I think it is simply amazing that someone can recuperate emotionaly, psychologically and physically that quickly and still provide with an olympic performance. Not many people can do that, that is her real win.
I miss when skating was just as much about the artistry as well as the athleticism. This was gorgeous to watch. Nowadays it is just a series of technical skills that happen to be set to music.
I think this was the best Nancy ever skated. That lutz combo--wow. And the spirals timed exactly to the music. Powerful footwork, too. She should have had all 5.9s in the first mark.
This music suites Nancy's style of skating. The costume a Vera Wang...gorgeous. This is a lovely program. Nancy has beautiful body line and posture, wonderful knee bend and stroking. Young skater of today pay attention to the basics.
Nancy was a very inconsistent skater up to this point. For her to rise to the occasion like this with all the pressure, media attention and recovering both mentally and physically from the attack is truly amazing. She could've easily crumbled and mostly everyone would've understood. My hats off to her. She deserved to win the gold in my opinion.
I think it's very impressive. I still feel Oksana deserved the gold though...she was just so passionate and lyrical on the ice, and she had skated intricate choreography with good flow, power, and speed. Still, this was a beautiful and very confidently skated program which deserved a lot of praise, and her medal of course.
@@valmacclinchy Nancy ended up just having a bruised knee from the attack, but obviously the mental trauma would be much more severe as it anything higher would've bashed her kneecap. So hats off to her for putting herself together so quickly as Keegan said. I still think Oksana deserved the gold, they both made mistakes but Oksana was more interesting to watch
Still to this day, she had the classiest, most beautiful costumes ever. So different from the over the top tacky, gaudy skating outfits so common in the sport.
Whatever Nancy's personality is off the ice, we don't really know her, that said, this girl has classic lines in her skating and got robbed not winning the gold. She was flawless.
it's nice. but that's all. Nothing compared to the elegance and finesse of Oksana, She skates very nicely but is like a wooden horse next to the butterfuly Oksana.
Although oksana is my favorite and I'm a bigger fan of her style of skating, I do like Nancy's own style of skating. She's that modern American clean sophisticated skater just like the Vera wang outfits she wears. She's made her own style of skating and is a great contributor to her sport.
I agree! It was drama combined with the best skating in the history of the sport. And I adore Katarina! Again-technically-Kerrigan may have been stronger, but I have never seen such artistry and grace, before or since, as from Oksana. She was ethereal on the ice-her movements so beautiful. I was priviliged to see her do the Swan Lake routine live during a travelling ice show, and it took my breath away. She could have been a ballerina.
Baiul was NOT the last to skate. She was followed by Bonaly a medal contender & Witt. The French had put in a major protest over Bonaly's placement after the short. Katarina Witt had a 5 minute standing ovation & the media attacked the judges. All of this put immense pressure on the judges. Witt was given the honor of skating last and Bonaly would've been given a big score had she completed her program relatively clean. Nobody got robbed. It was the most fairly judged competition ever.
I grew up watching Nancy- she was my complete inspiration to start skating. She also happened to end up living in the same town as I do now. I see her every once in awhile- at holiday masses or restaurants. She is a LOVELY person. I think people take Nancy’s innate shyness and corresponding awkwardness as her being cold or standoffish intentionally. She’s just intensely private in a world that wants to only have her known for a really awful moment in her life. I don’t blame her.
i am not a huge nancy fan, but this performance was absolutely spectacular. she easily bested oksana here. and i think had she hit the flip in the lp she would have easily won the event.
Silver meant Oksana would've disappeared from skating. She was badly injured at the games & wasn't allowed to properly heal. Her federation was bankrupt. She didn't have a proper team. She had no real support system. She was pushed to tour & compete while injured w/o medical care. She was surrounded by exploiters & needed a new team. Reinstatement would've given her a chance to do this & improve her technique to reach her full potential. The sport denied her reinstatement.
Britta Lindgren was the 'referee" the one who doesn't vote. Her job is to point out all the details that the judges missed. The ref. is impartial her role is to keep the judges as honest as possible. She saw errors in Kerrigan's work and pointed these out to the U.S media that demanded an explanation. So the "flawless" skating by Kerrigan is a myth she had mistakes too. Why would Lindgren & every judge have it out for her? You folks are just wrong.
And I know how GORGEOUS Nancy has been with her skating. It never comes to my mind how beautiful she was when she was at the prime of her life. And even if she had children, later in her life, her personality continues to change along with her mentality. And the same thing also applies to Michelle Kwan and her superb skating. I have doubts that Michelle will ever stop skating because, her heart is in her future. And that is figure skating amongst other endeavors.
