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- Three-time Olympian & Olympic Gold Medalist Dominique Dawes answers the internet's burning questions about gymnastics.
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Olympian Dominique Dawes Answers Gymnastics Questions From Twitter | Tech Support - บันเทิง
There is a woman, Oksana Chusovitina, who is qualified this year for her 8th Olympics. She’s been at every Olympics since ‘92, so she even competed against Dominique!
So she's been at every Olympics since '92, and this will be her 8th Olympics? You little rascal, thinking you can hide your public school math education.
as soon as you said the name Oksana…I knew immediately who you meant. 😂 I remember her at the ‘96 Olympics bc she was very tall (IIRC) and she was excellent. She had a distinct/memorable look (not in a bad way or anything) but that’s crazy she is still competing!
@@bruna3854 i think that is right
@@bruna3854 Or Khorkina
@@20alphabet the person is correct though
I hope the Twitter army gets Mattel to send her a replacement doll.
Yassssss!
YES! One for each of her kids and her OWN that she can keep unharmed and locked away.
I hope Mattel do the right thing a get a new replacement doll to.
ik her kids@@ElizabethDohertyThomas
My sister (who was a nationally-ranked gymnast and ended up being a performer for Cirque du Soleil) had a huge poster of Dominique above her bed in our room. Love this woman! :)
Amazing!
This woman is still a hard crush. She was amazing when she competed!
didn't realize this was my childhood crush until i saw them bangs
Yes!
She was and is so impressive in competition!
she's so pretty
I love seeing a literal legend fangirl over Simone Biles...like, THE awesome dawesome fangirling simone, who literally looked up to her growing up. That’s amazing
She's a national treasure
I still remember watching Dominique Dawes in the ‘96 Olympics and being in awe. That was such a good year for the games because of the Women’s gymnastics team
I remember that Olympic competition like yesterday..
@@gcforreal same
Refreshing to see some of the older legends heap so much praise on Simone and still marvel at what she can do, even when they themselves are such phenomenal athletes.
American: let’s design an amazing grip for our Olympians
Russian: Here, take some honey
aww, that's sweet
@@jody.lumbantoruan 🤣🤣
... Made in China
How is she getting even hotter with age?! Dominique, leave a little beauty for the rest of us, jeez!
Dominique growing up I always rooted and shouted for you. It was wonderful to see someone who looked like me. Brava 👑
Dominique Dawes was the love of my life as a young man. I remember having a massive crush on her as a kid… she is still just as pretty and smart as she’s always been.
Looking good in 2021!! Loved watching her in the 90s!! She was sooo talented!
That was an amazing team performance in the 1996 Olympics. I still remember holding my breath during some of the routines and also writing in my diary that Dominique will be attending Stanford. =)
I also love how much love the amazing Dominique Dawes is giving to Simone. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
YOU WERE MY FAVORITE GYMNAST GROWING UP 🥺 i literally idolized you. i had posters of the magnificent 7 on my walls for years 💕
"You would not want to see a male gymnast on a balance beam, it'd be scary" LOL
They are videos of men on balance beam and they are great! I think it would be cool to see
Yeah it's cool but scary if they fall "wrong" lol
@@Ubba00 I'm in some of those compilations lol
@@Ubba00 cool but SCARY
i didn’t like that comment
Watch someone send Dominique a Barbie now! You know there’s a collector out there! And I remember watching her fall both times at worlds and what a heart break but even without the world titles she’s still a star!
I remember watching you with my mom as a kid. Made me fall in love with the Olympics. Great to see you are well.
I had a Dawes poster on my wall for years as a child 💕 love this Queen
Hi Dominique!! I remember watching you "back in the day",,,25 years ago? Sheesh, how did that happen...lol You are still so so pretty, and it's so nice to see you. Thanks for the video.
She was an Olympic gymnast I looked up to as a young gymnast myself. The Mag 7 were my idols!!
Loving questions & answers by incredible Dominique Dawes.
