What a Chinese team. Liu Xuan full of grace and smiles. Great bars and wonderdul beam, 2 time Olympian. Ling Jie gave us a peak of modern UB routines and had an amazing beam. Huang Mandan beautiful on bars. Dong Fangxiao ahead of her time, had a DTY, round off layout full on bb and her tumbling is still strong to this day. Yang Yun the best All arounder of the team and one of the best of the games, her team final vault is one of the prettiest vaults I've ever seen, beautiful bars with always a stuck double layout at the end and a big smile; beautiful, original and difficult beam and her floor routine had so much style and grace. Kui Yuanyuan sadly re injured her knee in the prelims on vault but it's a world champion on floor, performed one of the most amazing beam routines in history and it's one of the few Chinese gymnasts to compete in 2 Olympic games. This team was so strong, elegant and talented!!
It's unfortunate that Dong Fangxiao was found to be underage, this team was so talented. I feel especially bad for Huang Mandan, she was so strong on bars, but was excluded from bar finals due to the 2 per country rule, and now she doesn't even have her Olympic medal. Kui Yuanyuan as well, such a shame about the injury
@@mht4908 yes and she was perfect in prelims, she must've felt so bad that even with her best it wasn't enough. Also Kui worked so hard just to get injured in that suspicious Sydney vault. Oh well... still just making the Olympics representing China is a HUGE accomplishment, medal or no medal, considering how deep their talent pool is. Hope these girls realized that then and now❤❤
So here's the story: Chinese gymnast Dong Fangxiao competed in the 1999 World Championships and 2000 Sydney Olympics. After 1996 the minimum age to compete as a senior elite gymnast was raised to 16. Dong was registered in FIG records as having been born in 1983, however when she was working as a national technical officer during the Beijing 2008 Olympic games, her documents stated she was born in 1986, making her 14 in 2000. In 2010 the investigation concluded and it was found out she was underage and the Chinese team were stripped their medals away to be given to originally 4th place Team USA.
Yang Yun was 14 as well and she admitted it and said the coaches just handed her new credentials one day and told her "You're 15 now". Props to her for admitting it on TV and apologizing even though she didn't control the situation.
It is kind creepy, for me at least, to normalize that kids are competing on high standards perform sports like gymnastics and ice skating and diving. I am not criticizing, I just put myself as a dad and think I would be worried to see my children working so hard.
22 years forward and China, together with Russia, still carrying on their backs the artistic part of the sport. I also think Netherlands is doing it's part too. Anyway, all of the routines shown here are beautiful! Even Dong Fangxiaos' that is using a very VERY V E R Y overused song, still presents and interesting choreography and expression. A delight to watch.
I swear...if Ling Jie ever learned to drive her arms and block up before twisting rather than just letting herself bounce back somewhere while pre-rotating her upper body...she could've ruled the world.
I love her gymnastics, but you have a point. Besides that failure I think she is so polished. I find it so chic when they place their arms like the divers do while twisting.
I really loved the direction team China took with FX during this cycle, each routine was interesting, artistic and memorable. I feel like it in recent years it's just all been recycled Adi Pop poses to random background music.
Those Russians came for business! Too bad they got beat by a tenth of a point. Had not Ekaterina Lobazyuk fell or Khorkina that gold medal was there’s!
It would have been moot because they were disqualified for underage violations. Too bad. Their FX round was like a journey--each routine was so different & beautifully choreographed by a professional with the Beijing Ballet (? - corrections welcome).
Where can I find all the floor routines from Sydney 2000 on qualifications? I want to see the Namibian gymnast gharde geldenhuys 4 routines from sydney
@@vannthybun2546 Yes they should not have been allowed to keep it. It's just a unfortunate situation especially for the girls, their coaches made the call to falsify Dong and possibly Yang's ages, and they had to face the scrutiny of being the "medal thieves" or "cheaters" when they had nothing to do with it. The coaches and Chinese officials are the ones to blame, not them. I especially feel bad for Huang Mandan and Kui Yuanyuan, both are serious medal threats in their respective events, yet one was barred due to the 2 per country rule, the other due to injury. And now both of them lost the Olympic medal they worked their whole young lives for
@@vannthybun2546 Technically speaking, China should also be awarded the Bronze medals from the 1992 and 1996 games because the Romanian federation also cheated by sending underage athletes to both of those games (Gogean in 1992 and Marinescu in 1996).
