Her dance series is so expertly choreographed in her routine. You don't even notice it because it IS choreography. I miss routines with this kind of artistic construction... and Miller was such an exquisite dancer. She doesn't get enough credit for her artistry on FX.
Agreed. I respect the gymnasts of today (obviously they work hard and are extremely talented), but I don't enjoy watching them nearly as much. Everything seems so robotic. The actual artistry part of gymnastics has long since been gone. The dancing was a beautiful part of gymnastics and this routine demonstrates this beautifully. This is one of the reasons I prefer to watch Russian gymnasts: they have a background in ballet and their routines utilize the artistry of the sport and always have beautiful music to enhance their routines.
@@dylanthepickle6428 To me listening to him while doing her floor routine at the Olympics was annoying, but with me being the extremely rare exception: nobody is perfect
Back when dance and artistry were actually well incorporated into gymnastics. The gymnasts of today (moreso here in the US, actually) are outstanding in their own right, but the dance aspect is pretty much gone and you're really just waiting for the next amazing tumbling pass between a lot of robotic movements. You can tell that ballet, contemporary dance, and jazz styles were an integral part of gymnastics back in the 90s. I miss that aspect so much.
As another comment said, it’s all the code of points. If they never changed it the way they did, there would definitely still be that balletic dance aspect that almost every gymnast used to have. There’s a select few today who still have it, like riley McCusker and others, but it’s sort of rare. The code of points no longer rewards those nice dance movements as much as the passes and the jumps, so the gymnasts just squeeze in a few hand movements and call it a day. It’s quite sad actually, because they aren’t even trained to dance anymore. It would be very nice to see more dance today in the routines, but unless the COP is changed back I know that won’t happen. I could seriously talk about this all day, but I’ll just stick to watching 70s-90s gymnastics lol
buddy boy And now you have Catalina Ponor from Romania competing consistently on beam and floor at almost 30 and Oksana Chusovitna still vaulting at 42 lol
Right! Simone Biles was 19 at the 2016 Olympics and continues to improve. One thing I'm glad about gymnastics these days (which isn't much) is that at least the sport isn't just about underage waifs anymore.
This is Nationals but Shannon nailed every landing and had the best presentation of anyone at this meet. She deserved the best floor score of this meet
i remember being OBSESSED with her and this leo. she had absolutely incredible musicality and dance ability. i think she was the most skilled with her dance skills, not as stiff as most gymnasts typically are. you can really see her ballet training here.
Shannon has beautiful lines and her quality is always perfect. Shannon is known as a rounded gymnast with no major weaknesses on any events, which led to her multiple all around titles. Shannon is remembered for her Olympic success along with perfect form and execution. But most importantly, She is a role model in the gymnastics community for all ages.
When I was 6, she was my hero. I learned to do a back walk-over on my own from her. Around 13 I was doing back/ front flips on a trampoline. (self taught)
Love this routine. Great music and choreography. Even though that double layout wasn't perfect, I really respected her going for a more difficult routine. You could tell that this was not easy for her, but she fought through it did it so well.
Great job Shannon did here. The music is beautiful, mixing very well with the tumbling and her interpretation is on point. I love her turns whether she is standing up or rolling on the floor. Great posture as well. Love it! As good as you can get.
My favourite Shannon floor routine. I wish she'd been able to hit like this in the Olympics. I know the DLO was piked down here, and chest low on the full twisting double, but she was so good at hiding that stuff. She didn't really have enough power for the DLO though, I'd have liked for them to have realised that and structured the routine a bit differently. Might have helped with the final pass too.
I agree with you. This is my favorite floor routine ever from Shannon Miller. I think it is absolutely beautiful and I thought the same thing - I wish she would have executed this routine exactly the same at the Olympics! I had a feeling, however, that she was always going to find the double layout in particular to be very challenging and it did end up biting her a bit.
@@pappysprite Steve Nunno was a horrible coach and horrible man, and wanted her to do skills for his own ego, it was never about what was best for his athletes. He atleast was better in that regard with Shannon than everyone else since she was his favorite, but still selfish at times. Kerri Strug who was coached by him for over a year even spoke about that in her book. He could have and should have had her do a different skill she could hit more consistently, and still been out of a 10. However his ego wanted a double layout despite the adverse risk to her.
If she would have hit that routine like that in Atlanta, what do we think her score would have been like with the international judges? 9.8 range? 9.837-50 ish?
