Well Kim Zmeskal sure proved you wrong! 😂 World champion 1992. Oops on you!!🎉😂 Also you forgot the corrupt judges especially of the 80s where ONLY Soviet or Romanian girls were given correct or inflated scores while everyone else was underscoring 97% of the time. There were far far greater floor workers than Lavinia. Many Bulgarians even and one hit wonders from other countries. I much prefer Sylvia Mitova floor 1992 over Lavinia. She was lucky to go up towards the end to win. Silivas was much much better than Lavinia on every event but vault. Lavinia could not dance to save her life. Terrible choreo as well and simple middle pass. Gogean was even more exciting with her catlike landings and fast tumbles. Lavinia was only good in 91 and 92. After that she got worse. Shannon Miller dominated her and Dominique Dawes was even far better than Lavinia but had bad luck at competitions. I’m glad I do not go by placings in history as some of the best floor workers in history never even got a bronze. I’ll give you some of the best. Groshkova. Baraksonova. Natalia Frolova. I also feel Brandy Johnson was superb on floor and was underscored. But that was the 80s when Americans were underscored by a tenth many times. Lavinia sorta got lucky here as Gutsu n Zmeskal underperformed. Miller took big steps on her tumbling here but was a FAR better dancer....but honestly Onodi should have won here in my opinion. I only love a few romanian floor in the history of the sport but I love TONS of American routines thru the years~!!! and the commentors thruout history even say how awful romanian dance and choreo is. The best from Romania on floor to me would be Dobre, Silivas, Ponar, and Gogean. The rest are very cookiecutter and rather lame. Way way to many American routines and gymnasts to list. The Soviets and American's overall have way way better dance and choreo and complete routines. It is not even close. Even the Chinese and Bulgarians have way more interesting choreo. The Romanians knew how to hit when it counts but they are FAR FAR from the best floor workers overall haha. Not even close besides a few of the greats that I mentioned the rest are rather bland to go back n watch in overall history of the sport.
I remember watching this live. She was the last great dominate Romanian in my opinion. So bubbly, precise and beautiful flowing moves. She deserved that 10.
@@dand7763 I don't agree. Catalina Ponor was/is great but even she wasn't as dominate as the previous mentioned ones. And she didn't even do that till 2004, 2012 and 2016 and she never scored a perfect score. Milosovici is only 1 of 3 ladies to have won a gold on all 4 apparatus at either Worlds or Olympics. Yes Ponor is fantastic, but she's not singularly as dominate as Lavinia was. She's also in The International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Her trademarks included her four-event mastery, consistency, longevity, versatile skill set, and her leadership abilities. She won 19 Gold's in less than 5 years. 1991-1996.
@@Plaspos All great gymnasts. But I still say that none of them had that overall "scare factor" of being able to beat you on any apparatus that was coming up. They all had "specialties or best" routines and if they found themselves behind after those they didn't have the overall consistency to kill you on whatever was left. Not even Simona Amanar was as dominate on ALL Four routines.
@@donaldholderdoc2910 Gogean for sure could beat you up on any apparaus. Yes Milosovici has the incredible accomplishment of winning gold on all four events, but she never won the world or Olympic all-around title as Olaru and then Amanar/Raducan did. Gogean for her part won more medals 1992-1997 (20 vs. 19) and beat both Milosovici and Amanar in 1996 all-around. All five (+Presacan and Bontas before them) were all critical contributors to Romania's dominance in the 90s and stood out each in their own way
Gymnastics was so elegant graceful and poised back then .it was always a pleasure to look froward to watch these incredible gymnasts on the floor.The Romanians was an absolute delight and spectacular..to watch
I noticed that too. no variations with routines for the 2020 Tokyo gymnastics same for everyone and it lacks the artistry and gracefulness that these Romanians and early gymnasts way back the times of Nadia C-I so love watching gymnastics 80s up to early 2000
I was 12 years old when I saw her in Barcelona. So many years later, I still think this jazz dance and her performance was the best I've ever seen. With due respect to Simone Biles and other great gymnasts of today, no one has this kind of elegance and softness in their moves like Lavinia and Romanian gymnasts back in the days. So glad they are coming back.
SO graceful! Wow! She looked like she was floating above that mat! I wish that the new gymnastic competitions weren't so focused on the scores and doing all the specific challenging things just to get points, because this is so much more enjoyable to watch and every bit as amazing IMO.
They were obsessed with scores back then, too. The kids were always carrying injuries, were pumped full of drugs, etc. Nadia did NOT do well in the 1980 olympics but was still given 10s because the judges were cowards/paid off/etc.
True modern gymnastics now its more muscular and all are heavier than the golden era these girls were ballerina butterfly's their accuracy was incredible its all power and muscles today ...interesting to note the men gymnasts are the same build and weight today as 30 years ago.
