Dominique Dawes - 1992 Dodge Challenge Perfect 10 Floor Exercise

[@TheTimo5494]

Not many gymnasts in history get a standing ovation. She was and still is something special.

[@kueen7538]

So true!

[@BDL1888]

@Tim Roberts I just showed this video to my 6yr old niece who likes to tumble. She loves doing splits and flips and is actually self taught since 2yrs old and really good. I told her that the Dominique was the G.O.A.T. and that because of her...the "back to back" pass was banned from the Olympics, and my nieces response was "Why....because they suck?!." 🤣🤣🤣

[@carlasuannelockett1694]

I've seen several gymnast get them!

[@jayaye1055]

Awesome Dawes-ome!!

[@amandaalford9311]

Yes!

[@Wordalways]

Before there was Gabby and Simone there was "perfect" Dawes!!

[@somerpatterson5182]

Awe!! You're right!! There was no one like her praise God for HER!! 😊🙏😉

[@onetwocue]

You mean awesome dawsome

[@user-mx5oo1ej4b]

Awesome Dawesome!!!

[@joycenierman6225]

Awesome...Awesome Dawson!!!

[@ericae6611]

She's still the most exciting to watch, hands down

[@themaximum97]

She medaled in three consecutive Olympic team finals and was the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics for the US. Dominique Dawes, always and forever the G.O.A.T 🐐

[@helenreid9899]

Their greatness is not diminished, Each one of them is celebrated in their season❤

[@incognito4522]

In her time she WAS great but Simone is the Real G.O.A.T. No one could touch her. Now we wait to see if another comes along who is better. I do hot think its possible.

[@1erniedee]

@@incognito4522 Dominic was the GOAT in her time and the same for SImone, The GOAT in this season but!! There will always be somebody greater. JMT

[@1erniedee]

@@helenreid9899 absolutely

[@incognito4522]

@@1erniedee I agree to an extent. Where Simone is a stand out is she is doing things only men could do before. It will take a woman with similar stature and mental capacity and be able to avoid being injured to take her place as a GOAT. Greatest of all time. Simone has stolen that title from Dominique. Its like a world record. We now wait and see if anyone can steal it from her.

[@haverscutie]

Who else out there is old enough to remember watching this? 🙋🏻‍♀️

[@KreativeKerri]

🙋🏻‍♀️ I was always so excited to watch her perform. Watching the 2024 Olympics and thought of Dominique and the barriers she broke for those (Gabby and Simone) to come after her. I loved her double backs on the mat. Like the one pass was not long enough she had to extend it some more 😂.

[@marie6885]

I certainly remember it and being son proud of her. I just don't remember her being or looking so young. 😊 She was flawless and courageous!! ❤

[@eliciaellis7428]

I am!❤

[@jannacoleman7466]

ABSOLUTELY!!

[@desirethunder385]

Girl I no I old 😂❤

[@terryabrams604]

Paved the way for so many black female gymnast. Thank you Dominique♥

[@keikeimontego]

My favorite hands down. And never seen anything like that since. Dominique Dawes went on to be a part of The Magnificent 7, they set the bar so high for any other U.S. team after them.

[@RebeccaTaylorTillery]

She also went to the Olympics in 1992.

[@courtneyneal1385]

@@RebeccaTaylorTillery yes and she went in 2000 as well. My all time favorite gymnast. She inspired me to do gymnastics when I was younger.

[@DeeDeej]

Facts!

[@Thinking.Of.Some.Handle]

3 different Olympics!

[@texasgal6201]

I agree. That was a great Olympics that year, gymnastics-wise.

[@joycenierman6225]

To me Dominique Dawes was the BEST !!!!!!!!!How could anyone top that PERFORMANCE. What a Talent !!!!!!!

[@TheTimo5494]

Not many ever got standing ovations but this one was well deserved

[@rneumeye]

2:47 - She adjusted and added an EXTRA element to her tumbling in the middle of it to make the double back work!!!?!?! 😲 That level of gymnastics mastery... I have no words! 🤩👏🏆

[@brittneytaylor2996]

I named every doll I had after Dominique Dawes. I broke the bars in my closet trying to do the uneven bars like her. Jumping on the back of the couch like a balance beam and everything. She made my childhood amazing.