Well if she hit floor in team optionals she would have likely bumped Dawes out of the finals (due to Dawes's compulsory score). As it was Dawes only made it as alternate to Strug and Moceanu, despite outscoring both in optionals, and only got to compete due to Strug WDing. Then she would have only had to beat Moceanu for a medal which seems doable.
Beautiful routine. That sort of tours jete jump with her legs separating at the end like butterflies is SO gorgeous and SO unique. It's like flying cartwheels. And this routine is so unique. So much of what I see now on floor exercise looks the same to me. I think Steve Nunno and Shannon Miller were a pairing for the ages. And Shannon wasnt abused (as far as I know). From the moment Nunno saw Shannon from afar when she was just a determined little girl it was a riveting alliance. Shux. I just read a very negative comment about Nunno pushing Shannon and others more for ego than what was good for them. The comment said Keri Shrug said something about it in her book. If it is true, I am very sorry to hear this. I did notice Shannon wasnt joyous after the routine when Nunno was hugging her, as if it had been too big of a strain and she had felt too much pressure-and-was trying to please Nunno too badly. She looked worried throughout and afterward that seemed beyond just good concentration or being tired. What a gymnsst Shannon was though. I think the double laid out summersault was incredible.
That's Simone Biles. Biles has earned eight Olympic medals, beating Shannon Miller as the most successful American gymnast in the Games. Biles has four golds to Miller’s two
In terms of tumbling it´s definitely her most difficult floor exercise and well done, although in terms of some of her skills it's not the precise and mechanical Shannon that we used to see some years before;
Is it just my perception or was the floor a lot less ‘springy’ back then?? I was just watching Aly Raisman doing her final floor exercise in the 2012 Olympics and the floor she was on seemed almost trampoline springy. Listening hear to Shannon’s performance it sounds brutal when she lands after a tumble.
Yes, it was less springy. 4 inch springs were introduced in the 80s (it was just a hard solid floor before the 80s), and recent years we had 8 inch springs, allowing for more air time and more complex acrobatics.
This would have scored c9.800 in the Atlanta all around which would have placed her comfortably in silver medal position. What a shame the DLO cost her due to her wrist injury.
Thank you for sharing! I absolutely loved Shannon Miller in the 1996 Olympics; my parents would actually wake me up to watch her compete when the games ran late. So much nostalgia! A quick question: were the championships the trials to get to the Olympics? I can’t remember.
Please don't come for me - I am genuinely asking. I love Simone Biles and I started looking at old footage of other gymasts to see how gymnastics have progressed, and I can't tell why people consider Simone Biles better than Shannon Miller? Shannon Miller looks like she can do all the routines Simone can do. Maybe it's me not counting how many rotations Shannon is doing. Can someone please explain to me? Thank you.
@@AmyEG1988 Assuming that the OP was in refernce to style, Biles is the polar opposite of Miller! But also as the OP was from 5 years ago, there wouldn't have been any applicable candidates for that quad.
They rarely did ever. American gymnastics is athleticism over artistry. Miller's grace was an anomaly, more in the Russian style. She was a joy to watch.
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Her dance series is so expertly choreographed in her routine. You don't even notice it because it IS choreography. I miss routines with this kind of artistic construction... and Miller was such an exquisite dancer. She doesn't get enough credit for her artistry on FX.
I miss the dance elements in the floor routines. We saw her in Atlanta and she was flawless.
I totally miss this class of gymnastics.
She doesn't can any credit for her artistry.
She never walks to a corner before a tumbling run, she dances there. Definitely one of the best!!
Still to this day the best “hands” I’ve ever seen on an American gymnast. Her fingers and hand placements are everything on beam and floor
mistersaintjohn she is the best ever!
You can really see how training in the Soviet Union shaped her as a gymnast
Now she's OLD
@@SUGAR_XYLER funny how that works, huh!
@@SUGAR_XYLER 39 isn't old
For me, that was one of the rare performances that actually uses the music with the choreography.
dtdurr you must have slept through the Soviet Union reign.
@QPHashSS77 That's the legitimate de facto definition of Artistry
Agreed. I respect the gymnasts of today (obviously they work hard and are extremely talented), but I don't enjoy watching them nearly as much. Everything seems so robotic. The actual artistry part of gymnastics has long since been gone. The dancing was a beautiful part of gymnastics and this routine demonstrates this beautifully. This is one of the reasons I prefer to watch Russian gymnasts: they have a background in ballet and their routines utilize the artistry of the sport and always have beautiful music to enhance their routines.
like in the old days with Nadia, Olga, Ludmilla, & Nellie!
