This girl was born under a lucky star

You've come a long way, Baby, to get where you are today

I like the older gymnastics.

I appreciate the modesty of the uniforms. I wonder why our young ladies wear such revealing uniforms. Does less clothing make for easier movement? I really would like to know! Maybe then I can "let it go" as my daughter tells me.

Gymnastics and ballet evolved from yoga. This really shows the evolution. I love how beautiful everyone is!! Today's people could maybe slow down a little bit sometimes

How perfect and graceful ❤

It certainly has changed, but wow, of these women have strength.

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🆘🇻🇪🆘🇻🇪🆘 Ojalá pudieta expresar en inglés lo que pienso de la evolución de la gimnasia artística pero mi inglés no es tan avanzado para decir lo que siento. Concuerdo con los comentarios escritos acá. Pienso que en lis 50, 60, 70 era más gimnasta que técnico : balance, equilibrio, movimientos lentos y suaves, estiramientos y más tipo ballet. Así como también, la armonía y fluidez en cada representación. Las gumnastas rusas y rumanas tenían mucho estilo (Larisa Latynina, Liudmila Turíshcheva, Nelly Kim, Olga Kurbut y la trágica suerte de Elena Mukhina. De las rumanas por supuesto la más grande de todas y la ganadora del primer 10 perfecto Nadia Comaneci). Lo importante era dar un "performance" de calidad que cantidad en el cual poder apreciar y valorar las habilidades y destrezas de la gimnasta. Claro, también se contemplaba ganar preseas. Ahora, en la actualidad, se ven chicas musculosas, con muslos muy gruesos, sin gracia, con movimientos muy rápidos y hasta bruscos que ya no son con gracia ni armonía. Incluso, los leotardos han cambiado mostrando más piel y hasta nervios da ver a la chica ejecutar un movimiento sin que le pase un percance con el traje. Y lo que cuenta es la cantidad de preseas obtenidas que la ética de una competencia.

So much better than Biles in Paris 2024.! Perfection!

You gotta start somewhere. Each generation stands on the shoulders of those who came before.

Awesome!

Preciós

What happened to the 2000's. The routines became dull and gone were the impressive techniques. Not one gymnast in the 2000's did what the 70's-80's gymnasts could do in the bars.

I'm pretty sure I could've competed in the 1930s Olympics. 😊🥇🏆

The queen. Forever and always

Tnere was zero spring in the board they used for the vault at that time. It was just an angled wooden board.

Wow..any men amongst them!

Strength, grace, and beauty personified.

Boring,.... The current Olympics has plenty of female ass cheeks blazing around to keep it interesting 😁👍 !

That beam was so narrow at this time. They made it wider through the years.

Wonderful to see! ❤

Boring and simplistic. The sport has definitely evolved.

How could this get 9.9 in the same final where Nelli Kim mounts with a double back. Absurd.

I can't do any of this.

They certainly wore a more dignified outfit to today!

I like the hairy pits

Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin were 2008 i believe.

I love to see the evolution of the equipment and the sport. They did this at a time when women stayed home and crocheted. Most people men and women still couldn’t do this today.

She like a swan

They toned it down so everybody can try it out and enroll in gymnastics schools.

Super! Daniela Silivas! De nota 10 ❤❤❤❤❤

Super! Gimnastă Daniela Silivas de nota 10❤❤❤❤

Nadia is my all-time favorite! She moves quickly & spritely & femininely. Notice how other gymnasts after her, like May Lou Retner etc. all copy how she poses when she lands with arms stretched backwards.

They look pretty damn good to me.

Perfect 10 with a hop? Man, they used to be loose with the scores.

Nice not to have to see their buttons. Goid grief so tired of seeing every girls backside at the last Olympics.

Remember, wombs were more fragile then and if you injured one, that poor women would lose all value to society.

Why the gymnasts bodies were so much better before?

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WWWWWO,❤❤❤ CE COPILĂRIE AM AVUT!!! CE VREMURI FRUMOASE!!!❤ CE EXEMPLU ESTE NADIA- PENTRU TOTDEAUNA!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Amazing how far apart the bars moved over the years. Love to see the strength and power of these talented athletes

As simple as this seems, it's still much more than most of us can do....

She was such an inspiration to all schoolgirls at that time 💯💯💯

Back then gymnastics was more balance and grace rather than difficult flips. And it’s still as impressive to me as today’s gymnastics

A perfect 10 without a stuck landing at the Olympics! 🙈

70s for me. In my mind, that was the high point. When watching now, it's a different sport. They moved the bars too far apart and it's about power and strength now, there used to be more grace, creativity, flow, precision, and so forth

Wow it looks cool in the 50s😮

Who is the gymnast at 3:36 ?

I, too, can flip from one bar and hit another lower bar! Oh sure, I'll fall down and twist my ankle and knock the wind out of me, but I am like...30% certain that if I could get up onto the top bar, I would absolutely hit my stomach, fold myself in two and collapse onto the floor like a crying baby. So, it's like we're twins! (In all seriousness, still impressive after all these decades)