She does look very young-but then so did Shannon Miller (1992 Games), Kim Zmeskal, Hilary Grivich, Dominique Moceanu (aged 14 to 16 at their respective Olympics. They all looked physically about 10 imo. I think gymnastics just basically stunted or delayed their puberty to extremes.
She was missing a ...( 4 months ago by audie83)
She was missing a tooth at the 1989 Worlds as well. I think she just knocked out a tooth-but she was surely about 10 or 11 at the 1989 Worlds. Of course other gymnasts in their mid-teens looked very young with no apparent physical maturity-Filatova, Davidova, Silivas (who admitted she was forced to lie about her age), an awful lot of the Karolyi gymnasts looked stunted in growth too, and Miller and Gutsu both looked like little girls at the 1992 Games-they were both in their mid-teens.
Not with the form ...( 4 months ago by audie83)
Not with the form breaks on her releases.
freakin amazing!! : ...( 4 months ago by greenpufffish)
freakin amazing!! :D !!
you can't really ...( 4 months ago by NewNewNastiaFan101)
you can't really say Liukin has terrible form overall because the only time it's really a problem is on dismounts and tumbling
on the bars and beam, and her vault her form is really good
Give the poor kid a ...( 3 months ago by TuesdayPillow)
Give the poor kid a break. Not many kids at the age of 13 can do this kind of stuff. I haven't seen anyone do the Tkatchev to Xiao Rhuizi since Kim.
Don't get me ...( 3 months ago by audie83)
Don't get me wrong-her routine is magnificent to this day. I love Kim Gwan Suk-and I recently read on another site that the North Korean coaches were asked about her and they stated she is married and doing well-I had always wondered what happened to her.
Gina Gogean did the Tkachev to Xio Rhuizi (or Kim counter salto) at the 1992 Euros I think.
True though it was ...( 3 months ago by audie83)
True though it was hard to see with her speed-it still a spectacular routine to this day. She had enormous talent for one so young. It's a shame due to her extreme youth no doubt she was unable to put it together at the 1992 Olympics-though I still feel she was robbed there for a medal.
I think it was on ...( 3 months ago by audie83)
I think it was on her Jaeger where she bent her legs a bit. The Korean judge still gave it a 10 though.
I am a gymnast and ...( 3 months ago by brownie2998)
I am a gymnast and I am half Korean half Amercian
Maybe it may not ...( 3 months ago by AndreaRaducan4Eva)
Maybe it may not look all THAT bad, but saying the others I mentioned even had OK form would be like saying Raducan had great form on bars. As much as I love her, her bar routines had terrible form! I know, I know, I'm going off topic.
good to know?( 3 months ago by gymnastxbabe88)
good to know?
wow she's so tiny!( 2 months ago by tvloonie111)
wow she's so tiny!
tee hee, good ...( 2 months ago by czucksk84life)
tee hee, good response
i dont think there ...( 2 months ago by PloiAm)
i dont think there is a video on youtube that doesnt have any arguing on the comments section. There could be a video showcasing different cereals and you people (myself included) would find a point to argue to the ground. Then some how race would be brought into the argument....never fails
lol how right you ...( 1 month ago by can1052)
lol how right you are. Why can't we all just get along!!!
she is so powerful! ...( 3 weeks ago by Starlight697)
she is so powerful! i love love love this routine. and her handstands were perfect!
didnt people say ...( 3 weeks ago by Sccr95Sk8)
didnt people say that she was underaged for begin so small???
14 years old, ...( 3 weeks ago by Amarventris)
14 years old, admitted on state run tv. banned from gym federation in 1993.
She looks about 8, ...( 1 week ago by RyanSmiley12)
She looks about 8, maybe 9..
How she passes for 15/16, I don't know.
no that was true. ...( 1 week ago by nchllltmr)
no that was true. she was underage. she had said that she was 16 at one point and she had had two teeth missing from the front of her mouth that they claim resulted from an uneven bar accident. Then North Korea had listed her age to be 15 for three years in a row so they were banned
i dont think she ...( 1 week ago by lrjs93)
i dont think she should ever have been banned from gymnastics. If this is how good she was when she was like 13/14, imagine how good she could have been in time. She was better than a mojority of gymnasts anyway, i think they should have let her stay in the olympics, she is gold medal potential
Asian always look ...( 1 week ago by valleystorm)
Asian always look younger. Around 14 is reasonable.
She could be like ...( 4 days ago by annaisjesus)
She could be like 10.
Damn she's excellent, she practically flies on those bars
Gina Gogean did the Tkachev to Xio Rhuizi (or Kim counter salto) at the 1992 Euros I think.
Damn she's excellent, she practically flies on those bars