Chelsie had the BEST landings, sticking it EVERY time. Damn she wasnt appreciated enough by USAG. She's come full circle now, being one of the team coaches!!
@Sophia Cruz if anything the sport is just so tough on the body that it's not very common to continue for many olympic cycles. There are always amazing athletes like Chellsie and Oksana Chusovitina that can blow us away though :D
@@tarantulabunnydog very true! I competed at an elite level and back then you landed everything on pretty hard surfaces too. I think with pits and all the soft Matt's during practice has let some gymnasts be able to compete longer but it is still incredibly hard on the body. I have had 2 back surgeries due to gymnastics. First one was at 14.
so incredibly sad. they look genuinely scared to have been ‘caught’ just standing NEAR food. reminds me of Shawn sharing that after the olympics the girls ‘celebrated’ by eating mini chocolate bars in the village- still hidden from the coaches of course.
Yeah. Back when they used to pretend a gymnast was over the hill at the 16, she was born at and then peaked at exactly the right time. Kind of like Mary Lou Retton in 1984 except Shawn's WAY better.
Shawn Johnson is the best Beam worker I have ever seen . The power when she hits that beam is so satisfying . I can’t get over how she makes it look so easy and I know it def isn’t she packs so much in it doesn’t stop the only pause which all the gymnast have to do is the dismount. She def is amazing to watch. Naustia is a beautiful gymnast but isint see as much difficulty i
You can really tell 2008 was a different time, because every single girl mounted the beam in a different way, not what we see today with just the simple jump and sit on the beam. Also not an ugly wolf turn in sight either
Apparently, 2021 Olympic trials is gonna be the same format as 2008.... only top two have their moment in front of the crowd being announced at trials and then the other two are chosen at the training camp afterwards. I hate that system. It’s like the other two don’t have their emotional moment with the confetti in front of the crowd.
Liz Miller at least that’s what everyone has been saying in 2019. Apparently they’re only naming the top two and then the other two don’t get their moment. It’s unfair
@@jbmusician2007 Tim is weird honestly. Whenever he favors a gymnast, he'll only talk about them but he took it to the next level with Simone to where it was just kinda creepy
It's so true! She had two little but obvious balance checks and he says he can't see anywhere where they'd take any deductions, I'm like 'are we watching the same set?!' Then she has a bigger wobble, he says nothing 🙄 Then another which was a substantial sized one, which he refers to as 'really small' or words to that effect. The favouritism is laughable. Another gymnast it would have been a 'pretty big wobble.' Someone should have told him to check himself, seriously. 😅
But Shawn did step out of bounds in the Olympic team finals tho. Still idk how she got such a low score since a step out of bounds is only 0.1 deduction.
whats the point of having olympic trials with 19 competitors, when only 2 actually get picked? It seems like they just want to make a load of money and then just do what they want in private.
Yeah it use to be a team that kept a score but they keep lowering the number of the team and the ones who gave the highest scores it be ones a competition between their own team Nate and others it’s not right should be a team all these gymnast are amazing and what they have endured ! Yes I have my fav I can’t stand commentators bec every gymnast brings something diff some grace some with huge power , strength endurance , consistency,so much All these gymnast are amazing I get they want the gold but a silver is pretty damn amazing to achieve in life in the Olympic
Does anyone know if Chellsie has a legit chance of making the 2020ne team? I think she looks good but I'm not an expert lol, regardless I'm rooting for her!
I’m really glad Shawn and Naustia stayed friends even when they had that little estrangement sue to the media always trying to put these 2 beautiful gymnast against one another for who’s better who’s going to so Naustia can’t do this Shawn can’t do that these 2 were roommates during all this . Their was so many trying to make rivals out of these 2 it the media helped later on they didn’t talk after the Olympics for a while but that was a long time ago they are best friends. The media has to see these gymnast as a team not just putting them against one another their is no need for it. Shawn is a gymnast who has power and amazing height in the difficult skills she does grace Naustia has the lines flexibility grace . They are 2 gymnast with diff styles
Sam was very consistent AA but there were no gaps she filled in a 3 up 3 count context. Wonder if Jana’s bars would have scored better than Shawn’s in Beijing. Regardless, the US women didn’t have a real shot against China because of the insane UB deficit because of the weird overincentivizing of pirouette connections. Wonder what the team, AA, and bars finals would have looked like with a saner code on bars. Someone like Tweddle might have benefitted significantly. She did an insane routine that was somehow only .1 tenth more difficult than the pirouette-heavy routines of Nastia, He and YYL.
