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Three-time Olympian & Olympic Gold Medalist Dominique Dawes answers the internet’s burning questions about gymnastics. Golden: The Journey of USA’s Elite Gymnasts is now Streaming on Peacock, Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► Listen to the Get WIRED podcast ►► Want more WIRED? Get the magazine ►► Also, check out the free WIRED…
Jarl Balgruuf the Greater
July 16, 2021 at 9:43 pm
I need a girl like her once 😁
Lion
July 16, 2021 at 9:44 pm
I remember watching you with my mom as a kid. Made me fall in love with the Olympics. Great to see you are well.
Dominic LoBue
July 16, 2021 at 9:46 pm
You are the reason everybody pronounces my name wrong, lol
Lion
July 16, 2021 at 10:07 pm
And there were two of them back then lol
Vai Subash
July 16, 2021 at 9:52 pm
the queen 👑
LL L
July 16, 2021 at 9:53 pm
I hope the Twitter army gets Mattel to send her a replacement doll.
brick sloth
July 16, 2021 at 9:56 pm
I wanted to be a gymnast. I was the right size (I’m short) but I’m autistic and have a very poor sense of balance. #YeahNo
Never Ending Journey Still Learning
July 16, 2021 at 10:01 pm
Thanks
John Hoffman
July 16, 2021 at 10:01 pm
Check the hands of any serious gymnast, and you will be amazed at the calluses built up, and hopefully not ripped or torn.
Altar Native
July 16, 2021 at 10:02 pm
Gymnasts are …mutant humans …who should not be trusted. Have you ever tried to do a backflip?? It’s not humanly possible! Or maybe they’re aliens…
Yash Mali
July 16, 2021 at 10:04 pm
American: let’s design an amazing grip for our Olympians
Russian: Here, take some honey
Ricardo Del Angel
July 16, 2021 at 10:17 pm
Oh wow she still looks amazing i had a crush on her when i was growing up lol ❤❤❤💯
אור פאר
July 16, 2021 at 10:18 pm
wait how is it fair if some have grips or some dont, or you ban it completely or you subside grips for everyone how is that fair?
Jay Pumpernickel
July 16, 2021 at 10:20 pm
So men and women are different. That’s what I always thought. This lady is a legend. USA!!!!
C
July 16, 2021 at 10:29 pm
Why do some gymnast spit in their hands before performing on bars? Also, why do gymnast seem to salute 2 or 3 times? Are there more than one panel of judges on any given apparatus? Thanks
bikephil
July 16, 2021 at 11:28 pm
For grip.
They are waving to the crowds.
Bee Dotz
July 16, 2021 at 10:43 pm
I loveeeeeee me some Dominique Dawes!!!!! I was so excited to see this video!!!!
Suny12
July 16, 2021 at 10:50 pm
Olimpian that has no idea why she was competitive in different sport’s compared to Man omg
K.E. Perks
July 16, 2021 at 10:57 pm
Re bangs: when you are above a certain age, bangs can take 10 years off your face. Just sayin.
Michele Webb
July 16, 2021 at 11:01 pm
Loving questions & answers by incredible Dominique Dawes.
J Miller
July 16, 2021 at 11:08 pm
My sister (who was a nationally-ranked gymnast and ended up being a performer for Cirque du Soleil) had a huge poster of Dominique above her bed in our room. Love this woman! 🙂
Milla Cabral
July 17, 2021 at 12:07 am
Vault is definitely way more scary than rings, because everything on the rings is meant to be absolutely controlled, even the flips and the dismount. With the rings you are grabbing something or at least using that to initiate the dismount, but most of the time you are pressing into a strength position or swinging to it. Vault on the other hand, you run at basically full speed and punch your feet onto a springboard that launches you at a slanted table that you push off of with your arms to then perform a very complex flip and hopefully land on your feet. You can easily hurt yourself on vault because the mats aren’t very soft and if you mess up your entry you can’t control your body in the air, so you could land on your head or just destroy your ankles/knees with a bad landing (it happens A LOT). I have a friend that completely dislocated her elbow training on vault, because her hands were slightly uneven for the push off. Sure, you’re high up with the still rings, but it is one of the most consistent apparatus in gymnastics.
