Throwback to team China 🇨🇳 rocking the balance beam at Atlanta 1996!

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[@Luis-qo9oo]

These judge with stupid or headless

[@principessadellefiabe]

Thank you so much for this high quality video! Mo Huilan is pure poetry 😍

[@Zephur0s]

One thing I love about the compulsories is the emphasis on form and execution

[@eh5507]

Something desperately needed these days

[@Anthony-lp1jn]

@@eh5507 fr the fig made gymnastics difficulty>execution

[@pgk3052]

Thank you for posting. I think eliminating compulsory routines was really a huge mistake. There is something to be said for comparing everyone on the same basic skills. Striving for perfection really shows what a gymnast can do under pressure. Those routines can be harder than they look!

[@SDoesNotKnow]

One of the most unfortunate events in Atlanta was how none of the Chinese made event finals for beam.

[@MajorMajesticIce]

It was the compulsories that they didn’t score well with that’s why

[@SDoesNotKnow]

@@MajorMajesticIce I know. So sad, but fair.

[@singsongeric]

@@MajorMajesticIce only for Kui. The major issues for Liu and Mo came from optionals.

[@chuckie102883]

I love you for uploading this!

[@nicksline]

It's such a shame about compulsories for the Chinese team. Most of their routines were super smooth and solid but then they all just had a few big errors. Really wish we'd been able to see kui yuan yuan in the balance beam finals!

[@twebster9498]

Mo's full turn was the best of the compulsories.

[@singsongeric]

Had it not been for that cartwheel I think Mo would have had the highest BB score from compulsories of anyone.

[@fitzgeraldandy1030]

oh my... It's been 26 years that I watch the chinese compulsory Blance beam routines. China/ Russia were same subdivision ( maybe 4) at 96 OG compulsory Team and chinese starts from Balance Beam.... The TV showed from Chinese fx routines so it doesn't exsit chinese compulsory BB routines in my video tapes. .If Kui didn't make mistake she can be podium . And she should have won the Gold at 97 worlds.

[@meow_meowswing]

The 1996 Chinese WAG team was prolly their craziest ever, 2 Mo saltos, Liu Xuan's one arm into release, Kui Yuanyuan's beam etc, and also their best AAer (Mo). Not to mention the incredible mix of choreography, skills, artistry, and routines, such creativity that we won't see until FIG get their one braincell back. Even Shannon Miller was beautiful to watch. The WAG of these two quads are unwatchable.

[@cassenav]

Yao posted up a flawless routine. I have never seen anything that fluid on beam!

[@jja8750]

Other than Mo's cartwheel issue, I'd say that she and Liu Xuan were the best, there. My gosh, Liu Xuan had such gorgeous extension, toe point and fluidity.

[@3Axel1996]

It’s what helped her win gold on the BB final in Sydney.

[@jja8750]

@@3Axel1996 Watching it again, I think Liu Xuan was very underscored on that compulsory routine. That could've been up near 9.7 or so, I would say.

[@gaelgarciabernal2434]

These Chinese gymnasts were STELLAR but the judging was notoriously pro-American, which meant the nuances and exquisite form of the Chinese were ignored, but the magnifying glasses were taken out for every minor flaw. Meanwhile, the Americans performed “solid”, but unspectacular, routines with clear form breaks that were ignored. The compulsory scores for 99% of the Americans clearly reflected home field advantage to appease the raucous crowds.

[@dannymorales7143]

I’m not even sure there was a US judge for compulsory beam in the mix lol. Regardless, no one could touch China on style, but they all had very visible errors that usually resulted in at least 0.1 for the balance check and a simultaneous 0.1-0.3 for rhythm breaks. Besides, China’s first couple scores are deservedly higher than the Americans.

[@gaelgarciabernal2434]

@@dannymorales7143 I stand firmly by my observation. The US didn't deserve the team gold and the questionable judging was a source of low morale for a lot of non-American gymnasts, even before the start of optionals and the Bela Karolyi and Kerri Strug fake circus act. The deduction for flaws and rhythm breaks is fact but they always enforce it with the exquisite performers, like the Chinese. The Americans seemed to be rewarded for simply staying on the apparatus and the judges ignored amplitude, toe point and flexibility.