Mattie went to the 2010 World Championships, and did not have a great Qualifications. She fell on floor in the team finals and cost the USA the gold. She said none of the coaching staff, including her personal coaches, would speak to her after that. She never competed again. She ended up testifying at the Larry Nassar trial about not only the sexual abuse she endured from Nassar but how horrible she was treated by USAG and how badly she suffered from an eating disorder bc of it.
Jana got robbed! Gossip around the time was that Karolyi didn't like her mom, the coach, and consistently had judges underscore her. The championships, Jana was heard complaining about how she got docked for stuff that the favorite girls didn't, but it was the same stuff. In hindsight, I believe it. I believed it then though too. Always playing favorites 🙄 they did Maggie Nichols soo dirty too, and Kim Kelly.
Mattie Larsen really have a chance going to the Olympics, unfortunately it's the Nasser abuse that affected her performance. It's mentally and emotionally devastating for an athlete going through that experience. Knowing you see that person that abused you every time you go to camp.
Chellsie and her dad: adorable. Nastia and her dad: ehhh… is it just me, or was there some toxicity happening? Please forgive me if I’m stating the obvious. My kids were little back in ‘08, so I wasn’t really paying attention to the gymnastics scene.
Ugh... Watching Shawn makes me remenisce about the days when I USED RO HAVE LEGS LIKE THAT!!! I didn't do Gymnastics ever... But, I played soccer for 11 years and competed horses in jumping & 3 day Eventing for almost 25yrs & I HAD KILLER LEGS LIKE THAT!! I miss it lol. Never had that amazing little butt she had though. So cute!
Ok the one commenter on lukin if judges finding a point I don’t know where it be she had a ton of wobbles what was he speaking about ! Yea her lines are beautifully executed has the arthmic gymnastic look a dancer it’s beautiful to watch but all these girls are incredible gymnastics a hard sport very hard !
I don't really get how Marta can be objective as a judge when she's been a coach for so many years. Not saying she isn't, I just don't know how she does it.
This is totally irrelevant to the competition but it blows my mind that after all those years living and workiing in the States Bela still slaughters the great majestic English language like he does. It's like fingernails on a chalk board.
They are nit fair with who they put through its Bella and wife who starve as girls who verbally yell they knock them down than allow a pedaphile to treat them ! These woman deserves more
Shawn and naustia are 2 diff gymnast Shawn is power naustia is the lines but Shawn should have won they pitted these 2 tog and they were and are friends thought that is complete bull making team mates feel completive to one another when it is and should be a team win
If Chelsea Memmel came in 2nd at trials..she should have been called out with shawn....what BS...that was the 2 top gymnasts....not nastia and shawn...this is why I hated Marta over national team along with treatment of athletes...glad they are gone.
Marta did NOT like Chellsie at all. It may have been because Chellsie's dad was her coach and was not down with the eastern European style of coaching, so they couldn't control her like they could the others. It's poetic justice that Chell is now the Technical Lead for the team and selects the athletes who compete.
Throwback to when there was actually competition 1st and 2nd place
This is one of the most fighting Olympic trials ever. I always come back here to watch again and again. You can not duplicate this.
Chelsie had the BEST landings, sticking it EVERY time. Damn she wasnt appreciated enough by USAG. She's come full circle now, being one of the team coaches!!
Nobody’s gonna talk about nastia? She literally shows off the beauty of gymnastics. She’s such an icon
i think we’re all exhausted with nastia talk. give me chellsie or gtfo lol
@@ennnnnne Can't handle the truth
@@ennnnnne Chellsie was great but not a patch on nastia.
Nastia won the all around gold. She spoke for herself
Back in olympic beijing to that year it was actually team china vs Nastia and Shawn
And alicia but Alicia played double agent...helping china more than USA
@@Fliptwisttt245 what? That beam was BOMB
It’s easy to criticize people for one or two mistakes made at the most difficult time- when one has never been in their shoes.
@@Fliptwisttt245 what are you talking about lmao. Acting like she sabotaged her team. How about you try and do a front flip onto a 4 inch beam 😂
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Omg Chellsie Memmel had the meet of her life, she was amazing 😍❤️
Boodi she is one Tuff lady
I was at this meet and on the second day when she was finishing up her floor routine, the arena went CRAZY. Never heard cheering like it.
Nobody tumbled on beam like Shawn. She was rock solid, every time, landing with her chest so much higher than everyone else.
