Throwback to Barcelona 1992 🔙 Team USA on the Balance Beam!

[@OlympicsGymnastics]

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[@anovemberstar]

Back when BALANCE was in beam routines. I miss those handstand holds

[@AA-ct7cb]

And such beautiful lines.

[@heidikirsch9100]

​@@AA-ct7cbyes! You don't find that nearly as much now. It was more balletic than. Very elegant.

[@alfy80mc]

Lil Dominique Dawes love her Forever!

[@Cmc995]

Shannon was so ahead of every gymnast at this games in terms of overall aesthetic aside from maybe Tatiana Lysenko. Dawes was young here but another one of the all time great beam workers

[@tericaclark4871]

Dawes didn't wobble on the balance beam..just food for thought..miller was overrated

[@Cmc995]

@@tericaclark4871 love Dawes but she wasn’t on Shannon’s level she was close but not quite there, not overrated at all. Regardless of a wobble i meant overall aesthetic, form, dance and presentation etc. Shannon also had better mental game, that’s food for thought! 😅

[@tericaclark4871]

@@Cmc995 yeah ok if u say so🤣🤣🤣

[@heidikirsch9100]

​@@tericaclark4871she was amazing!

[@heidikirsch9100]

​@@Cmc995they both were just wonderful! Exquisite. I miss the elegant look they both brought.

[@SnoodleDoot]

Me watching this and realizing what a difficult time the early 90s were for bangs. 😅

[@shar6310]

Wave bangs❤

[@albertitomoon5002]

Shannon the best!❤️❤️

[@chrisjacobsen5558]

My first games I ever watched in full!

[@ameliabedelia7018]

You must be ripe and juicy now!

[@sophier5508]

Barcelona is my favorite Olympic Games, thanks for posting :) It feels weird to see all these ladies in their own bubble, almost never smiling, looking so serious and focused, not speaking to each other, I am glad times have changed

[@JASWINDERsingh-tq3gi]

Very true Sophie

[@unknown-lf6zx]

Gymnastics just isn’t the same now 😢

[@principessadellefiabe]

Yes I agree. They seemed not to have fun, like they were there just to fight, and to fight against anyone else, no matter if teammates or foreigners ☹️.

[@JennaLeigh]

Barcelona was my first Olympics to follow closely! Glad the energy has changed and the girls can be friendly. Can't help but think the Karolyis are the reasons for the tension.

[@minivisa5905]

And now routines SUI

[@stephaniekelly8754]

FAB FAB FAB. They were so amazing, all of them❤️❤️❤️

[@SongbirdCollageArts]

Incredible quality--thank you!

[@alicemcfarlane9717]

Watching this really drives home just how tiny Kerri Strug & Kim Zmeskal really are 😮

[@TheRobertoburgos1999]

Thank you for including scores !!!!!!

[@LivingInElysium]

When you get to Kim's routine and suddenly, you're just like, ooh Lavinia's on FX!

[@tericaclark4871]

Milosovichi is one of my faves

[@francisnguyen6349]

Barcelona 1992 Summer Olympic Games are incredible performance for Team USA 🇺🇸 Women's Artistic Gymnastics on balance beam.

[@acapannn]

The floor music did matched with shannon beam routine ❤️

[@tericaclark4871]

I actually know wendy bruce... she's from my city and i trained at brown's gym a couple of times and i saw her there

[@ranacrouch776]

Her mount was quite impressive and innovative. The front sumi was also outstanding. Most gymnasts didn't incorporate them until the following year or 1994.

[@LexyTheEbikeQueen]

They look way better then today girls love how they just give elegant

[@benrobinson77]

Its funny how Shannon's almost-fall at 15:03 matched the mood of the music at that exact time, ha!

[@ShelleeGraham]

I see that now! (Note: You might edit your time stamp to about 15:05) thank you.

[@benrobinson77]

@@ShelleeGraham updated actually to 15:03. Hope ur happy now. Streaming differences will never make it exact.

