The commentators are pathetic. Sandra was amazing. She should have competed in her own league. She is around to 5'7 tall, a head taller than most gymnasts.That makes gymnastics more spectacular and more difficult. She had great elements and stuck all her landings. Elegant as hell, Shawn had no chance.
How were they butthurt? They praised Sandra for an excellent routine, while being honest about what they saw. It’s no different than the European commentators who clearly favor only certain countries themselves.
@@Q_from_Star_Trek so because they have opinions- ones your European commentators share so freely themselves- they are “butthurt?” Shows the mentality you have. You’ll notice that your European commentators said similar things, pointing out a couple of places where she DID have a noticeable error. The third pass was actually downgraded to a tuck instead of a layout, and well it should have been. It didn’t ultimately affect her score as it might have because of all the stuck landings, but don’t pretend like it was perfect. She deserved her gold medal, but it’s childish on your part to demean commentators who are just sharing honest opinions. I’m pretty sure that’s a God given right- just as much as your selfish opinion is.
@@saragrant9749 nobody said it was perfect, the unanimous opinion was (except of the american commentators and yours) that Sandra was just a class above anybody else, Shawn sucks, no artistry, her music sucks...your commentary is as chauvinistic as Bob Costas'...I'm glad he's not there anymore, because if you watched the olympics from USA, during his reign, you'd have the impression that only USA is competing at the Olympics, and that nobody else matters...LOL
You know, these commenters are so damn bias! Get over it that Shawn got second! Sandra deserved the gold! Yes, I'm an American! But whoever does the best, deserves the gold medal!
+Briane Kay I know. Tim's like "personally I thought Shawn's was better. It was more difficult in my opinion". Well your opinion clearly differs from that of the code of points.
+MsJubjubbird It's one thing to have a differing opinion, but there was literally no arguing that Izbasa's routine was better than Shawn's. Higher difficulty, better form, better artistry - like who are you trying to fool? That comment just reeked of catering to the US audience that I couldn't even.
So biased. Elfie saying "Well, there's something to be said about going up last..." Shut the f**k, Elfie, with your biased nonsense. Sandra smashed it and deserved that gold.
Coming from an American, Sandra 100% definitely deserved the gold. Her landings were beautiful, the dance and artistry was beautiful. This was absolutely a gold medal winning performance. Sandra did wonderfully this day. I think the medals were rightfully given. Shawn and Nastia getting silver and bronze was the correct choice in my opinion.
NBC commentators always thinking the Americans are the best. So fed up with it. This time, the Americans weren't the best. I'm not saying this because I'm Romanian, the routine was so clean and beautiful to watch.
I’m American and I can’t stand these clowns either sometimes. I personally prefer the BBC Olympic commentary because I believe they are more balanced and fair in their analysis of every gymnast. The BBC commentators even said that after the all around they hoped floor would fair well for shawn for gold, but one of them said she had a “chance” of winning but “only a chance” not a guarantee. She then went on to say that others she said could take it would be Cheng Fei or Sandra and then she said “I believe Sandra Izbasa MIGHT snatch this one”. She was right. I personally wanted Shawn to win floor, but Sandra deserved this one. She was amazing.
So because they have honest opinions- something your European commentators have as well- they are terrible? Talk about European stuffy and uppity arrogance. They have as much right to speak their minds and have honest opinions as fools like you do.
well deserved gold medal. I absolutely love that music, perfect choice. loved her tumbling and choreography. izbasa is one of those very reliable gymnasts...you know she'll hit the routine, it's just a matter of how well she hits it.
A very good routine for sure. Even more impressive because Sandra wasn't really a natural dancer, but this routine was constructed in a way that concealed that.
I think what he meant is that Shawn's tumbling passes were more difficult, and they are. Sandra's routine had a higher difficulty only because of the connection bonuses she got in two of her passes. In the 2009-2012 and the 2013-2016 CoP, Shawn's D score is about 6.3 or 6.4, while Izbasa is down to around 5.7 or 5.9 depending which pass she keeps (girls can only count 4 acro, in 2008 it was 5).
Ka Po Chu Yes but here if you check Sandra's was 9.150 and Shawn's was 9.100. Not really that big a difference if you would compare them. Both great gymnasts tho, and Sandra was a really deserving winner!
Love how the couch celebrates at the end of the routine, love how Tim is speechless at the same time. But again denying a victory (just as in UB EF), he's a sore loser.