She is so complete!!! Her artistic side just makes her even more beautiful!!
Literally just here for more Chellsie content- hope she makes it on the team in 2021!
I would just die happy to see her at trials!
@Sophia Cruz only on the lower end of age, once you are old enough you can compete as long as you are healthy and able.
@Sophia Cruz if anything the sport is just so tough on the body that it's not very common to continue for many olympic cycles. There are always amazing athletes like Chellsie and Oksana Chusovitina that can blow us away though :D
@@tarantulabunnydog very true! I competed at an elite level and back then you landed everything on pretty hard surfaces too. I think with pits and all the soft Matt's during practice has let some gymnasts be able to compete longer but it is still incredibly hard on the body. I have had 2 back surgeries due to gymnastics. First one was at 14.
I can’t understand how the judges justified giving Nastia a 16.150 for that bar routine….. as if that was an 8.4 execution. That was criminal.
1:06:51 Alicia, “we’re not eating!” So sad 😞
I felt that. It hit me really hard.
so incredibly sad. they look genuinely scared to have been ‘caught’ just standing NEAR food. reminds me of Shawn sharing that after the olympics the girls ‘celebrated’ by eating mini chocolate bars in the village- still hidden from the coaches of course.
This is terrible. Heart breaking. Those coaches should be ashamed!
Omg one of the judges. The face she gave after Chelsea Memmel finished her beam routine lmao 😂
No wonder why! Her double pike dismount scared me 😱
@@Fvhlipe I don’t understand why? Her dismount was technically perfect!
@@taylorburtis there! It was so perfect it scared me
Chellsie Memmel is amazing. I could watch her gymnastics all day long. USAG did her dirty in 2012...and look at her now. Love her!
1:19:00 is what you came for
That was insane 9.650 E score on FX
Chellsie Memmel is a beast! She was always a force to be reckon with! She’s going to kill it next year at the Olympics!❤️😊😍👊🏾
How did you know? hahaha
Every damn time
Hell yeah
Ivana Hong’s tumbling form is *chef’s kiss*
I wish she was appreciated more, no one hardly ever clapped for her when she would tumble and it always made me sad 😢
Did it just seem like Shawn Johnson came in fast then left fast I feel like we just didn't get enough of her maybe it's just me
she tried to come back for 2016 but i think a few months prior to trials she decided to not continue, wish we saw her in Rio!!
She tore some ligaments in her knee in a ski accident which set her back quite a bit.
Leah Jane 2012 you mean.
She addresses this in her TH-cam vid about her eating disorder. Highly suggest watching it :)
Yeah. Back when they used to pretend a gymnast was over the hill at the 16, she was born at and then peaked at exactly the right time. Kind of like Mary Lou Retton in 1984 except Shawn's WAY better.
Shawn Johnson ❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks for posting this! I've never seen the 2008 trials :)
Thanks for posting this. I never got to see the whole broadcast!
Nastia is such an icon and Shawn I love them both 🥰
Nastia's routines
Bars 7:52
Beam 14:38
Floor 40:42
Vault 1:05:06
Shawn Johnson is the best Beam worker I have ever seen . The power when she hits that beam is so satisfying . I can’t get over how she makes it look so easy and I know it def isn’t she packs so much in it doesn’t stop the only pause which all the gymnast have to do is the dismount. She def is amazing to watch. Naustia is a beautiful gymnast but isint see as much difficulty i
Who else is watching in 2020 because of Chellsie Memmel's comeback?
Me
You can really tell 2008 was a different time, because every single girl mounted the beam in a different way, not what we see today with just the simple jump and sit on the beam. Also not an ugly wolf turn in sight either
BLAH BLAH always complaining
Ironically, the 2008 Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson had the simplest mount.
Oh I wish Ivana would have been more consistent! Her form is impeccable!!
I so wish Chellsie and Samantha could have been healthy for their Olympics. They were so good here.
Omg agree. I would have loved to see them both more
Apparently, 2021 Olympic trials is gonna be the same format as 2008.... only top two have their moment in front of the crowd being announced at trials and then the other two are chosen at the training camp afterwards. I hate that system. It’s like the other two don’t have their emotional moment with the confetti in front of the crowd.
Nathaniel Halls - I agree 100%
Liz Miller at least that’s what everyone has been saying in 2019. Apparently they’re only naming the top two and then the other two don’t get their moment. It’s unfair
When are the 2021 Olympic trials?
