good anyway.
Romania brought such a big contribution in this sport. I want to see them up again, cause it's one of the greatest gymnastics nation.
Wow, I'm so proud seeing Romania's flag many times up there 🇷🇴
I love Olga Korbut!
I think this sport is by far the most impressing and risky of all the olympic sports... I feel like every single move is risking breaking your neck but looks so impressive~
synchronized swimming? but i do have to say it is risky but not the most risky
i think show jumping, skateboarding, and diving r also pretty risky
@@chloe4317 yea but still
They where all great! Every single gymnast had their own style and grace
Shannon Miller an absolute amazing athlete, a joy to watch and rock solid! Love her!
I agree 100%!!
Excellent! These gymnasts of the past have the most beautiful lines. They were all so smooth with straight legs and toes always pointed.
Beautiful. This is a case where we can see the tremendous evolution of the athletes because the beam stayed basically the same.
I believe it got softer and more springy
A suede cover was added in the early 1980s to make the beam less slippery and extra springs were added at around the same time. Gymnasts before 1980 could not have done the kind of acrobatics we see today. That's one of the reasons you can see such a dramatic difference in difficulty starting in the 80s (the other reason is evolution in gymnasts' skill).
Beautiful
Shannon Miller is a star ❤️🌟
Also I know the video is about the champions, yet I wish Vika Komova could be here too. 😢
Thumbnail speaks who's legend, Nadia Comenaci is sensational. Catalina Ponor is another best beam balance performer - most beautiful lady. Offcourse Olga Korbut is amazing too. These 3 ladies are classy.
Feels like I'm watching a time capsule filled with amazing Olympians
we all are. :)
I read about Nadia Comaneci scoring a perfect 10 when I was in school..
Yeah because her routine was simple compared to the routines from now.
@@josiefa5852 oh accha. I have no idea actually. In our country this genre is not that much popularized.
@@josiefa5852 her routine was simple compared to now. But back in her days that was a difficult routine. But in the end whatever she did was simply perfect.
@@josiefa5852 That's not the reason why she go 10 points but ok...
In 1976 at the age of 14, Comăneci was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games. At the same Games (1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal), she received six more perfect 10s for events en route to winning three gold medals
Wow I’m so happy to see some hungarian gymnasts in this😍😍🇭🇺
What a beautiful collage. Bravo to all these wonderful athletes, inspiring!
that was both beautiful and slightly terrifying at the same time
One word: Elegant
one cool thing about olympics is that it just pushes the sports even further beyond
4:25 extraordinary!
Back when doing cartwheels on balance beams were a thing :)
Romania owns the beam. Wow
Not now the Americans do
@@ainelawlor5755 the Americans are good but they have more balance issues
Cele mai bune, România 😘😘
@@ainelawlor5755 No, I don't feel they ever did and they still don't. Romania and China are the queens of the beam.
@@rowomengymnastics7303 i disagree the Americans have siome billes on there team so she always brings home gold
We need one of these videos
for every event
YES FOR SURE! :)
Beautiful. 😊❤️
Romanians won 5 five times balance beam.And 4 times consecutive 👏👏
Un immense MERCI pour voir ttes ces prouesses magnifiques
Korbut each and every time ❤
I would've loved if they put Kui Yuanyuan's layout full in 1996 eventhough she didn't win a medal. Great video nonetheless!
Love this video, Olympic Channel.
So proud of Guan Chenchen now added to all these amazing Olympic champions after winning the title in Tokyo 2021. Respect for her officially being the second Chinese female to win the gold medal after Liu Xuan in 2000. Hope she becomes World Champion to possibly becoming the first Chinese to win Olympic and World titles on this event and become the second Chinese to win Olympic Gold and a medal at Worlds after Xuan’s victories at 2000 and 1996 Worlds bronze😁
Shawn Johnson 😍
Truly amazing
Stiil for me sanne wevers has the most beautiful routine ,her routine just so beautiful and elegant
So beautiful, it's just simply amazing 😍
Beautiful... 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
So talented👍👍👍
Absolute talent!!!
They all make it so easy I remember doing this in school but could never land on the beem kept falling off
Wonderful 😍😌👏
BEAUTIFUL
Amazing examples of guts and precision for their day! Makes me wish my d.o.b was 1927....and...
Fantastic
I only wish that Yang Bo had won gold. She just could never put a clean routine together when it really mattered. Such a shame because she's the epitome of an iconic balance beam routine
I love it!!!!