@@saragrant9749 Prior to 1997 gymnasts had to turn 15 on the year of the Olympics to be age-eligible. Gogean and Marinescu were a year too young for the 1992 and 1996 games respectively.
Actually not. She was disqualified when she tested positive for an illegal drug. What is surprising is that she was allowed to keep her other medals. She was a wonderful gymnast.
@@Henriqueeu So fluid routines are stylistically and choreographically superior to routines that are choreographically and stylistically less fluid or even choppy??? Sounds very Eurocentric to me.
@@tambam6744 uh yes they are superior but one thing does not lead to another, you can have well choreographed routines that are not eurocentric, neither choppy, see Jade Barbosa 2015 or even Laurie Hernandez in 2013
@@Henriqueeu You basically said (not literally) that Eurocentric style and choreography is superior to that of the rest of the world because it is fluid? Not all cultural dance styles fit this r@cïst mold.
Chinese Gymnasts winning the bronze medal 🥉 in Sydney 2000 over USA 🇺🇸 were off the podium but the disqualification in 2010 but the Team United States of America 🇺🇸 winning the Olympic bronze medal 🥉 the IOC.
The team.. that shouldn’t have been. Shame on the coaches for lying like they did- it ultimately cost innocent athletes their medals. Glad everything was resolved though and the rightful athletes were awarded what they should have had in the first place.
dong fanxiao really was a beautiful gymnast. I feel sorry for her because of how china treated her after they got caught cheating when it wouldn't have been her fault. Sometimes i think tho how did she pass for being 2-3 years older than she actually was she looks so young compared to the others.
I feel sorry for her, as well as Huang Mandan and Kui Yuanyuan. Because the latter 2 only had the team medal, and now it's been taken away from them for something they didn't even do
China unfortunately placed winning ahead of athlete well-being and honesty in sport- and often still does. It’s a shame because the athletes who should have been able to enjoy their medals were denied. In terms of their treatment of her- no surprise from a country who has never been willing to admit it’s wrongdoing and who would rather blame the innocent.
You must have not watch the Olympics that year these were clearly not there best floor routines at the games. They had cleaner routines there that u didn't show smh
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What a Chinese team.
Liu Xuan full of grace and smiles. Great bars and wonderdul beam, 2 time Olympian.
Ling Jie gave us a peak of modern UB routines and had an amazing beam.
Huang Mandan beautiful on bars. Dong Fangxiao ahead of her time, had a DTY, round off layout full on bb and her tumbling is still strong to this day.
Yang Yun the best All arounder of the team and one of the best of the games, her team final vault is one of the prettiest vaults I've ever seen, beautiful bars with always a stuck double layout at the end and a big smile; beautiful, original and difficult beam and her floor routine had so much style and grace.
Kui Yuanyuan sadly re injured her knee in the prelims on vault but it's a world champion on floor, performed one of the most amazing beam routines in history and it's one of the few Chinese gymnasts to compete in 2 Olympic games. This team was so strong, elegant and talented!!
It's unfortunate that Dong Fangxiao was found to be underage, this team was so talented. I feel especially bad for Huang Mandan, she was so strong on bars, but was excluded from bar finals due to the 2 per country rule, and now she doesn't even have her Olympic medal. Kui Yuanyuan as well, such a shame about the injury
@@mht4908 yes and she was perfect in prelims, she must've felt so bad that even with her best it wasn't enough. Also Kui worked so hard just to get injured in that suspicious Sydney vault. Oh well... still just making the Olympics representing China is a HUGE accomplishment, medal or no medal, considering how deep their talent pool is. Hope these girls realized that then and now❤❤
And too young. Shame on those coaches.
