Women's Uneven Bars Final Beijing 2008 | Throwback Thursday
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We bring you the full replay of the Women's Artistic Gymnastics Uneven Bars final from the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. He Kexin from China, Nastia Liukin from the USA, and Yang Yilin from China made it to the top three. Enjoy watching and find out who won the Gold medal!
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Please @olympic upload beijing ALL AROUND women, they were really great!
2004 Olympics in gymnastics would be nice! ;)
Floor final rio 2016
Uneven Bars 2016!!!! 😍
I hope you’ll soon feature the full Innsbruck Youth Olympics events especially figure skating ⛸😊
Nastia’s glare in the thumbnail is pure gold. She was such a gamer
She’s an only child. We’re very intense. 😀
she was afraid of the chinese
@@almeidaa6358 afraid? She was pissed! Exactly same D and E scores, yet she lost? That is absurd and clearly BS!
@@jojox9791 howd they break the tie?
@@janecruz3390 they "claim" the computer broke it. They had same D & E scores so I will never believe that!
He Kexin was one of a kind! Absolutely amazing back to back combinations, complex pirouettes, sky high releases and pretty good form. As controversial as it is, I feel relief she got gold, well deserved!
She was underage and part of the cheating regime.
@@jbuda4263 now that was rude
@@Fvhlipe either way, identical D & E scores should tie. The rules were changed, thankfully, but then led to the 2015 quad gold on UB (crazy)! IMO He was overscored throughout most of those games. BB prominently
@@jojox9791 no the rules were changed but that wasn't what led to the four way tie in 2015. they don't and never did do tiebreaks for world's, unlike olympics
@@jojox9791 nice cope there 😂
2008 was the last good Olympics in my opinion. So much variety and uniqueness. Now every routine looks the exact same.
2012 Bars Final is probably the last good one before everyone copied Mustafina's routine.
@@ConfusedTacos you right! love Kocian but her routine was a carbon copy of Mustafina’s without the inbar skills
@@gwen5949 also Spiridonova's routine lol at least Mustafina got the chance to defend her title
@@ConfusedTacos is a great username.
@@ConfusedTacos I agree, wasn’t a fan of 2008 in general. That code nearly broke gymnasts in half.
Nastia’s layout Geinger is one of my favorite skills ever performed
Yang Yilin's double layout gives me life!!
Yes beautiful
My goodness. Seeing He Kexin again just makes my heart race and flutter! I remember when I first discovered her on the uneven bars final in the 2012 Olympics when I knew absolutely nothing about gymnastics. Even when I knew nothing, I knew she was special once I saw her fly. Her unique style and difficult release combinations will always be ahead of her time. She is one of a kind.
when i first saw her as a kid she was the woman who inspired me to start gymnastics and i still watch it to this day because of her!!
@@gluteusmaximus42069 I read so many comments regarding He Kexin and Nastia should have both gotten gold but when I went back and saw He’s back to back release combination ( multiple times to believe what I saw) and the height she achieved I became a fan ❤…she absolutely deserved the gold.Though she had a slight step during her landing everything else was just magnificent.
This came up in my CZcams feed and I realize that today, August 16 2023 is almost EXACTLY 15 years to the day since this EF. Time flies! Team Nastia, btw.
He Kexin's routine is still very competive in the current quad. Queen things! 🔥
Exactly! I love Nastia, and appreciate what she's done for WAG, especially in the United States, but her UB does not hold up the same way in the changing CoPs.
He Kexin built her routine by stacking release moves and transitions, while Nastia stacked hers with pirouettes. One is objectively much harder than the other, and the codes after 2008 reflect that.
0:44 - Introducing the athletes
4:08 - He Kexin (China)
6:38 - He Kexin score
6:49 - Nastia Liukin (USA)
9:48 - Nastia Liukin score
10:41 - Dariya Zgoba (Ukraine)
13:57 - Dariya Zgoba score
14:30 - Steliana Nistor (Romania)
16:46 - Steliana Nistor score
17:38 - Anastasiia Koval (Ukraine)
19:35 - Anastasiia Koval score
20:17 - Yang Yilin (China)
22:40 - Yang Yilin score
23:31 - Beth Tweddle (Great Britain)
26:19 - Beth Tweddle score
27:10 - Ksenia Semenova (Russia)
29:33 - Ksenia Semenova score
Yang Yilin was a real Champ 🏆, perfect routine and so smooth
I think he kexin deserved the gold but I definitely think yang yilin was robbed. Her routine was one of the cleanest and she had the same exact d score as kexin and nastia
@@murasakino101 He and Nastia have more diverse routines and more difficult somersaults while Yang did too much in twisting. It’s a little bit boring. Though they all have the start value of 7.7, He and Nastia’s routines are better than Yang.
