Five star gymnastics

The competition format was Men vs. Women, and that alone should have been a sign that it would not be a serious competition. The gymnasts who participated in the "competition" were the same ones who are on tour now in the U.S. They included the 2000 Olympic All-around Men's Champion Alexei Nemov, and 2000 Olympic Women's Gold Medalist on Uneven Bars and Silver Medalist on Floor Exercise Svetlana Khorkina. Nemov and Khorkina were the two big headliners, fresh off their victories at the Olympics. Elena Produnova, the Bronze Medalist on Balance Beam, was also there.

The men's and women's 2000 U.S. Olympic teams made up the rest of the teams, as well as 1996 Balance Beam Gold Medalist Shannon Miller and 1996 Olympian Dominique Moceanu.

Some of the routines were so outrageously non-gymnastic the gymnasts should have been ashamed for having the nerve for even putting such a routine into the competition and hoping to get big points for it. And it was even worse most DID get the big points!!

There is nothing wrong with being entertaining while performing gymnastics; the problem was that too many of the routines were ONLY entertaining, and included no true gymnastics at all! Some of the gymnasts were able to combine entertainment and athleticism, but those routines did not necessarily score the highest.

John Macready had the worst routine of the night. It was a travesty, unbelievable! Macready came out, shirtless, and hung a doll, dressed like a wrestler, on the high bar. Macready ran up to the high bar, and knocked the doll off the bar. He "wrestled" with this doll for a while, finally got up, as if just realizing, "Oh, this is a gymnastics competition, huh?"

He then mounted the high bar, and swung around aimlessly a few times. He attempted a double somersault over the high bar, but fell off the bar. Macready retreated back to his doll and wrestled with him for a while longer. Then, John Roethlisberger came and joined him, and they both mounted the high bar together, continuing the antics for a few more torturous minutes, before they finally dismounted and went back to their "wrestling." Macready finally managed to pin the doll down, Roethlisberger counted to three, and then announced that Macready had the match.