Ekaterina Lobaznyuk (RUS) - Beam - 2000 Olympic Games (EF)

SILVER - 9.787
*****
Footage belongs to BBC
*****

[@Kaboomboo]

No one did that double back better than she did. Outstanding.

[@Gazmeizster_Wongatron]

Perhaps Fan Ye in 2003.

[@edgarfuentes5173]

One of the greatest beam routines! Pure gold 🥇❤️👏🏻

[@saragrant9749]

Except for the huge pause before the Arabian, it was really good.

[@TheMajesticice01]

One of my favorite Russians

[@nathangred5181]

Does anyone notice all 3 medalists stuck their landings that night? How incredible was that?

[@cyrielle_]

She still has one of the best standing Arabian in the world, so far... Very few gymnasts have the same tight form in the air, and the landing position is dream... I love her so much !!

[@hmrhuang]

I think Carly Patterson does it better. Here, Lobaznyuk takes a LONG time to prepare for the skill and then walks out of it when she's suppose to stick it and then proceed...

[@shushunovafan4301]

Carly Patterson does NOT have a good standing arabian, she lands incredibly deep....

[@misoginainternalizadaopres7131]

Komova?!?!?

[@flfm6736]

@@misoginainternalizadaopres7131 Lobazniuk is one of the best and Komova with Nia are the best

[@pappysprite]

@@shushunovafan4301 Sorry, I completely disagree. The video of each performance clearly shows Lobaznyuk not only lands very deep, but almost off the beam where she had to take an extra step with her left leg. Carly's is absolute perfection. Carly's was better in my opinion and much, much more confident and going into the skill with absolutely no hesitation. Lobaznyuk takes way too long to set herself up for that skill and the obvious delay honestly should have had a big deduction. Just like making timely connections, she needed to go into that skill so much sooner and Carly did just that. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnjYZXhoe7yifM0

[@bryony_mack9921]

She was my coach for 2 years!

[@bryony_mack9921]

@Luis Pala in Langley, BC, Canada. She is very nice and very encouraging, she is one of my favorite coaches!

[@bryony_mack9921]

@Luis Pala Thank you so much!

[@saragrant9749]

Those who have done quite often make the best coaches.

[@donttouch9099]

Just to let you know, she had a panic fear of gymnastic beam. Sometimes she would sit next to it during training, not able to climb it. I can't believe she did THIS.

[@Lyamzik1]

I always loved beam. Never panic on it

[@unleashedgeek7295]

I wonder if that had anything to do with the big pauses she always took before the standing arabian.

[@sanasgirl]

@Nathaniel Walker there's training clips of her training it and she fell a lot very unsafely, her feet would slid off the beam completely at times.

[@Layevskay]

No, she panicked on bars.

[@lf9286]

@@Lyamzik1 are you yekaterina lobaznyuk?

[@yozh5836]

Oh my god dismount so tight and high. 2020 nobody does this.

[@seaes]

love this exercise so much!!! ♥♥♥♥

[@sanasgirl]

I love this girl, Her hair is Iconic. This routine was very nice with good rhythm and grace aswell as difficulty! Her career was cut so short, and if I’m not mistaken she had a very rough life after her career. I wonder where she is now, I honestly don't know. But these games were her games. Miss those Russians !

[@saragrant9749]

From what I understand she lives in Canada and is a coach in a gymnastics club. I could be wrong but that’s what someone mentioned at one point. I remember the knee injury that ended her career, such a shame.

[@emeve3377]

From what I know she is a coach in a gymnastics club and she has a son!

[@sallydaniel1023]

One of the most beautiful beakers ever to grace this sport

[@sallydaniel1023]

Beamers

[@NicoloPaganini1003]

Just realized that it could also be beakers (beam workers) 😂

[@pakopaez]

La verdadera campeona

[@rogelinouicabtrejo4869]

Si hubiera sido así hubieran ganado todas las de oro en aparatos.... Tenían todo para el oro en equipos y oro en individual ....éste era el año de Khorkina ....ni modo

[@saragrant9749]

Nope, not with several balance checks and a substantial pause before her ONE major element. Gymnastics is about more than just Russia 🙄

[@franciscocerqueira2673]

@@saragrant9749 shut up, xenophobic old hag!

[@saragrant9749]

@@franciscocerqueira2673 oooh, big words from someone lazily typing on a keyboard. Glad to know you at least paid attention in kindergarten long enough to learn a couple of big words. I admit it was refreshing watching the world championships this year without a country that believes in doping to win.

