It actually looked balletic lol 😂 a very good save indeed

bbhouk1 Literally shuddered.

bbhouk1 yikes

Nassar didn't dare go after Liukin, Memmel, or Sacramone. The former two were protected by coach dads, and Sacramone was way too outspoken.

My stomach flipped when I heard ‘Nassar’ 🙈 Vile human

Obviously I don't want anyone to be hurt like that, but I especially hope Alicia wasn't touched by him. She was super nice to me when I met her and as a vaulter myself, she was my favorite American gymnast for the entire time she was competing on the national team. Ugh. And watching all these competitions recently, you can catch glimpses of the monster. One of them, he's walking a girl (can't recall who, but it was someone well-known) back behind the curtain to a treatment room, and he had his hand on the small of her back. Which, yeah, that can be a comforting gesture when you're guiding someone who is upset to an area they aren't familiar with... thing is, though, that his hand STAYED there. Like I wouldn't be surprised if the lower part of his hand was touching her underwear (through the leo, obviously), it was that low. They kept walking and his hand stayed. It was creepy.

Saria Kokiri she shouldn’t have, Natasha kelly should have

@@Lea-cp8gi The judges knew Natasha was a no hoper who would never even make it to 2008. It was wise to not give the National title to her.

tyler bam this sounds stupid.

@@tylerbam7183 I don't think judges have the ability to choose not to award the title. This is all straightforward calculations of SV and deductions. AFAIK, the only time someone has that kind of subjective power is when they pick the Olympic team.

@@Lea-cp8gi I disagree. She turned the save into another element. That is genius.

@maseratic boychik it's Valeri, and yeah, that's his daughter so idk why saying his little darling is supposed to be offensive or something. Nastia won here because she was the best over the two days, even with mistakes. If they were biased to Nastia she wouldn't have lost worlds to Chellsie Memmel by .001 or whatever it was, or lost every all around to Shawn but the American Cup up until the Olympic all around.

Or how overscored she was.

@@keithtaeno, it showed how GOOD she was. She wasn’t a multiple world champion and medalist for nothing. Get over yourself.

Courtney Kolenda me to

Kelley got nailed at 2006 Worlds for her execution and in addition fell off BB in prelims. She also could not compete all of the difficulty that she did here at Nationals. She was not credited for a lot of her slow connections on BB and her lack of full split on FX-which all were credited at Nationals and she could not compete her DTY vault and had to water down to a 1 1/2. As a result, judges correctly scored her execution in 2007 at Nationals and she dropped significantly after the surge of talented juniors made their way up (Sloan, Peszek, Johnson, Hong, plus Worley was injured in 2006 and returned in 2007). A similar situation occurred in 2007 when Sam Peszek struggled to compete her full difficulty at Worlds and Ivana Hong was nailed for execution on UB. Not to mention that after her BB failure at Worlds, Kelley returned to the 2007 American Cup and struggled a bit as well.

I think she had some ankle injuries too, she had to stop competing for Oklahoma due to an Achilles tear

I agree that she is incredible! It has been so nice to watch her here!

I was thinking the exact same thing

Yes 1234 5678 I agree.

I was just thinking about posting the opposite. I don't like the ungainly, muscular gymnasts who can't point their toes. Sorry. To each his own.

@@gifthorse9779 Yea, lot's of ppl want their 'women's' gymnasts to be little ballerinas in glitter and smiles. Who cares if you can't manage a full in, as long a you have nice toe point, right?

@@brandonbrown1916 You can have nice execution and not be anorexic… some of these girls just have bad execution. They lack the basics.

@@gifthorse9779and people like you are why so many of these athletes had- and still have- body image issues.

Yeah, that total control he had is crazy. I feel like it can't be THAT challenging to find a female sports doctor, right?? Or at least have a team of doctors so there's some accountability.

Her and her mom were Nassar sympathizers 🤮

Kimberly Zhang unreal

She did NOT do a back with a full!!! She did an Onodi!!! Get your gymnastics and skills straight!!

@@trodairebeag I don't see an Onodi in Natasha's routine anywhere, but she does the back full right off the top. Maybe you were thinking of Nastia's Onodi?

