fracturedleg
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Biles, Liukin, Johnson, Retton are the 4 main contenders.
With compulsories: Miller and Dawes
See, I never thought Dawes with her bow legs ever really excelled at compulsories.
Nastia is the best ever in my eyes, better than Miller.
Agreed. Liukin always seemed a bit floppy/underpowered to me, with only twisting elements and barely a double back.I would rather see the bowed legs of Dawes than the double jointed pencil point knees and elbows of Liukin.
Miller had better lines than both of them.
Closest US gymnast to the ultimate standard Podkopayeva.
Biles is clearly the best U.S gymnast of all time, and it isnt even close. Some consider Biles the best gymnast ever, so of course she is by a ton the best U.S gymnast ever when no other U.S gymnast would even make top 10 all time. A very distant 2nd best is probably Liukin, particularly with all the medals she was robbed of by controversial judging, but you could make a case for Miller or maybe Shawn Johnson too. Maybe even Raisman based on longevity I guess. So any of those.
But then again, I'm very biased as I couldn't stand Shannon Miller. I used to call her Miss Prissy.
1. Casvlaska
2. Silivas
3. Biles
4. Commaneci
5. Khorkina
6. Podkopayeva
7. Latynina
8. Shushunova
9. Tourischeva and Korbut tied
11. Milosovici
12. Liukin
13. Boginskaya
14. Miller and Gogean tied