Word: tsukahara
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Retton, by contrast, is a 4-ft. 9-in. study in power, able to leap tall buildings with a single bound and do a full-twisting layout double Tsukahara (a maneuver only a few men in the world can perform) while she is at it. On the vault, she earned a 10 with that trick, which calls for pouncing onto the vault, then pushing into the stratosphere with her arms and twisting 360° while doing a double somersault with her body perfectly straight...
...triumph. For one long moment she looked to the ceiling, where all those dreams had been every night. And then, as if embarked on a public "pinch me to see if I'm real," she went out and did it again, another 10 on another double-layout Tsukahara. The first U.S. Olympic all-around champion had crowned herself...
Electronic wizardry is, of course, no better than the people who control it, and ABC's reportage, although wide, has been less than deep. Gymnastics Commentators Rigby McCoy and Kurt Thomas repeatedly tossed off the names of movements (Tsukahara, Strelli and Hecht) without using pretaped footage to define them. Swimming Commentator Mark Spitz was only occasionally instructive; although shorter races are often won in the turns, neither he nor ABC's cameras demonstrated what makes a turn effective. Track Commentator O.J. Simpson added little to what viewers saw, although onetime Olympian Marty Liquori aptly explained pacing...