March 26, 2025 • 14 mins
Former USA olympic gold medalist gymnast, Dominique Moceanu, joined the show to talk about her illustrious career, the popularity and state of gymnastics as a sport and her career ventures post-competition!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Won a gold medal at fourteen years old in Atlanta
nineteen ninety six with her team Dominique Mosno joins US
now Olympic gymnast Golden medalist and Dominique.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Let's talk talk about your background and your parents.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
They were Romanian gymnasts and when you were just a
young kid, I guess you moved around a little bit,
and then they finally ended up taking it to Houston
to practice gymnastics.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah, so I started gymnastics really young, at age three.
I have immigrant parents who came over from Romania and
they wanted to flee the communist regime early on, as
they wanted hopes for a better life for their family.
So they came to America and you know, lo and behold.
I was born in Hollywood, California, of all places. And
then they moved around and started my gymnastics, you know,
(00:48):
in small classes, and then moved around the country and
eventually ended up in Texas at age nine to start
training for the Elite route and heading towards that Olympic dream.
So that's kind of how we landed in Texas. And
it's really just a story of you know, somebody having
a dream and in their heart, really working hard and
(01:12):
having very modest beginnings and really living the American dream.
You know, that was so important to my family to
have an opportunity that their children could be raised in
a better.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Life and accomplishing it with the gold medal.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
The nineteen ninety six Team USA gymnastics team, I mean
stole America's hearts, I think is an understatement.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Now, I'm a dude that grew up in the nineties.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
That is used to football, baseball, basketball, playing all the sports,
but that ninety six team won me over where I
do not miss a Team USA event or an Olympic
gymnastics event because the way you guys just performed, And
I think you introduced the sport to a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Am I unique?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Or are there more guys that have come up to
you over the years that are now gymnastics fans that
might have never I can't do a cartwheel, I can't like,
don't put me on a balance, beab, but I love
the sport.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Now? Am I unique? Or are there more like me?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Oh? No, I think you're a part of you know,
you're part of that era where so many people were
inspired by our gymnastics team and it goes to everyone,
all ages, and it's something that's so special because I
remember being on the post Olympic tour after the Olympics
and I had grown ups coming up to me and
(02:33):
crying wanting my autograph and little kids in the mall,
and you know, it just it transcended ages, It transcended
you know, the sports, and our gymnastics team, you know,
created a lasting legacy because there will always be the
first US women's gymnastics team to win Olympic gold. And
we set the bar really high for others in the
future to really be able to dream that big and
(02:56):
say that it's a possibility that you too could be
on a grand stage and can do it. So I
do think we transcended so much in that time period
with not only ages and sexes, but everything because so
many people's lives changed that I was you know that
I was informed by so many people said you changed
(03:18):
my life. And at that time I was glued to
the television when of course you couldn't get the information
on the internet. You'd have to wait and watch it
or record it on your VHS and like watch it
with your family and your living room, and it was
so exciting because it was in the United States, and
it celebrated the centennial Olympic Games in modern times. So
(03:39):
there are so many reasons why that Olympics was so special.
And we have the LA twenty twenty eight Olympics coming back,
so that would be the first summer game since my
Olympics in ninety six. That will be coming back to
our home country.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Talking to Dominique Mosiano, nineteen ninety six gold medalists with
the US Olympic Gymnastics team. She will be at nineties
con here Connecticut. Oh yeah, at our convention Center. You'll
be here Saturday and Sunday next week. Is that what
I'm told?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yes, i will be there Saturday and Sunday. I'm super
excited for you know, for the trip and to get
out there and be a part of it. March twenty
ninth and thirtieth at the Connecticut Convention Center.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
All right, let me ask you about So you're fourteen
years old, You're in the ninety six Olympics. You pick
Charlie Daniels band I went down to Georgia.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
I love it. Now.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Listen, I'm a lot older than both of you guys.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I'm in my sixties and I was actually in the
major leagues in the nineties and that's like an eighties tune.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
By the way, love, how did you pick that song?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
And you know, watching you on the floor doing that
was one of the most impressive things I think I've
ever seen.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well, thank you for that. You know. Ironically, it was
my coach at the time, and he, you know, he
enjoyed listening to a lot of old country and also
just you know Westerns and things like that. It was
really big into country music and all kind of that genre.