[@dydydufjfjfuf4500]

That’s y they call her Awesome 😎 Dawesome !! and she grew into a beautiful woman !

[@1erniedee]

Yes‼️ she is still beautiful,intelligent and doing great things

[@rodra167]

I get dizzy if I stand up too quickly…this girl did tumble after flip after tumble…pure athleticism!

[@JM-pp5ji]

😂😂 You and me both. At least we know our places right?

[@alicegauteng2358]

Me three. Let alone popping my knee if I turn funny

[@vinista256]

And yet there is also a grace and an artistry to her routine that, too often, is lacking in today’s gymnasts.

[@rhiannonrede]

With grace & artistry.

[@whosbotheringme]

😂

[@justinjun3896]

always been my favorite gymnast since 1992. i wish routines were this energetic and filled with this many skills.

[@lateshiachilds3640]

so is my favorite too. time moved on too fast it felt like yesterday she was just a teen flipping in the Olympics

[@jackycook64]

What I love is that she does an excellent job with clean tumbling passes and many skills but does not lose the artistic element like you see so much with today's gymnastics.

[@truthhurtsohwell05]

they weren’t making them bulk then

[@blkgreeneyes28]

She was the best gymnast in the 90's and I've followed her through her career. She has paved the way for African Americans in gymnastics. I am definitely proud of her. I've always wanted to see her personally. Today I am 51 years old and wouldn't mind seeing her and telling her that she has done a great job on this routine. A PERFECT 10+.

[@jadiva23]

I joined gymnastics because of her! love her!

[@starlahoehne7781]

She is still my favorite gymnast on floor excercise of all time.

[@k.g.m.254]

💯👍

[@mama-ayanna]

Yesssssss! Graceful, powerful, and dynamic! I’m watching this in 2021 with my daughters and looooving how amazing she was!!!

[@Browneyes288]

She was awesome. Artistry & power. Grace, fluidity, & athleticism. So rare for a gymnast to possess the talent she had. Loved her.

[@ajarfullofjoy]

Literally just listened to an interview she did about protecting children and athletes especially in gymnastics

[@kenhobs5379]

Dominique you were the best on the floor exercise - so exciting to watch even today no one does the floor better!

[@Inksplash52]

I didn't appreciate this as a kid but watching this as an adult this is amazing

[@jkm1460]

August 2024. Absolutely AWESONE 💯

[@sugarandspice2136]

One of my favorite gymnasts of all time.

[@PhenixJoe]

It’s so satisfying to see multiple back handsprings in a row. I wish we saw more of that today

[@fourq2049]

You're pretty😁

[@loveleeeventplanningl.l.c.7539]

I wanted to be just like her as a kid! I remember being in awe of her❤️

[@aishacolbert1421]

I remember this was the first time we EVER saw tumbling like this in a floor exercise!! INCREDIBLE!!! 🎉🖤🖤

[@theshevirgo]

She was legendary the first black girl with major achievements that I personally ever saw in gymnastics. I remember when they had the gymnastic Barbie I named mine after her

[@Kimboslice1127]

Wow best floor I've ever seen

[@jeannetchuenteu3881]

Really she's good at it

[@sammy9103]

The original Goat🤩

[@VondaTriedIt]

Omg! I LOVED watching her as a kid! She is the reason I put my kids in gymnastics and I have them watch and learn from Dominique!

[@NicolePoliskey]

I adore Dominique Dawes. She was so powerful yet so fluid and graceful. I do miss the gracefulness of yesterdays Gymnasts.

[@khalfani414]

the fact that she was this perfect, this refined, and this powerful during a time where all gymnasts were starved and heavily worked to the point of never developing past a prepubescent body is incredible. truly one of the best of all time.

[@chrisjone7555]

Yeah the body type of a gymnast is very different today.

[@weepingz]

She is exciting to watch. I've never seen a gymnast like this before. She looks like she's having a great time and her skills are through the roof. She should be called the goat because I've never seen anyone flip in so many directions

[@9melissal]

This is so much more entertaining to watch than the routines today.

[@JaedroCruz]

Awesome Dawesome is what we would always call her ❤️🏅🤸🏾‍♂️💙

[@FitBabe]

As a kid I always loved Dominique Dawes and really looked up to her. That tumbling sequence is one that I never forgot!

