Nastia Liukin's Beijing 2008 Floor Routine to 'Variations on Dark Eyes' | Music Monday

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This week on Music Monday we feature the Floor exercise of Artistic Gymnast Nastia Liukin to 'Variations on Dark Eyes' from the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing that brought her and the US-American team the All-Around Silver Medal. Enjoy watching!
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[@Olympics]

Are you missing your favorite Olympic performance to music? Just let us know in the comments and we will add them to a future #MusicMonday!

[@keishaaulia7545]

I miss exo on Korea 2018 closing winter Olympics ceremony:(

[@DeepSeas..]

PLEASE post Evgenia Kanaeva's ball routine from qualifications at the London Olympics! It was the highest-scoring routine of the entire championships and was absolutely beautiful.

[@JohnnyTruz]

Eythora Thorsdottir 2016

[@Kirarissbf]

Yana Kudryavtseva Hoop 2016 please

[@andreding6401]

WANG Yan 2016RIO AAfx please!!!!!!!

[@adrianops7]

One of the most beautiful floor music that we've ever been given - and Liukin did it justice to its beauty

[@LebkuchenProduction]

Russian folk songs are always beautiful 💜

[@rmxevbio5889]

Agree. This and early mustafina's choice always will be iconic floor music

[@Gymnastics-me8hu]

They should've chosen her AA or EF routine instead of TF because she scored higher in both those competitions. Also, she stepped out of bounds on her first path, and she never did step out of bounds after that whenever she competed in AA or EF.

[@eurekamreum5458]

Her ending pose was so elegant and beautiful! One of my faves for sure

[@icankillforgaga]

This routine made me fall in love with gymnastics. TEAM NASTIA

[@keishaaulia7545]

Always been a fan of her omg 😭

[@Dia-ug8mf]

She should really do ballet now that she has retired. Her lines and flexibility are out of this world gorgeous!

[@MossyBallerina]

I agree that her lines are gorgeous, but to do ballet (professionally, at least) you have to start at a young age, just like gymnastics. It's a whole different set of skills, and the retirement age for ballet is super young, like with gymnastics.

[@jmrgtapper]

@@MossyBallerina not true about the age requirement! I dance professionally in a ballet company and we have some principal dancers that are in their 40’s and some people that started later than 10. It’s all about the drive and how you treat your body.

[@MossyBallerina]

@@jmrgtapper I mean yeah, there are exceptions. Misty Copeland started at 13 and is now one of the best dancers in the world. And you can continue on being a professional ballet dancer into yours 40s, but if you want to be a professional ballet dancer, you have to start young. You can start ballet as an adult and have a great time with it, but you can't start ballet as an adult and go on to be a professional ballet dancer. I may not be a professional dancer myself, but I've taken ballet for more than a decade, and know numerous people who have gone on to be professional dancers.

[@donaldholderdoc2910]

Couldn't agree more! ESPECIALLY with her hight and flexibility.

[@donaldholderdoc2910]

@@jmrgtapper I agree with your professional assessment of age not being a factor. But I think the most basic asset is athleticism. You gotta be born with those basic body abilities. At least to do it at a professional level I think like you do.

[@steveneven5128]

This is probably the most artistic floor routine ever. The music matches the choreography perfectly. There’s no awkward pauses. It all flows beautifully.

[@zara-hc5wy]

She’s so pretty

[@francisnguyen6349]

Wow she's became first Russian American Artistic Gymnast to win gold medal in Women's All-Around her name is Nastia Liukin.

[@JohnnyTruz]

Queen Nastia

[@DeepSeas..]

PLEASE post Evgenia Kanaeva's ball routine from qualifications at the London Olympics! It was the highest-scoring routine of the entire championships and absolutely beautiful.

[@aashisharibam4946]

Yess this!!

[@MsDidi38]

Proof that women's gymnastics can be both athletic and beautiful.

[@keelylewis6369]

Fun fact: there are no bhs in this routine. Can’t think of another floor routine without one.

[@shar-ky3736]

Got. Rebecca bross. No bhs also.