But he was listening to it on the radio one
day and he was like, I really liked it. So
(05:09):
he called her choreographer and said, can you make you know,
a routine for Dominique with this music? Can you cut it?
And we had a you know, music specialist who helped
cut our choreography, you know, choreograph music. And so they
cut it and they're like do you like it? Like
this is going to be it? And I'm like, yeah,
it's awesome. You know, it really fit me and it
kind of worked out really well as it was so
(05:31):
memorable for so many people. I get people who literally
DM me and send me messages all the time. Hey,
when you know, doubling down to Georgia comes on. I
always think of you, Yes, so iconic. And they'll send
me little dms, even random strangers and even family members
and friends, and they're like, every time I'm the grocery
store and I hear it, all of a sudden, it
(05:52):
makes me think of your ninety six flirtine. So you
know that that was such a special impact that it
made that people can remember that like thirty years later.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
And you've done so much in your career beyond nineteen
ninety six. I mean, you're coaching now, you run your
own gym, you've wrote several books. I always wonder because
you know, I'm hanging out with this guy and as
he said, he won a World Series in nineteen ninety
and my favorite thing is him getting told by little
kids that he doesn't know anything about baseball and that
their dad is a better coach than he is, Like
(06:24):
they only know him from a video game these days. Now,
for you, do you get any of that? We're like,
what do you know? My mom told me this is
how you're supposed to do it.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I think there's a little more respect here. Sometimes sometimes
you know, the teenagers will be teenagers and you have
to fight the battle of you know that. But my
kids are very appreciative and I think they really know
the impacts I made on the sport, and they have
a lot of gratitude for me being able to coach them.
(06:55):
And they're just, you know, they're very very good kids.
And so when I coach, Yes, there have been times
in the past where it's like, I don't know if
you know what you're you know, talking about, but for
the most part, it's you know, it does come around.
People do understand and they know the history and thanks
to YouTube, you know, we're immortalized over there, so you know,
(07:18):
we kind of stay the same age and they get
to see our performances at that at that time era.
So that's really special because the kids will go back
and be like, I was watching your routine, how did
you do that? And I was like, girls, I've done
all these skills that I'm teaching you, you know, so
many of them, And yeah, they get excited, and I
(07:39):
think when they go onto the competition floor, they get
excited to be with someone who has such a rich
history in the sport, and yet some of them weren't
born yet. When when you know I was in the Olympics,
but thanks to YouTube and places where they can find
our routine, they can watch them and they can, you know,
get up to date on history. So special their parents
(08:02):
really remember, but some of the kids that were born
a lot later, they sometimes don't understand. But I always
tell them, I'm like, girls, you have it so nice,
Like you have no idea what it was like training.
If you could have been a fly on the wall
when we trained, you would have no idea like how
to handle the trainings that we went through. And they're
(08:23):
always like, well, what was it like? Was it like this?
And it were your coaches like that? And so we
share stories and they seem to like that.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Well, take us back there.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You said you started when you were three, and obviously
your parents were gymnasts, But how do you I have
so much respect for you because you have to be
so fearless, whether you're on the balance beam or the
uneven bars, are doing the double and triple backflips on
the floor routines and stuff like that. Where do you
build up, especially at your age In the nationals, you
were what twelve when you were winning. You're in the
(08:53):
Olympics at fourteen, how do you become so fearless to
do some of those dangerous things?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
You know, well, I think some of that is innate.
I deal with a lot of fearshes. It's interesting that
you mentioned that I see athletes now so fearful and
I try to get into their psychology ahead. And you know,
that's a completely different part and component of coaching where
I'm like, girls like you have to have an element
of fearlessness, and I understand you're scared, and I'm going
(09:22):
to walk you through the steps, but there's some point
where you just have to put on your big girl
pants and you got to go. And that doesn't always
happen naturally for everybody. It's very hard for some of
these athletes to get there, especially teenage girls going through hormones,
going through puberty. You know, things change mentally and psychologically,
and our sport is so psychological. But for me, I
(09:44):
always tell them I would go even if I was scared.
