Shannon Miller 1989 Olympic Festival FX

12-year old Shannon Miller on floor during the All-Around at the 1989 U.S. Olympic Festival in Oklahoma City. This meet served as the Junior National Championships.

[@lvega5606]

She talks about this routine in her new book ("It's Not About Perfect"). The fall caused her to slip to 3rd place behind Kim Zmeskal and Erica Stokes. She even talks about the eye roll she gives after the fall - ha ha! So cool to see the routines she mentions in her book.

[@IRunFastest]

Lisa Vega So cool! I can't wait to read the book myself. She was my childhood hero, and still such an inspiration.

[@freddymercury5187]

What a wonderful 12-year-old girl.

[@corystajduhar]

Such a great athlete! The eye roll she made was good!

[@kellykirby9365]

What I find endearing is that she actually has a smile on her face after the mistake, like - whoops! Later in her career she either broke down into tears or looked completely miserable after mistakes :/

[@annapavfan4680]

Kelly Kirby Yeah. That's the art of self doubt and shame.

[@dswete01]

I know. It always made me so sad to see her beat herself up so much for the smallest mistakes.

[@annapavfan4680]

@@dswete01 For real. But her perfection made her a great gymnast. But honestly, she did beat up herself a lot.

[@CathRas95]

I always loved Shannon's gymnastics but always thought she had the saddest eyes

[@dswete01]

That look on her face at the end of the program was so classic. LOL I would have made the same face. 😏

[@IRunFastest]

@beautifulsarah100 Or maybe Khorkina took a page out of Shannon's book :) Agreed, Shannon was the greatest...I've always admired her, she was so humble and didn't care for the spotlight...she let her gymnastics speak for itself.

[@SDoesNotKnow]

I wish commentators would talk about working on dance and sloppy feet these days.

[@angelmannj]

shannon has always landed low on floor.1989 thur 1996!

[@RP-vy8st]

Dang shes good 💯

[@babsfocker7751]

I love Shannon Miller's old face, before her nose job to give her a generic nose

[@snopesshop1903]

Me too

[@amrose4214]

She was doing so good but ran out of gas at the end. The routine had a lot of acrobatics in on top of the dance she not a powerful gymnast like zmeskal so she loses steam halfway through. When her dance is on she beatiful to watch.

[@OMGoc9]

haha she was 12 and her number on the back of her leo was 12

[@mst3kanita]

Wearing that white scrunchie even back then!

[@amrose4214]

Yeh i remember watching this thought music was pretty mixture of classic and upbeat tempo she seemed to to enjoy it here the dance. But yeh oops the fall at the end into an ending poise on the floor like ran out of gas. Her face look eye roll when they paused on the slow mo like oh boy.

[@JustynneDeathWho]

👌 wow you have me completely I do freely 😊😮

[@trstquint7114]

why.

[@JustynneDeathWho]

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