A few of you have commented how much you love the compulsory floor from the 1985 cycle. I've done my best to find videos of as many performances as possible. Please do feel free to comment on their merits below. This post is for the sheer hell of enjoying beautiful gymnastics. Some of the gymnasts may be repeated from one competition to the next, but take time to watch closely and see how their work varied and improved. This is the very essence of gymnastics. Please also post links to videos missing from these sequences if you can - this posting is far from complete. It is sad to see how the quality of the video has deteriorated, some without sound even. In ten years' time, will there still be a record of this remarkable cultural heritage? 1985 World Championships Natalia Yurchenko View it on Youtube . As Ludmilla has mentioned, it's impossible at the moment to find the routines of Baraksanova, Mostepanova, Shushunova, Omelianchik and Kolesnikova. ...
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