I will go for the skill. And I know that
I'm trained well enough to go, and I know my
coach wouldn't let me go if I wasn't ready. So
sometimes you have to have that element of okay, you know,
Buckle up and just go. And I can't tell you
how many times I have to say that to some
of our athletes. But it is a very interesting part
(10:06):
of this generation of athlete where I didn't recall this
being such a major issue when I was growing up,
because we would just get kicked out of the gym,
so you did it out of fear sometimes. But for
us and for me particularly, it was a different, different era.
But honestly, I think my mental wiring was like very
very intense, and it was an element of fearness, fearless
(10:32):
list that I had within me to take me to
that next level. Because with athletes, if you don't at
the elite level, this sport is very psychological. In gymnastics,
you can have all the talent in the world, but
if you don't have it upstairs, you're not going to
reach your fullest potential. And I's so so hard for
me as a coach to sit back and watch talent
(10:53):
just kind of like not be able to get that
piece in that component together. But I do everything in
my power to try to build them up and overcome that,
as hard as it may be. That's probably one of
my most challenging aspects as a coach.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
I think you just nailed that little ingredient that all
of y'all had in ninety six and that all of
the basically every country, every gymnast has in them even
though we are all different shapes and sizes, and especially
that ninety sixteen I mean, you're the young one, You're
the small young one. You got old Shannon Miller still there,
and then you got Dominique Dawes, who's one of our favorites.
(11:27):
Like all you guys that were so unique in your
own little way but still had that element I thought,
and still do, a fearlessness.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
What do you think of what's up now?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Like SEC Gymnastics, LSU, what they do Alabama, like those
are so much fun to watch on ESPN and then
the Olympics Net like Simone Biles, how she's taken it
to a whole new level where we have tricks named
after her because no one else can do it. I
know that one girl from Florida just pulled it off
for the first time. But what do you think as
far as the evolution of where we're at here in
(11:58):
twenty twenty five and what you were learning in nineteen
ninety six.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah, I mean there's still skills that are being done
today that were done in the nineties era that they've
built upon, because that's just the natural progression of sports
and cutting edge and right like pushing the envelope of
an open ended scoring system where the ten point zero
is no longer part of the scoring system. It is
onlike an execution side of things. But now since the
(12:24):
rules have changed after the two thousand Olympics, they changed
not only the age rule because I was the youngest
to still be in the Olympics, but they changed it
to fifteen, turning sixteen the year of the Olympics after
ninety six. So now you're seeing a different kind of
age group of athletes, and you're seeing women stay in
the sport longer, there's more longevity. You're seeing harder skills
(12:47):
that have been built upon from other generations, and still
skills that were done in eighties and nineties are still
hard to this day. But with an open ended scoring system,
now you're able to push the envelope even more because
it's been thirty years. So of course techniques are going
to evolve, the efficiency of techniques are going to evolve.
(13:07):
The equipment has evolved. They've gotten spring ear on the floor,
so it's more, you know, trampoline esque in some ways,
those floors are so bouncy compared to when even we
were competing, where that makes a difference in how high
you can find, how much twisting you can get. The
vaulting has changed completely. It's no longer the you know,
the vaulting horse that looked like a pommel horse without pommels.
(13:30):
It's now what people call somewhat of a potato chip
looking thing. Right. It's wider, it's bigger. It's less fier
for trying harder skills because you don't have to be
as accurate on the table. You still have to have
some accuracy obviously, and the technique has evolved. People have
gotten it to the point where you know, they know
how to coach these skills at a much better rate.
(13:52):
Now you have to have fearlesseners too, like Simone, which
is kind of an anomaly. There's nobody ever going to
be like her again. But she's able to push it
because she's quick, she's light, she's fast, she has incredible technique,
and so with an athlete like that in she's really petite,
so she can fit more in when she flies high.