@@murasakino101 Yang Yelin stuck her landing but she had to muscle up almost all of her casts, and all but one of her handstands were .3-.5 short
Yang Yilin’s dismount was perfection. 😊
Chinese gymnasts are the masters of DLO dismount on bars. Simply gorgeous.
Ikr
Yang Yilin had the best routine in my opinion. Incredible body control.
she doesn't always stop at 12 though and she dead hangs a bit. Her execution was just not at the level of the other two
@@MsJubjubbird 2 truths 1 lie
@@josephcanales9911 the two explain the one.
@@MsJubjubbird please don’t argue with me. I’m NOT in the mood today. You will get messed up !
@@josephcanales9911 I quiver with FEAR. lmao you had three weeks
It was so cute when he picked up yang to wave at everyone even though she was taller.
Yb
This was an absolute BLOODBATH, and I'm livin' for it! It was amazing to rewatch (again . . .)
Yang Yilin’s form is superb.
He was really great on uneven bars! And omg Yang Yilin was underscored. Nastia my darling I will always feel the sadness for this silver medal. And oh my god Nastia really is one of the most gorgeous looking gymnast! And thank you olympic channel for this, next UB final Rio 2016
She didn't have enough D score.
Even though Anastasia Koval didn’t medal in this competition, her bar routine was excellent.
i've been waiting AGES for a full replay of this final
Nobody did that layout Gienger like Nastia. Perfect every time.
He Kexin routine is amazing. Love the releases.
36:35 the camera man tripped😁
Omg thank you for this lmao
And a shoe came off 😭😭😭
why is my favourite part of this Yang Yilin's face as she high fives Kexin after her routine? bless
That was the most incredible uneven bars final i've ever watched!
I can't thank you enough for posting this!
Yang Yilin was one of the best gymnasts of all time. I love her grace and artistry 💫
On purely gymnastics alone, she was my favorite Chinese gymnast at those Games. Of course I had a soft spot for Cheng and Jiang but that was more of a personality thing.
he kexin - 16.725
nastia liukin - 16.725
dariya zgoba - 14.875
steliana nistor - 15.575
Anastasia koval - 16.375
yang yilin - 16.625
Beth tweddle - 16.625
ksenia semenova - 16.325
Yang Yilin had 16.650
They have more control of their bodies then I do of my life.
It makes ms happy that He won; she has a gentleness and sweetness about her that is endearing. And she's a seriously great gymnast!
At 26:39, Yang Yilin says that Beth Tweddle's difficulty was even higher than hers.
I rmb there were some shots that Nastia asked why she ranked second with the same score. These shots were edited out
thank you !
@@user-fv7ls9pq4g Because it's not the NBC coverage. Be thankful of that.
Excuse me, but Chinese gymnast He Kexin's UNBELIEVABLE routine on uneven bars was comparable to Nadia Comăneci's 1976 routine on this very device! Even because, she took the gold medal in this device in 2008 and with the same routine but, in 2012, she won the silver medal in London. He Kexin kisses from Brazil!!
Nastia and He both deserved the gold.
Nastia's dismount is so iconic love her
Not often in the modern era you see a Romanian in a UB final. But also sad to see no Romanian team in Rio.
No romanian team in Tokyo either
@@eurekamreum5458 Wow, so sad. They can't just keep on using Ponor, Iordache, and Bulimar endlessly while they train the next generation of gymnasts.
I think the country moved on from gymnastics. that's ok
@@lpoco0006 They haven't moved on. They just haven't found a system of training that works.
@@lanpingpug I thought it's because kids are focusing more on school nowadays instead of being in the gym all day
Ksenia’s score will always hurt my heart :( she was the second highest in qualifying “when both kexin and liukin fell”
Thank you !!!! Thank you !!!! Thank you !!!!
