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Gymnastics like you've never seen it....

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08-07-2021, 11:47 AM

(08-06-2021, 06:46 PM)MarleyJag Wrote: I watched them. Mary Lou Retton was pretty good too. I know zilch about gymnastics but I think Simone Biles has to be the GOAT although Nadia has to be in that conversation. She was unbelievable back in the day.

Dude, I never knew Mary Lou Retton wasn't even a contender for the 84 Olympics until I watched this. She was an alternate at the one of the competitions leading up to it and just happened to compete when one of the girls suffered an injury. MLR knocked it out of the park and made the Olympic team and won a medal..... or FIVE. Freaking unbelievable. 

I know Biles is the GOAT but none of the gymnastics has the beauty of the old days. It's like they swapped artistry for power. Tim Daggett said in a competition I watched from 2007 that the floor exercise is a thing of endurance. That's not the impression I got watching Olga, Nadia and the other girls in this video.
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