So here's the story:
Chinese gymnast Dong Fangxiao competed in the 1999 World Championships and 2000 Sydney Olympics. After 1996 the minimum age to compete as a senior elite gymnast was raised to 16. Dong was registered in FIG records as having been born in 1983, however when she was working as a national technical officer during the Beijing 2008 Olympic games, her documents stated she was born in 1986, making her 14 in 2000. In 2010 the investigation concluded and it was found out she was underage and the Chinese team were stripped their medals away to be given to originally 4th place Team USA.
That must be the idea from the coach.
Yang Yun was 14 as well and she admitted it and said the coaches just handed her new credentials one day and told her "You're 15 now". Props to her for admitting it on TV and apologizing even though she didn't control the situation.
It is kind creepy, for me at least, to normalize that kids are competing on high standards perform sports like gymnastics and ice skating and diving. I am not criticizing, I just put myself as a dad and think I would be worried to see my children working so hard.
Yang Yun was simply the best on the floor that year in Chinese team. Love her artistry.
22 years forward and China, together with Russia, still carrying on their backs the artistic part of the sport. I also think Netherlands is doing it's part too.
Anyway, all of the routines shown here are beautiful! Even Dong Fangxiaos' that is using a very VERY V E R Y overused song, still presents and interesting choreography and expression.
A delight to watch.
I swear...if Ling Jie ever learned to drive her arms and block up before twisting rather than just letting herself bounce back somewhere while pre-rotating her upper body...she could've ruled the world.
I love her gymnastics, but you have a point. Besides that failure I think she is so polished. I find it so chic when they place their arms like the divers do while twisting.
@@JoaoZamae Corina Ungureanu was queen of that "diver's" arm position, I always loved to watch her twisting passes because of that :D
Liu Xuan 🥰🥰🥰
I really loved the direction team China took with FX during this cycle, each routine was interesting, artistic and memorable. I feel like it in recent years it's just all been recycled Adi Pop poses to random background music.
Liu Xuan and Yang Yun 😍😍😍👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful performance presentation china best🇨🇳
If Kuy Yuanyuan didn't get injured in the qualifying round, and they hit floor in the final, you would've been looking at the team Champions.
No!
Those Russians came for business! Too bad they got beat by a tenth of a point. Had not Ekaterina Lobazyuk fell or Khorkina that gold medal was there’s!
If if if if if if lol if you were liu xuan
It would have been moot because they were disqualified for underage violations. Too bad. Their FX round was like a journey--each routine was so different & beautifully choreographed by a professional with the Beijing Ballet (? - corrections welcome).
@@DianaDeLuna Even if Dong Fongxiao wasn't on the team, they still would've medaled.
Anyone know Yang Yun's floor music? Fantastic!
Liu Ming Yuan - The Ditty of Shandong Province
Please full competition 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Where can I find all the floor routines from Sydney 2000 on qualifications? I want to see the Namibian gymnast gharde geldenhuys 4 routines from sydney
Wow this is amazing
I hoped you included kui yuanyuan's floor too.
Did Mandan Huang's routine scare anyone else? I swear I was feeling ankle sympathy pain.
I personly love Kui Floor 1997-2000……
Spain next!
what did last girl get? I gave her 9.345
Im curious, was it the faulty vault that injured kui yuanyuan?
Yes it was sadly.
No, it was only set at the wrong height during women's AA, during qualifications it was set correctly.
Was that Ludmilla Tourischeva as one of the floor judges?
I know in 96 she was
yess
Please, do one for team Russia 🙏🏼
what quality!!! thank youuuuuuuuu what a pity they jave been removed their bronz medal
They broke the rules. It would have been a pity if they were allowed to keep it
@@vannthybun2546 Yes they should not have been allowed to keep it. It's just a unfortunate situation especially for the girls, their coaches made the call to falsify Dong and possibly Yang's ages, and they had to face the scrutiny of being the "medal thieves" or "cheaters" when they had nothing to do with it. The coaches and Chinese officials are the ones to blame, not them. I especially feel bad for Huang Mandan and Kui Yuanyuan, both are serious medal threats in their respective events, yet one was barred due to the 2 per country rule, the other due to injury. And now both of them lost the Olympic medal they worked their whole young lives for
@@vannthybun2546 Technically speaking, China should also be awarded the Bronze medals from the 1992 and 1996 games because the Romanian federation also cheated by sending underage athletes to both of those games (Gogean in 1992 and Marinescu in 1996).