meme GOD
July 17, 2021 at 12:14 am
she looks like Zoe Saldana 😁
Anuj Pramanik
July 17, 2021 at 12:18 am
She looks like Jada Pinkett Smith 😮
VS M
July 17, 2021 at 12:30 am
I still remember watching Dominique Dawes in the ‘96 Olympics and being in awe. That was such a good year for the games because of the Women’s gymnastics team
albertito moon
July 17, 2021 at 12:32 am
“Wow with the hashtags there” LMAO I LOVE HER
kelly mcphaul
July 17, 2021 at 12:33 am
AWESOME DAWSOME!
CroSs xD
July 17, 2021 at 11:47 am
artistic gymnastics is trash. pulling a reverse iron cross goes hard.
alisha
July 17, 2021 at 12:38 pm
I love Dominique!!
T M
July 17, 2021 at 1:31 pm
I wonder why her voice is so hoarse? 🤔
ELECTRIC PHIL13
July 17, 2021 at 1:48 pm
I was in love with her when I was younger. Like fully thinking I was win her over when I met her. Never met her
Michael Hart
July 17, 2021 at 2:52 pm
Clearly, Dawes hasn’t seen those compilations of men doing beam extremely well
Mark Lee
July 17, 2021 at 2:57 pm
What do you mean by “how”? Everyone knows US “athletes” take doping. That’s why US is the only country in the world which doesn’t participate in the international anti-doping committee and only takes coping tests among the labs of their own. 😂😂
Did I mention forbidding complex gymnastic tricks just because US “athletes” were unable to perform them even under the doping? 😅
R H
July 17, 2021 at 3:38 pm
Why men don’t compete BB: watch the Korbut or Rulvova
Ben Thompson
July 17, 2021 at 3:43 pm
Absolutely lovely human
bunnybeaner
July 17, 2021 at 4:00 pm
Somebody pleeeeeease send Dominique that Barbie!!!
Adam Menzies
July 17, 2021 at 4:10 pm
What’s at the bottom of the foam pit? Band-Aids, Underwear, hair ties, scrunchies, Money, and all sorts of evil.
Adam Menzies
July 17, 2021 at 4:18 pm
And Dominique, can we not mention Oksana Chusovitina for record setting? The woman is 45, competing before Simone was even born, and going for her EIGHTH OLYMPICS!
longbranch11207
July 17, 2021 at 9:07 pm
She probably innocently forgot
ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΑ ΡΟΥΣΗ
July 18, 2021 at 12:13 am
@longbranch11207 she is a living legend of gymnastics , she can’t be forgotten. Anyone with a basic knowledge of gymnastics knows Oksana.
longbranch11207
July 18, 2021 at 12:21 am
Not everyone is checking for her like that. Dawes have a lot going on give the woman a break it’s not that serous. Dawes is the only American woman that went to the Olympics in gymnastics three times . That’s what she was talking about making history as an American
Adam Menzies
July 18, 2021 at 12:32 am
@longbranch11207 Not that serious, just pointing out something I wish she had mentioned.
Marketoromagnolo
July 17, 2021 at 4:19 pm
there is not a MOCEANU skill named after her, for the others is correct
Laura
July 17, 2021 at 5:05 pm
whether a gymnast is wearing grips or not actually doesn’t have to do much with costs, but it’s just preference! take a look at Lieke Wevers for example, she doesn’t use grips but the Netherlands has those readily available
Even Thee
July 17, 2021 at 5:14 pm
Does Dominique Dawes age? She looks amazing!
Ann Eckhart
July 17, 2021 at 5:19 pm
Dominique is one of my favorites of all time!!!!!
Mista Shortstroke
July 17, 2021 at 5:24 pm
She still fine af 🍆!
