Rank your favorite Olympic gold medal balance beam routines this century:

[Iminhanoi]

Rank your favorite Olympic gold medal balance beam routines this century:

Here’re my ranking:

1. Sanne Wevers 2016: one of most gorgeous bb routine all time. She dancing ballet on the beam

2. Cătălina Ponor 2004: that routine explain the reason why she has been a legend.

3. Shawn Johnson 2008: in Beijing 2008, Shawn Johnson was truly a flipping monster once she had mounted on the beam.

4. Liu Xuan 2000: beautiful routine, perfect landing.

5. Alice D'Amato 2024: the landing was amazingly perfect. But there’re some wobbles

6. Guan Chenchen 2020:

7. Deng Linlin 2012: lack of elegance and grace, not as much artistry as Sui Lu’s. A bit poor rhythm. The dance movements are quite robotic, not as graceful, elegant, feminine as Sui Lu’s.

I prefer Sui Lu’s routine.

 

[RichardL]

lol, I feel like this post was explicitly designed for you to share your spicy thoughts about Deng Linlin vs. Sui Lu. Not that I necessarily disagree!

 

[MaryClare]

lol, I feel like this post was explicitly designed for you to share your spicy thoughts about Deng Linlin vs. Sui Lu. Not that I necessarily disagree!

Yep. I keep getting excited because I see there’s a new post. Then I’m like, oh, something about China again.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

lol, I feel like this post was explicitly designed for you to share your spicy thoughts about Deng Linlin vs. Sui Lu. Not that I necessarily disagree!

Am I right in thinking we've never had a properly mudslinging thread about that one?

 

[Ginger]

Off topic (my apologies @MaryClare ), as she was never an olympic medalist.
Věra Černá, 1979 BB world champion, died this Monday, Sept 30. She was only 61 years old.
She had hard life, first catastrophic and career-ending spine injury just before 1980 Olympics, then brain cancer.

Vera Cerna

Vera Cerna (born on May 17, 1963, in Brno) is a retired Czech gymnast. When she was 6, she was selected to train in rhythmic gymnastics, but by age 8 she had convinced coaches to let her switch to sports gymnastics. It was a good decision, because by age 11 she was good enough to join the junior...

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her 1979 champion performance

 

[CameliasFingerpaint]

I will die on the hill that beam routines dripping in irony and camp make the best routines.

 

[JaJa]

I will die on the hill that beam routines dripping in irony and camp make the best routines.

and a Beam with Aliya Mustafina on it gets my vote any day. I really miss her

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

And she was 30 this week! We ought really to have marked the occasion.

 

[MaryClare]

And she was 30 this week! We ought really to have marked the occasion.

Some of us had to attend a ministry of sport mandated presentation to mark the occasion, I’ve taken one for the team there

 

[RedBirdie]

I marked the occasion by fucking up my powerpoint draft as much as possible, botching the run through, and then absolutely nailing the actual workshop presentation.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

I marked the occasion by fucking up my powerpoint draft as much as possible, botching the run through, and then absolutely nailing the actual workshop presentation.

Feeling emotional just reading that. The queen herself would be proud of you, I'm sure.

 

[CameliasFingerpaint]

Our next board rewind watch should really be the best of Russian Podium Training.