I first saw Tong Fei's FX in 1980 or '81, and it's stayed with me ever since. That flying butterfly at 07:31 is iconic, a great reminder of how beautiful gymnastics can be.
Lederer looks like a cross between Kerri and Shannon. Is the footage of the team and all-around competitions in the archives? If so, could they be uploaded? I love watching the old competitions!
Watching older competitions really give meaning to ARTISTIC gymnastics. Modern gymnastics doesn't have much rhythm anymore, not in comparison anyway. Maybe it should be renamed dynamic gymnastics, to represent the more strength-emphasis?
Who knows, not sure how close this was to the 1981 worlds. But I guess this was probably in the early fall of 1980, so it was probably a year before worlds. I mean this was like a college meet, I bet they paid Marcia to show up too,
It was the event finals in 1980. Wouldn’t have expected anymore Americans than that during that quad, and even fewer if Soviet bloc countries were competing.
I first saw Tong Fei's FX in 1980 or '81, and it's stayed with me ever since. That flying butterfly at 07:31 is iconic, a great reminder of how beautiful gymnastics can be.
Lederer looks like a cross between Kerri and Shannon.
Is the footage of the team and all-around competitions in the archives? If so, could they be uploaded? I love watching the old competitions!
Wow a double double in 1980 - very impressive!
Bart and Muriel's voices are almost identical.
I read this a few seconds before she spoke, I shouldn’t have laughed as hard as I did
thank you!
ugh. thank God belly beats went away.
and I wasn't even born in the 1980's because I didn't even existed but I do love gymnastics
Watching older competitions really give meaning to ARTISTIC gymnastics. Modern gymnastics doesn't have much rhythm anymore, not in comparison anyway. Maybe it should be renamed dynamic gymnastics, to represent the more strength-emphasis?
OMG, at 17:48 I thought I was watching a young Amy Chow for a second...but it was Wen Jia of China.
misina211 I so agree
What a weak field and this was an Olympic replacement? Hardly any of the US team was here. I would say this was a big bust
Who knows, not sure how close this was to the 1981 worlds. But I guess this was probably in the early fall of 1980, so it was probably a year before worlds. I mean this was like a college meet, I bet they paid Marcia to show up too,
It was the event finals in 1980. Wouldn’t have expected anymore Americans than that during that quad, and even fewer if Soviet bloc countries were competing.