@@punkrockstar but as a commentator, he shouldn't be bias, he could say what he wants, but not denying the champion, that's means lack of sportsmanship
As a HUMAN BEING he has the right and privilege to an opinion, and to share it honestly. No commentator in ANY sport has no opinion to share, it’s a God given right. He still praised Sandra for her performance and victory. In terms of the uneven bars, gold should have been SHARED. A tie breaker in a subjectively scored sport is a complete farce.
Izbasa is the US Golden-taker hahaha. In 2008 they were expecting Shawn to get FX Gold, while Sandra did it. In 2012, after an unexpected fall Sandra once again snatched USA's gold medal. I love her with her grace and beauty, oh and incredible smile.
@@vampireshful even if she didn't she wouldn't had gotten gold, as that medal was decided pretty quickly, and given to a gymnast with no dance skills, no artistry, no grace, just a series of jumps and acrobatic elements on Nagila Hava (music).
@@ralphbourgeois5875 okay, you are more rude than Tim is. He was an Olympic gymnast himself; he understands the sport and he's allowed to think another gymnast was better. In 2012 everyone was bitching that the Romanian should have won over the American because they liked her routine better. Hypocrisy much?
@@Musickt196 Tim was not bitching about the 2012 result so your point is moot. I myself agreed with Raisman winning in 2012, her difficulty was higher. Just like here the Romanian's difficulty was higher and her execution was flawless, no argument can be made against her winning except bias. Tim is hated in the sport, he even whined in an interview a year ago his old friends from Russia like Nemov and Khorkina have stoned him out and refuse to speak with him when they see him at events. There is a reason for that. Tim's commentary in the 2008 Olympics was an All Time disgrace and I am not the only one who feels that way. Apparently NBC got more hate mail than ever in an Olympics all for their gymnastics coeverage alone. Yeah Tim is an Olympic gymnast who won medals (mostly just the team gold) in a worthless boycotted Olympics, cool. Izbasa has even achieved a shit load ton more than him (2 individual Olympic Golds in a real Olympics for instance), along with most of the others he dumps on. He doesn't even have a world championship medal, not a single one, not even a team or event one. Watch Tim's commentary on the bars final at these same Games which was even worse. Tim himself admitted he even got death threats from AMERICANS for his Nastia bias, to the point he purposely had to tone it down, not because of corrupt NBC who don't care and probably even push that bullshit, but because of fans who literally wanted him dead.
1:35 - check out Nastia and Valerie in the background when Izbasa nailed that final triple twist. The look and semi-smile on Valerie's face says 'alright, there it is, that's the winning routine, just give her the medal already'. He knew it was unbeatable.
Amo esa rutina de Sandra... para mi es una de las mejores en suelo.. soy fans de ella y espero que Rumania vuelva a ser la de antes... al igual que las Rusas... ambos equipos son grandiosos... claro USA esta en su momento dorado... pero todo es sacrificio... esfuerzo... amor y pasión... por lo que ellas y ellos hacen.... saludos desde Panamá...
Para mí la verdadera batalla por la Gymnacia era Russia vs Rumania pornque ambos equipos se exigían al máximo la elegancia el ballet se veía en rutinas daban claro ejemplo de Gymnacia Artística.
She and Sandra were apparently fairly good friends, it was so lovely that Fei was standing nearby when Sandra saw she won and was the first to be able to congratulate her!
Foi humilde no solo, mas no salto ela foi bem pouco humilde, saindo do ginásio depois de cair no segundo salto, só voltou quando viu que tinha chance de pegar o bronze.
i always used to think that shawn should have won and that shawns was better .. but looking at this now, I was very wrong. Thsi routine is the best routine of the night. The execution and the landings were spot on.
jcbroadw I find it hard to listen to Mitch now, I miss him. As for the routine, Liukin and Cheng Fei both knew it deserved to win, so did the other coaches.
I’ve just watched a video we’re Shawn Johnson were showing their silver medals and she said “I don’t know who won 3rd on team and think that the girl who won on floor were from Germany” My face was literally this: ._.
Remember that, by the end of those games she was absolutely exhausted. She didn’t even remember doing that gold medal beam routine, it was essentially muscle memory. Unless you’ve been in a situation like that, with all that intensity and pressure you’re in no position to judge like that.
Omg!!! @ the end of this video , you can just see Shawn happy for Sandra but still sad she got knocked off the gold medal. They both did excellent medalist routines :)
I think Sandra's execution was underscored here even though it didn't affect her well derserved gold medal position, she stuck 4 out of 5 of her landings while Nastia stuck only 2. If Nastia had a 9.225 execution, I think Sandra's should be higher
She also tucked what was supposed to be a layout full- which was deducted and downgraded. It ultimately didn’t affect her score much as she stuck her other landings… but the execution score was definitely accurate.