Please, upload ALL THE OTHER 2008 Beijing WOMEN´S Artistic Gymnastics FULL EVENTS: FLOOR, all-around, team and all subdivisions of qualifications !!!
Thank you again !!!!
This is a great completion. Almost everyone shows off their best.
Next, the floor final 😇😇
Amem
Yes pleasee
Well done? Amazing!
5 months later and they still haven’t posted it 😭
He Kexin is the Queen of UB ❤️
I thought Nastia had a very gracious reaction to coming in 2nd despite getting the same score. I guess it's easier to swallow since she got the biggest prize she wanted (the AA gold)
She's very gracious to others, but internally, she hates to lose.
While everyone is debating the tie situations, I still think Yang Yilin should have won and I will always stand for that. ByBye
SAME
Me too! I don’t understand, what went wrong ??? I mean her routine was amazing ! I’m not an expert, but she did deserve to win ! ❤️
Thanks very much! Please, upload rythmic Gymnastics Groups All-Around Final 2008
I would have loved to see Beth hit her routine and get a medal. She is just amazing on bars
Glad she got one at the london games though
her routine was great but she needed more things like handstands and pirouettes, which score really well
@@MsJubjubbirdwell she had the highest D score, so if she hit her routine more cleanly she could have won.
They both should’ve got gold medals
They who? Both Chinese, or the American and the #1 Chinese?
@@dropkickmurphy4114 the two who were tied for first, but they broke the tie
I’m pretty sure they break the tie by the person with the higher difficulty
@@bulansalya1950 no they had the exact same difficulty and execution
@@megym5018 then both of them should’ve got gold
這視頻有完整紀錄到最後，給他點👍。一定不能漏掉選手們得獎與記者拍照互動的影片，選手們最後舉起獎牌拍照時的畫面太可愛了，她們都還只是孩子啊！一連串緊張比賽後看到她們的笑容，如此才能平衡觀看比賽者緊張的心情。
he kexin…what in the world was *that* combination (uk which one i’m talking about) i had to replay it 5 times bc i just couldn’t understand how she got her body to do that. wow!!!!!!!!!!!!
it breaks my heart to see Darya cry
Ikr? Imagine preparing yourself all those years for olympic only to make like 1 sec mistake that can took away chances for medal
The intimidation on He kexin’s face was priceless after she saw nastias performance they really saw her as their biggest opponent I personally think that if nastias pak was a little further and the kip 1/2 pirouette hit the handstand she would of won gold with at least a 16.8 being that’s the best she stuck her double front 1/2 dismount
I think if nastias dismount also didn’t have such obvious flexed feet and separated legs she’d have taken it. The landing was stunning but those feet -
I still think Nastia should have won. The last 2 skills in He’s routine were a mess. Her last giant full was WAY past and her transition from low to high was way to close. She also had the crossed landing. Nastias was better executed. The Chinese were Heavily favoured at this Olympics. Pavlova was robbed TWICE.
You can't be intimidating a 4'6 and 60 pounds. I'm sorry but you just can't.
@@taylorburtis nastia's dismount and pak salto were horrible and her Tkatchev was low
@@anaeliza7167 That is still less of a deduction than He, if she was scored
Properly. This isn’t even a debate, because it happened with both the women and men’s team in Beijing. Same with Cheng Fei getting a BS bronze medal on beam, when Pavlova clearly deserved it. My opinion stands!
Nastia Liukin has never been a particular favorite of mine, but yeah, this bars routine is lovely
I think it's because she hates to lose and it shows. But I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. Gymnastics might appear to be a team sport, but it's really not.
Back when bar routines were UNIQUE and not copy+paste 😅 oh what a time 😢
right?!? bars can make you fall asleep these days
Get out there and make your own then, let us know how that works out
@@joeyhawkins1870 shut up weirdo
Ahh yes…Nastia’s RBF in the thumbnail is just iconic
He Kexin ❤️
when I did gymnastics uneven bars was definitely my least favorite thing to do but it's my favorite thing to watch
To this day I still believe the rightful order was Yang Yilin > He Kexin > Nastia Liukin.
The commentators/judges kinda snubbed her despite her routine having the same difficulty with arguably better execution.
I honestly love the tkatchev into giant full Semenova did. It's so unique, nowadays tkatchevs are connected to a transition or followed by a kip.