Yeah she did have a fairly packed routine.

@@trodairebeag as someone who has there gymnastics skills "Straight" I CAN ASSURE YOU she does a back with a full at the top of her routine and and a Standing Arabian mid way. There is not ONE handspring with a half in her performance. Just FYI 🤸

MaKayla Clark-Sol Really? That's surprising because she wore non-pink leotards at every televised competition from 2005-2007. Three years of non-pink leotards, haha. She definitely seemed to make a point of wearing a pink on least one day of each competition after her iconic pink-leotard-wearing performance at the 2008 Beijing Olympics! Basically, you're unlikely to see Nastia wearing pink prior to the 2008 Visa Championships and very likely to see pink in 2008 and 2012 (oh, and that one time in 2009, haha). I thought she looked better in red -- which she wore her very last time competing, on day 2 of the 2012 Olympic trials :( I have blossomed from a 4-year fan into an obsessive KZfaq watcher, so everyone's leotards are ingrained in my head, whether I like them or not :) If anyone remembers Nastia wearing a pink leotard prior to the 2008 Visa Championships, please feel free to jog my memory.

@@You.Tube.Sucks. super late, I know, but totally agree with you: she looked stunning in the red leo on Day 2 trials. She's honestly just really pretty to begin with, and also seems to have a good fashion sense that she integrates into gymnastics. Aside from team leos, I wonder how they decide the design to wear?

The first time I remember her in pink was 2007 world beam finals, which she won! That may have started the trend

Wondered the same.

he didnt say anything mean to her, and he didnt seem upset at her. it was more of a supportive talk with her.

@@211jump yeah he was just why didn’t u do the correct pass

Danny Devito for 2020 this was before beijing

Yeah, but typically athletes have one song per year or rarely, 1 song for two years. One song for all of 2006, 2007, and 2008? Pretty strange.

yes and the routines were very similar in all three years

She lost a lot on the Ono half, not to mention the Russian taps and dismount deductions.

Alicia actually never had bad form on bars. She just never had a natural swing or fluidity to her bars. Between that and the handstands you can’t really take much off 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Yeah a great coach alright he forced his athletes to compete on serious injuries and would scream and yell at them for any mistakes made he is a lot of things but a great coach isn’t one of them especially now knowing he and his wife knew what that doctor was doing behind closed doors

agreed. He was a good coach, but his words could of been not as harsh

+Gia Donati He says "Why didn't you do the 1/2 yurchenko (I'm not completely sure if he says yurchenko) I was screaming to you." she replied with "I couldn't hear you" then he says "What, you couldn't figure it out yourself? Huh?"

Oh thanks. You speak russian?

No, but I wish I could. I had asked this question a few years ago on a video of Nastia's floor routine and someone gave me this response to what Valeri said. I just added in what Nastia said.

No, he asked why Nastia didn't do the front double full out of the 1 1/2 twist. She did a full twist instead-which later cancelled her 3rd tumbling pass. Nastia could have changed her third pass to a double full to replace the first pass, but instead she kept the front layout full, front tuck full which gave her 0 difficulty score and 0 connection value. She continued to struggle on that first tumbling pass and eventually they ditched the 3rd line altogether (plus the front tuck full was devalued) and so it became front full immediate front double full as her first pass and then 1 1/2 imemdiate rudi as her 3rd pass.

I think she was a jr or too young, at 2008 I think Shawn was 16 and nastia 18

Yeah she turns 16 in the calendar year in 2007 when she was competing at the World Championships and Nationals at 15 before her birthday came and then at 16 in the Olympic Games.

she was a junior

Your statement isn't supported by numbers and math.

@@turbojon8117 Lmao. Gymnastics is subjective. Sorry, but Absolutely no way in hell would that routine ever deserve a 15.500. She was overscored in every single competition she competed in. Especially on bars with her GOD AWFUL dismount.

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Elfie Schlegel is a former gymnast, she an Olympic medal gymnast, and female.

To be fair that is her dad who's hugging her, he was also her coach. But I never really understood coaches giving athletes hugs right after their routines when they're all out of breath, you wouldn't want to get a hug right after finishing a marathon lol.

This is her Father, what the heck is wrong with you?