Gymnastics Not Following the Plan

Examples of gymnastics routines that didn’t work out as planned, and how the gymnasts dealt with them

“Hey, Mr. DJ...” 00:00
Tourischeva brings down the bars (literally) 2:20
Luckily they brought a backup cassette when the turntable refused to work 3:20
Lysenko jams her fingers into the bars (in 1991) 7:20
Lysenko misses her hands - dejavú - on the same event, on the same skill, this time in 1992 8:30
Lavinia Milosovici missed her music cue in Atlanta and shows her mental strength 9:43
The Sydney all-around/vault fiasco 12:04
Brenna Dowell competes with no music/music malfunction 21:10
Lorette Charpy’s bars come undone (but remain upright) 23:08



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