[@franciscocerqueira2673]

@@saragrant9749 a russian c*ck definitely ruined your miserable life, insufferable annoying pus$y.

[@javierg.m.3944]

She deserved the gold medal!

[@carocard7074]

As much as I admire her and love her, and this being one of my favorite beam routines, that day Xuan won in a legit way, in my opinion. Let's celebrate we witnessed such beautiful gymnastics, I can't say the same about today's ☹️

[@yuiop6611]

@@carocard7074. I agree with this entire post.

[@wenam87]

Lobaznyuk had great variety in her routine, but that pause before the Arabiam really broke the rhythm and was a glaring issue in the routine. Liu Xuan was perfection, had great flow, and her bhs, ff, 2 foot layout was glorious. Liu deserved the gold.

[@Mhochul]

definitely not

[@Kaboomboo]

If she didn't take so damn long on that Arabian, she very well might have. But alas, it was a huge break in rhythm.

[@BG-dm4lo]

My favourite beam routine of all time

[@kakumei77]

Mine too

[@jonathanmontes9304]

Waooo... ella es increible!!!

[@mariabelenbarreirobugallo3549]

She was an extraordinary gymnast.

[@shock8239]

Катюха большой молодец умника держись ты лучшая!!!!!

[@larisamaksimova1839]

Обокрали. Золото должно быть, не серебро!!!

[@franciscocerqueira2673]

Конечно! Катя заслужила золото!

[@saragrant9749]

Not with the huge pause before the Arabian. That was costly unfortunately.

[@shainarobb5473]

She is my favorite Russian gymnast

[@saranikolic1179]

proud to call her my coach

[@saragrant9749]

She’s in Canada, am I correct? I’d heard she’d moved there.

[@kras118]

Great dismount!

[@timkano6057]

Russia should have won Gold and Silver. Xuan should have been bronze.

[@saragrant9749]

Russia is not the only country deserving gold medals, get over it. Both Russians had major breaks in their routines, this had a huge pause before a skill that was subsequently stepped out of plus several other checks. Liu Xuan had the most flowing and smooth routine of the bunch and EARNED her gold. Sorry your precious princesses didn’t perform to gold standard 🙄

[@marguietbcn9497]

@@saragrant9749 Princesses? Always showing your russophobia in every comment! What a hater!

[@orynbekkoshekbayev655]

My Gosh! She did deserve the GOLD medal! The Chinese gymnast was overscored, for sure! She will be my Olympic Champion forever!

[@bagelized]

Lol and you’re basing this on-? And the “Chinese gymnast” has a name you know lmfao

[@orynbekkoshekbayev655]

​@@bagelized, my personal (!!!) judgement is based on Ekaterina's performance, presentation and the numerous comments people wrote under this video. I'd love to write the Chinese gymnast's name, but I find it hard to remember, though I do not see an issue to call athletes by their nationalities. Even commentators who are well familiar with sports and the athletes as well call them as a Kazakh boxer, American swimmer, Japanese judoka, Russian figure skater, Mongolian wrestler etc. If I wrote, "The chinese was overscored, it would be disrespectful and shameful from my side since I wrote the word "Chinese" with a small letter and I did not use the word "gymnast". I respect Chinese people since China is the country where our great singer - Dimash became popular all over the world after competing in the contest "I'm a singer".

[@AJ-zg5xxw]

@@orynbekkoshekbayev655 No she did not deserve the gold.

[@charlottelee7850]

@@orynbekkoshekbayev655 no she dont deserve the gold at all lol. Liuxuan’s (the name of the chinese gymnast btw) routine was SO MUCH more difficult. She had a lot of moves where she lose sight of the beam. Go rewatch it if u must. And Liu’s overall execution was WAY BETTER. That LONG pause right before the arabian was a major huge deduction and thats the distinction between gold and silver. And tbh, her moves were not as clean as the gold medalist’s. She had a few obvious wobbles. And those costed her the gold.

[@Mhochul]

Russian gymnast took a 10 minute break in the middle of her routine. Definitely not. Should have been bronze

[@jupeter24]

I don't understand why she didn't win GOLD, she had fewer "balance checks" and wobbles than the gold-medal winner.

[@211jump]

the princess the wait before the double Arabian did it for her

[@getnasty08]

To the judges that move out of the Arabian was a deduction. She covered it well, but it would have counted as a wobble. Same with the end of her forward walkover.

