Aly Raisman - Floor - 2012 Visa Championships - Sr Women - Day 2

Score: 15.800 -- June 10, 2012
Chaifetz Arena -- St. Louis, Mo.

[SheaNDamon]

Anyone who says Catalina deserved the gold in the Olympic floor final clearly didn't watch the event. Aly's routine was nearly perfect and was much more difficult than Catalina's routine. And when you file an appeal, you can only contest the difficulty score. You cannot challenge the execution score, so an inquiry from the Romanian team would not have changed anything. In order for Catalina to win, she would have needed an execution score higher than 9.4, which is unheard of in floor exercise. Just her twisting form alone was a high deduction, as well as the bad leg form on her second pass. The routine was beautiful, but not better than Aly's by any means.

[thechalkbucket]

The last leap out of her tumbling pass was really great! Also, I love her leo.

[NargleGirl]

i love the whistling in the music when she's on the floor, she's my favorite gymnast by far!

[johnfinlon]

Ali Raisman is awesome. My favorite floor routine of all time. Flawless floor routine. The energy and the power. Perfectly executed. I love you so much Aly.

[gymnast]

Forever my favorite floor routine ever

[caraattrice]

When Marta Karolyi is clapping along to your routine, you're doing something right.

[Twihard]

The music throws me off. Doesnt sound right

[AltusPlateau]

This routine is just WOW. The artistry WOW. The crisp stuck landings WOW

[sparkosity]

I can watch this routine over and over again. Fantastic!

[immaslaveforyou]

nbc has a youtube channel and all the olympics are in there. you cant download someone of them but you can watch them

[groud]

I love floor exercise with clean landing. Crowds do to.

[smudge]

wow, would love to see this routine win a medal in the olympics!! she really deserves it!

[dahighbar]

Yep and her 15.6 in event finals was almost equivalent to a 10. cause no one in the arena could beat it

[iculture]

WOW WOW She deserves a medal in the Olympics!!

[pilotmoyafan]

You can find the whole floor final on the olympic channel.

[sunraysgym]

it used to be that you could take a step w/o deduction. that only applies in elite though in level 10 rules you can take a step. The jump is used to make it cleaner. its almost used to disguise extra power into a jump. does that help?

[brwnydgirl]

It won't let me post the link but if you go to the NBC olympics website and look under gymnastics you should be able to find the link to it pretty easily.

[jasonother]

I have a question for anybody "in the know" about gymnastics. I've noticed that Raisman and Douglas both do jumps at the end of passes. I wonder if that is to make it appear like a cleaner landing. Instead of jumping back to correct an imperfect landing, they just jump up and do splits. Is that part of why they do that?

[kcaldwell]

Unfortunately, it's going to be hard to find. The networks who air the olympics have rights to the footage and will take down anyones videos who post them. I think they only have rights for a certain amount of time, thats why 2008 olympic footage is available.

[sarahmcgregor]

that was amazing!
so glad she won floor and beam at visas