I think half the folks here aren't necessarily Kerrigan die-hards, they just wanted the fairytale Gold-medal ending. That is how it supposed to end, right? So when everybody didn't get their fairytale ending, they took it out on Tonya and Oksana. Kerrigan's troubles weren't over when yrs later tragedy struck the family again when her brother shot their dad to death in an argument. The biggest creepy moment came a yr later when Kerrigan and Harding sat down for a face-to-face interview designed to spike TV ratings. That was creepy!
Peace too!!!! For me till today this ladies competition is the best olympic competition and i love watching it over and over again. It was so nerv-wrecking with the harding-kerrigan thing. The accident between oksana and Tanja S.. Than in the free thta harding did not come out to the ice, the broken shoe. And than katarina witt . For us in germany it was so great to have 2 skaters in the last group These were great times for our skating. So this for me forever the best ladies event.
mac daddy You really think she should have won? I thought she did a spectacular job here, and so did Baiul. When I was a kid, I thought Kerrigan should have won. Now, knowing a lot more about skating, I think the judging was fair. I wasn't trying to be a jerk. I just wanted to share my opinion. :-)
Nancy Kerrigan is the epitome of grace under fire. Compare her to Kwan...oh, the pressure...oh, my foot hurts....and then check out Nancy....knee whacked...hounded by the press...and she comes back to do THIS! She is a winner in every sense of the word and I believe that she should have taken home the Gold...so so so close...Tara blew Kwan away and this was just one judge and 1/10 of a point...Kwan got 5.9s to assure her 'win' and here Nancy was robbed by the Brits and Germany...hmmmm....
Oksana won. She is the skater who is most imitated in the sport even to this day. Many champions wanted to be like her, Kwan, Slutskaya, Lipinsky, Cohen, Hughes, Weir & many more. She left a beautiful difficult spin to the sport & even her spiral which no other skater since has been able to duplicate. OB was a master of edge control.
Diva on Ice! Utter perfection. Not like these lazy Janes' of this olympics; multiple falls. The Nancys and Scotts of yester-year would never think of coming out on the ice for the Olympics with any chance of skidding, tripping or falling. They were READY and not giving us their PRACTICE routines.
Wow, when I see this again now, her routines & Oksana Baiul's routines, I really don't think I could say who was better. At the time I was just a kid,& naturally I was rooting for the person from my country,so I was angry about the scores. But seeing it again now,I can totally see how close it really was.I don't think I could have picked-they're both such different skaters with different styles.Though it seemed like back then,the short program didn't count practically for anything.I know even now the long program always counts for more,but back then it seemed like it was everything. Like when they explained how it was that Oksana won,I'm still confused because it almost seems as though they didn't even factor in the short program. But of course Nancy looked so amazing in her Vera Wang,she really changed how women dressed in skating-her outfits where light years ahead of their time,& by today's standards don't look dated at all.
Scott Hamilton ISN'T a trained international judge not everything he says is to the detail of correctness. BUT HE GOT IT right when he said "It's gonna be close." Scott KNEW Oksana was fully capable of outpointing Kerrigan. Because she had so many other qualities Nancy didn't have which made her skating refined & polished.
The Dude and where do you get this insight from? You, just as much as I, do not know the full truth. I choose to believe her. Make your best judgement, but you can claim that you know facts when none of us truly know the full story. And how ironic that you're using the phrase "for the love of God" when "God" wouldn't promote scandalous incidents.
The Dude I respect your perspective. However I feel different. I base this on Tanya's body language and the constant abuse she received from her husband. He was bound to do this if he was a background of violence. It makes more sense that her husband and her team was all behind it. I believe Tonya, but that's just me. Obviously you feel different so we can just agree to disagree and move on :)
The Dude she apologized. Whether she knew about the threats or not, were all human we all feel vengeance. It's only natural to make mistakes. She owned up to it and apologize. That's why I feel that she shouldn't have been banned. Like I said you feel that it was the right move. Okay good for you, bye.
The Dude I agree..of course Tonya knew about and wanted it done. All three guys arrested separately said she knew. There is so much interview footage and info about her calling for Nancy's practice schedule ect. Jeff passed two lie detectors saying Tonya knew....etc... I mean she may of been a good skater , but she never ever always won at her events, maybe 10% of the time. For people to watch her Olympic skate compared to Nancy's and still.say Tonya should of beat her is ridiculous.
@oofahman I don´t know about the rip off part. But, Kerrigan was so superior to Biaul. The line, the control, the strength all there. Kerrigan showed a strong modern style. I´d take it anytime over twirling tops and dying swan ballet affectation.