@@gabriele3665I never thought about it that way. The scoring system lowered the bar on landings too. I am not impressed at all with USA gymnastics and with Simone biles. I’m from the US too but the way everyone is like goat goat goat about her. I’m just like what are you on??? Do you not see how sloppy and aggressive and boring it is to see that?
I know. I wish they kept the perfect 10 scoring because it allowed for more elegance and beauty. The new difficulty score makes everyone want to add super high and dangerous jumps instead of focusing on the dance elements as well.
I so miss this days when dance was equally as important as powerful tumbling..Back then all of the Eastern Block countries ladies took Ballet lessons to incorporate into their FX routines...They were always up on their toes...Lilia Podeskeya was even performing Ballerina in the off season, and won Gold in the AA and FX in 1996 Olympics...
Same, It was the Americans that stripped every little piece of artistry away. The things id do to go back to the 80's and 90's. The gymnastics was way more entertaining and the scoring was actually good. Nowadays it's all about power. Its a smack in the face to Eastern block countries who trained they’re gymnasts in ballet since they were babies.
@@sanasgirl dude marta and béla károlyi have been leading the american teams … if we want to be honest, the eastern countries also contributed to a shift toward an emphasis of tumbling.
@@fairygodbrotherr That doesn't change anything I said. Eastern Europeans had great tumbling and great artistry. That's the difference from Americans who rely on Tumbling.
@@sanasgirlit's actually just the fact that modern artistry has shifted from ballet to modern dance and people don't understand modern dance is artistic still
Two points 1. Many people complain about things like her hop on her first tumbling pass, but should realize that she was being rewarded heavily for the originality and composition she showed. This routine was by far the most original exercise demonstrated in EF. Only Zmeskal could have matched her if she was fit and could do her Trials routine. 2. Those who complain about her scoring higher than others should realize that she consistently did so. Both she and her teammate Christina Bontas were scored the highest in all competitions throughout the Olympics for their optional routines. This includes team finals, all around finals, and in this case event finals for Lavinia. It is not a case of a set of judges favoring her that day. She deserved it.
I have to disagree that "only" Kim could have matched her. I think Onodi more than matched her. Milo's routine was cute but Onodi was more complete in terms of dance and overall execution. I still contend that if Onodi had gone before Milo, Onodi would have been given the higher score.
Yes they did- by viciously controlling the girls and dictating every aspect of their lives, disallowing them from having even remotely a normal type of life. Coaching and being dedicated to the craft is one thing- being a dictator about it is another.
Yes and the corrupt judging let us not forget which was ALL of the 70's and 80's!!! If you were not Soviet or Romanian you did NOT win or even medal really! So sad as so many great routines from gymnasts that should have placed higher in many cases from Bulgaria, USA, China, etc. Romania was NOT as great as it appeared to me at all. If you watch these competions today from back then you see just how much of a farce the scoring was so I'd say it correctly as in: The corrupt scoring DOMINATED gymnastics for over 2 decades.
@@natashaivanchenko7017 huh? No im pointing out facts. Some of my favorite gymnasts are of many countries. It’s not about me. Get a clue. I sound jealous well you sound uneducated. Obviously you know nothing about the gymnasts or scoring of the 80s and had no real comeback besides that? Smh 🤦Just like the awful scoring a couple days ago at the Olympics of a Romanian gymnast Sabrina Vonia. And I’m not the only one upset about it. But again you’re not up to par or seem to care more than taking it personal and starting drama. I guess you agree with every score from judging in the last 50 years. Besides it’s common knowledge to even a basic fan of the fixed scoring of the 80s. To everyone. Also many judges were banned because of it! But you obviously don’t follow the sport much or have knowledge or you’d know that. Nice try. Not interested in talking to basic B’s…Mmmk bye gurl
Loved the artistry of this era. Hated that they listed their weight on the profile that flashed up at the bottom of the screen. Yes, they were petite and adorable, but they suffered so much in silence due to the culture of that time. I love that the gymnasts of this era come in all shapes and sizes and are allowed to speak up. Gymnastics is a beautiful sport. I will always watch!
@@galacticguardian2783 Oh come on. This comment isn't about gymnasts becoming obese and you know it. There is enormous pressure to be as small as possible in this sport---I was a gymnast, tried to actively stunt my growth when I was a teen because it's harder if you're tall, and I ended up with anorexia later in life. I can't imagine the kind of pressure I'd have felt if I'd been Olympic level. Tl;dr: there's a huge difference between gymnast culture putting unhealthy emphasis on being as small as possible and gymnasts being "obese," which is so not a thing.
Too bad that we have missed the presence of Romanian gymnastics school in the last two Olympic Games...I really hope they fix their problems so we can enjoy again their amazing job/skills....
Let's hope they have learned to train gymnasts without abusing them mentally, emotionally and physically. The Romanians were the best gymnasts in those days and wonderful to watch but they had to endure much suffering to get there.