[@keelylewis6369]

Ahh, good call!

[@steveneven5128]

What’s bhs!?!?

[@cici79]

Back Handspring !

[@AmericanGirlGymnasts]

shar - ky interesting that Rebecca was also coached by Nastia’s dad... Valeri must not believe in back hand springs😂

[@arturoarroyo969]

This is my favorit routine. She looks like a ballet dancer is beautyful amazing ellegance. Wow. I love nastia

[@nathan10120]

Her routine had perfect form throughout the entire thing except for the double front, but I guess she would have done it like that anyways because her dad did men’s gymnastics and he also did his triple back tuck like that as well.

[@adamolition8702]

Is it weird that for the past year I've had the whole song in my phone and played it at the gym when I worked out?

[@miguelQR]

Beautiful ❤️

[@andreding6401]

why not choose her EF performance?

[@monicablack5136]

Wow!

[@himalayanexplorer1667]

Amazing

[@RITMIQUEANDOCONDAIRA]

Genial 👏🌹bravooooo 🥇👍saludos a todos ❤

[@kp395]

For some reasons , it looked as if Nastia stepped out of bounds on the first pass … intentionally (As we can see that she was totally awared of where she landed). Shawn did the same weird mistake during the team competition. Hmm, so that Alicia was not the only one to be blamed? 😉

[@Gymnastics-me8hu]

In my opinion, the Americans didn't have a chance to battle for gold with China after Alicia fell on beam. Since Alicia Sacramone fell and went out of bounds on floor, both Nastia and Shawn did the same after that. So more tenths were taken away from their team total score.

[@kp395]

@@Gymnastics-me8hu Yes. What I meant is , Martha slammed Alicia extremely harshly after her floor and beam routine. And since there were no ways that the US team could top the podium, for some reasons, it looked as if Nastia did that step out on purpose, so that Alicia didn't take all the blame. As you can clearly see that Nastia did not need that lunge forward after the double twist, she had stuck that already, and she stepped back immediately afterwards even without looking at her feet, as she was totally awared of where she landed.

[@sktzn6829]

@@kp395 That is a possibility now that you point it out. She did not need to lunge at all, but it seems she did it just to draw attention away from other mistakes from the team.

[@matthewkretschmer7010]

She's really pretty.

[@xeniakenakis5071]

Perfetta, magnifica!

[@lilithaeron1854]

It will be awsome to do Nadia Comăneci, Daniela Silivas or Lavinia Milosovici!

[@DJLiu-rj4zx]

Why is the thumb nail a beam move when this is about floor?

[@AaronLin721]

In the description of this video, it's correct that the USA team got silver medal but didn't Nastia Liukin get a gold medal in the All-Around? I'm confused.

[@eurekamreum5458]

She got gold in the individual all-around competition, but this was the team all-around.

[@catofninetales3125]

Infinitely long legs! Great!

[@trendymaths2467]

Just wondering this has the exact same thumbnail as your other video on ‘Women’s Individual Artistic Gymnastics All-Around Final...’ Is she photoshopped because in the other one it’s a pink leotard and in this one it’s the red one?

[@unknownuser_99]

This was from the Team Final, a different competition.

[@donaldholderdoc2910]

I don't care what Nastia is doing. Gymnastics, dancing, walking, sitting, whatever. as long as she's showing those absolutely gorgeous killer legs!🌹🌹🌹She's even more gorgeous today than she was here. However, this wasn't really one of her better routines. It was elite. But she's done better.

[@simpletruth5927]

Carolina Kostner Ave Maria please!

[@actorboy2]

She's like a beautiful, graceful Stretch Armstrong. A boneless wonder woman.

[@alinamervin3481]

13.600

[@martinapetrini9386]

e anche il volteggio

[@stvp68]

What was the red flag for? Out of bounds?

[@Gymnastics-me8hu]

Yes

[@stvp68]

Gymnastics 101 thanks

[@tyt.862]

Coca Cola leotard🥤

[@martinapetrini9386]

è meglio la trave

[@lf9286]

Jiang Yuyuan was totally robbed in 2008.