This is why they got rid of the 10 point scale. This is one of the most difficult routines ever and it got 5th.

El mejor y mas hermoso gimnasta grande RUSIA

Whit the new rules this is a Big gold up to 15.000

he had a bad landing

poor landing

This routine was the best by far, and the judges scored Nemov 5th!

He is one of the greats. Paul who ????

Mieux que ça ,c'est difficile !

One small step on landing…he was robbed of gold.

I think his is still the best high bar routine ever seen ! Still remember up to this day the half hour long public protest at the judges, when he should have won by all rights ... He remains a true legend :)

this vault is etched in my brain for life. the amplitude is outrageous. this will forever be a ten in my book. whoever wants to complain about the cowboy can take a walk

I'll always maintain that Russians teach their gymnasts the best style. Followed closely by the Japanese.

Красавчик во всём!!!Великолепный Гимнаст!!!👏👏👏

Самый крутой, это легенда

Nemov Mu fouvorite gymnast

THIS KID OWNED THIS APPARATUS! WHAT A CHAMP!🏆🥇

Tom Hardy could totally play him in a movie. They look like brothers

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У Алексея подло отняли золото и повесили на шею американцу. Все это знают. Алексей Немов, браво!

Champ.

To this day this is still the biggest case of "He Wuz Robbed!" ever. I was watching this at home and boo'ed just as loudly as the crowd there. He didn't even get a medal in the end? BS!

А че дальше обрезали, стремно да😄

They didn't give him the right score as usual. It's the judges game unfortunately

I absolutely love the English commentators!

I wonder why they didn't give him a 10? His legs weren't too far apart like Kohei Uchimura's Yurchenko 5/2 so why?

Anna Pavlova filming it at 1:01. He should have win.

He is stupid. The maximum Score is 10.0. He did crazy difficult skills worth of 10.0 still anyway. His execution sucks, bent arms and legs separation on releases. The funny thing was the huge step on landing. He lost because of his stupidity. Wrong code of points

Alexei Nemov was robbed of Gold at the Olympics, if only he competed at 2008 and 2012 with the sane routine, he could have won Gold and he is a superstar gymnast in his own right, once he appears, the crowd screams, what else will you call but a Superstar gymnast

Hehe, pun approved. Truthfully, this system is better, it's a matter of balancing Difficulty with Execution: take Zonderland's Olympic gold routine, for instance. If his arms had been bent during releases or if he faltered at the landing, no Kovacs or Cassinas in the world would've given him the gold. That said, yes, it does need a bit of work: it still favours Execution over Difficulty (Uchimura comes to mind), and I think that will never change: the core of gymnastics is to reach perfection.

Sorry for the late reply - my inbox doesn't appear on this new layout >.< Yes, but it had been brewing for years: it just sort of exploded with Athens with this event, but the scoring was off for many other gymnasts. I think the system's poor design was brought to light for *everyone* to see here, as the 10-point system doesn't reward daring or innovation - just flawless moves that didn't really make you the best.

You must be tired of me by now, but I have a quote here about the old system that I forgot: "But the code includes no mechanism for rewarding athletes who exceed perfection, like Nemov did in his high-bar routine. The gymnast who surpasses previously accepted standards of perfection - either with a radical new skill or unparalleled virtuosity - gets no bonus." and "There's no reward for originality anymore in the sport"- Peter Vidmar, (WashingtonPost article, can send you the link if you want)

Thanks for responding, it's not often someone replies conversationally, with pertinent information, so I appreciate it. I was watching the video again & enjoying the crowd response, the way the collective gasp gets larger with each release. What an incredible performance. Thanks again.

(not only Nemov - the scores were off for almost all gymnasts). So all in all, this was a sad and embarrassing day for gymnastics: it wasn’t bad routines or the wrong settings on apparatus, it was a faulty system and even worse judges that sadly cost some gymnasts a well-deserved medal. There's no justice in the Games, afterall :/ Wow, that got long! Sorry everyone for the spam, but it looked much smaller when I wrote it the first time.

- Nemov’s Olympic career, you’ll see that he’s been given low points for advanced routines in comparison to gymnasts with less advanced/graceful routines since 96 (ex: Atlanta PH), something that even commentators have picked up on. It’s really not surprising that the judges who changed their score after the crowd boo’d got escorted out by FIG officials: when the crowd realise that the points aren’t corresponding to the routine properly, you’re not doing your job-

It’s a stupid system, and it should have been changed years ago. Now, in Nemov's case, he did two things wrong (ish): he bent his arms a little during releases and he didn't nail the landing. Yet these two mistakes were not so bad that he’d only score a 9.725: considering he had four releases in a row and six in total, he should have scored much higher (look at HB champions today, you’ll notice that that’s what makes a good routine). Though, if we want to look very critically at the judges over-

I'm no expert either so if someone wants to correct me, go for it. Back in 04, there was a different scoring system (got changed in 06 thanks to situations like these: especially the Svetlana and Alexei cases) that favoured a perfect execution over difficulty. So if you had a gymnast like Nemov who did a very difficult routine but with a mistake, he'd score lower than another gymnast, like Hamm/Cassina/Yoneda, who didn't do a difficult one but didn't have any (or few) mistakes.

Performance, but as I said I can't claim to have enough knowledge of the sport to assert that statement. Can anyone explain?

I wasn't familiar with the routines that caused the controversy at this Olympic games. I have just gone back and forth viewing both Alexei's & Hamm's performances, & I'm not going to claim to be a gymnastic expert, perhaps that is why I'm confused as to how this truly astonishing performance could be scored so much lower than Hamm's. Is that supposed to be simply due to the dismount? Watching each performance several times it seems that is the only thing that one could call "better" about Hamm'

Im speechless o__o WOW!

Nemov had it all, my favourite of all time, elegance, beauty and masculine strength, stunning

Regards to you, i'm russian and i like your opinion cause it's right - sorry for bad english.

Forgot which year/event it is but I remembered when the crowd boo-ed at the judges, Alexei even had to step out and tell the crowd to quiet down. That's how much respect he got from people all over the world acknowledging his skills. He is a legend ....and oh SO handsome!

took a shit on Hamm's even with the misstep. He easily should have taken one

I'm from Malaysia.. But FUCK the judge from my country for the controversy on that night! I'm really embarrassed!

B r e a t h t a K I N G !!

Tragic day for Nemov. 2004 and 2008 were amazing years for gymnastics. So many contenders and event specialists.

The russians got robbed that year. Svetlana, Anna and Alexei

then how do you explain the fact that prior to the 2008 olympics he was scoring between 92-94 in the all around and was the only one capable of even competing against yang wei for the all around title? doesnt sound like a mediocre gymnast to me

But that's exactly the point - Hamm was not a great gymnast. He was a mediocre gymnast, who took advantage of a scoring system that encouraged mediocrity.

Annoying