[@juliejohnson2928]

A floor routine can never get any better than that, ive watched floor routines to this day and never saw anything better than this!

[@sasakidotcom2232]

I grew up watching Dominque as the GOAT! This never gets old.

[@ashleywest9635]

Am i the only person who had chills watching this performance?😮 Excellent job🎉

[@queenqueen1685]

I knew she was going to get down the way she was “STANDING “ in the Beginning! Great job 👏🏽 She’s beautiful as well ❤️ I love my people 🙌🏽🙌🏽 just amazing

[@jnyerere]

Absolutely Amazing! I can't do a freaking cartwheel to save my life. This girl might as well have been a superhero to me. Just completely blown away by that performance!

[@marquitasparks121]

i was 9 years old when i watched this...i remember that second pass like it was yesterday...so amazing.

[@carolegastin2495]

Époustouflante ! 🙃🤩 Quelle détente, quelle aisance, quelle grâce, quelles difficultés réalisées avec perfection ! 👌 Magnifique enchaînement 💖 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@lattybrown7056]

How can someone watch something so beautiful, just to give it a thumbs down , sad people

[@HIP54]

Very sad...full of envy, jealousy and can't take the fact, that she better than all her competitors...brown girl..in the ring..tra la la la la...😊

[@pat8497]

.....only the satanic does that.

[@skylar0628]

I miss the days when gymnastics was balletic and graceful. This era was great for US women’s gymnastics

[@sammy9103]

Yea, me too. Was so much more back then.

[@kat64470]

It's not anymore?

[@mama-ayanna]

Yesssss

[@AnAdorableWombat1]

Thru are so brawny now!

[@AA-ct7cb]

Like a ballerina doing gymnastics, she has beautiful lines.

[@asantewa3]

Such grace and incredible skill.

[@Listenthenspk]

The GOAT...I said what I said...power, athletic, graceful...all around amazing. Dawes was the best.

[@brandonwilliams5526]

Yes agreed she is the GOAT

[@deestefmorr]

I remember that day, Awesome Dawesome!

[@jeweltalktuesday3156]

I love seeing her perform! She is still GREAT to look at in 2021.

[@justanotherwhitegirla7093]

She was always my favorite during the nineties.

[@deniserutherford9250]

PURE PERFECTION... EFFORTLESS Dominique Dawes... Beautiful Queen 👸🏾

[@SkyLove80.]

Dominique Dawes has always performed beautifully energetic on the floor. This routine is way better that some we see today.

[@zenobia328]

Perfect 10 10 10 ❤❤❤, this is amazing, incredible. She dominated that mat every single second..bravo🤸🏽‍♀️👏🏾😲

[@lhdollbaby]

Simply amazing!! I'm still waiting for my standing ovation... FOR ANYTHING!!🤣🤣🤣🤣😅

[@saragrant9749]

I would like to see some of today's gymnasts do that second pass- one end of that floor and back again!

[@maikiayang4934]

That was insane!

[@maggietheprincesscastle9776]

@Elizabeth Marie oh I had no idea. After having watched Dawes’ back and forth run I have always wondered why nobody replicated that. Don’t understand the reasoning behind it though

[@shaneselanae1341]

As a competitive cheerleader a lot of cheer competitions have tumbling passes like that and they're always fun to watch from going one corner to the next

[@foulmouthjapanese6316]

@Truth Hurts i think you maybe right

[@yvetterenee8256]

Yes, that was cool!

[@ChuckDiamondz]

One of The best gymnasts EVER !!!

[@strange4change_6]

We all love Simone but this Dominique my hero as a child😊

[@a.nash.594]

She’s so tiny!!! Awww how wonderful!

[@a9p6m4]

Best floor ever preformed! Hands down! Standing ovation!! haven’t seen it since.

[@cchrstp]

She was everything to us! Thank you Dominique!

[@bardistv9653]

2020 and I am still her number 1 fan ❤️🔥

[@donnam.5578]

I have been watching gymnastics since the '70s. I kinda got away from it but I do remember being amazed by Dominique Dawes and a few others.