[@kreul8736]

Who wins gold?

[@madnatty]

kreul this is the winner kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWSun5mfiLSXd5I

[@kreul8736]

@@madnatty merci

[@justlina2769]

Gorgeous routine.

[@franciscocerqueira2673]

The most shameful injustice of olympic history: Lobazniouk deserved gold!

[@saragrant9749]

Not with a 10 second pause before a skill and several balance checks she didn’t. There was absolutely no injustice here- save for those who seem to think only Russians deserve gold medals. Selfish thinking for certain.

[@sanasgirl]

@@saragrant9749 10 seconds? On what earth are you living.

[@saragrant9749]

@@sanasgirlthe same earth that every single other person- including the judges- who observed the interminally long pause. It was a great routine but that pause completely changed the rhythm and flow- and cost enough in points to be the difference. As much as her routine had great difficulty, Liu Xuan had more flow and rhythm, equal difficulty and less checks. The judges got it absolutely correct.

[@JivagoCampos]

​@@saragrant9749The Chinese Girl has done some mistakes too. Some pauses too.

[@saragrant9749]

@@JivagoCampos not like Ekatarina. Her hesitations were much more subtle, much more slight. Lobaznyuk screwed her self by having such a huge pause before the standing Arabian… which she then stepped out of, showing a lack of control on landing. That was a bigger deduction than what Liu incurred. Liu Xuan rightly earned her gold, Ekatarina rightly earned silver.

[@mimilion5990]

她的難度勝過劉璇，動作也流暢，這是決賽嗎？

[@mimilion5990]

太厲害了！

[@jairofilho6445]

The silence of ginasio is essencial, today the noise is so hight 😢

[@saragrant9749]

The gymnasts train to block out the noise of the stadium they are in- those who are serious about winning anyway. It’s a part of EVERY sport, and if an athlete doesn’t train to ignore it- that’s on them and not the spectators.

[@augustoalmeida2010]

@@saragrant9749 respeto tu opinión pero no lo creo, cómo ex gimnasta de competencia a mí me molestaba el ruido y a muchos de mis compañeros también.

[@saragrant9749]

@@augustoalmeida2010then you were not trained properly. EVERY sport deals with the noise of the crowd, it’s a fact of life. If you don’t learn to ignore it, you will never make it to any higher level.

[@akimbohr]

A nice routine apart from the too long pause before the Arabian. After the fall in the team final she came back and took the silver. I think the scores in the final were right: Gold Liu X. 9.825 Silver Eka L. 9.787

[@элвэргаларга]

Hermosa rutina gran dificultad grande Katy

[@flfm6736]

Arabian was very spread amongst Russian gymnasts

[@ЛораМорган-р4г]

Причем очень сложная комбинация

[@azmadkareem4782]

Does anyone know is she the first to do a standing arabian? The commentator mentioned as her original skill

[@brianmatthews8616]

Karpenko competed it at the 1998 Europeans but certainly it was a rare skill then.

[@Cmc995]

Wasn’t Jennie Thompson doing it in ‘96? Maybe wasn’t Arabian but back with a twist

[@saragrant9749]

Not the first, but one of only a few at that time. The first time I actually remember seeing it was Jennie Thompson, can’t think if anyone did it before then.

[@rafaeliberri3784]

Definitely she was robbed

[@saragrant9749]

No, actually she wasn’t. That long pause before the Arabian was very costly. She got silver, performed extremely well- but that was the difference maker.

[@franciscobrevisp]

Me gustó, pero me gustó muchísimo más Liu Xuan

[@goldenhistory2568]

She was good but lacked the grace of Liu Xuan.

[@objetivista686]

What Liu's Grace? Liu had form issues and minor balance checks.

[@charlottelee7850]

@@objetivista686 and this one has a LONG pause right before the arabian. That’s a major deduction and in gymnast’s world thats like a 60 years pause. The gold medalist’s overall execution was so much better.

[@objetivista686]

@@charlottelee7850 this is was the biggest flaw commited by her but Liu routine was not good on overall execution. It's complex because indeed it was a very long pause e she was deducted by it but her overall execution was better. Bear in mind that skill was extremely rare. She was among the first to execute it. To a chinese, i find Liu execution not good. From the beggining to the end, LOTS of form issues included a very poor turn and extra arm movements caused by balance checks.

[@traceytillman7453]

Too long of a pause I was surprised she medaled at all.

[@marizewakowlsky6615]

Gourgeos