I honestly enjoyed women's gymnastics during the 80s and 90s way more than today. Nowadays i will not even bother if its olympics or not. Give me mens gymnastics any time night or day.
Not always. She did the same tumbling to Romania folk music the year before and could not sell it. In Barcelona, she out performed Zmeskal with her version of “American Aplomb” and stole gold. Probably one of the all time best performances in EF.
Ce au trecut anii , nu au mai aparut Lavinii in gimnastica romaneasca !!!! Noi cei ce iubim gimnastica , asteptam sa mai vedem copii minune ai gimnasticii noastre !!!!
Good old days.. no male aesthetics no robotic performance just pure gracious and beautiful...feeling like shes flying 😅 miss those gold days, even the floor wasn't a trampoline like nowdays 😢
More graceful less of power horses, although there were power packed lil ladies then too. Many things have changed not always best for the fans and spectators.
They were smaller, thinner, a lot more agile and gracious. Now they are a lot more muscular, heavy and they kind of lost that graciousness that makes gymnasts like a butterfly.
@@StarDreamMemories Things are much better for the gymnasts now. Many of the gymnasts who competed in Barcelona were literally children who weighed less than 80 pounds. A gymnast's career was considered to be over once she hit puberty so they trained excessively and starved themselves to keep a child's body well past the time when they should have gone through puberty. None of this was healthy or normal and no fan has any right to expect a teenager to go through this. Fortunately things began to change in the next few years. Athletes like Lavinia Milosovici, Shannon Miller, Dominique Dawes, Rosa Galieva, and other gymnasts who competed in 1992 as children returned in 1996 as mature young women and proved it was possible to do the highest level of gymnastics with a mature body. Changing the age eligibility from 15 to 16 in the quad that followed has meant that now gymnasts are allowed to go through puberty before learning the big skills they will compete as senior elites, rather than learning them with children's bodies and having to re-learn the skills once their bodies matured and changed. These have been very good things.
@@DrBeast100 They are women now. In 1992 Shannon Miller was 15 years old, 4'7", and about 70 pounds. That is the size and body type of an average 10 year old. We have no right to demand that athletes be prevented from going through puberty naturally in order to satisfy aesthetic preferences.
@@Margo-oj5yc it s not about aesthetics, it s about achieving a performance that can only be reached by being small and skinny. The weight is a problem for gymnasts, it destroys their bodies. On landings the pressure on ankles, joints is a lot higher.
My favorite floor routines of all time- Lavinia Milosovici and Kim Zmeskal. I also think floor routines could be improved upon by using music that is familiar to the the audience like Lavinia used Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.
Where are the idiots saying that romanians played always "safe"? Nadia, Silivas, Szabo, Amanar, and the list is huge. Only frustrated people can say that about romanian gymnasts... in gymnastics, you need something called self-determination and stress management. Pressure resilience is called what romanians had, and this is the most important.
It was amazing, one of my favorite routines of all times, but it had some very visible errors that would get quite a few tenths in deductions today. Besides the visible hp in her first pass, in her final pass, her chest was extremely low. Today, low landings get several tenths in deductions. I really liked the old system of scoring where gymnasts' exceptional qualities would compensate for other imperfections/deductions and they would end up getting a 10.
It is very unfortunate that this playfulness and artistic nature has been lost in gymnastics, yes the jumps and tumbles got more difficult but still is less enjoyable that it was 20 years ago...
The judges must have really loved that mount, because they had already decided Milosovici would be Olympic FX champion as long as she hit LOL. I think she was 1st or 2nd up and they gave her a 10 with a hop on the first pass. Oh, the 90s.
Well deserved gold medal. More difficult and better executed than Onodi. Milosovici had one hop on the first very difficult pass. Onodi had a hop aside on the 2nd pass and low landing with step forward on the last pass so Onodi's slightly better artistry could not compensate.
This was the true spirit of this sport. Strength with elegance. American athletes and most of all Biles ruined all this. I didn't miss her at all at the last Olympic Games. At last artistic gymnastic seemed to have recovered from those horrible circus exhibitions.
It's not the athletes' fault that the sport has changed so much. The athletes do what they are ordered to do. It's part of the sport. Get off your high horse.
I feel like gymnastics today are so aggressive that it's lost the artistic element. Not to say gymnasts today aren't talented, of course, but I feel like the art element has slowly faded away and it's now just about physical prowess.
@@Adelicows, how does it make you feel to know that you wasted 30 seconds of your life to respond to my comment and it was, at best, C-level sarcasm on your part?
I think the same... It is all about acrobatics, not about being delicate and elegant... not even the bodies look elegant anymore. I used to enjoy lots, not anymore. (I AM NOT SAYING THEY ARENT BRILLIANT CAUSE THEY ARE).
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Lavinia and Daniela Silivas were one of the reasons why USA gymnasts could never be better than the Romanians at Floor aexercise... almost unbeatable
Don't forget the Ukrainian Podkopayeva the Gold at AA and FX in '96..