So she's got the whole package and that's why she's
(14:14):
evolved the sport in the way she has. But there
will never be another Simon. Simon is really the one
and only and it's amazing to see what she has
done in the sport and you know, really really pays
that way for the difficulty.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
There'll never be another. Dominique Mociana.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
I totally agree and wait to see you.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
We'll be here at nineties con Connecticut at Connectic Convention
Center the twenty ninth and thirtieth. It runs the twenty
eighth through the thirtieth. Dominique, thank you so much for
you God bless you girl, and appreciate your time.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Oh, thank you so much. Hope to see everyone there
Won a gold medal at fourteen years old in Atlanta
nineteen ninety six with her team Dominique Mosno joins US
now Olympic gymnast Golden medalist and Dominique.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Let's talk talk about your background and your parents.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
They were Romanian gymnasts and when you were just a
young kid, I guess you moved around a little bit,
and then they finally ended up taking it to Houston
to practice gymnastics.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah, so I started gymnastics really young, at age three.
I have immigrant parents who came over from Romania and
they wanted to flee the communist regime early on, as
they wanted hopes for a better life for their family.
So they came to America and you know, lo and behold.
I was born in Hollywood, California, of all places. And
then they moved around and started my gymnastics, you know,
(00:48):
in small classes, and then moved around the country and
eventually ended up in Texas at age nine to start
training for the Elite route and heading towards that Olympic dream.
So that's kind of how we landed in Texas. And
it's really just a story of you know, somebody having
a dream and in their heart, really working hard and
(01:12):
having very modest beginnings and really living the American dream.
You know, that was so important to my family to
have an opportunity that their children could be raised in
a better.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Life and accomplishing it with the gold medal.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
The nineteen ninety six Team USA gymnastics team, I mean
stole America's hearts, I think is an understatement.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Now, I'm a dude that grew up in the nineties.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
That is used to football, baseball, basketball, playing all the sports,
but that ninety six team won me over where I
do not miss a Team USA event or an Olympic
gymnastics event because the way you guys just performed, And
I think you introduced the sport to a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Am I unique?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Or are there more guys that have come up to
you over the years that are now gymnastics fans that
might have never I can't do a cartwheel, I can't like,
don't put me on a balance, beab, but I love
the sport.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Now? Am I unique? Or are there more like me?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Oh? No, I think you're a part of you know,
you're part of that era where so many people were
inspired by our gymnastics team and it goes to everyone,
all ages, and it's something that's so special because I
remember being on the post Olympic tour after the Olympics
and I had grown ups coming up to me and
(02:33):
crying wanting my autograph and little kids in the mall,
and you know, it just it transcended ages, It transcended
you know, the sports, and our gymnastics team, you know,
created a lasting legacy because there will always be the
first US women's gymnastics team to win Olympic gold. And
we set the bar really high for others in the
future to really be able to dream that big and
(02:56):
say that it's a possibility that you too could be
on a grand stage and can do it. So I
do think we transcended so much in that time period
with not only ages and sexes, but everything because so
many people's lives changed that I was you know that
I was informed by so many people said you changed
(03:18):
my life. And at that time I was glued to
the television when of course you couldn't get the information
on the internet. You'd have to wait and watch it
or record it on your VHS and like watch it
with your family and your living room, and it was
so exciting because it was in the United States, and
it celebrated the centennial Olympic Games in modern times. So
(03:39):
there are so many reasons why that Olympics was so special.
And we have the LA twenty twenty eight Olympics coming back,
so that would be the first summer game since my
Olympics in ninety six. That will be coming back to
our home country.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Talking to Dominique Mosiano, nineteen ninety six gold medalists with
the US Olympic Gymnastics team. She will be at nineties
con here Connecticut. Oh yeah, at our convention Center. You'll
be here Saturday and Sunday next week. Is that what
I'm told?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yes, i will be there Saturday and Sunday. I'm super
excited for you know, for the trip and to get
out there and be a part of it. March twenty
ninth and thirtieth at the Connecticut Convention Center.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
All right, let me ask you about So you're fourteen
years old, You're in the ninety six Olympics. You pick
Charlie Daniels band I went down to Georgia.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
I love it. Now.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Listen, I'm a lot older than both of you guys.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I'm in my sixties and I was actually in the
major leagues in the nineties and that's like an eighties tune.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
By the way, love, how did you pick that song?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
And you know, watching you on the floor doing that
was one of the most impressive things I think I've
ever seen.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well, thank you for that. You know. Ironically, it was
my coach at the time, and he, you know, he
enjoyed listening to a lot of old country and also
just you know Westerns and things like that. It was
really big into country music and all kind of that genre.
