Team Romania was on 🔥 at Athens 2004! 🇷🇴

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[@royarredondo446]

My favourite team ever. Catalina is the ultimate queen. She was on fire.

[@marialidiana9516]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤

[@darklight1030]

Preach!

[@brunomartinez3652]

The HEIGHT on Oana’s first pass. Amazing. They’re all icons 💘

[@Ian.D.]

It's because she usually did a full-twisting layout. That's her "safe" routine. 😁

[@wenam87]

@@Ian.D. There was one point where she was training a 1.5 twisting back tuck on beam. I would've done anything to witness that.

[@sovurss]

The last great Rumanian team in women's gymnastics. An wonderful tradition from 1976 until 2004! Great names like Nadia Comabeci, Ecaterina Szabo, Simona Pauca, Daniela Silivas, Simona Amanar, Gina Gogean and Catalina Ponor. I miss the great Rumanian women's gymnastics teams.

[@PedroHenrique-vo2eg]

2012 was Also a superb team. Catalina Ponor, Sandra Izbasa, Larisa Iordache, Diana Bulimar and Diana Chelaru.

[@sovurss]

@@PedroHenrique-vo2eg But USA and Russia ruled that competition.

[@sorinrusu1022]

Aurelia Dobre ,Camelia Voinea,etc

[@virgildofin7529]

Andreea Raducan...

[@mariaelenagarcia607]

Lavinia Milosovichi, Teodora Ungureanu.

[@mercedesjudson4557]

Como se las extraña a las rumanas.

[@reginagoncalves5512]

Incríveis romenas povo lindo..nota 1000 para todas

[@ruylsonsantos2464]

Catalina is unquestionable the best of the entire world

[@danielacinderella9501]

Incredibil ! Am așteptat 18 ani s-o văd și pe Silvia Stroescu la Atena JO 2004 ! Pentru că TVR-ul nu arăta niciodată concursul de calificări , iar în finala pe echipe , televiziunile occidentale le arătau mai mult pe americance și pe rusoaice ! Silvia a fost extraordinară , la fel ca și toate celelalte fete ale noastre ! Dacă erau toate aceste exerciții în finala de la bârnă de la Liverpool 2022 , Romania ar fi avut primele 6 locuri, iar Japonia și Canada locurile 7și 8 , în loc de medaliile de aur și argint !! 😂😍😍😍

[@danielacinderella9501]

Oana did 9 difficult jumps , most of them in combination : Dscore would have been around 8 in actual CP 22-24 !! And E : more than 9.5 !!! 😍😍😍

[@ablue5419]

What a Beautiful routine of Silvia Stroescu in balance beam one of the best for sure. 💛

[@Jesse-gx7mn]

I didn't catch that one-handed pass by Ponor during her routine, amazing!

[@alexandrupreda1994]

Nobady will belive this coment! Silvia Stroescu whas my university teacher. :)

[@Claudius123]

Oana Ban not qualifing for the Final is pure heartbreak....Romania was awesome on beam

[@nicolais.4307]

how much more complicated and interesting routines look than now

[@jakejansen1947]

All their dismounts were incredible. Two stuck double tucks, two triple twists, and a full twisting double tuck. We don’t see dismounts like these anymore.

[@francisnguyen6349]

Catalina Ponor is her 2004 Olympic Champions in Athens from Romanian 🇷🇴 Artistic Gymnast.

[@vanyaslavko2679]

I love and live for this Team.

[@arturomora1868]

Todas son impresionanten...me encanta verlas

[@danielgoncalves5499]

This team was gold! Best team Romania’s ever had ❤

[@arturomora1868]

Me encanta Catalina ponor❤

[@macioamaral2888]

They were unbeatable

[@mikeg8375]

This was possibly the peak of Romanian Gymnastics - they won team gold and 3 of the individual events here. They proved how much consistency mattered under the 10.0 system. Unfortunately the future open-ended code did not favor them. Its sad to think they didnt even qualify a team in 2016 or 2020.

[@poshbo]

I think describing the post 2006 COP as "open ended" is kinda of a misnomer; although SV is no longer subject to a hard cap like under the 10 point system, how much SV you can have is still limited by what's possible and permissible under the COP. That that COP inevitably favours some gymnasts and countries over others. And, like you say, it just hasn't favoured Romania. The 2008 COP had sky high SVs on UB, Romania's worst event. Under the 10 point system you could fairly easily get 10.0 SV on UB so even weak Romanian routines at least go there and be competitive. Even in 2012 and 2016, UB scores were higher than in other events, Mustafina scored near or over 16.0 in both Olympics while even the best BB and FX routines could barely get over 15.5. After 2013, the G cap on tumbling was also removed and tumbling on FX started to reach H, I and J, which favoured the USA whose gymnasts tended to be more muscular and powerful tumblers (like Biles). But at least Romania remained competitive in 2008 and 2012. After that, their system started to crumble and standards dropped due to long term under investment whereas the USA has thrown money at gymnastics. Going forward, Romania doesn't look like it has the money to invest in gymnastics to recover their glory years and the country now has other priorities. But if members of this 2004 team competed today and were still physically at their peak, they'd definitely challenge for the medals. Just look at Ponor, she was highly competitive in 2012 and could have even won bronze in 2016 (if not for nervous errors).