Turns out it wasn’t thank god
I love the 2008 team, but Alicia will always be my favorite.
Her sass always made her seem the most relatable to me lol
thank you so much for posting these :)
Tim: "You just don't see her falter."
Nastia: *falters for the third time*
Don't get me wrong, I love her, but he had such a crush on her.
If Tim had a crush on her, he must have been OBSESSED with Simone cuz he can't shut up about her.
@@jbmusician2007 Tim is weird honestly. Whenever he favors a gymnast, he'll only talk about them but he took it to the next level with Simone to where it was just kinda creepy
It's so true! She had two little but obvious balance checks and he says he can't see anywhere where they'd take any deductions, I'm like 'are we watching the same set?!'
Then she has a bigger wobble, he says nothing 🙄 Then another which was a substantial sized one, which he refers to as 'really small' or words to that effect. The favouritism is laughable. Another gymnast it would have been a 'pretty big wobble.' Someone should have told him to check himself, seriously. 😅
Do you REALLY need to focus on their faces after messing up a bit in their routines??? That face they’re making is them beating themselves up.
dude NBC basically zoomed into Jordyn’s EYEBALL after she didn’t make the AA in 2012.
So happy to find this. I’d been looking for it! Thank you so much! ⚡️✨🤸♂️✨⚡️🇺🇸🥇
16.2 for Shawn on floor, wow. She got a 15.1 on team finals with no big mistakes.
Usually US national competetions are scored higher than international ones
But Shawn did step out of bounds in the Olympic team finals tho. Still idk how she got such a low score since a step out of bounds is only 0.1 deduction.
i believe she also simplified one of her passes, doing a front layout half, instead of 1 1/2 which would lower her score as well
whats the point of having olympic trials with 19 competitors, when only 2 actually get picked? It seems like they just want to make a load of money and then just do what they want in private.
Yeah it use to be a team that kept a score but they keep lowering the number of the team and the ones who gave the highest scores it be ones a competition between their own team Nate and others it’s not right should be a team all these gymnast are amazing and what they have endured ! Yes I have my fav I can’t stand commentators bec every gymnast brings something diff some grace some with huge power , strength endurance , consistency,so much All these gymnast are amazing I get they want the gold but a silver is pretty damn amazing to achieve in life in the Olympic
Nastias uneven bars a 7.7 difficulty?! times have definitely changed
Does anyone know if Chellsie has a legit chance of making the 2020ne team? I think she looks good but I'm not an expert lol, regardless I'm rooting for her!
she has a chance, she just needs to work hard more since there's more time for her to fix her form and increase her difficulty
Who’s here in 2024 and is glad to have Steve Penny step down
I can’t wait to see the 2024 summer Olympic Games in Paris France 🇫🇷 and the 2024 Korea youth winter Olympic Games
Interesting. It looks like Shawn was struggling against herself while Nastia was struggling against Shawn. Both amazing athletes.
That's OK. Nastia won when it mattered.
I really wish Ivana and Jana would have made the team. They were amazing.
Jana and her mom are Larry Nassar sympathizers 🤮
I’m really glad Shawn and Naustia stayed friends even when they had that little estrangement sue to the media always trying to put these 2 beautiful gymnast against one another for who’s better who’s going to so Naustia can’t do this Shawn can’t do that these 2 were roommates during all this . Their was so many trying to make rivals out of these 2 it the media helped later on they didn’t talk after the Olympics for a while but that was a long time ago they are best friends. The media has to see these gymnast as a team not just putting them against one another their is no need for it. Shawn is a gymnast who has power and amazing height in the difficult skills she does grace Naustia has the lines flexibility grace . They are 2 gymnast with diff styles
23:30 ❤
Alicia and her arm movements on beam are not fooling anyone.
Sam was very consistent AA but there were no gaps she filled in a 3 up 3 count context. Wonder if Jana’s bars would have scored better than Shawn’s in Beijing. Regardless, the US women didn’t have a real shot against China because of the insane UB deficit because of the weird overincentivizing of pirouette connections. Wonder what the team, AA, and bars finals would have looked like with a saner code on bars. Someone like Tweddle might have benefitted significantly. She did an insane routine that was somehow only .1 tenth more difficult than the pirouette-heavy routines of Nastia, He and YYL.