My fav is Tweedle, and I'm a huge Nastia fan. I hope the code of points these days acknowledges all that greatness.
Yes! In a time where UB routines were growing increasingly "cookie cutter" and repetitive, Tweddle really pushed the limits of what an UB routine can be. Just stunning.
What amazes me is how these young ladies can stay focused with their teammates screaming at them at the most intense & crucial moments. I get they’re being supportive but I would be so distracted.
You're so focused that you block most of it out, as with any competitive sport.
I’ve honestly never seen a tkatchev straight to blind full oh wow!!!
Please upload the 2016 rhythmic gymnastics qualifications!!!
3:27 it's raining chalk
Hallelujah it’s raining chalk, amen
Why did they break the tie?? Both he and Nastia got the same d score and e score, this is so unbelievable
this was the rules
@@nipaipo36100 what were the rulee?
@@ayroneva6804 I believe they break the tie by dropping the lowest E score by the judges and then seeing who is higher on the E score
if the tie persist, then they dropped the next lowest score,
I wish the CoP would drive UB back to these types of routines. Stunning to watch, all of them.
No it rewarded only UB specialist and is the sole reason Nastia won the AA!
@@TheMajesticice01 well that and her 15.5 on floor and 16.1 on beam lol
These ub routines are marathons compared to current routines. I watched a video that compared Suni’s bar routine to nastia’s and it was wild to see the difference in endurance requirements and difficulty. I do prefer longer bar routines, but I can see why they’ve condensed them down in the last few quads.
@@TheMajesticice01 are you sure about that? Nastia was the best gymnast that day, Shawn's 2.3 twisting Yurchenko should have not been credited as an Amanar. the fact that she even won Silver ahead of Yilin is a joke. Nastia was clean on every event, had Shawn hit every apparatus it would be a different story but no one else should have won AA that day. the 6 tenths lead Nastia had ( unheard of for the time) is just proof of that lol
@@TheMajesticice01 the code did reward UB specialists, especially for pirouettes but Shawn did not have the execution Nastia had. other Nastia's bars dismount, her execution was superior to Shawn's in basically every way (split positions, full rotations, extension). honestly both would be hammered in execution in today's code but Nastia would still score 8.5~ and Shawn would not even break an 8. and if you remove Shawn's vault difficulty (which she didn't even deserve), she's really not superior to Nastia in difficulty of overall AA program... not to mention Shawn medaled in two event finals (though one gold) and Nastia in three lol
Tweddle seemed to be more engaged than Liukin - who seemed to be playing it safe.
Oh my God Beth was so insanely overscored here.
She had 2 handstands that had three tenth deductions, a 5 tenth deduction handstand, really big leg separation on the pirouette, she hit the bar and her chest was so low on the landing
Are you a judge?
Anastasiia Koval was really good
Amooo melhor olimpíadas
Yang Yilin best all of the them
Nastia was amazing.
Please bring here full replay of Men's cycling road race from Beijing. That was great race! Fabian Cancellara and others.!
Please upload the 1996 Atlanta women's artistic gymanstics all around final please!
Yes! YESSSSS! THIS! PLEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAASSSSSSEEEEEEE
I think it’s out
@@miagabriel4329 kidhar hai ?
@@kunalnagarkoti1841 on the Olympic channel
the one from america is just glorious！ beautiful girl.
Bravo fetelor pentru ceea ce faceți
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Perfect!!!!
The best UB olympic final ever!
2012 was better
He Kexin 🥇🥇🥇👏👏👏👏
I rmb there were some shots that Nastia asked why she ranked second with the same score. These shots were edited out
it was on NBC's coverage, because they were focusing on her
Me too ,i remember she said ,
"Why am i second ?"
Because you at the Beijing sweetheart !!....Romanian gymnast did the best performance for me..but ?...you know why ?..
Let's all face it folks: Chinese CHEAT! And not just here!
And lest we forget, one of Confucius's greatest maxims: When in doubt--Cheat, and if all things are equal. then CHEAT harder!!
Same score, how did one get a gold over the other?
Tie breaker gave Kexin the gold, since they had both the same difficulty and execution (the 2 lowest B-scores for each gymnasts were dropped), they dropped the next lowest score, and Kexin had a higher average than Nastia, hence why she won. Even though the current code of points categorize Nastia's routine as less difficult, back then they had the same difficulty, so I think it's kinda stupid to deny her the gold, just let them share the title like how they did in the old times
@@mht4908 yes, I hate tie breakers.