But he was listening to it on the radio one
day and he was like, I really liked it. So
(05:09):
he called her choreographer and said, can you make you know,
a routine for Dominique with this music? Can you cut it?
And we had a you know, music specialist who helped
cut our choreography, you know, choreograph music. And so they
cut it and they're like do you like it? Like
this is going to be it? And I'm like, yeah,
it's awesome. You know, it really fit me and it
kind of worked out really well as it was so
(05:31):
memorable for so many people. I get people who literally
DM me and send me messages all the time. Hey,
when you know, doubling down to Georgia comes on. I
always think of you, Yes, so iconic. And they'll send
me little dms, even random strangers and even family members
and friends, and they're like, every time I'm the grocery
store and I hear it, all of a sudden, it
(05:52):
makes me think of your ninety six flirtine. So you
know that that was such a special impact that it
made that people can remember that like thirty years later.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
And you've done so much in your career beyond nineteen
ninety six. I mean, you're coaching now, you run your
own gym, you've wrote several books. I always wonder because
you know, I'm hanging out with this guy and as
he said, he won a World Series in nineteen ninety
and my favorite thing is him getting told by little
kids that he doesn't know anything about baseball and that
their dad is a better coach than he is, Like
(06:24):
they only know him from a video game these days. Now,
for you, do you get any of that? We're like,
what do you know? My mom told me this is
how you're supposed to do it.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I think there's a little more respect here. Sometimes sometimes
you know, the teenagers will be teenagers and you have
to fight the battle of you know that. But my
kids are very appreciative and I think they really know
the impacts I made on the sport, and they have
a lot of gratitude for me being able to coach them.
(06:55):
And they're just, you know, they're very very good kids.
And so when I coach, Yes, there have been times
in the past where it's like, I don't know if
you know what you're you know, talking about, but for
the most part, it's you know, it does come around.
People do understand and they know the history and thanks
to YouTube, you know, we're immortalized over there, so you know,
(07:18):
we kind of stay the same age and they get
to see our performances at that at that time era.
So that's really special because the kids will go back
and be like, I was watching your routine, how did
you do that? And I was like, girls, I've done
all these skills that I'm teaching you, you know, so
many of them, And yeah, they get excited, and I
(07:39):
think when they go onto the competition floor, they get
excited to be with someone who has such a rich
history in the sport, and yet some of them weren't
born yet. When when you know I was in the Olympics,
but thanks to YouTube and places where they can find
our routine, they can watch them and they can, you know,
get up to date on history. So special their parents
(08:02):
really remember, but some of the kids that were born
a lot later, they sometimes don't understand. But I always
tell them, I'm like, girls, you have it so nice,
Like you have no idea what it was like training.
If you could have been a fly on the wall
when we trained, you would have no idea like how
to handle the trainings that we went through. And they're
(08:23):
always like, well, what was it like? Was it like this?
And it were your coaches like that? And so we
share stories and they seem to like that.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Well, take us back there.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You said you started when you were three, and obviously
your parents were gymnasts, But how do you I have
so much respect for you because you have to be
so fearless, whether you're on the balance beam or the
uneven bars, are doing the double and triple backflips on
the floor routines and stuff like that. Where do you
build up, especially at your age In the nationals, you
were what twelve when you were winning. You're in the
(08:53):
Olympics at fourteen, how do you become so fearless to
do some of those dangerous things?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
You know, well, I think some of that is innate.
I deal with a lot of fearshes. It's interesting that
you mentioned that I see athletes now so fearful and
I try to get into their psychology ahead. And you know,
that's a completely different part and component of coaching where
I'm like, girls like you have to have an element
of fearlessness, and I understand you're scared, and I'm going
(09:22):
to walk you through the steps, but there's some point
where you just have to put on your big girl
pants and you got to go. And that doesn't always
happen naturally for everybody. It's very hard for some of
these athletes to get there, especially teenage girls going through hormones,
going through puberty. You know, things change mentally and psychologically,
and our sport is so psychological. But for me, I
(09:44):
always tell them I would go even if I was scared.