Very happy to see Shawn Johnson-East on in the grouping... Shocked Simone Biles wasn't on here with all the amazing talent shown.
BB is not her best event, that's why. She's shining on floor and vault, but others are more talented on beam.
Всем этим девушкам я аплодирую стоя!!! Без разницы кто из них какой нации.
Сам факт, что они дошли до такого уровня
awesome watching the progression through the years have we reached a point with simone where you cant really be any better lol?
I like how they put the years in order
Sanne Wevers' beam mount is something else. I love it.
OMG Sanne Wevers YESSSS! Spin queen!
yes! only the best ❤️
Wao increíble vídeo 👍🏼
That’s amaze ing
Love it
Nadia Comaneci was brilliant but Olga Korbut was her inspiration
But Nadia has more elegance, more grace!!!
@@mihaelaserdenciuc8833 Yes also I think, I like Olga more on the bars, she was amazing, daring and even hj did not see anyone do the same
I love you all my sisters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3:00 that is saaaatisfying
beam really peaked in the 90s it never got better save for Ponor carrying it into the 00s
I agree, it lost the artistry and smooth lines and has become a powerhouse/difficulty event.
why am i crying
Pleased never forget:All these/those girls were tortured through/by their trainers
Shawn Johnson's coach was really good to her. She says that Chow is like her second Dad
Not all gymnasts are treated poorly... It is disgusting how many of them are treated, but just as many have coaches who have become family.
Not all. There are abusive coaches but it is becoming much less frequent. There are much stricter rules.
tutte meravigliose
Awesome performance, but still Nadia is different being the youngest first perfect 10 Gymnast.
The real progression is how far they arch their backs
i love it 💜💜
جميل جدا
I usually do this at 0500 in the morning.😎😃😃😂
Magníficas
Nastia should’ve been included here tho 😿
Ikr
Vive La Roumanie !
it seems like anyone living today would have won the first olympic video!
Seane' s triple turn....Wow
sheeeesh
Умничка
Las Rumanas evolucionaron este aparato
1:35 just need this,
Lindo
name of song pls?
Who’s the one in 0.06?
The leotards were very different then what they are now...Exp back on 1956 and before...
the psyche event in women's Gymnastics
😊😘😘👏
by seeing this we want to represent Indian team 🇮🇳🇮🇳 jai hind
Yi sab dd sports per nahi dekhya gaya 🙄🙄🙄
Where is Dominique Dawes ?
Only gold medal winners in this vid.
@@CarrieBHS .. Dominique did win a gold medal , and she was robbed at the Barcelona Olympics !
@@dydydufjfjfuf4500 I’ll spell it out more clearly. This video only contained gold medal winners in the balance beam event finals at the Olympic Games. Dominique Dawes is not in that group.
And Svetlana Corkina????
Korkina won uneven bars not the beam
Can anyone tell me why the girls are required to arch their backs over and over again?
how did they do that?
Whatever. If I’m editing this video, we end it with clips from 1920. Thee end.
The more recent ones are NOT as graceful as the older ones.The new ones are acrobats the older ones like a ballerina.
Есди бы страховка была, то все было бы отлично
No Shushunova??? Seriously??
This video shows the evolution of the beam work by showing the olympic champions of that apparatus. Shushu was an excelent gymnast but she ended with the silver medal, behind, clearly shown in this video, of Silivaş.
@@MaJo-je8cs Yeah, you're right, fair point.
Goood 😍
Not to be rude, but a bit of a joke. When you see what was done, then and not.
"Mary Lou Retton catapulted to international fame by winning the All around Gold Medal in Women's Gymnastics at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles - becoming the first American woman ever to win a gold medal in gymnastics. She is the first American ever to win the Olympic All Around Title."
"Today's youth is so lazy and decadent"
Huh? What do you mean?
Honestly the modern girls look very stiff ! Every of their contacts look so heavy and painful
🙂🙌🔮👏👏👏🙏👍
Nadia Comaned ,so beautiful!!!! Perfect girl!!!!
No Carly Patterson arabians? And you should have at least one gymnast who throws a standing back tuck with a full twist if you want to show more evolution.
You forgot to include the socialist emblem on Romania's flag at 1:49, 2:00, 2:17 and 2:29
It's no longer socialist, so what's the point?
@@ela5720. Because, for the time, they were “socialist”.