2008 definitely had the best FX routines and music🎶 : Sandra izbasa, Anna Pavlova, Jang Yiling, Shawn Johnson, Yekaterina Kramarenko, Ksenia afanasyeva & semenova, Cheng Fei, Nastia Luikin and many more!! brought good floor exercise routines to those Olympics and I actually thought they were the best Olympics in history
Oh, piss off Elfi, trying to deny Izbasa outperforming Shawn Johsnon. She won. Get over it. Not everyday cry when the Americans lose. Sometimes learn to accept you got beat.
Lo tenía todo, elegancia, dificultad, fuerza, coreografía, eso si es gimnasia artística, no solo es acrobacia, también la parte artística es importante. Merecida la medalla de Sandra ❤❤❤
FEI AND SANDRA HUGGED right after her results were confirmed. Awww that’s so cute. Such good sportsmanship as well. Love to see athletes of different nations respecting each other.
I love Sandra Isbasa’s routine and I love this song. I just wish to god this wasn’t in the middle of the five tumbling pass rule. I would have loved to see what she could have done with the choreography.
Não me canso de ver pelo menos uma vez por mês. Isso não é um solo, é um tapa na cara da sociedade em nível mundial. (Nada contra a Shawn, foi a ginasta que fez eu me apaixonar pela ginástica, e ainda adoro ela, mas...)
Realmente, a Sandra Izbasa foi perfeita nessa rotina. Fiquei feliz quando ela ganhou!!! O solo das olimpíadas de 2012 foi decepcionante com a vitória da insossa e antipática Alessandra Raisman... A Catalina Ponor deveria ter ganhado.
Iury Torres A Catalina foi perfeita, mas a cara de cavalo também foi (na execução). Infelizmente o sistema escolhido não privilegia ginastas artísticas, mas privilegia ginastas com grandes acrobacias (onde os EUA sempre iram ganhar por possuírem centros de treinamentos bem mais avançados). È injusto! Mas para todos os amantes da verdadeira ginastica, a verdadeira campeã do solo foi a Ponor. Como a verdadeira campeão do AA foi a Komova.
Amo Shanw em decorrência do solo de 2007 no pan, no meu ver ela deverão ser ganho, mas me lembro que quando apresentaram as ginastas, a Izabasa, foi a menos aplaudida! Fez todos engolirem ahhahaha Que arraso!!
such a moment! I always come here to remember this. Recently, I watched a video where Shawn was showing her silver medals and when she talked about the floor competition she said that she was outclassed by a germany girl. So arrogant!
Great routines but the elegance is really out the window by 08. This was the beginning of the robot gymnastics era, because of that new scoring system.
There is still elegance and dance, it’s an individual and interpretive thing. If you are perpetually stuck in the 1980’s and 1990’s, go watch that and leave these wonderful athletes alone!
Para mi las mejores rutinas desde el 2000 hasta la fecha son Sandra Isbaza 2008, Xenia Afanasieva 2012 y Larissa Jordache en el campeonato mundial 2014
They in NO way tried to discredit it. They praised her spot on landings and everything else. They merely shared an honest opinion- something they have a God given right to do.
The woman commentator was so lame..."the advantage of being last in the competition"...She implied that Sandra didn't deserve to win and that she won only because she competed last. I sure hope this commentator is no longer employed in the sports field.
See? This is how sport should be like... Nastia and Shawn congratulating Sandra even if she was slightly better than them... Not like that bitch Ally Raisman who laughed and nearly cheered when Sandra fell at the last thing in 2012 ;)
I'm an American, but when Aly Raisman and Gabby Douglas were on the team in 2012, I went for Russia or Sandra Isabasa. Couldn't stand the bitchiness of the American girls gymnastics team.
+Ana Pagu Then you clearly haven't seen the footage of Aly being the only gymnast going over and congratulating and giving hugs to all the Russian gymnasts after their heartbreaking loss in the team final. And of course she was happy about floor, she won a rightly deserved gold medal after losing an all-around medal due to the tie breaking procedures. She was not celebrating somebody else's defeat (who by the way won the vaulting gold medal over McKayla Maroney, so she shouldn't be too upset), but celebrating her own successes. She was and still is allowed to be happy.
I just LOVE that in contrast to 2012 Vault final where everyone moans about Maroney there is NO DOUBT that Izbasa slayed. The Americans brought their absolute best and she came on top! Forever the FX Queen of 2008!
![2013 WC Sandra Izbasa FX EF [HD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/K0mASe6fU-M/mqdefault.jpg)
Sandra was perfect here. I will never get sick of watching this routine! A very well deserved gold medal.