K BBQ
July 17, 2021 at 6:19 pm
Oh cool, some of my girls and I met her when we were still in competitive gymnastics. She was really funny, we kept trying to get her to race us (we were kids, probably about ten years old) and she would start to run and then stop immediately, so we just kept running without her only to realize she totally duped us. 😂😂
Solange Garcia
July 17, 2021 at 6:39 pm
The OG💪🏾💓🎉
CookieDoughmonsterTravels
July 17, 2021 at 6:43 pm
I had that barbie too! My german Shepard took her head off. Im sorry Dominique. Smh
Sovereign Oshumare
July 17, 2021 at 7:01 pm
Ummm, men performing to
Music would be EPIC! I’m ready!
Lion
July 18, 2021 at 7:32 pm
I’m curious of what music they would choose. The floor routine is so powerful, I think it would be very interesting.
J L
July 17, 2021 at 10:11 pm
She’s one my favorites ever – amazing human and gymnast
gfan105
July 17, 2021 at 11:57 pm
I love seeing a literal legend fangirl over Simone Biles…like, THE awesome dawesome fangirling simone, who literally looked up to her growing up. That’s amazing
Tara 907
July 18, 2021 at 12:18 am
She was an Olympic gymnast I looked up to as a young gymnast myself. The Mag 7 were my idols!!
Eric P.
July 18, 2021 at 12:38 am
My favorite gymnast of all-time!
Periz Malack
July 18, 2021 at 12:49 am
Cool
Asher’s Tribe
July 18, 2021 at 1:38 am
Dominique Dawes was the love of my life as a young man. I remember having a massive crush on her as a kid… she is still just as pretty and smart as she’s always been.
Jamaican Princess1974
July 18, 2021 at 1:48 am
She looks good
Hans Solos
July 18, 2021 at 2:03 am
Absolute Graceful Champion. Miss Dawes speaks so eloquently in great sentences structure. ❤️❤️❤️
sebeckley
July 18, 2021 at 2:58 am
Yes, they use honey instead of grips in China and other countries.
Laura
July 18, 2021 at 3:55 am
She’s awesome and seems lovely. Although imagine having a Barbie doll of yourself, saving it for years in case you had children to pass it on to, and then it just gets the haircut/decapitation treatment of most Barbies with little kids. 🙂 (In hindsight, if I were her daughter/son, I’d be kicking myself, because I’d think it was amazing as an adult to have a Barbie of my mother.)
Patricia Giles
July 18, 2021 at 4:37 am
Bouncing the pelvis into the lower uneven bar for a person with male genitals wouldn’t feel too good, I imagine.😬😱
Belky Smellshurbutt
July 18, 2021 at 7:51 am
Yo!!!! I had a mad crush on her when I was younger 😍☺😍☺
intldawn
July 18, 2021 at 5:05 pm
They all have a move named for them? Shannon, Dominique D, Jaycie, Kerri and Amy do. I’m struggling to remember what move is named Dominique M and Amanda.
MD-722
July 19, 2021 at 2:20 pm
Moceanu had her balance beam mount, whilst Borden’s is a twisting straddle jump (also performed on the beam).
Rhythmic Elegance
July 21, 2021 at 12:22 am
@MD-722 Wasn’t Moceanu’s mount a Silivas? Or was it a variation of it that she put a twist to that made it hers?
SweetSirenia
July 18, 2021 at 6:35 pm
How is she getting even hotter with age?! Dominique, leave a little beauty for the rest of us, jeez!
Pepeh
July 18, 2021 at 9:26 pm
She is so iconic
Wendy O Koopa
July 19, 2021 at 12:14 am
Men do perform vault as one of their exercises and women did use to do rings but over time things swapped around.
Wendy O Koopa
July 19, 2021 at 12:40 am
I have to agree with Dominique on the old vault. To imagine it a little better for people who don’t want to look it up? Imagine a pommel horse with the metal bars removed and possibly shortened and you have vault. 😳.
D'Naira Dior
July 19, 2021 at 12:47 am
I met Ms. Dawes maybe 5 years ago briefly at an event encouraging fitness for kids. She was so kind and sweet🥰
Emily Pan
July 19, 2021 at 5:02 am
The last one was kind of funny
ABIEZHANE PUNYA CERITA
July 19, 2021 at 6:16 am
I thought she’s Gamora, and click due to olympian flippy title which confused me. great info btw
Ralph M
July 19, 2021 at 3:59 pm
I love Dominique Dawes!
