Cathy Rigby 1972 Olympics interview after team competition

[@dadougrossetete8398]

J'avais 15 ans et je pratiquais la gym. Autant dire que cette grande championne m'a fait rêver aux JO. Je collais dans un cahier tous les articles en rapport avec ce sport.

[@esterdrass4964]

Such lovely routines and so different than what is expected today. Such a contrast. I loved her uneven bar routine, so different. I think when Olga Korbut came along, the same Olympics, she did a backflip on the beam which I don't think had been done before. I loved Cathy Rigby as a commentator for the sport for many years later. Its funny that Jim McKay was a commentator for this sport as he had no real knowledge of it. How things have changed.

[@kras118]

Jim McKay and Cathy Rigby .... legends

[@jump5nrg]

OH MY GOSH!!! She looked and sounded almost completely different than she does now!!!

[@Julie-kb3mo]

Hmmmm. I disagree. 😊 Naturally, she's older, but I see and hear the same in her today as back then. 💕

[@mariesteve358]

She was my idol when I was on the gymnastics team in high school, I would wear my hair in pigtails & did a Rigby split on the balance beam, I use to cut out pics of her & made a scrap book, I was 💔 when Olga Corbet defeated her, So I would watch her when she got into playing Peter Pan in the theatre,

[@metsdudenj]

Erika had a higher AA beam score which is why she got the finals berth. This same thing happened in the 1992 Olympic beam final as well, when Milosovici got the berth over Portocarrero and a Chinese gymnast I think

[@pepitone201]

Thank you for the explanation

[@bronzevillecomics2581]

That doesn’t make sense since the coverage from ABC shows that they already knew during the team event that Rigby wasn’t in beam finals.

[@orlihimmelweit2105]

She was injured, so aerial was a risk? She was such a wonderful gymnast. By now, an Icon in US gymnastics history.

[@rubyjeanne1667]

she looks like Anissa Jones.

[@erinwalker711]

She was the First Gymnast 🤸‍♂️ from the USA 🇺🇸 to medal 🥈at the 1970 World Championships.

[@bronzevillecomics2581]

Does anyone know what the tiebreaker was that kept Rigby from qualifying for beam finals?

[@metsdudenj]

They may have then defaulted to had the higher AA score overall. That is the only explanation I can think of.

[@miloandtock1]

Well of course she didn't qualify...I'm sure Ellen Berger, the GDR coach, made her presence known and made sure Erika qualified and the IOC, IGF and whomever else went along with it.

[@jackdarbyshire5888]

72 Munich-36 =36 Berlin 🤔?

[@searanch32]

Pretty ridiculous. Was this ever explained?