@QPHashSS77 Ever heard of Olga Mostepanova?
the dance sequence before her third pass, ending with a double turn, is quite lovely and well done
Her coach is hilarious.
He isn’t so hilarious when he is yelling at you haha from personal experience
@@dylanthepickle6428 To me listening to him while doing her floor routine at the Olympics was annoying, but with me being the extremely rare exception: nobody is perfect
Annoying
“Good girl!” Is what you say to a DOG. Not a human. Disgusting.
Love the coach LOL. He's like an over enthusiastic Dad. Love it!
🗣️ YEEES! WHAHOOO!!
Love this routine, Shannon has always been my favorite gymnast of all time . I never get tired of seeing her perform.
Steve Nunno is so great. Love how encouraging and passionate he is.
hopefully he’s not an abuser
Back when dance and artistry were actually well incorporated into gymnastics. The gymnasts of today (moreso here in the US, actually) are outstanding in their own right, but the dance aspect is pretty much gone and you're really just waiting for the next amazing tumbling pass between a lot of robotic movements. You can tell that ballet, contemporary dance, and jazz styles were an integral part of gymnastics back in the 90s. I miss that aspect so much.
You can tell who was trained being taught dance and who hasn't.
code of points book killed gymnastics, put all the points on tumbling, none on planches, pirouettes jetes etc etc
@@gemsstoned6662 exactly
As another comment said, it’s all the code of points. If they never changed it the way they did, there would definitely still be that balletic dance aspect that almost every gymnast used to have. There’s a select few today who still have it, like riley McCusker and others, but it’s sort of rare. The code of points no longer rewards those nice dance movements as much as the passes and the jumps, so the gymnasts just squeeze in a few hand movements and call it a day. It’s quite sad actually, because they aren’t even trained to dance anymore. It would be very nice to see more dance today in the routines, but unless the COP is changed back I know that won’t happen. I could seriously talk about this all day, but I’ll just stick to watching 70s-90s gymnastics lol
I actually can't watch modern gymnastics it's robotic
You've got to love Steve Nunno's enthusiasm!!
Kaylee Wesley true
The gymnast that made me fall in love with gymnastics. Beautiful dancing unlike most gymnasts now days. 😢
Funny how 19 was considered ancient at that time
buddy boy And now you have Catalina Ponor from Romania competing consistently on beam and floor at almost 30 and Oksana Chusovitna still vaulting at 42 lol
Right! Simone Biles was 19 at the 2016 Olympics and continues to improve. One thing I'm glad about gymnastics these days (which isn't much) is that at least the sport isn't just about underage waifs anymore.
@@SDoesNotKnow Simone is OLD, she fell on the beam and started crying 😅
@@SUGAR_XYLER whatever. Right now she is the best 🙌
I love this routine, Shannon is my favorite gymnast of all time. I never get tired of seeing perform
I saw her up close in 1992 when the Olympic tour stopped in Charlotte. My dad said he didn't know how small she actually was
This is Nationals but Shannon nailed every landing and had the best presentation of anyone at this meet. She deserved the best floor score of this meet
This routine amazes me to this day. Every pass was strong, elegant, and effortless.
i remember being OBSESSED with her and this leo. she had absolutely incredible musicality and dance ability. i think she was the most skilled with her dance skills, not as stiff as most gymnasts typically are. you can really see her ballet training here.
My two fave american gymnasts (Miller and Atler) used this music in their Olympic year :D
Best dancer to come out of America ever! Hands down!
This 1996 team and Olympics never fails to stir emotion in me.
Shannon has beautiful lines and her quality is always perfect. Shannon is known as a rounded gymnast with no major weaknesses on any events, which led to her multiple all around titles. Shannon is remembered for her Olympic success along with perfect form and execution. But most importantly, She is a role model in the gymnastics community for all ages.
Absolutely beautiful routine! Her dancing and artistry are on point. She was a superb gymnast!
I love this routine. The music and the choreography are extraordinary
The best floor routine I’ve seen her do.
I always loved her and that's right in there with Simone!!! She's so artistic which is what Simone lacks i think.
I totally agree. Simone is power. Don't get me wrong, Simone is talented, but there's a reason why they call it artistic gymnastics
As a black person i totally agree
They(Shannon and Simone ) should combine and be the best gymnast ever!!! Put a stamp on it!!!
When I was 6, she was my hero. I learned to do a back walk-over on my own from her.
Around 13 I was doing back/ front flips on a trampoline. (self taught)
I remember those days, when 17 was "old" and 19 was ancient! ...crazy to think, now that we routinely see 20+ year olds in Elite meets.