@@MrReed314 Comăneci Szabo Ungureanu Răducanu Ponor Korbut Kim
Well Kim Zmeskal sure proved you wrong! 😂 World champion 1992. Oops on you!!🎉😂 Also you forgot the corrupt judges especially of the 80s where ONLY Soviet or Romanian girls were given correct or inflated scores while everyone else was underscoring 97% of the time. There were far far greater floor workers than Lavinia. Many Bulgarians even and one hit wonders from other countries. I much prefer Sylvia Mitova floor 1992 over Lavinia. She was lucky to go up towards the end to win. Silivas was much much better than Lavinia on every event but vault. Lavinia could not dance to save her life. Terrible choreo as well and simple middle pass. Gogean was even more exciting with her catlike landings and fast tumbles. Lavinia was only good in 91 and 92. After that she got worse. Shannon Miller dominated her and Dominique Dawes was even far better than Lavinia but had bad luck at competitions. I’m glad I do not go by placings in history as some of the best floor workers in history never even got a bronze. I’ll give you some of the best. Groshkova. Baraksonova. Natalia Frolova. I also feel Brandy Johnson was superb on floor and was underscored. But that was the 80s when Americans were underscored by a tenth many times. Lavinia sorta got lucky here as Gutsu n Zmeskal underperformed. Miller took big steps on her tumbling here but was a FAR better dancer....but honestly Onodi should have won here in my opinion. I only love a few romanian floor in the history of the sport but I love TONS of American routines thru the years~!!! and the commentors thruout history even say how awful romanian dance and choreo is. The best from Romania on floor to me would be Dobre, Silivas, Ponar, and Gogean. The rest are very cookiecutter and rather lame. Way way to many American routines and gymnasts to list. The Soviets and American's overall have way way better dance and choreo and complete routines. It is not even close. Even the Chinese and Bulgarians have way more interesting choreo. The Romanians knew how to hit when it counts but they are FAR FAR from the best floor workers overall haha. Not even close besides a few of the greats that I mentioned the rest are rather bland to go back n watch in overall history of the sport.
@@JB-sg1vydont cry, babe, Lavinia was the best. 😂😂 You are very frustrated
USA was nobody in the game in the 90s. But milosovici didnt deserved the gold, nor a 10.
I remember watching this live. She was the last great dominate Romanian in my opinion. So bubbly, precise and beautiful flowing moves. She deserved that 10.
no, Romania dominate this sport until 2004 (Athens)
@@dand7763 I don't agree. Catalina Ponor was/is great but even she wasn't as dominate as the previous mentioned ones. And she didn't even do that till 2004, 2012 and 2016 and she never scored a perfect score.
Milosovici is only 1 of 3 ladies to have won a gold on all 4 apparatus at either Worlds or Olympics. Yes Ponor is fantastic, but she's not singularly as dominate as Lavinia was. She's also in The International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Her trademarks included her four-event mastery, consistency, longevity, versatile skill set, and her leadership abilities. She won 19 Gold's in less than 5 years. 1991-1996.
@@donaldholderdoc2910 yes but ignoring Ponor there is still Gogean, Raducan, Amanar, Olaru who dominated for many years after Milosovici.
@@Plaspos All great gymnasts. But I still say that none of them had that overall "scare factor" of being able to beat you on any apparatus that was coming up. They all had "specialties or best" routines and if they found themselves behind after those they didn't have the overall consistency to kill you on whatever was left. Not even Simona Amanar was as dominate on ALL Four routines.
@@donaldholderdoc2910 Gogean for sure could beat you up on any apparaus. Yes Milosovici has the incredible accomplishment of winning gold on all four events, but she never won the world or Olympic all-around title as Olaru and then Amanar/Raducan did. Gogean for her part won more medals 1992-1997 (20 vs. 19) and beat both Milosovici and Amanar in 1996 all-around. All five (+Presacan and Bontas before them) were all critical contributors to Romania's dominance in the 90s and stood out each in their own way
Gymnastics was so elegant graceful and poised back then .it was always a pleasure to look froward to watch these incredible gymnasts on the floor.The Romanians was an absolute delight and spectacular..to watch
I agree, they seem more stiff and less confident now in general. I miss this style too
Peccato che nei gg di oggi, grazia non esiste più. Solo forza e muscoli...
I noticed that too. no variations with routines for the 2020 Tokyo gymnastics same for everyone and it lacks the artistry and gracefulness that these Romanians and early gymnasts way back the times of Nadia C-I so love watching gymnastics 80s up to early 2000
Someone always says this, everything was better back in the old days, right?
The female gymnasts of the 1970's were even more graceful than Milosovici; in fact way more so. But that was a super floor routine nonetheless.
Lavinia's gymnastics was excellent but what really wow me was her jazzy dance. I can watch it over and over again and won't get tired. Pure genius!
