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oh the crowd is electric

Besides the fall, this routine was actually really good. If she had a few more months of training it would’ve looked more cleaner. Also if she started training during 2010 she could’ve easily added upgrades to make it more competitive for event finals. Maybe even compete in the all around because when she originally made her comeback she was training all 4 events. I wish I could’ve seen her in London 😭

this was the closest routine she did all season ppl may say she shouldn’t of came back but atleast she tried and she did her best and theirs nothing bad about that

That was the last US traditional Olympic for women gymnastics.

This is kinda upsetting to watch. They’re trained so hard when they’re young that their body just can’t keep going at the same pace anymore. The culture around training since then has gotten better with pacing gymnasts, and now many gymnasts are continuing elite training well into their 20s. Pauline Schäfer, Ellie Black, Elizabeth Seitz. Gymnasts in their 30s too: Jade Barbosa, Vanessa Ferrari. Gymnasts in the 40s: Oksana Chusovitina … to name a few! Haha

The truth is: they didn't need Alicia for team finals, and with those two crucial falls in 08? Nah. I truly believe Martha picked Aly, Gabby, Jordyn, McKayla, and Kyla before the trials. They were the strongest combo all 2012

Awesome

Really, I love gymnastics and ice skating (figure and pairs skating). But the artistry while brilliant from the stocky short athletes is not a beautiful as everything Nastia does. I find myself exclusively watching her performances and ignoring the rest. And with ice skaters, I only look at performances of those who share Nastia's physicality. The rest don't have the elegance. The announcers are overly critical of Nastia apparently preferring the short stocky athletes.

Would she had made it in the Olympic team if they had six instead of five, like in the 2008 Olympics.

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She's not perfect, but she's good, I think.

My heart really goes out to competitors everywhere for those times that they've put in all they had to give and just come up short... I remember Nastias coach with his heart beating out of his chest and already crying saying "World Champion!! I'm telling you!" When she would go on to take all around gold. Moments... some moments will love forever... this was actually one of them to know that she would go from tears of slight pain and more wounded pride/embarrassment, to bounce back with her head held high, silencing any doubts about her place in history forever.

Essa menina é um fenômeno.

I can't even do a somersault, so.

Ross is the boss!

Stuck double layouts when she's young and small, and stuck double layouts when she's older and taller. Amazing!

Funny thing, if she hadn't stopped training for so many years, she probably would have made the team as a specialist on bars and beam!

Yikes that Van Leeuwen. Wish they tried something else. She probably could have done this routine for a 6.8 difficulty value at the time, it's cleaner version of the standard "Russian routine" that would soon become common (this format removes the clunky extra Giant 1/2 they are always doing): Toe 1/1 (D) + Komova II (E) + Pak (D) *.4 cv* Inbar 1/1 (E) + Maloney (D) + Inbar 1/2 (D) + Jaeger (D) *.5 cv* Double Layout (D)

Makes you realize how hard these routines really are...when she wasn't properly conditioned, she majorly messed up every single bars routine that she attempted.

Talking about “her look and her being lean” shows you how deep problems were in gymnastics back then and still are. Go off of the persons gymnastics not how they look

She was just not in good enough shape at this point to complete this routine. I know everyone has said this already but if she had started training a few months earlier... 2 clean bars and beam routines would have put some serious pressure on that Kyla Ross spot.

Coach kissy face ruined all practices

That was a mess...

when did she think it was a good idea to come back when it was obvious she wasn't ready?

at least she tried

The fact that she got an 8.9 execution score with that one big wobble says something about her form

she needed a better dismount

everyone is commenting how “she’s too late” or “she shouldn’t have tried coming back” but i don’t think there’s any shame in trying to come back. i think it’s admirable she tried again, especially at the age she was at the time. making it to the olympic trials a second time is something to be very proud of and i think it’s great she gave it a go

Feel very sorry for her. One of my fave

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She didn't honestly believe that the old cow Martha Karolyi would have her back on the team with what happened in 2008?!

Nastia has always been one of my favorites, but she should have took her 2008 gold and been done.

Late on comments..... Did those connections get credited? By the current code, almost all of them had significant pauses.

[legs go completely apart on the Van Leeuwen] 1:18 Tim: "litttttle bit of a leg separation" lol ok

It looks like she fell on the dismount because of where the mat was

Beautifully good.

It’s so interesting to me how the commentator sees the wold turn as this “cool new mount” whereas nowadays it’s just the boring old wolf turn that everybody’s doing.

If I am not mistaken, that’s the leo she wore in the 2008 Vault EF. 😊

She done landed on her butt

I always believed that she could've been waaay better. She started her comeback too late.

Thats why she shouldnt have started only a few months prior , she was already a more of an artistic gymnast and even in Beijing and before 2008 she wasnt really known for her endurance and power , especially with her height its hard , her whole bars routine was too much for her , she should have started from the other side of the high bar, only do two pirouettes into the geinger, and take out the tkatchev or connect it to the pak, and only do a double front , it wouldve shortened her routine and give her a chance to make it

I'm gonna miss that double layout... BOSS

The routine composition was not smart. That Tkatchev in the middle killed her endurance and broke the flow she had earlier in the routine. She needed to start with the Pak salto (ideally a bail), use a Ray to get back to the high bar and then stay on the high bar for the rest of routine where she was best. There were way too many kip cast handstands in the second half of the routine.

Fuck it hot mess but still got at 14.050

Her score please

I hate it when they talk about Marta as though she’s a normal human being whose opinions were ever worth consideration. She has always been a sadistic, vile, evil woman who took pleasure in destroying the lives of the children entrusted to her. Everyone knew what she was yet they allowed her to continue her reign of terror.

Beautifully impressive beam routine.

If only everyone else's wolf turns looked as good as hers.

I miss seeing her compete. Absolutely love this routine!