No one has ever been better on beam than Shawn Johnson and I doubt there ever will be
Does anyone know what became of Mattie? Loved her gymnastics
Mattie went to the 2010 World Championships, and did not have a great Qualifications. She fell on floor in the team finals and cost the USA the gold. She said none of the coaching staff, including her personal coaches, would speak to her after that. She never competed again. She ended up testifying at the Larry Nassar trial about not only the sexual abuse she endured from Nassar but how horrible she was treated by USAG and how badly she suffered from an eating disorder bc of it.
Can't wait to see chell this weekend
How did Bridget make it over Jana???
Jana got robbed! Gossip around the time was that Karolyi didn't like her mom, the coach, and consistently had judges underscore her. The championships, Jana was heard complaining about how she got docked for stuff that the favorite girls didn't, but it was the same stuff. In hindsight, I believe it. I believed it then though too. Always playing favorites 🙄 they did Maggie Nichols soo dirty too, and Kim Kelly.
I said that too..
On the cusp: Shayla,Samantha, Bridget, Ivanna….Jana???
44:53 que music?????
Funny how they say the dismount is the “highlight” of Shawn’s routine. The entire routine is the highlight!
That floor routine from Randy was weird, strange music and not too much choreography.
is Couch Gordon is couching ?
I’m so vibing with Marta 😎
Why was Alicia allowed to do the same skill 3 times on the beam?
It was in different positions. You can do a front tuck and another if it's in the piked position. Same with a back one
Does Shawn do a half in half out off the beam? Or is a full in back out?
Full in back out
If 16.5 is a good score.. what is a perfect score. Is it 20 ??
Mattie Larsen really have a chance going to the Olympics, unfortunately it's the Nasser abuse that affected her performance. It's mentally and emotionally devastating for an athlete going through that experience. Knowing you see that person that abused you every time you go to camp.
Bridget saved that one landing on floor from being extremely dangerous. Scary to watch!
Chellsie and her dad: adorable.
Nastia and her dad: ehhh… is it just me, or was there some toxicity happening?
Please forgive me if I’m stating the obvious. My kids were little back in ‘08, so I wasn’t really paying attention to the gymnastics scene.
When is the 2021 olympic Trials?
jun 24-27
When are Nationals?
@@eurekamreum5458 the US classic is May 22 and the nationals are June 3-6 (i think lol)
Ugh... Watching Shawn makes me remenisce about the days when I USED RO HAVE LEGS LIKE THAT!!! I didn't do Gymnastics ever... But, I played soccer for 11 years and competed horses in jumping & 3 day Eventing for almost 25yrs & I HAD KILLER LEGS LIKE THAT!! I miss it lol.
Never had that amazing little butt she had though. So cute!
Shawn should have won
Ok the one commenter on lukin if judges finding a point I don’t know where it be she had a ton of wobbles what was he speaking about ! Yea her lines are beautifully executed has the arthmic gymnastic look a dancer it’s beautiful to watch but all these girls are incredible gymnastics a hard sport very hard !
I don't really get how Marta can be objective as a judge when she's been a coach for so many years. Not saying she isn't, I just don't know how she does it.
She abused those girls
This is totally irrelevant to the competition but it blows my mind that after all those years living and workiing in the States Bela still slaughters the great majestic English language like he does. It's like fingernails on a chalk board.
Bieger should have been on it
They are nit fair with who they put through its Bella and wife who starve as girls who verbally yell they knock them down than allow a pedaphile to treat them ! These woman deserves more
Karoyolis were shady with their Nasser camp
Two completely different people
That’s the one thing in gymnastics I hated people friggen tuggin on you all the time as if you were a doll!
SUN VITAMIN D geez
Nastia was a great gymnast. But Shawn was better. Nastia just had a better day at the AA Olympics.
Poor Ivana hong… if she hit she would’ve 100% went
They all had big step on landings
back in this COP only the men had to stick with both feet together on floor. It was changed for the following COP
Shawn and naustia are 2 diff gymnast Shawn is power naustia is the lines but Shawn should have won they pitted these 2 tog and they were and are friends thought that is complete bull making team mates feel completive to one another when it is and should be a team win
How is naystias beam a huge number I’m not the only one seeing it
If Chelsea Memmel came in 2nd at trials..she should have been called out with shawn....what BS...that was the 2 top gymnasts....not nastia and shawn...this is why I hated Marta over national team along with treatment of athletes...glad they are gone.
Marta did NOT like Chellsie at all. It may have been because Chellsie's dad was her coach and was not down with the eastern European style of coaching, so they couldn't control her like they could the others. It's poetic justice that Chell is now the Technical Lead for the team and selects the athletes who compete.