Chakram Bleu
July 19, 2021 at 4:45 pm
Why is the governing body reducing the points given to the feats that Simone does? Why just why?
Valeria Vega
July 21, 2021 at 9:28 pm
1. They say it’s too dangerous what she is doing.
2. They don’t want the field to be sit far apart.
Either way, they are essentially punishing her for her greatness.
SarahSayAnything
July 20, 2021 at 12:45 am
I had a Dawes poster on my wall for years as a child 💕 love this Queen
藤岡千恵
July 20, 2021 at 10:35 am
Wow, I remember watching her live. Yes, the old vault was TERRIFYING. I was delighted when it was replaced, although I had long since switched sports.
Noah Sherman
July 20, 2021 at 2:08 pm
i don’t like the music during the reading of questions
Jay_M
July 20, 2021 at 2:42 pm
Awesome dawesome!
Gio_TRX66
July 20, 2021 at 4:54 pm
The honey is for p-bars as far as I know, I just use it for tapelt stuff. cuz if I don’t I’ll peel and die lmao.
Zimmer games Zimmer c
July 20, 2021 at 5:28 pm
More of the history has to do with it starting in the 1890s
B. Marie
July 20, 2021 at 7:13 pm
Dominique growing up I always rooted and shouted for you. It was wonderful to see someone who looked like me. Brava 👑
Evan Dunn-Baritone
July 20, 2021 at 7:59 pm
You just HAD to bring up the two falls on vault!!! I still feel so sad about that to this day . . .
Rayelle J
July 20, 2021 at 8:51 pm
2:47 now we know why men don’t have music and other routines mentioned haha
Casey Blizzard
July 21, 2021 at 9:47 am
She was so fun to watch back in the day! My favorite.
joyfuljaj
July 22, 2021 at 4:15 pm
Loved her tumbling pass that was basically two passes in one!
Casey Blizzard
July 22, 2021 at 11:46 pm
@joyfuljaj Yes!
Brittany Von Rissen
July 21, 2021 at 11:19 am
I had that Barbie too 😃
Helena Cp
July 21, 2021 at 2:07 pm
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andthenithought
July 21, 2021 at 2:07 pm
Awesome!
Kiki Coco
July 21, 2021 at 4:19 pm
Dominique Dawes is so gorgeous!
justina ike
July 21, 2021 at 6:07 pm
@barbie Dominique needs a doll. Send her one or two.
MSF
July 21, 2021 at 10:10 pm
so maybe do away with floors and introduce tumbling. because that dancing thing doesn’t make sense
Andrea B
July 21, 2021 at 11:55 pm
She’d make a great commentator! Great video 👍
Luz Cannon
July 22, 2021 at 3:44 pm
‘Some were so not awesome’
🙄 @matt0999
Hope Gold
July 22, 2021 at 8:25 pm
Darn. Clickbait. Enjoyed Dominique Daws, but I really did want an answer to that question. She got asked it twice but couldn’t answer. I guess you need a collab with a gymnast, physicist and a trainer/anatomist?
Manzell Blakeley
July 23, 2021 at 2:39 am
The boys are generally too tall for uneven bars… and I don’t think many women are built to excel in the rings.
Cake 36
July 23, 2021 at 4:09 am
Some countries such as China use honey on the bars instead of grips. The Russians use grips nowadays.
Cutler Mason
July 23, 2021 at 12:13 pm
Her face, her VOICE…😍
Tony Melson
July 23, 2021 at 2:28 pm
Watch someone send Dominique a Barbie now! You know there’s a collector out there! And I remember watching her fall both times at worlds and what a heart break but even without the world titles she’s still a star!
Jane Son
July 23, 2021 at 9:34 pm
She looks so much like Thandiwe Newton here.
Bo Rood
July 24, 2021 at 2:55 am
She is so cute.
Or Grimey, as he liked to be called
July 24, 2021 at 2:24 pm
“how do they do those crazy flips?”
elite athlete: “lol idk”
itsmepuja
July 27, 2021 at 1:51 am
Hahahaha. I know right! I clicked on this video only because the thumbnail had that question and I thought she’d spill the secrets.