Love the way Steve Nuno always supported her...!
Love this routine. Great music and choreography. Even though that double layout wasn't perfect, I really respected her going for a more difficult routine. You could tell that this was not easy for her, but she fought through it did it so well.
God, I wish she could have done this in Atlanta. Such a beautiful routine and performance!
One of the only American gymnasts who could dance.
World Floor Champion and it still showed!!
I want them to mic up coaches again. Hilarious
Great job Shannon did here. The music is beautiful, mixing very well with the tumbling and her interpretation is on point. I love her turns whether she is standing up or rolling on the floor. Great posture as well. Love it! As good as you can get.
An all-time great❤ I wish she landed the DLO in Atlanta too. Amazing choreography as always.
What an amazing routine from an amazing gymnast and let's not ignore the AMAZING coach!!!
Beautiful gymnast.
She and Nadia are the all time best.
Nelli, Olga and Ludmila also very good.
No one today compares.
This is the
Most amazing thing human beings have ever done. I love the enthusiasm of her coach
I wonder what she would have scored at the Olympics had she been able to perform her FX like that.
Still love this routine! 2024! Forever!
I'll NEVER GET OVER THIS!
My favourite Shannon floor routine. I wish she'd been able to hit like this in the Olympics. I know the DLO was piked down here, and chest low on the full twisting double, but she was so good at hiding that stuff. She didn't really have enough power for the DLO though, I'd have liked for them to have realised that and structured the routine a bit differently. Might have helped with the final pass too.
I agree with you. This is my favorite floor routine ever from Shannon Miller. I think it is absolutely beautiful and I thought the same thing - I wish she would have executed this routine exactly the same at the Olympics! I had a feeling, however, that she was always going to find the double layout in particular to be very challenging and it did end up biting her a bit.
Shannon had a broken wrist in Atlanta. Search Peggy liddick says miller had a broken wrist on google an the video shows up
@@pappysprite Steve Nunno was a horrible coach and horrible man, and wanted her to do skills for his own ego, it was never about what was best for his athletes. He atleast was better in that regard with Shannon than everyone else since she was his favorite, but still selfish at times. Kerri Strug who was coached by him for over a year even spoke about that in her book. He could have and should have had her do a different skill she could hit more consistently, and still been out of a 10. However his ego wanted a double layout despite the adverse risk to her.
@@simonsenecal6560 so sorry to hear this
If she would have hit that routine like that in Atlanta, what do we think her score would have been like with the international judges? 9.8 range? 9.837-50 ish?
This was a good routine. Had she done it at the Games she might have won silver in the All Around and a bronze in floor finals.
roger leblond same can be said for Dawes. If they both hit their routines they would have been silver and bronze. That would have been amazing 😐
roger leblond but Shannon would not have gotten on the medal table for floor - she would have been 4th.
Well if she hit floor in team optionals she would have likely bumped Dawes out of the finals (due to Dawes's compulsory score). As it was Dawes only made it as alternate to Strug and Moceanu, despite outscoring both in optionals, and only got to compete due to Strug WDing. Then she would have only had to beat Moceanu for a medal which seems doable.
Yeah and way better than Gina Gogean and her simple routines and a past prime Milo getting silver and bronze.
Imagine if she hadn’t been so injured in 96.
Beautiful routine. That sort of tours jete jump with her legs separating at the end like butterflies is SO gorgeous and SO unique. It's like flying cartwheels. And this routine is so unique. So much of what I see now on floor exercise looks the same to me. I think Steve Nunno and Shannon Miller were a pairing for the ages. And Shannon wasnt abused (as far as I know). From the moment Nunno saw Shannon from afar when she was just a determined little girl it was a riveting alliance.
Shux. I just read a very negative comment about Nunno pushing Shannon and others more for ego than what was good for them. The comment said Keri Shrug said something about it in her book.
If it is true, I am very sorry to hear this.
I did notice Shannon wasnt joyous after the routine when Nunno was hugging her, as if it had been too big of a strain and she had felt too much pressure-and-was trying to please Nunno too badly. She looked worried throughout and afterward that seemed beyond just good concentration or being tired.
What a gymnsst Shannon was though. I think the double laid out summersault was incredible.
Shannon has said she was just stoic. And Kerry complained a lot about everyone besides Bela. So I took that with a grain of salt.
That last tumbling pass…….WOW!!!!!!❤️❤️
this is fabulous
Greatest of All Time
That's Simone Biles. Biles has earned eight Olympic medals, beating Shannon Miller as the most successful American gymnast in the Games. Biles has four golds to Miller’s two
I agree Leigh!
