I hope the Twitter army gets Mattel to send her a replacement doll.

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!

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! :)

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

This woman is still a hard crush. She was amazing when she competed!

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

American: let’s design an amazing grip for our Olympians Russian: Here, take some honey

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.

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.

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. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Looking good in 2021!! Loved watching her in the 90s!! She was sooo talented!

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

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 had a Dawes poster on my wall for years as a child 💕 love this Queen

I remember watching you with my mom as a kid. Made me fall in love with the Olympics. Great to see you are well.

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!!

"Wow with the hashtags there" LMAO I LOVE HER

Great to see Dominique Dawes after all those years. One of the best gymnastic of all time.

Absolute Graceful Champion. Miss Dawes speaks so eloquently in great sentences structure. ❤️❤️❤️

She’s one my favorites ever - amazing human and gymnast

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.

AWESOME DAWSOME!

Loving questions & answers by incredible Dominique Dawes.

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!!

As a kid, I thought the curled bangs were required as part of the uniform

My favorite gymnast of all-time!

okay but why is her voice so soothing?! I love it (:

Dominique is one of my favorites of all 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 was so fun to watch back in the day! My favorite.

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.

Still killing it

Awesome dawesome!

I loved watching Dominique growing up. She looks great 🖤🖤🖤 #BlackGirlMagic

love every bit of this

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 love Dominique Dawes!

OK DD needs her own TV show and docu--series. This was a real treat!

Dominique Dawes is so gorgeous!

Absolutely lovely human

Her face, her VOICE…😍

I loveeeeeee me some Dominique Dawes!!!!! I was so excited to see this video!!!!

I always loved your whip backs! I wish more gymnasts did them.

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!

Awe Dawes is all growed up❣Great inspiration!

She aged so well. Looks stunning

Yay Dominique!!! Love her ❤️

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!!!

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

Somebody pleeeeeease send Dominique that Barbie!!!

Does Dominique Dawes age? She looks amazing!

Oh wow she still looks amazing i had a crush on her when i was growing up lol ❤❤❤💯

The OG💪🏾💓🎉

She is so iconic

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

Her back-to-back tumbling pass was badass. They don't do that anymore.

You are the reason everybody pronounces my name wrong, lol

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 👑

My question would be what do you think of the scoring system now vs when you were competing?

Awesome!

How cool! Great to see Dominique D! (Dominique M. is really cool too!)

She needs to host or commentate

She's awesome!

So cool to see her now! Gymnastics is always my go to sport to watch!

I love the movie The Bronze with Sebastion Stan, that's one of my favorite gymnastics movies lol

Why men don't compete BB: watch the Korbut or Rulvova

She’d make a great commentator! Great video 👍

Great video they should do a competitive horse one

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.

Very Nice!

Thanks

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. 😂😂

she's pretty

5:20 She jinxed Biles LOL

Ah love her!!!!!!!!!!

What a legend.

dominique dawes and dominique moceanu & Shannon Miller were my favorites.

Oh I remember u fall I cried I was cheering for you

You just HAD to bring up the two falls on vault!!! I still feel so sad about that to this day . . .

I love Awesome Dawesome! Queen!!

Men do perform vault as one of their exercises and women did use to do rings but over time things swapped around.

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?

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.

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

Check the hands of any serious gymnast, and you will be amazed at the calluses built up, and hopefully not ripped or torn.

I love me some Ms. D. Dawes. :)

My mom loved her!

Clearly, Dawes hasn’t seen those compilations of men doing beam extremely well

Black gymnastics never really get the recognition they deserve I just found out about her this week

Martel needs to send you another Barbie of yourself!!!

Ummm, men performing to Music would be EPIC! I’m ready!