I will never get sick of watching this routine! +1
I will never get sick of watching this routine! +2
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Ditto
I will never get sick of watching this beat Shawn Johnson.
The commentators are pathetic. Sandra was amazing. She should have competed in her own league. She is around to 5'7 tall, a head taller than most gymnasts.That makes gymnastics more spectacular and more difficult. She had great elements and stuck all her landings. Elegant as hell, Shawn had no chance.
true. the American commentator was a total butthurt.
How were they butthurt? They praised Sandra for an excellent routine, while being honest about what they saw. It’s no different than the European commentators who clearly favor only certain countries themselves.
@@saragrant9749 he said: "I thought Shawn's was better"...LOL...you gotta be delusional to say something like that!
@@Q_from_Star_Trek so because they have opinions- ones your European commentators share so freely themselves- they are “butthurt?” Shows the mentality you have. You’ll notice that your European commentators said similar things, pointing out a couple of places where she DID have a noticeable error. The third pass was actually downgraded to a tuck instead of a layout, and well it should have been. It didn’t ultimately affect her score as it might have because of all the stuck landings, but don’t pretend like it was perfect. She deserved her gold medal, but it’s childish on your part to demean commentators who are just sharing honest opinions. I’m pretty sure that’s a God given right- just as much as your selfish opinion is.
@@saragrant9749 nobody said it was perfect, the unanimous opinion was (except of the american commentators and yours) that Sandra was just a class above anybody else, Shawn sucks, no artistry, her music sucks...your commentary is as chauvinistic as Bob Costas'...I'm glad he's not there anymore, because if you watched the olympics from USA, during his reign, you'd have the impression that only USA is competing at the Olympics, and that nobody else matters...LOL
You know, these commenters are so damn bias! Get over it that Shawn got second! Sandra deserved the gold! Yes, I'm an American! But whoever does the best, deserves the gold medal!
+Briane Kay I'd like to see more of this mentality. The best shall won, regardless of your nationality or preferences.
+Briane Kay I know. Tim's like "personally I thought Shawn's was better. It was more difficult in my opinion". Well your opinion clearly differs from that of the code of points.
+MsJubjubbird It's one thing to have a differing opinion, but there was literally no arguing that Izbasa's routine was better than Shawn's. Higher difficulty, better form, better artistry - like who are you trying to fool? That comment just reeked of catering to the US audience that I couldn't even.
Every single landing was perfect! No discussion at all, this commenter was crazy. The difficulty was insane as well.
Briane Kay Shawn deserved that gold she has a much more difficult routine than this girl. Even the announcer said that so get a clue.
The landings put Izbasa over the edge. The only step she had to take was on her tucked double full-in. Every other tumbling pass was stuck cold.
And that triple turn at the beginning of the routine
And that step is her lunge out of tumbling pass which is allowed and not a deduction.
Nastia and Sandra are also very elegant gymnasts.
I'm an American and agree. This was Sandra's. Enough, I'll listen to British commentary anyday.
They are just as biased.
So biased.
Elfie saying "Well, there's something to be said about going up last..." Shut the f**k, Elfie, with your biased nonsense.
Sandra smashed it and deserved that gold.
Coming from an American, Sandra 100% definitely deserved the gold. Her landings were beautiful, the dance and artistry was beautiful. This was absolutely a gold medal winning performance. Sandra did wonderfully this day. I think the medals were rightfully given. Shawn and Nastia getting silver and bronze was the correct choice in my opinion.
"Shawn is better... it's more difficult"... gymnastics is not just about difficulty, Isbaza was much better. Love her! :)
Izbasa had a 6.5 start value while Johnson only had a 6.4. And Izbasa's was perfectly executed throughout. A well-deserved win.
@@mathemusicianifynot perfectly entirely, she tucked her punch full. Everything else was clean though, and that made the difference.
Valeri Liukin looking at the Romanian coach in the triple twist knowing that Isbaza is going to take the gold, it's life
that cute moment between Sandra Izbasa and Cheng Fei always makes me smile ^^
The landing on the final pass is just a thing of beauty. So graceful!
NBC commentators always thinking the Americans are the best. So fed up with it. This time, the Americans weren't the best. I'm not saying this because I'm Romanian, the routine was so clean and beautiful to watch.
KoreanDramas2010 Hands down the best. Sandra's routine was so fluid, so beautiful, so well executed. She deserved to win, completely.
+KoreanDramas2010 That's how an all-time favorite is performed.
+KoreanDramas2010 All time medal count. that was quick .
