Down on the floor! 🇨🇳🤸‍♀️ Team China at Athens 2004

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[@MrsTlotto]

After the 96 Olympics, I didn't watch again until 2008. That being said, I had no idea Cheng Fei is a 2x Olympian. Her floor exercise here is captivating, dazzling and stunning. She's amazing!

[@MrsTlotto]

I feel so bad for Wang Tiantian. She started out really strong with a beautiful DLO but after the 2nd tumbling pass, you could see each tumbling pass becoming more labored and her spending more time in each corner preparing for her tumbling. I can imagine Wang's fall causing some mental issues for Zhang because she fell on her first tumbling pass whereas Wang fell on her first. At any rate, I salute these athletes. Gymnastics is hard and becoming an Olympian is no easy feat. I can't imagine how tired their bodies are training their whole lives for 1 or 2 Olympic Games, the jet lag for travel, qualifying, event finals, etc. Salute to all these ladies!

[@UnequivocallyME]

Yeah, unfortunately after Fan Ye’s frightening fall on the UB dismount, the team just began collapsing. It was followed by Li Ya’s 2 falls on beam before ending with this. I do salute these women because gymnastics is just such an intense sport. I was happy they redeemed themselves in Beijing. Cheng Fe deserved Olympic medals and I’m happy she got them.

[@gccstan31]

The sheer talent of Cheng Fei, and an amazing floor composition. The crowd and the judges loved it haha

[@kate74808]

I had no idea that Cheng Fei had to go up last with so much pressure after the first two fell. Makes the performance even more incredible imo.

[@Sakura_OHSHC09]

Cheng Fei is amazing! She is my favourite Chinese gymnast! 🇨🇳

[@charizarddialpha5005]

Cheng very beautiful routine

[@Gazmeizster_Wongatron]

Such a shame what happened to them that year. They had such great potential - in fact, if you took their best individual scores from throughout the meet they could have easily challenged Romania for the Gold. Despite the falls in this rotation they actually had a very strong lineup of floor workers here. Their tumbling was certainly a lot stronger than what we've seen from China in recent years.

[@mht4908]

17 years later, team China also crumbled in Tokyo's team finals. The only person who held it together was Zhang Jin, it's too bad that it wasn't enough because all her teammates had at least 1 fall

[@naailtariq5930]

@@mht4908 Very frustrating, with the system China has in place for pipelining talent it's disappointing for them to at least not medal as a team. They never seem to learn, but they adapt well to each COP I feel like, and still...

[@abrahamlora329]

That was fantastic from Cheng Fei.. a shame about the prior falls from others.. Zhang never stopped pulling in on her full in and Wang looked exhausted and probably should have just done a double twist and taken the SV hit as she was nowhere near around on the triple twist..

[@Fvhlipe]

The crowd chanting "Cheng Fei" 😯

[@Nikita-rs4hq]

That 8.637 is indeed very generous already

[@sanasgirl]

I love this Chinese team!!

[@ChainChomp2]

Video: Athens 2004 Thumbnail: Anaheim 2003, which wasn't even an Olympic competition to be posted by an apparent IOC-sanctioned channel called "Olympics Gymnastics"

[@sannttozleh992]

A chinesa apresentou a mesma musica que a ginasta brasileira Daniele Hypólito nessa edição de atenas ???? 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐

[@nazrulashraff6114]

This is first time i watch china on floor at 04 olympics other than cheng fei. So this is what happened to them :'( ah poor

[@tix5094]

Amazing

[@Fvhlipe]

I had no idea Cheng Fei was at these Olympic games????

[@sktzn6829]

She almost won floor exercise bronze in 2004 - would've gotten on the podium if she didn't step oob

[@Marketoromagnolo]

ahaha never seen Chusovitna 's coach being a judge

[@элвэргаларга]

Cheng fei luce mas joven aca si recuerdo haberla notado ya en el 2004

[@abellancieri6881]

No se ve la puntuación que se le dió a chein fei

[@Wrexham_AFC]

9.662

[@Marketoromagnolo]

what terrible rotation from China on floor, first gymnast had only 9.6 start value as she was not credited for triple twist , triple spin, and gogean jump...Zhang fell but beautiful exercise , Chenh did all possible but was not enough for bronz

[@JackSparrow-ct4mh]

我的裤子

[@makelovenotwar9941]

A disappointing Olympics for Chinese gymnasts.