[@TRUNGNGUYEN-bz9th]

30 years ago, Team USA Women's Artistic Gymnastics are working on Balance Beam route!

[@элвэргаларга]

Me encanta ver a kim y shannon

[@gedshepherd3106]

Gutsu

[@kubrickfan]

Dawes was the first athlete to throw back-handspring into three consecutive layout-step-outs in world or Olympic competition. Lysenko and Miller competed it after her on this day of competition.

[@SabrinaVoineaSStolenMedal]

Only based on the lineup but nice try. All Dawes did was copy Miller. Miller trained a full in, Dawes trained a full in. Miller did 3 layouts, Dawes copied her.

[@kubrickfan]

@@SabrinaVoineaSStolenMedal This is unverifiable, but thank you for playing.

[@gymstyle5091]

@@kubrickfan You need a life. It's sad and pathetic that you spend your days on Miller videos insulting her and praising racist Dominique.

[@bojohns77]

@@SabrinaVoineaSStolenMedal But that's how it works. She would still be the first. Since we are playing this game, Dawes to this day is still one of a handful of athletes to compete 2 back handsprings to full twisting double dismount. We didn't see it consistently done again until Simone ( over twenty years later). And how many are we seeing this quad so far🤔? But we don't really want to talk about copying because then we would have to talk about Shannon trying to keep up with Dominique on floor and failing miserably, double lay out anyone? But both of these athletes are one of the main reasons US gymnastics has gotten to where it is. Without those two together pushing one another (because no one else in the US could keep pace with them), we would never have gotten to where we are. We definitely would not have won that gold in 96. So let's stop the one copied the other bull.

[@jovanmcgee3757]

Didn’t Mari Kosuge do it at 1991 and 1992 Worlds?

[@jamesrobertsiv]

Great upload! Would love to see the Romanians on optional floor from 1992 as well, if possible. 🙂

[@Sakura_OHSHC09]

First! Also nice job to team USA 🇺🇸 Even though I am from the uk 🇬🇧

[@Cmc995]

Not Wendy’s best event but she held on 💪🏼

[@davidcheung7789]

Truly heartbreaking to see Kim Zmeskal fall off the beam and trying so hard to bounce back after to make the top spots to no avail.

[@ferdyspears]

Odd comment. She did make the All-around. Barcelona still had the 3 per country rule, and she did advance despite the fall in compulsory. In the all-around, she faced heavy competition from some of the all-time greats and couldn't get it done. The many small errors she made in the all-around kept her from medaling.

[@rolandgreen7484]

@@ferdyspears Particularly with her decreased difficulty on floor (due to injury) she would have had to have a picture perfect competition on all 4 events just to edge out MIlosovici for the bronze. As it was she got a 9.937 on vault and 9.9 on bars, both where she hit. Her best beam score of the whole Games was 9.912, and best floor score of the whole Games was 9.925. That totals 38.674, and still falls short of the bronze, and ties Bontas/Boginskaya for about 4th/5th/6th.

[@principessadellefiabe]

I began watching gymnastics in 1996,so my question is: all SIX team members competed on each event during team final? It's been quite a surprise for me to watch. In Atlanta the competition was 7-6-5 (7 team members, 6 gymnasts for apparatus, 5 scores to count). I never found detailed scores of Barcelona team final, so I would really appreciate if someone may explain how it worked that time. 🙏

[@mikeg8375]

In 1992 the teams were made of 6 gymnasts, all 6 performed all the events, 5 scores counted on each event. So it was 6-6-5. This was changed to 7-6-5 after the 1992 Olympics. After 1996 it became 6-5-4 and it has continued to evolve since then.