I’m American and I can’t stand these clowns either sometimes. I personally prefer the BBC Olympic commentary because I believe they are more balanced and fair in their analysis of every gymnast. The BBC commentators even said that after the all around they hoped floor would fair well for shawn for gold, but one of them said she had a “chance” of winning but “only a chance” not a guarantee. She then went on to say that others she said could take it would be Cheng Fei or Sandra and then she said “I believe Sandra Izbasa MIGHT snatch this one”. She was right. I personally wanted Shawn to win floor, but Sandra deserved this one. She was amazing.
So because they have honest opinions- something your European commentators have as well- they are terrible? Talk about European stuffy and uppity arrogance. They have as much right to speak their minds and have honest opinions as fools like you do.
Funny how they suddenly got quiet after Sandra’s score came out 🤣
Au murit, un scor meritat , muncit SANDRA IZBASA - ROMÂNIA 🇷🇴 !!!! 👏👏👏👏👏
Background music it's "Elena's Dance" by Polish composer, Michal Lorenc from the movie "Bastard" of 1997. Sandra, good job! :)
well deserved gold medal. I absolutely love that music, perfect choice. loved her tumbling and choreography. izbasa is one of those very reliable gymnasts...you know she'll hit the routine, it's just a matter of how well she hits it.
A very good routine for sure. Even more impressive because Sandra wasn't really a natural dancer, but this routine was constructed in a way that concealed that.
One of the cleanest landings I've ever seen. Well-deserved win.
Congratulations Sandra Izbasa!You are so beautiful and talented!God bless you!
Sandra rules!!!!!! she's amazing and beautiful!!!
"[Shawn's routine] is more difficult in my opinion"
Ok Tim, but under the CoP Sandra's is more difficult.
Irene P That and if we consider the word "artistic" in the name of the sport- well we know who outshone the other one tpp
Irene P In *his* opinion, but looking at the numbers, it wasn't. Numbers are objective, they're not a matter of opinion.
I think what he meant is that Shawn's tumbling passes were more difficult, and they are. Sandra's routine had a higher difficulty only because of the connection bonuses she got in two of her passes. In the 2009-2012 and the 2013-2016 CoP, Shawn's D score is about 6.3 or 6.4, while Izbasa is down to around 5.7 or 5.9 depending which pass she keeps (girls can only count 4 acro, in 2008 it was 5).
Aside from difficulties, there will always be one thing that remains true in every COP: Execution.
Ka Po Chu Yes but here if you check Sandra's was 9.150 and Shawn's was 9.100. Not really that big a difference if you would compare them. Both great gymnasts tho, and Sandra was a really deserving winner!
Păcat ca nu se mai acorda nota 10 . Ar fi meritat. Este un sol excepțional! Bravo Sandra !
Love how the couch celebrates at the end of the routine, love how Tim is speechless at the same time. But again denying a victory (just as in UB EF), he's a sore loser.
He has the right to his opinion
@@punkrockstar but as a commentator, he shouldn't be bias, he could say what he wants, but not denying the champion, that's means lack of sportsmanship
As a HUMAN BEING he has the right and privilege to an opinion, and to share it honestly. No commentator in ANY sport has no opinion to share, it’s a God given right. He still praised Sandra for her performance and victory. In terms of the uneven bars, gold should have been SHARED. A tie breaker in a subjectively scored sport is a complete farce.
Izbasa is such a beautiful gymnast to watch! I always love her FX routines!
Izbasa is the US Golden-taker hahaha. In 2008 they were expecting Shawn to get FX Gold, while Sandra did it. In 2012, after an unexpected fall Sandra once again snatched USA's gold medal. I love her with her grace and beauty, oh and incredible smile.
Sandra is great. Sadly she fell at the floor final in 2012
@@vampireshful even if she didn't she wouldn't had gotten gold, as that medal was decided pretty quickly, and given to a gymnast with no dance skills, no artistry, no grace, just a series of jumps and acrobatic elements on Nagila Hava (music).
American here. Tim's 100% allowed to say his opinion but I think Izbasa was amazing and this is probably one of my favorite floor routines ever :)
@@ralphbourgeois5875 okay, you are more rude than Tim is. He was an Olympic gymnast himself; he understands the sport and he's allowed to think another gymnast was better. In 2012 everyone was bitching that the Romanian should have won over the American because they liked her routine better. Hypocrisy much?
@@Musickt196 Tim was not bitching about the 2012 result so your point is moot. I myself agreed with Raisman winning in 2012, her difficulty was higher. Just like here the Romanian's difficulty was higher and her execution was flawless, no argument can be made against her winning except bias. Tim is hated in the sport, he even whined in an interview a year ago his old friends from Russia like Nemov and Khorkina have stoned him out and refuse to speak with him when they see him at events. There is a reason for that.
