It’s a shame that NBC broadcast showed only American and Chinese teams and didn’t show much for Russian and Romanian teams because I guess they were competing at the same time as Chinese and American teams.
So I saw only one Romanian gymnast doing uneven bar. And right before the Romanian girl start , they showed Nadia Comaneci in the arena audience.
Looked like she was with her son. (maybe ?)
It was so nice to see Nadia supporting her own country’s team there. She is still keeping her beautiful looking. Even though they showed only a few seconds, I thought she has impact and has charisma, very attractive and cool. I wanted them to show her more.
They also showed two Russian gymnasts, Sennya and Anna. I thought , Sennya ’s face looks like a twin version of Tatiana Navka ( Russian ice dancer ) .
Very pretty ! She did good job, however was nothing special for her style and movements.
My favorite so far is Nastia Liukin from the U.S.A. She is great ! When I saw two of her performances for balance beam on youtube, I was not so impressed at that time, but seeing in bigger screen , and compared with other gymnasts got different impression.
It’s just beautiful to watch her movements. She has her own style, feminine and artistic.
As a result , American team made a lot of mistakes and was not high enough to beat Chinese team but I’m not so crazy for team competitions, so didn’t care much for which country wins.
I enjoyed Nastia Liukin, Shawn Johnson from the U.S.A. and also two Chinese girls.
Shawn Johnson’s movements remind me of Carly Patterson. And later I heard that Shawn’s favorite gymnast is Carly.
Hmm, that’s why ?
I liked Carly Patterson’s movements though, it’s more interesting to see someone who has her own style than copying someone else’s style.
But Shawn Johnson was great, too. Her technical skill in balance beam and vault were amazing. She was also very stable in balance beam.
A little disappointments were almost all the gymnasts (especially Chinese team ) I saw were not dancing much in the floor exercise .
Nastia Liukin’s each detailed pose were great, but I didn’t feel she was with music , either.
Also, all the music were not so impressive.
Last Olympics, I really liked Catalina Ponor from Romania’s floor exercise … . And also some American gymnasts including Carly Patterson’s were more musical than anyone in this Olympics ‘too.
Looks like judges are more care for technical parts and artistically don’t care much ?
That’s one of the reason why my favorite Olympics gymnastics are still 1972 - 1980.
Olga Korbut (RUS), Nadia Comaneci (ROM), Teodora Undreanu (ROM), Neli Kim ( RUS), Yelena David ova ( RUS) were really musical even though technically at that generation was not difficult . ( except for Olga Korbut’s back flip in uneven bar ) compared with present.
I will expect Rhythmic gymnastics for it.
According to one of the news,
“ Nastie Liukin who will compete in Friday’s all-around final, said: “Martha makes little jokes about it. ‘Oh, look at the little babies!’ We’ve always have a good laugh about that.”
Hmm.. If this is true, and the women’s US National team coordinator Martha Karolyi ’s attitude sounds a little arrogant and no respect for those Chinese gymnasts.
It might show the result.
For another thing, when I saw two or three of the Chinese gymnasts putting gold powder on their faces, I thought they may win.
I don’t know if those Chinese girls knew that but there is a secret spell which will attract gold, success, and wealth luck when we put gold powder on our faces.
Anyway, believe it or not, this is just one of good luck charm.