She’s one my favorites ever - amazing human and gymnast
"Wow with the hashtags there" LMAO I LOVE HER
Absolute Graceful Champion. Miss Dawes speaks so eloquently in great sentences structure. ❤️❤️❤️
Great to see Dominique Dawes after all those years. One of the best gymnastic of all time.
okay but why is her voice so soothing?! I love it (:
steroids
Vault is definitely way more scary than rings, because everything on the rings is meant to be absolutely controlled, even the flips and the dismount. With the rings you are grabbing something or at least using that to initiate the dismount, but most of the time you are pressing into a strength position or swinging to it. Vault on the other hand, you run at basically full speed and punch your feet onto a springboard that launches you at a slanted table that you push off of with your arms to then perform a very complex flip and hopefully land on your feet. You can easily hurt yourself on vault because the mats aren't very soft and if you mess up your entry you can't control your body in the air, so you could land on your head or just destroy your ankles/knees with a bad landing (it happens A LOT). I have a friend that completely dislocated her elbow training on vault, because her hands were slightly uneven for the push off. Sure, you're high up with the still rings, but it is one of the most consistent apparatus in gymnastics.
Imagine way back before it was a table how dangerous it was. You were running at almost full speed onto a springboard and trying to find your footing on a long block.
@@wendyokoopa7048 oh, yeah, and the women were already doing yurchenko entries back then, when their vault was a literal pommel horse without the handles. Imagine trying to spot the vault backwards when it's like, 35 cm wide.
AWESOME DAWSOME!
As a kid, I thought the curled bangs were required as part of the uniform
I have to agree with Dominique on the old vault. To imagine it a little better for people who don't want to look it up? Imagine a pommel horse with the metal bars removed and possibly shortened and you have vault. 😳.
I love Dominique!!
She was so fun to watch back in the day! My favorite.
Loved her tumbling pass that was basically two passes in one!
@@joyfuljaj Yes!
Still killing it
My favorite gymnast of all-time!
Awesome dawesome!
I loved watching Dominique growing up. She looks great 🖤🖤🖤 #BlackGirlMagic
Honey is a big staple of men's gym, less so women's - particularly parallel bars. Some add it for pommel, but it's more a grip additive, less used for swinging bars styles! But, it's been front 'n center in the MAG chalk bucket for a long time.
And Dominique, can we not mention Oksana Chusovitina for record setting? The woman is 45, competing before Simone was even born, and going for her EIGHTH OLYMPICS!
She probably innocently forgot
@@longbranch11207 she is a living legend of gymnastics , she can't be forgotten. Anyone with a basic knowledge of gymnastics knows Oksana.
Not everyone is checking for her like that. Dawes have a lot going on give the woman a break it’s not that serous. Dawes is the only American woman that went to the Olympics in gymnastics three times . That’s what she was talking about making history as an American
@@longbranch11207 Not that serious, just pointing out something I wish she had mentioned.
Stateans are so self centered... it's disgusting
love every bit of this
I love Dominique Dawes!
Dominique is one of my favorites of all time!!!!!
Wow, I remember watching her live. Yes, the old vault was TERRIFYING. I was delighted when it was replaced, although I had long since switched sports.
I always loved your whip backs! I wish more gymnasts did them.
Absolutely lovely human
OK DD needs her own TV show and docu--series. This was a real treat!
Very inspiring for someone (Me) who never heard about the magnificent seven. I love the stories of the sensational team that brought gold to their nations. Amazing!
Dominique Dawes is so gorgeous!
Awe Dawes is all growed up❣Great inspiration!
Yay Dominique!!! Love her ❤️
Somebody pleeeeeease send Dominique that Barbie!!!
I loveeeeeee me some Dominique Dawes!!!!! I was so excited to see this video!!!!
Her face, her VOICE…😍
She aged so well. Looks stunning
whether a gymnast is wearing grips or not actually doesn't have to do much with costs, but it's just preference! take a look at Lieke Wevers for example, she doesn't use grips but the Netherlands has those readily available
It is only a preference where preference can be afforded. In several countries cost is still a barrier.
So cool to see her now! Gymnastics is always my go to sport to watch!
You are the reason everybody pronounces my name wrong, lol
And there were two of them back then lol
Her back-to-back tumbling pass was badass. They don't do that anymore.
Because it’s banned
@@SS-fb5ve It's not banned, it's just not worth it. Too many deductions and too hard to incorporate skills worth the CV.