Tim's commentary in the 2008 Olympics was an All Time disgrace and I am not the only one who feels that way. Apparently NBC got more hate mail than ever in an Olympics all for their gymnastics coeverage alone.
Yeah Tim is an Olympic gymnast who won medals (mostly just the team gold) in a worthless boycotted Olympics, cool. Izbasa has even achieved a shit load ton more than him (2 individual Olympic Golds in a real Olympics for instance), along with most of the others he dumps on. He doesn't even have a world championship medal, not a single one, not even a team or event one.
Watch Tim's commentary on the bars final at these same Games which was even worse. Tim himself admitted he even got death threats from AMERICANS for his Nastia bias, to the point he purposely had to tone it down, not because of corrupt NBC who don't care and probably even push that bullshit, but because of fans who literally wanted him dead.
1:35 - check out Nastia and Valerie in the background when Izbasa nailed that final triple twist. The look and semi-smile on Valerie's face says 'alright, there it is, that's the winning routine, just give her the medal already'. He knew it was unbeatable.
I went back and watched it...and you're right...lol
They all knew she was going to win!
Sandra este o persoană minunată ! Felicitări !
Amo esa rutina de Sandra... para mi es una de las mejores en suelo.. soy fans de ella y espero que Rumania vuelva a ser la de antes... al igual que las Rusas... ambos equipos son grandiosos... claro USA esta en su momento dorado... pero todo es sacrificio... esfuerzo... amor y pasión... por lo que ellas y ellos hacen.... saludos desde Panamá...
Para mí la verdadera batalla por la Gymnacia era Russia vs Rumania pornque ambos equipos se exigían al máximo la elegancia el ballet se veía en rutinas daban claro ejemplo de Gymnacia Artística.
Mesmo depois de anos ainda continua sendo meu solo favorito! Well done!
A Sandra izbasa possui o melhor solo até aqui tanto que já ganhou vários ouros para Romênia ótima atleta errava muito pouco na saltagem.
Já vi umas mil vezes e não me canso. Essa série é linda!
Cheng Fei is so humble. Love Her ❤️
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She and Sandra were apparently fairly good friends, it was so lovely that Fei was standing nearby when Sandra saw she won and was the first to be able to congratulate her!
Foi humilde no solo, mas no salto ela foi bem pouco humilde, saindo do ginásio depois de cair no segundo salto, só voltou quando viu que tinha chance de pegar o bronze.
i always used to think that shawn should have won and that shawns was better .. but looking at this now, I was very wrong. Thsi routine is the best routine of the night. The execution and the landings were spot on.
Tim and Elfi are the worst. Listen to their "commentary" on this fantastic routine, and then compare it to Mitch and Christine at the BBC. Ugh.
I know. Shawn couldn't even hit splits.
I totally agree with you! Yes, comapare the comments. Sandra had the highest difficulty
jcbroadw I find it hard to listen to Mitch now, I miss him. As for the routine, Liukin and Cheng Fei both knew it deserved to win, so did the other coaches.
They were so frustrated in this moment hahahah.
Thank you Sandra. You are a true winner. I believe the best at what you did, stay safe
Ese es un momento cuando deseas que alguien gane y pasa... de mis rutinas y gimnastas favoritas!!! Bravooo!!!
Piece of art. Absolutely wonderful!
So glad that Sandra has returned to the training gym! Hope she can shine again with a medal in Rio.
+Lei Liu Same here, although it will be really hard! Catalina Ponor has more chances in this moment.
Simone Biles
Lmao 2:59 someone in the background says "dammit" 😂😂😂
It sounds like Tim lmao
One of my favorite floor routines. Even the music is perfect.
Mixed up with some AWSOME dance moves bravo! 👏🏻😊
Wspaniały przykład jak muzyka Michała Lorenca (Taniec Eleny) tworzy podkład do niesamowitych wyczynów złotej medalistki Sandra Izbasa
I’ve just watched a video we’re Shawn Johnson were showing their silver medals and she said “I don’t know who won 3rd on team and think that the girl who won on floor were from Germany”
My face was literally this: ._.
Remember that, by the end of those games she was absolutely exhausted. She didn’t even remember doing that gold medal beam routine, it was essentially muscle memory. Unless you’ve been in a situation like that, with all that intensity and pressure you’re in no position to judge like that.
