My favorite Olympics Team Final EVER. I can watch this over and over again.

Catalina, already stunning with grace and beauty. Now she's a queen. Too bad she couldn't end her career on a high note in Rio. She's such a strong athlete and came twice out of retirement to help her country.

Arguably the best Romanian women’s gymnastics team that’s ever competed. They’re easily my favorite team.

Man, Catalina Ponor has always been absolutely breathtaking. She had a similar build and upper back flexibility to Svetlana Boginskaya which lent them both a similar exoticism when performing.

I love the introduction. It does each country justice

At the time of the 1992 olympic games, Chusovitina was from Uzbekistan. She later moved to Germany to get treatments for her son who had leukemia. Because of the generosity that she received she eventually decided to represent Germany at the olympics. The first olympics that Chusovitina represented Germany was the 2008 Beijing games. She was on the unified team in 1992 and represented Uzbekistan at the 1996 Atlanta games, 2000 Sydney games, and 2004 Athens games.

I'm sorry, a 9.562?! That was a gorgeous vault, completely worth a much bigger score.

Mohini is underrated! She was awesome

As much as I love Russian gymnasts, it always bugged me how they say "for over 50 years the RUSSIANS have set the standard for excellence" instead of Soviets... many of the top performing gymnasts in those days weren't Russian...two of the previous Olympic Champions were from Ukraine. The Unified team in 1992 had Tatiana Gutsu(Ukraine)Tatiana Lysenko(Ukraine)Svetlana Boginskaya(Belarus)Roza Galieva(Uzbekistan)Oksana Chusovitina(Uzbekistan). They were one of the strongest teams in history.

The music in the fluffs really makes it awesome :-)

Annia Hatch's vault was AMAZING. One of the best DTY's i've ever seen.

Nada como la Gracia y la elegancia de las Rumanas y Rusas🎉❤

Annia gets amazing distance on her vault, rare to see a vault landed that far down the mat.

That music is awesome.

this is my first time watching this olympics. ive watched 2008 and 2012 but thats it...wish me luck! lol

Speram sa fie din nou la fel de bune la urmatoarele Olimpiade.

Patterson eating her knees in that vault landing :))))

I've loved the sport since 2012 and went back and watched major comps, but I really can't remember if I watched this.

Romania is the BEST !!!

The end result - Romania GOLD!!!

That DTY from Annia Hatch fuels my soul. Unbelievable!

best fluff nbc has ever made.

back then, each skill you performed had a value and all your skills would add up to your starting vaule with max of 10.0 then the judges would then take there deductions from there, so if your start value was a 9.8 for ex, then if its perfect max score would be 9.8 now, witht the A and B scores all your skills add up to a value like 6.1 for ex. then the execution judges then take deductions from 10.0 then add in the 6.1 so if done perfectly your score would be a 16.1

Romania 😘😘😘😘😘

@nicklex01: It's PM's Love Theme, from the Love Actually soundtrack. One of my favorite instrumental pieces ever and perfect for this kind of fluff!

This is one Olympics where the USA team coming in as the World Team Champions hurt them more than it helped... Romania and Russia were greatly improved from the year before, and I think the USA being the favorites may have made them a tad overconfident and impacted how they picked the team and created a lot of added pressure... There was no way to predict McCool would have the meltdown she did though... A fully healthy Chellsie Memmel might have made a huge difference also... When you factor the bad luck with those things plus the injury Kupets had, silver is not actually a bad result...

Omg Cata was so young *tear*

Oksana is from Uzbekistan but living in Germany now :)

thanks!

Best team final ever

Romania is still a contender but the US is reigning right now, at Worlds and Olympics

people started remembering the gymnastics olympics from 2008. if you ask, “did you see the 2004 gymnastics olympics?” people would be like, “no, but i saw the 2008, 2012, and 2016 ones.”

I'm a trampoline judge, how the scoring system is now is similar to how we judge trampoline, except instead of averaging the execution judges score, we add them together then add in the degree of difficulty, so when the changed happened it was easy for me to understand quickly lol

agreed! at this time a 2.5 twist is very difficult. Would have been cool to see more at that time

if Octavian Bellu comes back to coach the romanians will be very strong again

@SkateNater I do see what you mean. However, just because you train in Russia doesn't mean you're Russian. I believe Nemov trained in the U.S. for awhile as did Boginskaya... they still represented their countries. Also, the Russian team never won a team gold medal up until last years world championships. In contrast, the Soviet team won almost everything. I just meant that it wasn't all Russian over the years and that's what the American coverage made it out to be.

Ana Hatch's score was really low...

You know, I think that Annia had enough height to be able to pull around a 2.5. I know that there were like....1 or 2 doing them at these games. Not that she NEEDED to do a 2.5 but it would have been interesting to see.

I'm glad they have changed the scoring it differentiates the athletes a lot more and if you aren't particularly artistic you can still score big with difficulty

1:28 terin doing the ugliest sheep jump

I don't get the 10.0 scoring system

agree! If she hadn't gotten injured the year before, I'd like to think she'd have an Amanar or DT Tsuk

Annia FLEW. I mean damn.

Monica just make look so easy damn she great

Romania’s vaults were way over scored!!!

She's been around a while, that's for sure.

the vault is a very low scoring event even if the start value is high

@dahighbar No Memmel verified routines on beam and bars at the camp before the games and after trials

Just realized how Jordyn Weiber looks a lot like Carly Patterson.

was the video quality really that bad at the time?

why did Rosu not perform the Amanar? seems... weird, considering how amazing hers was in EF...

American mistakes aside, Romania Had a better team at the Olympics...Marta picked the wrong gymnast to represent..Memmel and Swickert should have been there

@bananas1and2 i know im shocked by that to what is wrong with those judges the vault was very nice and good form in the air just a small hop on the landing but it still should have gotten a bigger score i can't believe it didn't

USA's scores on vault were scored to low in comparison to those slop fest Romanian vaults.

The vault scores for Mohini and Annia are so puzzling. What was there to deduct??

they were

18 years later and I still think McCool should've been given a second chance. They had bigger meltdowns in the TF (Patterson's UB, Kupets' FX). I still don't think they would've won (come on, Romania was untouchable in 2004), but they would've closed some of the gap: - UB over Patterson (probably +0.3) - BB over Mohini (probably +0.1) - FX over Kupets (probably +0.2-0.3)

it's really annoying how they keep saying that "US is reigning world champions." I mean, yeah, but it's barely the same team. Most of the teammates were different from 2003 worlds

that is true the soviets were very strong, but Oksana Chusovitina is from germany, not Uzbekistan.

Geez...Annia easily could've done an Amanar.

On my TV, Carly looked angry the entire events with those eyebrows the way she had them, yuck. Performance wise she was a tease, she'd do awful in some areas, great in others.

Still, if McKayla Maroney was in this time shed kick the living shit out of the vault.

Tim Dagget can shove it!

@dahighbar Memmel was injured so she couldn't be there if she had wanted to. She was also hurt in 2008.

Hmm... Temperamental queen and aging coach? Hmm...

Constanta, NOT Constantsa.

@tekkenfan01 Stop bragging about the US. Every country has their own weakness

hahah romania won

Romania was the best but it's the US now

The romanians were overscored on vault, especially if you compare them to the american team's DTYs. The americans all had amazing form, and only Carly took a step. I love Catalina Ponor but her form wasn't nearly as good, she had a step, and she still got better than Carly. This isn't a comment on the overall winner and who was the best team, but i do think Romania was given gifts on vault.