Please don't disrespect biles
No disrespect but they are completely different
Thank you for posting this!
miller was good. and she has a good coach
love you Shannon 😍
She is truly one of the greatest.
Growing up in Oklahoma, I was so excited to watch her perform knowing she was from my home state. Still the best gymnast to me.
It was amazing hearing her coach. Like behind the scenes.
She is amazing in this floor routine
Love the gymnast love the routine!
In terms of tumbling it´s definitely her most difficult floor exercise and well done, although in terms of some of her skills it's not the precise and mechanical Shannon that we used to see some years before;
This is the most amazing thing in the whole wide world
beautiful.
Shannon Lee Miller great work on the floor from Terry schnell
Wonderful routine !
Is it just my perception or was the floor a lot less ‘springy’ back then?? I was just watching Aly Raisman doing her final floor exercise in the 2012 Olympics and the floor she was on seemed almost trampoline springy. Listening hear to Shannon’s performance it sounds brutal when she lands after a tumble.
Yes, it was less springy. 4 inch springs were introduced in the 80s (it was just a hard solid floor before the 80s), and recent years we had 8 inch springs, allowing for more air time and more complex acrobatics.
I know! It sounds like she's landing on plywood! Ouch!
Ka Po Chu yep in the late 70’s it was just a carpet floor!!! no springs!!!
Simplemente hermosa!!
this coach man, lol
This would have scored c9.800 in the Atlanta all around which would have placed her comfortably in silver medal position.
What a shame the DLO cost her due to her wrist injury.
Broken wrist and this routine should have been at least a 9.850 in elite competition
I love her coach's commentary haha
She came to win!!!!
Waoooooooo fuera de otro mundo
It was perfection
Crazy how much more springy the FX mat is these days. Too springy some times (2012 London for example) - but certainly carries current gymnasts a bit.
Her coach epitomizes the 90s suburban soccer dad aesthetic
this was rough for her but she pulled every last bit around and was super happy,as was I
I love Shannon Miller's gymnastics. I've always noticed she looked so uncomfortable when Steve Nunno hugged her
Wow. Very dramatic choreography! 👍
Fantastic, even for today's standards. This was artistic gymnastics.
Lmao was it fantastic tho? Very low difficulty and the hardest skill - double layout was botched with the huge pike down and landing
GO USA GO USA GO USA GO USA GO USA!!! !!! SHANNON I LOVE YOU!!! !!! XXX XXX
I love coach nuno
Thank you for sharing! I absolutely loved Shannon Miller in the 1996 Olympics; my parents would actually wake me up to watch her compete when the games ran late. So much nostalgia!
A quick question: were the championships the trials to get to the Olympics? I can’t remember.
@2:58 proffered it when we landed like that. I find it is more graceful for women.
That was absolutely beautiful!
I thought she was the freaking best on the beam and the floor but Dominique had the cutest floor routine
Phantastisch !
If only she did this routine in Atlanta
Very enthusiastic commentator
Would of enjoyed this better if her coach wasn't screaming his head off...Miller was one of the BEST!!
If you didn't love this floor routine??? 10!
I long for the days when artistry was part of gymnastics. And not a single wolf turn in sight.
☯️💙2M🌋 Perfect
Holy cleopatra Alex 😊❤
imagine the adrenaline it would take to do that choreograph.
Honestly, I would be rolling my eyes if my coach were on the sidelines hollering like that throughout my routine. It's just too much!!
Champ.
Details please! Why?
Does she won gold here
Please don't come for me - I am genuinely asking. I love Simone Biles and I started looking at old footage of other gymasts to see how gymnastics have progressed, and I can't tell why people consider Simone Biles better than Shannon Miller? Shannon Miller looks like she can do all the routines Simone can do. Maybe it's me not counting how many rotations Shannon is doing. Can someone please explain to me? Thank you.
The people talking😂😂
i still like Simona Amanars fx
What's the name of this song?
The music is called "Two Guitars", a Russian piece.
I wonder who choreographed this
cMoN bAbY
wow, the americans don't make gymnasts like this anymore.
Seb Castro Simone biles...
@@AmyEG1988 Assuming that the OP was in refernce to style, Biles is the polar opposite of Miller! But also as the OP was from 5 years ago, there wouldn't have been any applicable candidates for that quad.
They rarely did ever. American gymnastics is athleticism over artistry. Miller's grace was an anomaly, more in the Russian style. She was a joy to watch.
@@cmdraven nah!