The gymnasts are the best ever in strength, speed, durability, all things athletic abilities. The best current gymnast is the best ever in raw showcasing of what human body can do.

However, there is the word ’artistic’ in the name of the discipline.

What is missing is grace, something that you completely embrace upon seeing it. That was prevalent in the earlier decades. The prime example: Nadia Comaneci. Would she be able to win today at a ’gymnastics meet’? No way! How about in ’artistic gymnastics’? She and several others from an earlier era had something special. They had grace!