Omg!!! @ the end of this video , you can just see Shawn happy for Sandra but still sad she got knocked off the gold medal. They both did excellent medalist routines :)
I love her music
Vinícius Oliveira „ taniec eleny” Michał lorenc
Sandra made a perfect performance as a NBC comentator said she had perfect landfalls, It was a magnificent floor exercise
Beauty, grace and force !
I think Sandra's execution was underscored here even though it didn't affect her well derserved gold medal position, she stuck 4 out of 5 of her landings while Nastia stuck only 2. If Nastia had a 9.225 execution, I think Sandra's should be higher
She also tucked what was supposed to be a layout full- which was deducted and downgraded. It ultimately didn’t affect her score much as she stuck her other landings… but the execution score was definitely accurate.
One of the Romanian from audience shout: e aur pe noi 😂😂 in English: we are cover with gold! Indeed that time it was true!
What about from 2015 to present?
She's the giant-killer. She beat Shawn on floor in 2008 and McKayla on vault in 2012. That must feel so good.
Who says, "DAMNIT"@ 3:00 when they show the score? I wouldn't be surprised if it was Tim's Uncle Sam commentary. Lmao.
Felicitări! Sandra Izbasa❤
She was amazing!!!
Sandra perfect
She deserves. I like Shawn Johnson but Sandra is the best. So elegant and talented ❤️
😍😍 I love this routine, the music, her, everything was perfect
Una de las mejores rutinas en suelo... 😉😉😉
no solo es saltar sino tambien es Arte y Gracia, las 3 son buenas pero esta ves Tu fuiste la major Sandra Izbasa
De acuerdo, tienes face? c: no conozco a otro fan de la gimnasia artistica que sea hispano, seria genial compartir opiniones
2008 definitely had the best FX routines and music🎶 : Sandra izbasa, Anna Pavlova, Jang Yiling, Shawn Johnson, Yekaterina Kramarenko, Ksenia afanasyeva & semenova, Cheng Fei, Nastia Luikin and many more!! brought good floor exercise routines to those Olympics and I actually thought they were the best Olympics in history
I really enjoy watching Sandra's routine
Oh, piss off Elfi, trying to deny Izbasa outperforming Shawn Johsnon. She won. Get over it. Not everyday cry when the Americans lose. Sometimes learn to accept you got beat.
I am romanian but now i cry which destroyed is romanian gymnastics!
Elia Rousa dece ai zis aşa?
She is second to none to Andrea. Even her , for sure she is unbeatable. I love you Sandra
¡Sandra Izbasa es perfecta!
Lo tenía todo, elegancia, dificultad, fuerza, coreografía, eso si es gimnasia artística, no solo es acrobacia, también la parte artística es importante. Merecida la medalla de Sandra ❤❤❤
"Taniec Eleny" i znakomity występ. W pełni zasłóżone złoto.
Perfect steps perfect landing good performance and beautiful girl
Without a doubt, here the best, the one with the greatest difficulty was Cheng Fei, but when she failed, it was good that Sandra won...👋👋
Anyone else notice that when her score came in someone said "damn it"?
JGSHEW I think it was Tim attempting to say it off mic so we wouldn’t hear lol. #fail
FEI AND SANDRA HUGGED right after her results were confirmed. Awww that’s so cute. Such good sportsmanship as well. Love to see athletes of different nations respecting each other.
Ela abraçou todas as concorrentes, inclusive as americanas, nada demais.
I love Sandra Isbasa’s routine and I love this song. I just wish to god this wasn’t in the middle of the five tumbling pass rule. I would have loved to see what she could have done with the choreography.
Não me canso de ver pelo menos uma vez por mês. Isso não é um solo, é um tapa na cara da sociedade em nível mundial. (Nada contra a Shawn, foi a ginasta que fez eu me apaixonar pela ginástica, e ainda adoro ela, mas...)
Realmente, a Sandra Izbasa foi perfeita nessa rotina. Fiquei feliz quando ela ganhou!!! O solo das olimpíadas de 2012 foi decepcionante com a vitória da insossa e antipática Alessandra Raisman... A Catalina Ponor deveria ter ganhado.
Iury Torres A Catalina foi perfeita, mas a cara de cavalo também foi (na execução). Infelizmente o sistema escolhido não privilegia ginastas artísticas, mas privilegia ginastas com grandes acrobacias (onde os EUA sempre iram ganhar por possuírem centros de treinamentos bem mais avançados). È injusto! Mas para todos os amantes da verdadeira ginastica, a verdadeira campeã do solo foi a Ponor. Como a verdadeira campeão do AA foi a Komova.