I was 12 years old when I saw her in Barcelona. So many years later, I still think this jazz dance and her performance was the best I've ever seen. With due respect to Simone Biles and other great gymnasts of today, no one has this kind of elegance and softness in their moves like Lavinia and Romanian gymnasts back in the days. So glad they are coming back.
M@@sanjabojovic7440
Beautiful and original! The Romanians always had such great choreography.
Lavinia and Shannon Miller were the stars of the ‘92 Olympics for me.
No was Lavinia and Natalia Guțu olso româinian etnic from soviet union .
Hey Ónodi was there too! 🤭😁
@@andreavoros-marky4203 yes of course! She was stellar. One of my favorite gymnasts at the time!
SO graceful! Wow! She looked like she was floating above that mat! I wish that the new gymnastic competitions weren't so focused on the scores and doing all the specific challenging things just to get points, because this is so much more enjoyable to watch and every bit as amazing IMO.
They were obsessed with scores back then, too. The kids were always carrying injuries, were pumped full of drugs, etc. Nadia did NOT do well in the 1980 olympics but was still given 10s because the judges were cowards/paid off/etc.
@@AussieKim42 That is really sad.
I miss the grace of gymnastics and the fluidity of the dance - not the same now-
Agree it was much more artistic then. Now it is about power and difficulty
True modern gymnastics now its more muscular and all are heavier than the golden era these girls were ballerina butterfly's their accuracy was incredible its all power and muscles today ...interesting to note the men gymnasts are the same build and weight today as 30 years ago.
Call me a conspiracy theorist but I feel the sport have been changed so that American could finally win en masse
@@gabriele3665I never thought about it that way. The scoring system lowered the bar on landings too. I am not impressed at all with USA gymnastics and with Simone biles. I’m from the US too but the way everyone is like goat goat goat about her. I’m just like what are you on??? Do you not see how sloppy and aggressive and boring it is to see that?
@@vls3771you mean they’re no longer abused, starved children having multiple drugs pumped into them.
One of the greatest competitor of all time...
Such a legend!
I remember being a little girl and watching this. Gymnastics was so much more beautiful back then....
yep 👍
there really was a different style to how it is now. I prefer this choreography and tumbling. 🤷🏻♀️
I know. I wish they kept the perfect 10 scoring because it allowed for more elegance and beauty. The new difficulty score makes everyone want to add super high and dangerous jumps instead of focusing on the dance elements as well.
SHUT UP. EVERY COMMENT ON EVERY GYMNASTICS VIDEO SAYS THIS
I so miss this days when dance was equally as important as powerful tumbling..Back then all of the Eastern Block countries ladies took Ballet lessons to incorporate into their FX routines...They were always up on their toes...Lilia Podeskeya was even performing Ballerina in the off season, and won Gold in the AA and FX in 1996 Olympics...
Same, It was the Americans that stripped every little piece of artistry away. The things id do to go back to the 80's and 90's. The gymnastics was way more entertaining and the scoring was actually good. Nowadays it's all about power. Its a smack in the face to Eastern block countries who trained they’re gymnasts in ballet since they were babies.
@@sanasgirl dude marta and béla károlyi have been leading the american teams … if we want to be honest, the eastern countries also contributed to a shift toward an emphasis of tumbling.
@@fairygodbrotherr That doesn't change anything I said. Eastern Europeans had great tumbling and great artistry. That's the difference from Americans who rely on Tumbling.
me too now it's all about power and points and i do feel something was lost over the years
@@sanasgirlit's actually just the fact that modern artistry has shifted from ballet to modern dance and people don't understand modern dance is artistic still
Two points
1. Many people complain about things like her hop on her first tumbling pass, but should realize that she was being rewarded heavily for the originality and composition she showed. This routine was by far the most original exercise demonstrated in EF. Only Zmeskal could have matched her if she was fit and could do her Trials routine.
2. Those who complain about her scoring higher than others should realize that she consistently did so. Both she and her teammate Christina Bontas were scored the highest in all competitions throughout the Olympics for their optional routines. This includes team finals, all around finals, and in this case event finals for Lavinia. It is not a case of a set of judges favoring her that day. She deserved it.
Zmeskal was totally fit in Barcelona but compited injured with a stress fracture on her leg
@@hjaidar I know that is why I said fit as in not injured.
Thank you, well said
Well said!
I have to disagree that "only" Kim could have matched her. I think Onodi more than matched her. Milo's routine was cute but Onodi was more complete in terms of dance and overall execution. I still contend that if Onodi had gone before Milo, Onodi would have been given the higher score.
This definitely surpasses Simone Biles 2024. - It’s true!
The Roumanians literally ruled the world of gymnastics for over 2 decades !
Yes they did- by viciously controlling the girls and dictating every aspect of their lives, disallowing them from having even remotely a normal type of life. Coaching and being dedicated to the craft is one thing- being a dictator about it is another.