[@Eusoueu77]

Ponor.. always the best on beam ❤️ but all they were just perfect 👌🏻

[@wenam87]

I really liked Silvia Stroescu's flight series on beam. I think it's worth .2 in bonus with the current COP (cv bonus and B+D bonus). Hopefully we'll see more combos like this. And Romania was unstoppable that night watching it back in 2004 as there was no point that I was nervous for them (maybe a couple on bars).

[@poshbo]

I think the LOSO into Onodi is worth 0.2 CV since it involves a change of direction. It's a valuable combination but difficult. She also gets 0.1 SB.

[@eiraremejeene]

I don't know much about scoring and the code, but these routines still look competitive today for me.

[@andresn.8507]

even better

[@tatilalima2874]

Oana Ben OMG! Perfeita 👏🏾😻👏🏾😻

[@danielacinderella9501]

Esatamente !! Oana should have won Gold Medal AA in 2003 !! She was underscored at every apparatus ! 😂😍😍😍

[@MrAfar007]

one of the best teams ever

[@Rose07013]

The best Olympic Games ever Athens 2004 I watched it live back then Romanian gymnasts are by far the best team in the world love to see them come back strong 😊☺️ back to back gold medal 🥇 team in Sydney 2000 Olympics

[@chrisamon80]

How about uploading Women's All-Around Individual full replay of Athens 2004?

[@tix5094]

Amo isso

[@akaidensya2000]

Catalina Ponor ❤❤

[@fantasmaformaggino6966]

how did Oana Ben not qualify for the final? She made a great beam

[@carlomarousi9637]

Por favor subir los ejercicios de suelo de Rumania 🇷🇴 de ATHENS2004

[@windyboy1848]

Romania is better than USA and China in women gymnastics for sure especially in the past ! 👍

[@paulpita4379]

USA is better now because they have Romanian trainees

[@windyboy1848]

@@paulpita4379 Yep, like Nadia Comaneci ! 😅

[@Marketoromagnolo]

what a pity now Romania is only 24 place at worlds and not qualified at olympics

[@miguelgarcia9432]

This Team, Russia 2000, Soviets 1991, Fav 5 London and of course Mag. 7 Best teams ever

[@andreid.8568]

If Porgras would've stayed until London, in 2012 they could've had their best beam lineup. Imagine: Beam: Porgras, Ponor, Iordache Floor: Ponor, Izbașa, Iordache

[@flaviocostareal]

Is just me or the Oana serie looks like the Shawn Johnson beam?

[@felizamarro1508]

Oana Ban had the potential to be that year's individual all around champion. She was incredible. Unfortunately an injury kept her out of the competition.

[@kelvinseeker94]

She was one of the participant in Women of Ninja Warrior(Japanese early version)

[@jorgebonilla2234]

Her bars would have kept her out of it.

[@shahrulnashriq547]

Oana Ban and Nicolete Sofronie. This two also strong contender in floor exercise. Solid movement, jumping and sommersoult.

[@objetivista686]

Compare with today's gym. Extremely similar routines, the hideous ''wolf turn'', silly choreographies in most series...

[@janethchavez]

Why there is no crowd?

[@mathseacav]

This might be qualification

[@alexbeynon2335]

This was during qualifications, which occurred during a major Greek holiday

[@victorgr.3938]

I remember hearing the commentators say during this qualifying round that the tickets were a little too expensive.

[@danielgoncalves5499]

I don’t get why they put Sofronie after Ponor in the line up 🤔

[@b.razote3279]

Ughhh I miss those front loso + bhs loso + bhs loso series >.< now it’s just so boring

[@janetjohnson7279]

🌺🌻 🌻🌺

[@orvenpamonag2234]

Its sad Romania does not excel/dominate in Gymnastics anymore unlike in the 80s till 00s.

[@aperolspritzzz1]

beam routines nowadays are far from this hard tho! I wonder why?

[@arkdude8484]

yeee

[@lpoco0006]

the last time that Romania was great

[@iliair]

in 2012

[@aldeshunwilson2564]

Definitely one of the best team performances ever

[@SonOfAGun1814]

they were on fire at the 2000 olympics as well where Andrea Raducan won gold in the AA!

[@洪小姐Azalina民主伟大]

the last Romanian team born before democracy

[@Ge0rGi.]

We have been a democratic country since 1990