The Agony of the 1989 Worlds Balance Beam Final

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Today we conclude our coverage of the 1989 World Championships in Stuttgart (for now) with a recap of the very intriguing Balance Beam Final. To quote soothsayer, commentator, and camp legend Monica Phelps: "I think I would go as far as to say that this beam Final will be the best ever contested beam Championships that the world has ever seen."

But was Monica right? The field was certainly packed. It included Hungary's Henrietta Onodi making her senior World debut, the recent co-European champions Gabriela Potorac from Romania and Olesya Dudnik from the Soviet Union. We had the reigning balance beam champion from the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Romanian Daniela Silivas. And of course, there were two extremely talented Chinese competitors in Yang Bo and Chen Cuiting. The potential was certainly there.

Please tune in to find out what happened and why many feel it was such a heart-breaking result.

Thank you so much to ‪@Boban1611‬ for uploading the routine videos I used to create this recap.

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