Who has the gold medal for the 1994 Olympics? Oksana. Who has the 1993 world championships medal? Oksana. Who is recorded in the official Olympic records as Olympic champion? Oksana. When the lists of winter Olympic medal winners is recorded in any encyclopedia it lists only the gold medal champion. For 1994 this would be Oksana. The best win period. Crazy old fools.
Why does Scott Hamilton say that the triple lutz combination jump and the double axel jump were the only difficult elements in this program? You have to be well-trained to pull off any one of the required elements, you can make mistakes on any of them, and if nothing else was difficult, then why did no other skater at this event perform a similar spiral sequence, for example?
My mother and I were supporting Oksana and almost cried when she won the gold medal. Kerri was good, yes, but not so elegant like Oskana. BDW You could feel the anguish of Oksana in her participations, because she knows that Kerringan Have all media attention.
The double axel is a forward jump,2 and 1/2 revolutions landing in the opposite direction and the lutz is an inside edge jump. Doing three rotations of a lutz is extremely difficult going right into a double two loop...w/out two footing the landing [someone say oksana bauil?] Nancys' spiral sequence was fantastic but you have to do the jumps.Nancy DID do the jumps w/no two footed landings&deserved to win the OP.How Bauil was placed in 2nd is beyond me.4th would've been more appropriate.
LOL @ all these comments from these haters in here. As if Nancy asked to be hit the knee and almost put out of these games. This girl went through hell 6 weeks prior to the event. She had to rehab like crazy just to give herself a chance to get on the ice and all some of you want to talk about is how she could have been more gracious in defeat. Lets see how you feel if you work your whole life for something and almost have it taken away once by a thug with a baton and the other time actually have it taken away by an anti American German Judge..
It took four other commie bastards to pull that off. It was by design that the German judge took all of the heat taking the attention away from the other no good pinko judges. He even placed her 2nd here. This burned me up more than the Tonya Harding thing. In the long program he had them tied, but made damn sure he put Okasana in the tie breaker which was the artistic performance and all of the attention went towards him. Another western judge and we talk about the amazing comeback Nancy Kerrigan did winning the gold medal which she really did win. The press is responsible for the image of her being all of the things that pelican peter said.
You Americans could've watched Tonya & Nancy go against each other in the US pros where they both belonged. Skating could've witnessed a new era of young skaters headed by Baiul, Kwan, and many more taking the sport to new heights. The sport was better off if she'd missed those games.
That murder has a bearing on Kerrigan's character. In court Kerrigan's ex-sister in law testified that her brother Mark resented how everything in the family was built around Kerrigan. He grew to resent it til his became hate that boiled over. She isn't close with any of her siblings. She's a monster.
After this short program, many thought the Gold was hers. If she would have grab the Gold and Bayul the silver, we would have the delight to see Bayul perfect her techniques and develop as a sublime skater towards Nagano 1998.
I love this program, but casting a critical eye, Oksana's spins and step sequence were superior. If Oksana hadn't botched the combination, there is little doubt she would have won the short.
Kerrigan looked rehearsed like she worked very hard on each element. You could see her concentrating very hard. It was a by the numbers performance no inspiration. The music? What was the performance about? Even in the lp a Broadway medley is better than a Neil Diamond medley.
You insult Kwan? One of the greatest skaters to come out of the USA? I think the history record will remember Kwan as far greater than Kerrigan who stole Kwan's chance back in 1994. Which means this girl would've anchored 4 American Olympic teams. = far, far greater than Kerrigan!
No the Chinese,Czech & Polish judges too this makes 4. British judge was reprimanded & she admitted to being influenced by the sympathy vote for Kerrigan.
You are really commenting on choroegraphy, and not on her interpretation. As far as 0:32 and 1:38-I wouldn't have put those moves in, but she did do them well. I admit I prefer Oksana artistically over Nancy, but Nancy really was the stronger skater-but Oksana won on artistic merit. Oksana did several two foot landings, and several others were shaky, but having seen both skaters live, I again say I prefer Oksana. But that doesn't negate the facts-footage shows it. Peace.
That was Verne Lundquist with Scott Hamilton, not Dick Button doing the commentary but take care! I'm not a Kerrigan fan but Chen Lu should've won. Bauil was placed way too high in the OP.
Cohen's skating leaves me cold. She was an artistic flop at the skating box office as well. Oksana drew far more audiences & had tons more fans than Cohen could ever hope for so she wasn't more artistic. Millions of people can't be wrong. Cohen has far more opportunities than Baiul.