[@imcurlyblue]

I watched this loved her as a gymnast. Have you seen her today. She’s still gorgeous, looks like she can still kill it on the floor exercise and her kids are adorable.

[@deborahjohnson1441]

Awesome Dawesome!!! Still one of the greatest. Dominique, Gabby and Simone- Black Girl Magic!!!

[@micahimdieke2246]

that one pass was so amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@MrCcoolg]

gave me chills & made me proud of her when I first saw this in '92 & is STILL amazing today!

[@Shell0517nj]

Beautifully done with such power and grace.

[@dianepereira1860]

So young to be performing with such perfection! Definitely an athlete to aspire to.

[@praverbz3161]

This is gymnastics as I remember. 😍🤩🤩

[@universalparadox5412]

60 Haters ..she will always be my favorite. 🤩

[@Maria-kg1nh]

One of my favs growing up...she paved the way in this sport as well. God's love and blessings!!!

[@nolagiirl]

The best to ever do it in my opinion!! This girl was a beast!!

[@francene01]

Love Dominique Dawes! She was awesome at the '96 Olympics in Atlanta. It was a terrific to see Team USA win the gold that night!

[@LoyannParker]

Love, love, love. Not only astounding power - she has grace, flexibility, and exciting choreography.

[@feleciasharpe2140]

Wow! Stupendous performance my dear Dominique😊.

[@Kawaiicutiebaby]

She’s simply nothing but amazing 🤩 then and now 💕👏🏾

[@elizabeth5985]

I remember watching her career. She was so amazing. I love those runs where she goes one way and then flips forward and goes back again! What an incredible gymnast.

[@lexxipearl]

Perfection! She was an inspiration then and even now today. 👸🏾🏆🏅

[@j.johnson7493]

She was absolutely fabulous.. 👏🔥🔥 💯. Loved her then and still do.

[@chrisandcrys6520]

She will always be my favorite! I love Simone too

[@emeralddream4428]

I remember looking up to her as a little girl! Such a nostalgic feeling watching this!💖💖💖💖

[@nicolelrichards3870]

I remember being13 & watching this and being amazed at how great she was and how beautiful:)

[@zee_lolaj7382]

She was EVERYTHING!!

[@FriendofYahweh29]

She was a role model to me back in the day..

[@shirlenet8529]

The first and truly original G.O.A.T!🌷

[@laurirobinson8346]

LOVE this OG old school floor routine. Live the skills and the artistry. Wish more were like this today

[@jarbon5]

Loved how (when she'd do a back flip routine across the floor), she'd finish it off with a front flip, then do a round off, and back flip across the floor the other way. Loved seeing her do that! Still, don't see that too often these days. That just showed how awesome she was:)

[@phoenixdavida8987]

Gotta love that music choice... 😉 So "of it's time!"

[@ebonnymack2560]

She was so amazing! I wanted to be a gymnast because of her even though my parents never let me, they thought it was too dangerous...but she was always my role model when I was growing up!

[@GoldSag1]

I miss this level of style and grace in gymnastics today.

[@one4truth236]

Always a treasure for the USA 🇺🇸 I loved watching her perform.

[@icarrus4u]

Inspired so many of us!! Still to this day!!

[@ninjakitty8944]

Yes!!! She had me glued to the tv as a child. I wanted to be just like her!!!

[@turbojjr]

Wonderful performance. It's amazing what gymnasts do!

[@mscdwatson]

Powerhouse!!!! Absolutely Amazing!!!! Speechless! I miss watching her perform, Now I have Gabby though, maybe my niece will be one of the next greats!

[@commentsay2120]

Definitely one of the most adorable routines ever done. Love her! She grew up to be so beautiful and intelligent too. I saw an interview before the 2012 games where she called it that the US would win!

[@EPHtheChemist]

I absolutely LOVED watching her growing up!

[@NicoleP36]

She was my favorite when I was a kid!!

[@veee9192]

One word: "OUTSTANDING!!!"

[@followthebluebutterfly]

How does she move so fast literally like faster than the speed of light. Quickest tumbling of any gymnasts I've ever seen ...Awesome Dawesome indeed

[@melaningoddesslibra237]

Yassss Dominique Dawes remember watching her when I was young, very talented 💪🏾❤

[@juliberk]

OMG!!! She was so good 🙌🏾