[@PeirsolFan2]

@@gaelgarciabernal2434 - sorry but the fact that the Chinese got the scores they did with the errors they made shows that the judges would have rewarded them well if they had hit. Qiao Ya getting a 9.3 for those mistakes vs. a conservative Strug getting a 9.3 doesn't seem off. I have no doubt that Mo would have matched - if not beaten, Miller, Moceanu, and Podkopayeva without that error on the cartwheel.

[@buddyboy1309]

The Americans were the only ones to hold the leg up after the cartwheel and China did the fouetté the best. The rest I’d say was equal and you can’t deny the deductions for the semi major wobbles and rhythm breaks.

[@dannymorales7143]

@@gaelgarciabernal2434 Genuinely curious who you think should have won based on the actual performances? The other teams gave it away, the US won pretty handily and fairly IMO. China probably had the best group of athletes but didn't deliver, and Romania got more gifts than anyone, especially on compulsory bars. Russia had a fall or near fall on every event in optionals.

[@Diemme_]

I'd forgotten how nerve wracking this routine was!

[@buddyboy1309]

Please post more full rotations from other teams please! Russian men from this meet would be great to see.

[@samuelrhenley7863]

China could easily have been the team to win Gold at these games !

[@silviokunst7630]

Please upload Beijing 2008 full events: women´s floor, women´s all-around and women´s team. PLEASE !!!!!

[@albertitomoon5002]

The Chinese had the best form in compulsories. Shame about the mistakes

[@dayanerodrigues1827]

Porque todas ginastas fazem a mesma série?

[@chuckie102883]

It’s called compulseries, back then everyone did the same set in the first round.

[@marwahussein666]

Pq eram séries obrigatórias

[@joanamoreira2188]

Beautiful 👋😍

[@Saskatoon-222]

❤awesome 🥇

[@松永理浩]

中国のジムナストの皆様方の演技は最高ですね!

[@Pastyovercoat]

This compulsory beam was difficult. Edit Mao was robbed. 9.475 was far too low

[@Gazmeizster_Wongatron]

I think the mistake on the first element (form break on the mount) soured the judges' eyes a bit. The rest of the routine was great. For what it's worth, I think she ended up as one of the reserves for the beam final with a 9.7-ish score for her optional exercise, which shows how difficult it was to get a great score on compulsory beam that year.

[@saragrant9749]

Mistake on first element and dismount was not stuck. There were also other little places where form wasn’t exact as it should have been.

[@Zarumaans]

I don't know how Kerry Strugg, Amanda Borden, Moceanu, and etc. got higher scores than some of these Chinese routines. The scoring was really wack back then.

[@gaelgarciabernal2434]

Everybody knows the judging at these Olympics was questionable and favored the Americans. On top of that, the Kerri Strug “injury” was staged.

[@PeirsolFan2]

LMAO - you're questioning Moceanu outscoring the Chinese routines? Hers was one of the best of the competition.

[@Zarumaans]

@@PeirsolFan2 Moceanu was the best? Kui Yuanyuan's beam easily trampled all over Moceanu 🤣. And if she's the best, why didn't she win any medal apart from the team medal 🤭

[@PeirsolFan2]

@@Zarumaans she was on COMPULSORY beam. She also had one of the top scores at 1995 Worlds, only behind Mo and one or two others. I do agree that Moceanu was very overrated on optional beam though. I wouldn't have given her silver in Sabae.

[@chuckie102883]

@@Zarumaans Kui fell on compulsories beam mocean didn’t 💡 that would be why mocean had a higher score. It’s not rocket science.

[@nickmann9549]

What are they drinking? I guess they could bring it from China back in 1996!

[@franciscobrevisp]

Liu Xuan (L)

[@objetivista686]

Compulsories, generally, were so boring. Same routine all the time. Glad they were taken out.

[@buddyboy1309]

Vehemently disagree. Eliminating the, was the downfall of the sport quite frankly.

[@objetivista686]

@@buddyboy1309 coincidence

[@soledadferrer1325]

@@buddyboy1309 I agree. We have now compulsories (all routines are the same) with bad form.

[@chuckie102883]

Couldn’t disagree more, the reason why gymnastics is so horrible today and lacks artistry is because compulseries were removed after these Olympics. They emphasized the basics, the foundation and artistry of gymnastics which is no COINCIDENCE that those elements are missing in todays womens gymnastics

[@objetivista686]

@@chuckie102883 gymnastics doesn't need compulsories to keep artistry. Again, it was a coincidence.

[@blablajenny6289]

那時的平行本像立定表演