[@principessadellefiabe]

Thank you so much Mike! 😍

[@mikeg8375]

@Barbara P. you are most welcome. It's always nice to find other fans of the sport and the Olympics on KZbin. I just wish it was as much of an experience these days watching Olympic Gymnastics on TV... in 1996 the entire Gymnastics competition was shown on tape delay, but without the internet in everyone's hand, the results were not known to fans as they watched in prime time. Fast forward to today and watching in prime time without already knowing the result is almost impossible and it has taken away from the authenticity of the experience. It's just not the same. I try to catch some of the coverage live on streaming online but with being a working person this is a challenge due to the time change. "Plausibly live" is not a thing anymore. I am hoping that the 2028 Los Angeles Games might allow for some live prime time coverage. It would be nice to recreate the magic of the 1996 games for the fans.

[@principessadellefiabe]

I totally agree with you Mike... Anyway, I really appreciate your videos 👍🙏

[@LexyTheEbikeQueen]

15:34 her routine was the best

[@rmc2001]

When Strug was on beam Zmescal was on floor. When Zmescal was on beam Milosovici was on floor

[@ranacrouch776]

Someone else used the same music as Kim. I couldn't believe it.

[@Tristan0712]

Zmeskal was not on floor when strug was on beam, the team stays together for each event.

[@rmc2001]

Sorry, I was just going by the music

[@seensay2132]

So Dawes was the first to throw 3LOSOs in combination at the Games?!! Before Miller and Lyssenko. She was Grossly underscored smdh

[@metsdudenj]

Not really, there were at least .3 in deductions on her routine.

[@janetjohnson7279]

👻Have a Happy Halloween!🎃

[@lalanam1660]

Those landing mats look so painful, I wish they had a softer mat. I cringe when they land

[@saragrant9749]

It’s the reason gymnasts retired very young for the most part back then. It’s obviously much better today.

[@AA-ct7cb]

Top comment!

[@courtneypuzzo2502]

Dawes and Miller are the first two American Olympians to compete in 3 Olympics Barcelona 1992 Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000

[@yellowdido]

Miller didn’t compete in 2000. She withdrew during the Olympic trials.

[@elisabethmorning3735]

I can’t believe how overscored these routines were. 😳

[@saragrant9749]

The scoring system was very different back then. It was more about composition, rather than any kind of form. If you want overscored… try the Soviets.

[@florentabalta5856]

acelea erau vremuri când dacă te clătinai pe bârnă nu mai sperai la vreo medalie ....

[@minivisa5905]

SIMON BILES could do 4 flips

[@denisewalsh6586]

Simone has never done a backhandspring into 3 back layouts on beam like Shannon, Dominique from over 20 years ago.

[@shinjineesen400]

Why did Dominique Dawes get less (9.637) than Wendy Bruce (9.712)? I thought her routine was far more challenging.

[@e2theeyepie]

Probably the balance checks, Dominique had quite a few.

[@longbranch11207]

Kelly hill said Dawes was always underscored because of her race

[@gymstyle5091]

@@longbranch11207 Dominique has bad form. She was overscored. Not underscored. You don't know anything about this sport if you watched Dawes routine and think it was better than Wendy

[@SabrinaVoineaSStolenMedal]

@@gymstyle5091 She had huge bobbles throughout her routine and someone actually thinks she was underscored. Do these people know this sport at all? I swear some gym fans are on drugs

[@Tophytoph]

Probably the balance checks, but I agree her difficulty is higher. She would’ve soared in today’s CoP. Dawes bad form tho? Nahhh big trippin on that one!

[@rowan64official]

Didn't they drop from 2nd to 3rd on this rotation. Or was it the next rotation??? Except for Shannon's these routines are not very impressive. A lot of unstuck landings.

[@savicka1588]

Kad vidim ovo dodje mi da se opet bavi gimnastikom❤

[@windyboy1848]

The most overrated team in Olympic history ! LoL

[@JennaLeigh]

They won Bronze.... No individual gold. Overrated HOW??!?

[@windyboy1848]

@@JennaLeigh Because they are !!

[@JennaLeigh]

@@windyboy1848 okeydoke!

[@metsdudenj]

That would be the GDR team in 1988 and Hungarian team in 1972

[@windyboy1848]

@@metsdudenj They equaled ! LoL