I will go for the skill. And I know that
I'm trained well enough to go, and I know my
coach wouldn't let me go if I wasn't ready. So
sometimes you have to have that element of okay, you know,
Buckle up and just go. And I can't tell you
how many times I have to say that to some
of our athletes. But it is a very interesting part
(10:06):
of this generation of athlete where I didn't recall this
being such a major issue when I was growing up,
because we would just get kicked out of the gym,
so you did it out of fear sometimes. But for
us and for me particularly, it was a different, different era.
But honestly, I think my mental wiring was like very
very intense, and it was an element of fearness, fearless
(10:32):
list that I had within me to take me to
that next level. Because with athletes, if you don't at
the elite level, this sport is very psychological. In gymnastics,
you can have all the talent in the world, but
if you don't have it upstairs, you're not going to
reach your fullest potential. And I's so so hard for
me as a coach to sit back and watch talent
(10:53):
just kind of like not be able to get that
piece in that component together. But I do everything in
my power to try to build them up and overcome that,
as hard as it may be. That's probably one of
my most challenging aspects as a coach.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
I think you just nailed that little ingredient that all
of y'all had in ninety six and that all of
the basically every country, every gymnast has in them even
though we are all different shapes and sizes, and especially
that ninety sixteen I mean, you're the young one, You're
the small young one. You got old Shannon Miller still there,
and then you got Dominique Dawes, who's one of our favorites.
(11:27):
Like all you guys that were so unique in your
own little way but still had that element I thought,
and still do, a fearlessness.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
What do you think of what's up now?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Like SEC Gymnastics, LSU, what they do Alabama, like those
are so much fun to watch on ESPN and then
the Olympics Net like Simone Biles, how she's taken it
to a whole new level where we have tricks named
after her because no one else can do it. I
know that one girl from Florida just pulled it off
for the first time. But what do you think as
far as the evolution of where we're at here in
(11:58):
twenty twenty five and what you were learning in nineteen
ninety six.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah, I mean there's still skills that are being done
today that were done in the nineties era that they've
built upon, because that's just the natural progression of sports
and cutting edge and right like pushing the envelope of
an open ended scoring system where the ten point zero
is no longer part of the scoring system. It is
onlike an execution side of things. But now since the
(12:24):
rules have changed after the two thousand Olympics, they changed
not only the age rule because I was the youngest
to still be in the Olympics, but they changed it
to fifteen, turning sixteen the year of the Olympics after
ninety six. So now you're seeing a different kind of
age group of athletes, and you're seeing women stay in
the sport longer, there's more longevity. You're seeing harder skills
(12:47):
that have been built upon from other generations, and still
skills that were done in eighties and nineties are still
hard to this day. But with an open ended scoring system,
now you're able to push the envelope even more because
it's been thirty years. So of course techniques are going
to evolve, the efficiency of techniques are going to evolve.
(13:07):
The equipment has evolved. They've gotten spring ear on the floor,
so it's more, you know, trampoline esque in some ways,
those floors are so bouncy compared to when even we
were competing, where that makes a difference in how high
you can find, how much twisting you can get. The
vaulting has changed completely. It's no longer the you know,
the vaulting horse that looked like a pommel horse without pommels.
(13:30):
It's now what people call somewhat of a potato chip
looking thing. Right. It's wider, it's bigger. It's less fier
for trying harder skills because you don't have to be
as accurate on the table. You still have to have
some accuracy obviously, and the technique has evolved. People have
gotten it to the point where you know, they know
how to coach these skills at a much better rate.
(13:52):
Now you have to have fearlesseners too, like Simone, which
is kind of an anomaly. There's nobody ever going to
be like her again. But she's able to push it
because she's quick, she's light, she's fast, she has incredible technique,
and so with an athlete like that in she's really petite,
so she can fit more in when she flies high.
So she's got the whole package and that's why she's
(14:14):
evolved the sport in the way she has. But there
will never be another Simon. Simon is really the one
and only and it's amazing to see what she has
done in the sport and you know, really really pays
that way for the difficulty.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
There'll never be another. Dominique Mociana.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
I totally agree and wait to see you.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
We'll be here at nineties con Connecticut at Connectic Convention
Center the twenty ninth and thirtieth. It runs the twenty
eighth through the thirtieth. Dominique, thank you so much for
you God bless you girl, and appreciate your time.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Oh, thank you so much. Hope to see everyone there
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