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Workout Wednesday with 2012 Olympic Hopeful Aly Raisman at Brestyan's Gymnastics 04:24

Workout Wednesday with 2012 Olympic Hopeful Aly Raisman at Brestyan's Gymnastics

February 8

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Behind the Scenes of Olympic Trials Podium Training 04:26

Behind the Scenes of Olympic Trials Podium Training

June 28

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Bringing Home the Gold: Aly Raisman on 2012

Bringing Home the Gold: Aly Raisman on 2012

September 18

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McKayla Maroney on her homecoming at AOGC, walking in high heels on a broken toe, plans for Rio, and more 03:40

McKayla Maroney on her homecoming at AOGC, walking in high heels on a broken toe, plans for Rio, and more

August 19

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Workout Wednesday with the 2011 World Champions: Team USA Women 07:12

Workout Wednesday with the 2011 World Champions: Team USA Women

November 15

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McKayla Maroney's adorable little sister Tarynn, on London and welcoming home her big sister 01:31

McKayla Maroney's adorable little sister Tarynn, on London and welcoming home her big sister

August 20

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Pre-Olympic Workout Wednesday with Jordyn Wieber and Twistars USA 07:26

Pre-Olympic Workout Wednesday with Jordyn Wieber and Twistars USA

July 18

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McKayla Maroney on her Close Relationship with Olympic Teamate Kyla Ross 04:30

McKayla Maroney on her Close Relationship with Olympic Teamate Kyla Ross

July 6

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USA Olympic Hopeful Aly Raisman on her 2012 Training 04:21

USA Olympic Hopeful Aly Raisman on her 2012 Training

January 19

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McKayla Maroney Breaks Down Team USA before the Start of the Olympic Games 03:58

McKayla Maroney Breaks Down Team USA before the Start of the Olympic Games

July 26

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Jordyn Wieber's Mental Edge 02:14

Jordyn Wieber's Mental Edge

June 29

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World Championships Workout: Team Russia 06:15

World Championships Workout: Team Russia

November 30

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Slideshow: The Fierce Five's Golden Moment 02:30

Slideshow: The Fierce Five's Golden Moment

September 5

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Introducing the Fierce Five at the Adidas House in London 02:41

Introducing the Fierce Five at the Adidas House in London

August 10

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Fierce Five Photo Shoot 01:06

Fierce Five Photo Shoot

August 8

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Meet the Elite: Aly Raisman 04:07

Meet the Elite: Aly Raisman

April 10

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Jordyn Wieber Reflects on her Olympic Experience 03:54

Jordyn Wieber Reflects on her Olympic Experience

August 8

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2012 USA Olympic Gymnastics Team 02:16

2012 USA Olympic Gymnastics Team

July 24

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Martha Karolyi on her Flying Squirrel, Gabby Douglas 01:34

Martha Karolyi on her Flying Squirrel, Gabby Douglas

March 3

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Olympic Champ Nastia Liukin before the 2012 American Cup and Nastia Liukin Cup 04:02

Olympic Champ Nastia Liukin before the 2012 American Cup and Nastia Liukin Cup

March 2

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Articles

Women's Qualifications (Team, AA and Event Finalists)

Jul 29 by Danny Sierra

Welcome to your home for the 2012 Olympic Games women's qualifications. This page will be updated throughout the week with breaking news and pertinent information specific to the women's qualificatio...

Maroney Stumbles; Izbasa Wins Vault Gold

Aug 4 by Anne From Gymnastike

IZBASA WINS VAULT   Largely considered a lock for the vault gold medal, American McKayla Maroney gave away the Olympic title when she sat down a Mustafina (half on, layout full off), allowing Ro...

Raisman Dominates Floor Exercise

Aug 7 by Danny Sierra

RAISMAN WINS FLOOR! Team USA's Aly Raisman outshined the other performers in the floor exercise final, winning gold with plenty of room to spare, scoring a massive 15.6.  Catalina Ponor took hom...

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Uploaded by Anne From Gymnastike | August 19, 2012

Olympic Champion Nadia Comaneci talks about her breakout competition before wining the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games. She later became one of the most well-known gymnastics legends. Nadia then shares her thoughts on the current rules of gymnastics including the age rule and the death of the perfect 10.

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Comments6 comments

 brian bias 9 months ago

cutest haircut she's ever had! she's just so striking and timeless

Anonymous Coward 9 months ago

Maroney's VT in TF wasn't perfect. Was it amazing? obviously! Was it by far the best vault in the olympics? Of course. Was it one of the best vaults ever? Yes. Was it perfect? No. She has a small leg sep in her block, an other tiny form error in the air, her knees are a liiiiitle bit soft and her landing IMO was just a little cheated.

AnnaStern 9 months ago

@Susie: Well it is kinda of complicated trying to explain what a good score is now... 15.5 is a TOP score on beam or floor... not so much on bars (girls are getting 16's on Finals) and vault is just messy... the gap between the top vaulter and the 8th gymnast is over 2 points sometimes. There's no way we would see a girl get a 10 and the other one getting an 8 in the same olympic final. I also dislike the 3 up 3 count rule on TF... I think it's too harsh on these young girls knowing that one little fall can take the medal from your country and they're gonna have to live with that for the rest of their lives.

SK 9 months ago

I like the new scoring system because in the old one they were handing out 10s like they were candy. People were getting 10s for routines that were far from perfect so it devalued the whole scoring system and idea of perfection. However, it is shameful that they don't now give perfect execution scores when something clearly IS perfect (i.e. Maroney's vault in team finals).

S 9 months ago

Nadia achieved so much and was a beautiful woman; of course everyone is free to do what they like, but I think it's a shame she felt the need to have so much cosmetic surgery.

Susie 9 months ago

I really don't understand why people think the scoring system is so difficult to understand. I started watching gymnastics in 2008 and it made sense to me from the start. You have a number for difficulty, and you have a number for execution and you add them together...it's not that hard. It might not make sense at first before someone explains it, but usually the commentators explain it at least once a meet on the TV broadcasts.

Naturally the "perfect 10" system is easier to understand, but I think that having the difficulty and execution scores is good for the advancement of the sport. I do, however, agree with the argument that it encourages gymnasts to chuck skills that they aren't fully capable of doing in order to get a higher difficulty score. In general though, I like the new scoring system.