@@saragrant9749 All that for glory. Sad, isn't it ?
Yes and the corrupt judging let us not forget which was ALL of the 70's and 80's!!! If you were not Soviet or Romanian you did NOT win or even medal really! So sad as so many great routines from gymnasts that should have placed higher in many cases from Bulgaria, USA, China, etc. Romania was NOT as great as it appeared to me at all. If you watch these competions today from back then you see just how much of a farce the scoring was so I'd say it correctly as in: The corrupt scoring DOMINATED gymnastics for over 2 decades.
@@JB-sg1vy you sound a little jealous. LOL
@@natashaivanchenko7017 huh? No im pointing out facts. Some of my favorite gymnasts are of many countries. It’s not about me. Get a clue. I sound jealous well you sound uneducated. Obviously you know nothing about the gymnasts or scoring of the 80s and had no real comeback besides that? Smh 🤦Just like the awful scoring a couple days ago at the Olympics of a Romanian gymnast Sabrina Vonia. And I’m not the only one upset about it. But again you’re not up to par or seem to care more than taking it personal and starting drama. I guess you agree with every score from judging in the last 50 years. Besides it’s common knowledge to even a basic fan of the fixed scoring of the 80s. To everyone. Also many judges were banned because of it! But you obviously don’t follow the sport much or have knowledge or you’d know that. Nice try. Not interested in talking to basic B’s…Mmmk bye gurl
Amazing ,what a beautiful dancer,she deserves every medal there is,
Back when the floor wasn't underlaid with 6 inch coils for extra height. The Barcelona Olympic Games were one of my favorites.
Back when they were giving out 10’s like if they were candy.
@@pedropelaez, what??
@@pedropelaez what is it with the snide comments on these posts?
@@kathleenirish triggered much? Bless your heart
@@pedropelaez You're the one acting like a brat here.
Loved the artistry of this era. Hated that they listed their weight on the profile that flashed up at the bottom of the screen. Yes, they were petite and adorable, but they suffered so much in silence due to the culture of that time. I love that the gymnasts of this era come in all shapes and sizes and are allowed to speak up. Gymnastics is a beautiful sport. I will always watch!
Miss me with that size crap. You HAVE to be fit to be able to perform something even close to this. Obesity is objectively bad for such results.
@@galacticguardian2783 Oh come on. This comment isn't about gymnasts becoming obese and you know it. There is enormous pressure to be as small as possible in this sport---I was a gymnast, tried to actively stunt my growth when I was a teen because it's harder if you're tall, and I ended up with anorexia later in life. I can't imagine the kind of pressure I'd have felt if I'd been Olympic level.
Tl;dr: there's a huge difference between gymnast culture putting unhealthy emphasis on being as small as possible and gymnasts being "obese," which is so not a thing.
@@galacticguardian2783None of those girls are obese..... talk about a deluded comment.
@@pilotg2075dunno, Catalina Ponor seemed to be the tallest (?) in her team and to me she was the most gracious of them all
Such great choreography.
It was bs.
You forgot the /s
Onodi was robbed.
Los tiempos de gloria de Rumania 😍
*She was gorgeous. Incredibly perfect.*
Too bad that we have missed the presence of Romanian gymnastics school in the last two Olympic Games...I really hope they fix their problems so we can enjoy again their amazing job/skills....
Yes, they have a programme in place that hopefully will result in having a team in 2024, in Paris.
Bruxelles distroed evry sport in Romania from 2007.
@@adrianciobanu5856 no, the government destroyed it! The people who only care about sports when the teams are winning 🙄
Let's hope they have learned to train gymnasts without abusing them mentally, emotionally and physically. The Romanians were the best gymnasts in those days and wonderful to watch but they had to endure much suffering to get there.
@@ilanamillion8942 Totally agree!
those last two tumbling passes were almost back to back!! she had amazing stamina!
I honestly enjoyed women's gymnastics during the 80s and 90s
way more than today. Nowadays i will not even bother if its olympics or not. Give me mens gymnastics any time night or day.
I miss those days
Ok
I prefer the choreography and tumbling of these older games as well
Truly today it is very less feminine. More power and brute ugliness.
Me too ,they were so graceful
What a great times when strength and elegant/ beauty ballet combination was so beautiful; Russians still have this style
Lavinia Milosovici is not Russian,is from Romania...
Read description, you mongrel
@@mikaroxana6062 anyone said she is from Russia haha ! READ well
@@MsGeorge50 improve your literacy skills pup. O.P. never said anything about her being Russian, just that Russians still use this style.
@@trendymaths2467 Bunch of cats.
Romanian floor performances are always crowd pleasers.
Think Nadia!
Not quite Simone Biles though
@@olivermccall9770. What do people like you always have to bring one gymnast down to rise another one up???