@@Gazmeizster_Wongatronthe age requirement then was 14, not 16. I’m pretty sure they were both correct age for that time period.
@@saragrant9749 Prior to 1997 gymnasts had to turn 15 on the year of the Olympics to be age-eligible. Gogean and Marinescu were a year too young for the 1992 and 1996 games respectively.
The gold medal at floor in JO 2000 rightfully belonged to Andrea Răducan !
Actually not. She was disqualified when she tested positive for an illegal drug. What is surprising is that she was allowed to keep her other medals. She was a wonderful gymnast.
she fell in floor finals so she'd never medal on floor... however she will forever be AA champion for most of gymnastics fans including myself :D
Yang Tub’s floor🧡🧡🧡🧡
Team China 2000 and 2006 had the best coreography
Why? Because it’s Eurocentric/Western choreography?
@@tambam6744 uh... No...? Because it's fluid, it's well thought, look at Yang Yun and and Liu Xuan, specially Yun's there's nothing eurocentric there
@@Henriqueeu So fluid routines are stylistically and choreographically superior to routines that are choreographically and stylistically less fluid or even choppy??? Sounds very Eurocentric to me.
@@tambam6744 uh yes they are superior but one thing does not lead to another, you can have well choreographed routines that are not eurocentric, neither choppy, see Jade Barbosa 2015 or even Laurie Hernandez in 2013
@@Henriqueeu You basically said (not literally) that Eurocentric style and choreography is superior to that of the rest of the world because it is fluid? Not all cultural dance styles fit this r@cïst mold.
LAS CHINAS, JAPON Y RUMANIA, EXCELENTES ATLETAS !
Chinese Gymnasts winning the bronze medal 🥉 in Sydney 2000 over USA 🇺🇸 were off the podium but the disqualification in 2010 but the Team United States of America 🇺🇸 winning the Olympic bronze medal 🥉 the IOC.
This is one of the most complex comments you have made
@@tambam6744 Yes.
Disgusting that it took TEN years for the rightful bronze medalists to receive it. Chinese delegation should have faced very harsh punishment.
@@saragrant9749 Doping for China 🇨🇳 😍 🤣 😆 👏 👌 Gymnastics.
@@francisnguyen6349they were not disqualified for doping but for having an underage athlete and lying about it- for an entire DECADE.
Recuerdo que les quitaron el bronze por equipos en beneficio de estados unidos
It wasn’t for benefit?
They cheated
@@To_Cool_4_U. español
@@To_Cool_4_U. español
They took the team medal away because they CHEATED- something you clearly didn’t pay any attention to. What an idiotic statement.
The team.. that shouldn’t have been. Shame on the coaches for lying like they did- it ultimately cost innocent athletes their medals. Glad everything was resolved though and the rightful athletes were awarded what they should have had in the first place.
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dong fanxiao really was a beautiful gymnast. I feel sorry for her because of how china treated her after they got caught cheating when it wouldn't have been her fault. Sometimes i think tho how did she pass for being 2-3 years older than she actually was she looks so young compared to the others.
I feel sorry for her, as well as Huang Mandan and Kui Yuanyuan. Because the latter 2 only had the team medal, and now it's been taken away from them for something they didn't even do
China unfortunately placed winning ahead of athlete well-being and honesty in sport- and often still does. It’s a shame because the athletes who should have been able to enjoy their medals were denied. In terms of their treatment of her- no surprise from a country who has never been willing to admit it’s wrongdoing and who would rather blame the innocent.
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first routine was a joke
You must have not watch the Olympics that year these were clearly not there best floor routines at the games. They had cleaner routines there that u didn't show smh