5 Biggest Scandals in Gymnastics History

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Forgot to mention that substance was taken off the banned list and andreea still didn’t get the medal back

They should have know the vault was too low when Raducan could actually see over the horse. 😂

The low vault thing is hard to understand, after so many gymnasts failed, nobody thought to measure the thing?

LARRY NASSAR LARRY NASSAR AND ALL THOSE WHO WHO COVERED FOR HIM

I feel so bad for Andreea. Just trying to treat her sickness, and was stripped of a gold medal.

I remember my mom commenting about the Olympics, saying some of the Chinese girls looked like they were twelve. I guess she wasn't that far off. I am pretty sure it was these Olympics in particular, too.

how did the soviet unions elena mukhina not get a spot on here

The vault! That could have killed somebody!

I remember watching the 2000 Olympic Vault segment and thinking, "Something is not right there. Why hasn't an official stopped things and checked." How many vaulters went before something was done? I thought there was an official checklist for these events and the lead judge had to confirm the height before signing off? I mean, they did in US Collegiate competition of the same era.

Thank you for doing this video.

2:08 handsy huh?

In the 2000 vault height error incident, all of the gymnasts who had already attempted their vaults were allowed to choose whether they wanted a do-over once the height was corrected. If I remember correctly, some said yes, and some (who presumably had not had bad vaults) let their earlier scores stand. I remember that Svetlana Khorkina did not quite understand what the English-speaking judge was trying to ask her (did she want to redo her vault) and she called for an interpreter.

Thank god gymnastics changed. We are now seeing older gymnasts and much better and healthier women now that the abuse is no longer tolerated

I remember the vault scandal. It wasn’t just the injuries that could happen, the gymnasts were DESTROYED by having the vault warm-up fall so badly. Even after the vault screw ups they were thrown and it destroyed the rest of the event for them because of the fact the vault was at the wrong level. They actually had several falls after that rotation. To the point where many of the top gymnasts were knocked out of contention afterwards because they made massive mistakes on the next rotation.

I think its stupid the Pseudo Ephedrine is considered a performance enhancing drug for Gymnasts when its a common decongestant in cold medicine like the Nurofen Andrea Raducan took at the Sydney Olympics that got her stripped of her Gold Medal she was 9 days shy of her 17th birthday when she won that medal on Sept 21st 2000 when it was winter in Australia whilst it was summer/early fall in the Northern Hemisphere if your found to be a gifted future Olympic Gymnast you practice for a min of 10 years before you can go to Olympic trials aged 16 and possibly make the team like Hezly Rivera did for the US this year as the youngest member of the 5 woman team and 2 traveling alternates are Leann Wong age 20 and Joscelyn Roberson age 18 the four returning are Simone Biles 27 Jade Carey 24 Jordan Chiles 23 and Suni Lee age 21 believe min age to make the team in 2000 was 15 yrs. old the youngest girl to make the US Olympic Gymnastics team that year was Tasha Schwikert age 15 yrs. 10 Mos while the oldest on the team was Dominique Dawes aged 23 years 10 Mos. born Nov 20th 1976

Hey VERY important, you missed the most important detail for Raducan's scandal. It was a banned substance, she shouldn't have taken it....BUT the substance was removed from the list of banned substances a few years later. That is why she appealed and should have gotten the gold IMO

Nassar lived in my hometown and worked with our school. yes, he did hurt some before being caught.

It's like British Gymnastics has their own me 2 movement going as well but it's called Whyte something

Why did it take 10 years and a big hoohah to strip the Chinese of the bronze medal then give it to the Americans.