@@olivermccall9770 who the eff is Simone Biles?😂😂😂 I head of Nadia Comaneci, Lavinia Milosevici, Simona Amanar. BUT SIMONE WHATEVER?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Not always. She did the same tumbling to Romania folk music the year before and could not sell it. In Barcelona, she out performed Zmeskal with her version of “American Aplomb” and stole gold. Probably one of the all time best performances in EF.
No one came close to her till now. She is living legend
I really loved that. Never saw anybody do that move toward end where she had hands on floor and legs behind her up in air moving
Omg that first tumbling pass! E Element with 0.4 connection. That means its rated as the Double bouble stretched. Incredible difficult!
Lavinia, bucuria și campioana noastra! ❤
România a dat prima nota de 10 din lume in gimnastica !!! In trecut țara noastră avea zeci de medalii la fiecare olimpiada !!!
I love the “whip” backhand spring and Arabians in a routine!
Gina Gogean and Shannon Miller are two of the best ever. Romania and the Soviet Union had some good battles over the years.
When you're so powerful even the tumbling looks graceful: Lavinia M
Excelent, superb! Mi-a bucurat copilăria!
quality not quantity! amazing performance, amazing romania
Lavinia Milosovici - one of the greatest gymnastics competitors that has ever competed and performed - she really is the bees knees.
This is Absolutely the best floor work I've ever seen a human perform!!! The beginning defies gravity damnnnn
Always 💕 loved Lavinia!!
That was great, she did very well. Back when Romania was a gymnastics power house.
Ce au trecut anii , nu au mai aparut Lavinii in gimnastica romaneasca !!!! Noi cei ce iubim gimnastica , asteptam sa mai vedem copii minune ai gimnasticii noastre !!!!
she so deserved that 10!
Hey Biles, u watching this ? xD
Excelente. Me encantaba toda esa generacion dorada rumana de los '90. Mucho mas que las estadounidenses de ahora que parecen mas piruetas circenses.
She's Serbian from Romania. Much love to our Romanian neighbors.
отличная хореография,отличное исполнение!!! Высший балл!!!
When i first saw Henrietta Onodi’s floor exercise i was like “how is this not gold”. Now I understand.
Probably you are influenced by disco coregraphy part of Milosovici routine.Onodi is more elegant and graceful.
Both are great!
The best I ever seen..wow...can't stop watching you!...
Maravilloso video 😃
Felicitaciones 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Gracias 😊
I remember watching this in awe as a young girl. I signed up that summer.
gobsmacked that she was 15 here and pulling in perfect scores and gold medals!!
Wow...what a beautiful classy performance!!! ❤❤❤
Shes trully a great Românian gymnast
She's trully great gymnast. But for you nationality is morw important.. Little you
Wow, such a wonderful sport that inspired so many young girls.
Those two combo tumbling passes are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
WOW! Everything was perfect!!
Good old days.. no male aesthetics no robotic performance just pure gracious and beautiful...feeling like shes flying 😅 miss those gold days, even the floor wasn't a trampoline like nowdays 😢
@@sablet8250 your mom s a hor u understand this?
@@sablet8250 you mon s a hor u ubdersta?
ya mamas a wor u understand?
Perfeito, clássico. Lindo nota dez.
Wow that’s PERFECT and beautiful!
Is it just me or were gymnasts of this era just a lot more efficient than they are currently?
More graceful less of power horses, although there were power packed lil ladies then too. Many things have changed not always best for the fans and spectators.
They were smaller, thinner, a lot more agile and gracious. Now they are a lot more muscular, heavy and they kind of lost that graciousness that makes gymnasts like a butterfly.
@@StarDreamMemories Things are much better for the gymnasts now. Many of the gymnasts who competed in Barcelona were literally children who weighed less than 80 pounds. A gymnast's career was considered to be over once she hit puberty so they trained excessively and starved themselves to keep a child's body well past the time when they should have gone through puberty. None of this was healthy or normal and no fan has any right to expect a teenager to go through this. Fortunately things began to change in the next few years. Athletes like Lavinia Milosovici, Shannon Miller, Dominique Dawes, Rosa Galieva, and other gymnasts who competed in 1992 as children returned in 1996 as mature young women and proved it was possible to do the highest level of gymnastics with a mature body. Changing the age eligibility from 15 to 16 in the quad that followed has meant that now gymnasts are allowed to go through puberty before learning the big skills they will compete as senior elites, rather than learning them with children's bodies and having to re-learn the skills once their bodies matured and changed. These have been very good things.
@@DrBeast100 They are women now. In 1992 Shannon Miller was 15 years old, 4'7", and about 70 pounds. That is the size and body type of an average 10 year old. We have no right to demand that athletes be prevented from going through puberty naturally in order to satisfy aesthetic preferences.
@@Margo-oj5yc it s not about aesthetics, it s about achieving a performance that can only be reached by being small and skinny. The weight is a problem for gymnasts, it destroys their bodies. On landings the pressure on ankles, joints is a lot higher.