@@MD-722 ohhh I saw on a another video people were saying it’s banned
@@SS-fb5ve I've seen comments like that too. I hate to say it as a fan of the sport but the online gymnastics audience can be quite uninformed. Thus as a result there is a lot of misinformation being spread across the place. Things typically only get banned if they're either too dangerous, or changes in the equipment essentially eliminate them (like the widening of the distance between the bars resulting in the elimination of 'belly beat' skills).
@@MD-722 oh wow. Well thanks for the right information
So humble! A lot of people don't give her enough credit for that 1996 Olympics. She was the only one of the seven to have all her event scores contribute to the final total. Whereas, some people might have had a high showing in one or two events and messing up in others - she was THE MOST CONSISTENT!!!
I know your name as a child of the 90s and that you were a monumental figure. Watching you speak now is amazing to me. #BlackGirlMagic
Very Nice!
Oh wow she still looks amazing i had a crush on her when i was growing up lol ❤❤❤💯
The OG💪🏾💓🎉
Does Dominique Dawes age? She looks amazing!
She is so iconic
Awesome!
I love the movie The Bronze with Sebastion Stan, that's one of my favorite gymnastics movies lol
She's awesome!
How cool! Great to see Dominique D! (Dominique M. is really cool too!)
The first 15 seconds of this video unlocked my long-forgotten memory of a time when I was about 7, when me and my gymnastics friends made it our mission to dig and dive to the bottom of the foam pit to see what was there. Good times 😂
the queen 👑
Great video they should do a competitive horse one
Oh cool, some of my girls and I met her when we were still in competitive gymnastics. She was really funny, we kept trying to get her to race us (we were kids, probably about ten years old) and she would start to run and then stop immediately, so we just kept running without her only to realize she totally duped us. 😂😂
5:20 She jinxed Biles LOL
dominique dawes and dominique moceanu & Shannon Miller were my favorites.
She needs to host or commentate
Ah love her!!!!!!!!!!
What a legend.
She’d make a great commentator! Great video 👍
Why men don't compete BB: watch the Korbut or Rulvova
Yup, any of those moves where they basically roll their groin over the beam. haha
Thanks
My question would be what do you think of the scoring system now vs when you were competing?
I love Awesome Dawesome! Queen!!
You just HAD to bring up the two falls on vault!!! I still feel so sad about that to this day . . .
I love that she did it. Champions embrace their failures
@@somerandomnon-importantper3219 Right?! She is the total package when it comes to being a true champion. I just love her so much!
Men use honey in gymnastics for Parallel Bars. We use it to sticky up the bars in combination with chalk (hence why it's in the chalk bucket) in order to cake the chalk on the bar and swing better on the apparatus. We also use it to cake chalk on the high bar too, but mostly p-bars.
Oh I remember u fall I cried I was cheering for you
2:47 now we know why men don’t have music and other routines mentioned haha
I’ve seen guys put the honey straight on the parallel bars and then rub the chalk right on the honey for it to stick to and it helps make everything all chalked up.
omg love this woman since she was the tiniest competitor! She needs more attention and honours.
she's pretty
Male gymnasts on women's gymnastic events: th-cam.com/video/Jvz3F4HP170/w-d-xo.html
Martel needs to send you another Barbie of yourself!!!
My mom loved her!
I think you guys should bring her back, and let her do a reaction to a TV show called make it or break it. On one episode, the boys and girls elite teams swapped, so the girls had to do the boys routines and the boys had to do the girls routine
I thought she's Gamora, and click due to olympian flippy title which confused me. great info btw
Men do perform vault as one of their exercises and women did use to do rings but over time things swapped around.
Ummm, men performing to
Music would be EPIC! I’m ready!
I’m curious of what music they would choose. The floor routine is so powerful, I think it would be very interesting.
I love me some Ms. D. Dawes. :)
wait how is it fair if some have grips or some dont, or you ban it completely or you subside grips for everyone how is that fair?
Khorkina won multiple Olympic and world gold medals in bars swinging with bare hands. It’s just a question of preference.
@@mrparts absolutely. I don't doubt back in the 90s some gymnasts were unable to have a stockpile of grips, but nowadays I think it's pretty much of a standard. Not to say, for example Russian gymnast currently can make a very decent living as gymnasts, while American gymnasts don't earn much money for _just_ being gymnasts.
Clearly, Dawes hasn’t seen those compilations of men doing beam extremely well
True! It’s pretty incredible!