Epic Rivalries: Zmeskal and Boguinskaia (1991)

[@plp666]

Thank you! Crazy to think that both Svetlana and Kim would be off the podium a year later at the Olympics. Though I always felt Svetlana was probably a bit underscored in Barcelona.

[@charlestoddsullivanforpres6628]

Zmeskal was extraordinary but her performance gets maligned because of the appearance that Svetlana was underscored. Both were great.

[@eileencollins8799]

Svetlana’s long lines on the bars. Marvellous.

[@Thurubilov]

Thank U so much to the author for providing this rare video! 🤝 It was very interesting to see two champions of those times....

[@georgiadonald1588]

I really enjoyed watching that. Thankyou 😘

[@JonnyTainment]

I remember being very focused into that competition because I had tickets for the all-around for the Barcelona Olympics and I wanted to know the favorites to look out for. Interesting that the next year, the Olympic medals went to the same three nations but to the gymnasts that finished 5th, 6th and 7th here!

[@nataliashestakova760]

goddess Boguinskaia!😍

[@StewNWT]

I remember both of these gymnasts so well. In this competition I thought Zmeskal definitely deserved the win. Her difficulty was higher and she had more energy and power in her routines. I was very underwhelmed by Boginskaya’s bars routine but she was also great

[@burakkupinkku]

so crazy knowing that svetlana coaches at a gym about 30 minutes from me

[@worldartgym]

Adult classes?

[@burakkupinkku]

@ gymnastics facility called discover gymnastics for developmental. she goes around there every year for a camp and has her own svetlana invitational there.

[@rainyd4293]

Boginskaya❤❤❤

[@Marketoromagnolo]

do you have the clip where Boginsakya dind't cvongratulate to her while stepping on the podium?

[@markb7163]

@Marketoromagnolo She did do that but what nobody talks about is the fact that Kim did the same thing to her the day before.

[@Marketoromagnolo]

@@markb7163 ARE you sure? I read in all around final Bogi din't congratulate to Smeskal, but only with Bontas, almost same thing happened in 92 with Shaldina and Pascual. I think Smeskal din't congrtaulate to Bigoisnkaya after vault final

[@markb7163]

@Marketoromagnolo I read that Zmeskal did that to Boginskaya first and it was mentioned in a broadcast of that competition as well. Regardless the nedia was always trying to stir up controversy and rivals between gymnasts. Boginskaya and Zmeskal are good friends now.

[@Toni-nx1sw]

What were the start values for their routines

[@worldartgym]

10 sv for each routine

[@amplitood5731]

"The last crisis point now" 😅

[@AlysAmisa]

Interestingly, in a press conference Karoly said that Boguinskaya was finished, but he coached her after 1992. I never understood how she agreed to work with him. And yes, Smeskal seems crappy here.

[@worldartgym]

By all appearances, she was pretty much done in 1992, her difficulty was waning as well as her strength. Karolyi wasn’t entirely incorrect. I’m not sure what her motivation was in returning, but she was a different athlete in 95, 96! Stronger, swinging some mean bars (with grips), and adding difficulty! The 1993-1996 CoP was especially forgiving for an athlete staging a comeback, since front tumbling received very high ratings. As for working with Karolyi, I forget if she worked with him first in Houston or with Alexander Alexandrov. Either way, they appeared to mend their feud, whether exaggerated in the press or not. She appeared to have nothing but nice words for Karolyi when he passed.

[@marcosleon6950]

Las dos estuvieron brillantes..pero mi modestia opinion fue que hubo favoritismo en los jueces para Zmeskal.....

[@markb7163]

Absolutely!

[@courtneypuzzo2502]

Boginskaya is spelled wrong in the Title and this was in the lead up to her 2nd Olympics in Barcelona in Summer 1992 where as that was Zmeskal's first and only Olympics aged 16 min age to compete was 14 the youngest girl on the US team in 1992 was Kerri Strug 14 years 8 mos. the oldest was Wendy Bruce age 19 years 4 mos. only 5 US Gymnasts have ever won 5 medals at the Olympics Mary Lou Retton 1984 Shannon Miller 1992 Nastia Liukin 2008 Gabby Douglas 2012 & Simone Biles 2016 the last Olympics in which Gymnastics was scored under the perfect 10 System was 2004 Athens Greece then it changed to difficulty + Execution the highest difficulty I've ever seen on bars was 7.2 Kaylia Nemour of ALG & Qiu Qiyuan of China though their execution scores were .2 different 8.5 and 8.3 respectively the highest difficulty on floor ex was Simone Biles and had she not gone out of bounds twice her execution score would've also been highest 8.433 so total would've been 15.333

[@worldartgym]

instagram.com/svetlanaboguinskaia?igsh=MWdueHZ3Y2dhcnU3cw== She spells it Boguinskaia

[@scottw6704]

Foreign language characters (such as in Russian) can be translated differently into English. There is no equivalent for the English letter Y in Russian.... That particular sound, in "skaya" looks like a backwards N in their alphabet but it translates to either an i or a y because of the sound it makes.

[@sfhayesvalley]

Boguinskaia was ROBBED! 😄

[@Johannes.P.A.Westblom]

Zmelskals bars should not have scored that high. Low releases, leg separation and no pirouettes/ turns?

[@worldartgym]

Believe it or not, a full pirouette was not required in that code. Crazy but true. She had one in her 1990 routine (as well as a Jaeger requiring a grip change) but Karolyi obviously changed her skills after ‘90.

[@Johannes.P.A.Westblom]

@ I know it wasn’t required per se in the code of points, but should still have made the difference between the gold when the margins were so small. If routines from the 70’s makes yours look essy, it’s outdated.

[@Johannes.P.A.Westblom]

@@worldartgymShe didn’t have the range!

[@markb7163]

No biased judging going on there at all 🤔🤔 Boginskaya was the real champion! ❤

[@worldartgym]

Another video will be out shortly addressing that! Stay tuned.

[@richmyers7759]

Nope Kim Zmeskal was the winner and she deserved it! Americas FIRST WORLD CHAMPION!!!!!

[@markb7163]

@richmyers7759 You're entitled to your opinion. Ill stick with mine.

[@carlosgranados4231]

Bogynskaya era más completa mucho más elegante y era relativamente alta