@@mht4908 exactly. It’s so uncommon that ties happen nowadays with the new scoring system, so they should have just let them share the gold.
Can people just get over the fact that China won and was better than the US in both qualifications and TF?
Stop doubting the greatest achievement these gymnasts ever made in their career, it's petty and unnecessary. Imagine if they kept questioning the best thing you aver did even TWELVE years later.
The Olympic committee checked their age multiple times and there were no problems.
I mean it’s not a far-fetched idea that China falsifies gymnasts age, they have a history of doing so and they did get penalize and disqualified from 2000 Olympics.
What a great way to protect and justify them lol
@@bgreen5234 ok, but still, what would that even change? Even more shameful if the others lost to youngsters with falsified age…
@@dancingrick1014 it's not shameful at all to lose to someone under age, in fact, I'm against the age restriction, BUT rules are rules.
Miri S there was plenty of cheating around and the jury was bias towards the home team.The US gymnasts should have deserved higher scores and the gold medal rightfully theirs but then it is the other way around.
What happened to the camera guy at 36:34 ? Did he back up into someone else? It got really shaky at that time lol
He tripped
He kexin the best lolll
Definitely I would go for the 2012 London Olympic men's badminton final between Malaysia's Lee Chong Wei and his nemesis and friend China's Lin Dan to decide the gold medal at Birmingham.
It was a match that had everything and it went to the wire in the deciding set with both shuttlers displaying vintage badminton at its best and little separates the two until the last two points.
It was a repeat of their World Championship final clash at the same venue where Lin Dan prevailed over Chong Wei by just two points in the rubber set.
The same happened in the Olympic final with again Lin Dan winning the gold by just two points.
It was badminton in its finest flower with both battling it all out and giving nothing away until the last two points.Kudos to both for producing vintage badminton.
Wait this as nothing to do with Artistic Gymnastics lol ^^
Yes I'm still here
🤪
41:10 gold medalist
Was it after the all around competition or before?
Muy pareja todas.
Nice
Nastia was very nervous, her father has prepared her for this medal all her life. And she felt compelled to do like him who was champion by the Soviet Union. She must have felt really bad, because for her the gold medal at the uneven bars would be her way of honoring her father. This tiebreaker rule was ridiculous and unfair, both deserved the gold medal.Neither of them did their best routines, they were very overscored, in fact neither deserved the gold looking today, as it was a tie, at least they should share the podium.
Yang Yilin was better than her and kexin
To be fair she had some messy releases in there.
I agree. Even though she wanted the AA gold and I'm sure she cherishes it to this day, the UB gold was the one she sought to honor her father and share a history with him forever. To me, she always seemed to be in the shadows. Never seeking anything from anyone, like all the others did and still do. She's a true winner.
I feel so bad for Yang Yilin - she had such clean exectuion!
she deserved higher than nastia but not he
1.) yang yilin & Nastia
2.) he Kevin
For my opinion
Yilin and nastia stuck that day which was a first since in AA & team final they had steps on there dismounts
Yang Yilin merecia ouro
Que comparación del nivel de antes de Gimnasia y el de ahora ...
mientras que antes 8 eran grandes competidoras ahora dos son buenas a lo mucho , que tristeeeee
Those chinese girls were just simple awesome😍😍😍😍
Да, чувствуется, что Настя русская, в Америки не было и возможно не будет такой элегантной, фактурной и красивой гимнастки, генетика чувствуется
True
Steliana Nistor ❤️
He Kexin queen of uneven bars
In London she wasn't!! Aliya stole it from her, haha!!
I think Beth Tweddle had the most exciting routine after He Kexin, I'm sorry she didn't medal in Beijing
2016 rio rythmic gymnastics prellminary🙏
I don’t know but it seems like He kexin used modified grips and not gaze grips?
Will we ever see Men's gymnastics finals too? Don't get me wrong, I prefer Women's generally, but it would be interesting to see full finals for the Men too.
11:47 😱😱😱 I’m just wordless. It looks so strong and beautiful.
Pretty please can y'all upload the AA Finals for Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996? Please??!?
YESSS!!!