Or Grimey, as he liked to be called
July 27, 2021 at 4:08 pm
@itsmepuja same!! as someone who has never done a cartwheel, I really wanted to know how they don’t get lost in the air. lame reply.
Michael Elliott
July 24, 2021 at 3:49 pm
I love me some Ms. D. Dawes. 🙂
Invox
July 24, 2021 at 4:00 pm
Simone Bisle in the last Olympics passed ahead of her Chinese competitor because of the Judges. Her chinese rival did everything flawlessly and still lost in at least two events. Simone is heavier and “sticking” too hard (sometimes incompleting the land safely).
I believe she’s staying more for political reasons since she is such a great influence in the US, but I’m afraid that that is pushing her into a (possibly) career ending injury.
Holz Last name
July 24, 2021 at 7:52 pm
I had the barbie as well ❤️
Jerl Ryan
July 25, 2021 at 2:28 am
Refreshing to see some of the older legends heap so much praise on Simone and still marvel at what she can do, even when they themselves are such phenomenal athletes.
Karen Douglas
July 25, 2021 at 3:26 am
Dr. Dawes right?
Ch Cand
July 25, 2021 at 5:17 pm
Muriel Grossfield competed in three Olympics before Dawes 1956, 1960, and 1964
Lasandra Lucas
July 25, 2021 at 10:30 pm
Great to see Dominique Dawes after all those years. One of the best gymnastic of all time.
Heather Jay
July 26, 2021 at 8:56 am
I love Awesome Dawesome! Queen!!
Keel He
July 26, 2021 at 1:54 pm
Yay Dominique!!! Love her ❤️
Becky Clawson
July 26, 2021 at 10:02 pm
Ah love her!!!!!!!!!!
Cassidy R
July 27, 2021 at 3:35 am
The first 15 seconds of this video unlocked my long-forgotten memory of a time when I was about 7, when me and my gymnastics friends made it our mission to dig and dive to the bottom of the foam pit to see what was there. Good times 😂
Or Grimey, as he liked to be called
July 27, 2021 at 4:08 pm
what was there? I heard it’s a trampoline? haha
Tenchi Jojo
July 27, 2021 at 3:58 am
Her back-to-back tumbling pass was badass. They don’t do that anymore.
Little Bunny
August 5, 2021 at 12:29 pm
Because it’s banned
.m.
July 27, 2021 at 5:08 am
she’s pretty
Gnarly Spur
July 27, 2021 at 5:51 am
Great video they should do a competitive horse one
Laura Larrabee
July 27, 2021 at 6:56 am
She aged so well. Looks stunning
Shannon Garcia
July 27, 2021 at 10:02 am
The numberless butcher supposedly pedal because alligator interestedly scratch pace a chemical sprout. sloppy, proud flare
Berk Y
July 28, 2021 at 8:55 pm
5:20 She jinxed Biles LOL
Megan
July 29, 2021 at 10:08 am
Martel needs to send you another Barbie of yourself!!!
Luc Sun
July 29, 2021 at 10:27 am
well Simone ain’t competing anymore.. sad
Aisha
July 29, 2021 at 7:57 pm
i wonder why she married a pale man
Jonathan Watson
July 30, 2021 at 5:41 am
OK DD needs her own TV show and docu–series. This was a real treat!
MKA
July 31, 2021 at 1:56 am
She needs to host or commentate
ultimateshowdown2
July 31, 2021 at 3:34 am
As a kid, I thought the curled bangs were required as part of the uniform
Faye Tollefson
August 1, 2021 at 5:17 am
Awe Dawes is all growed up❣Great inspiration!
B Chuck
August 1, 2021 at 10:27 pm
She looks like Thandi Newton huh?
veRGe02
August 2, 2021 at 11:50 am
Men use honey in gymnastics for Parallel Bars. We use it to sticky up the bars in combination with chalk (hence why it’s in the chalk bucket) in order to cake the chalk on the bar and swing better on the apparatus. We also use it to cake chalk on the high bar too, but mostly p-bars.
Michael Koury
August 4, 2021 at 7:15 am
love every bit of this