+Jardel Rodrigues Realmente. Agora é torcer para que a Romênia seja grande novamente na ginástica
Amo Shanw em decorrência do solo de 2007 no pan, no meu ver ela deverão ser ganho, mas me lembro que quando apresentaram as ginastas, a Izabasa, foi a menos aplaudida! Fez todos engolirem ahhahaha Que arraso!!
Simone Biles mandou um beijo para todas elas.
Sandra Izbasa perfecta acțiune. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤💋🌹💋🌹💋🌹🗝️🎁🙏🌼💯💎🥇🏆💍
Personally liked Nastia's elegant floor routine so much more, but Sandra nailed her landings. Nobody can deny that!
No me canso De mirar este video.
Isbaza snatching them golds out of the home girls. Shawn and Nastia were class acts, such an amazing pair of team players.
This routine is so satisfying
Beautiful routine. Embarassing commentators!
Such a sweet girl. Glad she won.
such a moment! I always come here to remember this. Recently, I watched a video where Shawn was showing her silver medals and when she talked about the floor competition she said that she was outclassed by a germany girl. So arrogant!
That was weird... i saw it too. Did Germany win at floor olympics?
That was really arrogant!!!!
She was exhausted by the end of those games and likely didn’t remember the actual nationality of the winner. Get over it, everyone makes mistakes.
A fi gimnasta de performanta inseamna sacrificarea copilarie,familiei si foarte multa munca .....
I fell in love with this music 😍
I love Sandra ❤️❤️❤️
Great routines but the elegance is really out the window by 08. This was the beginning of the robot gymnastics era, because of that new scoring system.
There is still elegance and dance, it’s an individual and interpretive thing. If you are perpetually stuck in the 1980’s and 1990’s, go watch that and leave these wonderful athletes alone!
Flow ? Like water .
Bravo Sandra , te iubim .
Muzica frumoasa!
sandra is so good at connections
Wow, I didn't know you can have 5 tumbling passes!
+ThaliaGrace15 Back in 2008 you were allowed to. Now you can't.
Fact she was never a world champion, but two times gold medalist 🙌🙌👏🏼☺️
Para mi las mejores rutinas desde el 2000 hasta la fecha son Sandra Isbaza 2008, Xenia Afanasieva 2012 y Larissa Jordache en el campeonato mundial 2014
you can see the look on valeris face where he knows the gold medal is sandra’s
Sandra este o zanica (un diminutiv de la zana). Sa mearga pe strada ei, sper s-o ajute Dumnezeu.
The best!
Gosh this was just so fun to watch
Si azi privesc aceste imagining ca si cum a-r fi in concurs. 🎉❤
Ea merita!!! ^^
i’m not shocked at all that usa commenters tried to discredit this well deserved gold medal routine
They in NO way tried to discredit it. They praised her spot on landings and everything else. They merely shared an honest opinion- something they have a God given right to do.
Muzyka Michał Lorenc Poland :) Bravo Sandra
The woman commentator was so lame..."the advantage of being last in the competition"...She implied that Sandra didn't deserve to win and that she won only because she competed last. I sure hope this commentator is no longer employed in the sports field.
Ee aur pa noiiiii !!!! wouuuuu :DDDDDD
Perfect exercise, perfect music
Beautifil polish song "taniec Eleny"
See? This is how sport should be like... Nastia and Shawn congratulating Sandra even if she was slightly better than them... Not like that bitch Ally Raisman who laughed and nearly cheered when Sandra fell at the last thing in 2012 ;)
Aly never laughed and cheered she just knew that Sandra's score wasn't going to beat her so she was celebrating her win
I'm an American, but when Aly Raisman and Gabby Douglas were on the team in 2012, I went for Russia or Sandra Isabasa. Couldn't stand the bitchiness of the American girls gymnastics team.
+Briane Kelly how where they bitchy ?
Whut? Aly has always displayed so much sportmanship during her senior career. She is always the first to congratulate and hug everyone ...
+Ana Pagu Then you clearly haven't seen the footage of Aly being the only gymnast going over and congratulating and giving hugs to all the Russian gymnasts after their heartbreaking loss in the team final. And of course she was happy about floor, she won a rightly deserved gold medal after losing an all-around medal due to the tie breaking procedures. She was not celebrating somebody else's defeat (who by the way won the vaulting gold medal over McKayla Maroney, so she shouldn't be too upset), but celebrating her own successes. She was and still is allowed to be happy.
I just LOVE that in contrast to 2012 Vault final where everyone moans about Maroney there is NO DOUBT that Izbasa slayed. The Americans brought their absolute best and she came on top! Forever the FX Queen of 2008!
Lovely