Bravo Lavinia❤️
That is the best floor routine I have seen...EVER..!!
Guess you have never seen Natalia Frolova's 86 USA vs USSR routine. A WAY better masterpiece
Clearly inspired by Nadia's Comaneci choreography in 1976.
I prefer to watch this gymnastics over todays. Todays gymnastics is just acro based and its getting boring.
The great Milo!
Wow, amazing ! Feel like gymnastics were much better, back then. Would have only couple of years younger than her, at that actual time.
I'm speechless 👏🥇💗
The Andrew Sisters would be proud!
Amazing, musically she even able to change the speed on the tumbling…only the best can do that.. those who know that skill are and will be the best .
BRAVOOO !!! 🌅❤🙏❤🌅
Brava!
My favorite floor routines of all time- Lavinia Milosovici and Kim Zmeskal. I also think floor routines could be improved upon by using music that is familiar to the the audience like Lavinia used Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.
What a pleasure to watch! Although I wish the video quality was better.
Where are the idiots saying that romanians played always "safe"? Nadia, Silivas, Szabo, Amanar, and the list is huge. Only frustrated people can say that about romanian gymnasts... in gymnastics, you need something called self-determination and stress management. Pressure resilience is called what romanians had, and this is the most important.
No Springs beneath the floor.
Ah, so this is what a real 10 looks like
m.ruclips.net/video/TRm6oAlJzhI/видео.html&pp=sAQA
It was amazing, one of my favorite routines of all times, but it had some very visible errors that would get quite a few tenths in deductions today. Besides the visible hp in her first pass, in her final pass, her chest was extremely low. Today, low landings get several tenths in deductions. I really liked the old system of scoring where gymnasts' exceptional qualities would compensate for other imperfections/deductions and they would end up getting a 10.
If this is a perfect ten then so was Shannon Miller’s all around vault. An extreme example of bias, hands down towards the unified team.
The best the best the best!!!
Que Impresionante esta niña 💖👍
It is very unfortunate that this playfulness and artistic nature has been lost in gymnastics, yes the jumps and tumbles got more difficult but still is less enjoyable that it was 20 years ago...
The judges must have really loved that mount, because they had already decided Milosovici would be Olympic FX champion as long as she hit LOL. I think she was 1st or 2nd up and they gave her a 10 with a hop on the first pass. Oh, the 90s.
Jealousy?
Perfect performance
Mamma mia ! Che belle le olimpiadi di un tempo con tanto pubblico 😞
That was awesome!❤️
Strong and elegant. Gorgeous !
Excellent...👍
Well deserved gold medal. More difficult and better executed than Onodi. Milosovici had one hop on the first very difficult pass. Onodi had a hop aside on the 2nd pass and low landing with step forward on the last pass so Onodi's slightly better artistry could not compensate.
I M P R E S I O N A N T E!!!
Magnífico! Esplêndido!
I do miss those days when the Romanians were the powerhouse.
Yep. Now they are pickpockets
@@greyLeicester u typed that before or after climbing the trump wall, Nacho?
@@greyLeicester??
Wow...wow again.
BRAVISSIMA 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🙆♀️🙆♀️🙆♀️🙆♀️🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺
Bravooo 2021...
Gratie si perfectiune, o sa vezi dintotdeauna la gimnastele romance 🥇🔝❤💛💙
Things you only see in the cartoons, and its a compliment.
Simone who ? xD
extraordinar
Better than Biles, and she doesn’t have the 5” springs beneath the floor.
This was the true spirit of this sport. Strength with elegance. American athletes and most of all Biles ruined all this. I didn't miss her at all at the last Olympic Games. At last artistic gymnastic seemed to have recovered from those horrible circus exhibitions.
It's not the athletes' fault that the sport has changed so much. The athletes do what they are ordered to do. It's part of the sport. Get off your high horse.
I feel like gymnastics today are so aggressive that it's lost the artistic element. Not to say gymnasts today aren't talented, of course, but I feel like the art element has slowly faded away and it's now just about physical prowess.
What an original, thought provoking comment! 🏆🥇⭐️ It's not like 99% of the comments all say this exact same thing!
@@Adelicows, how does it make you feel to know that you wasted 30 seconds of your life to respond to my comment and it was, at best, C-level sarcasm on your part?
I think the same... It is all about acrobatics, not about being delicate and elegant... not even the bodies look elegant anymore. I used to enjoy lots, not anymore. (I AM NOT SAYING THEY ARENT BRILLIANT CAUSE THEY ARE).
MASTERPIECE!!🥵🥶🤯🤯🤯🔥🥇💯💣
Yo estaba enamorado de Lavinia ... saludos desde México.
Excelente...😍😍😍👍👍👍
Impresionante🤗🤗🤗
Que leveza e elegância 😱😍😍😍👏👏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️
She is a goddess ❤