I actually preferred Oksana's SP to Nancy's. However I thought that Nancy was technically superior in both the SP and LP. Nancy also had the most beautiful skating dresses (I know that has nothing to do with the quality of skating.) I didn't care for her music selection... except for where the step sequence starts in the SP to the end. Nancy was robbed of the gold medal. I don't know why the Polish judge gave Oksana a 5.9 for technical merit in the LP... not fair at all.
Because Oksana was like a ballerina on the ice, and she also had amazing musicality, she was one with the music..that made the artistic score higher, as it should be. Oksana was phenomenal and deserved her Gold.
Theres a point where you learn your program and another where you love your program. nancy knew her moves well but she did what she was suppose to, it lacks the heart of someone who wanted it more. Like she said, very rigid and sharp. Further proof. 1994 Both Nancy and Tonya retired. Oksana is still preforming to this day, because its not just her program or her moves, it's her passion.
The head judge also the expert judge on the panel Britta Lindgren stated Nancy's spirals were weak. She had only 1 good one the one with her hand over her heart. Britta judged her jumps flawed not clean & that Oksana's jumps were higher, longer, stronger, cleaner. The triple-triple was the highlight of NK's program. Technically she offered nothing but jumps. Weak technically elsewhere. Frontloaded = only flawed jumping offered. There are * artistic elements NK did not excel at any. s
Was NOT a 2 footed landing it was a TOUCHDOWN. The jump did Not come to a complete stop as in a two-footing landing. Baiul had control of the jump. Keep lying to yourselves. Nancy was NOT in Baiul's league. In Norway this was NOT a 2 footed landing. But Kerrigan did flutz her triple lutz jumps. Missed the edge on the 2axle jumps are jump because of the edges.
Control? She couldn't control the outside edge on her lutz jumps,or the take off edge of her double-axle jump. Control? The lousy edges on her spirals that shook & how about those spins that traveled? No skater will ever duplicate Baiul's choreography in the "Swan" or any of her programs far too complex. Keep fantasizing you live in an alternate universe of insanity.
Does anyone know the names of the songs she's skating to? I did a google search but am probably not writing the question well. Any help would be appreciated. Her music is always so lovely and spot on.
+AnneMarie Donahue She skated her short program to a song called Desperate Love )I don't know the artist) and her long program was to an instrumental Neil Diamond medley.
Myth #2. We know that Bonaly & Witt skated after Baiul if they skated well each of them could have taken at some votes away from Oksana. But these votes wouldn't have come from the "western bloc" judges. But Witt & Bonaly both failed making big mistakes in their programs. Witt still had the artistry to do some damage & Bonaly was a medal contender. Neither would've have won but they could've hurt Baiul's chances. Kerrigan wasn't robbed---she was beaten. Baiul won fair & square.
Reminds me of the type of moves cheerleaders make. Terrible choreography. Same weird stiff arm choreography in her long program. A program designed for a man not a woman.
Now before you act out, THINK how many insulting posts you continue to make and that will make you more liable to be reported against.. IF you choose to mock Nancy Kerrigan for your own folly, I will view that as a threat against Nancy Kerrigan and it will NOT be tolerated. And also can it with the comic attitude if YOU want to be treated like a human being.
People can say what they want about Nancy, that she's a bitch or whatever, but to me she was always and always will be a wonderful figure skater. She has the beauty and the talent to be the complete package. There is no doubt in my or others minds that she won that gold medal hands down. She was ripped off by the eastern bloc judging.
Funny, I ask other figure skating fans about this debacle and no one remembers the alocholic electrified poodle from the Ukraine..hmmm...remember? I doubt it..
Marry and evy scottvold. The last potential skater stopped skating in the early 00's. I forgot her name but she had beautiful choreography Ohhh Jennifer Kirk was her name. Mary and evy coach in Florida now. Good people. Hard and tough trainers. But good people.
Why are you comparing a sheerleader to a ballerina? Dance is transition, not position... Sorry to inform you: this is (artistic) figure skating: the poet of the movement wins....
Kerrigan was a left-over from the Witt era. This was a changing of the guard. Baiul/Bonaly was robbed in the technical program maybe even Chen Lu. The new skaters were so far above Nancy it wasn't funny. She robbed Kwan's chance Kwan was to debut here. Kerrigan a black sore on the sport.
Kerrigan was mediocre hack. Lucky to get the sliver. Only the BEST win the GOLD medal its the highest reward for the absolute best. Oksana Won the highest award every time she versed Nancy. You don't matter. IT'S OVER OKSANA WON SHE'S THE ICONIC CHAMPION= GOLD!!!
Stop asking in US skating circles. In Norway Kerrigan skating ability is not taken seriously. Her skills were derided as only able to hold up a leg. She is famous for winning the silver medal from the sympathy vote. I've worked abroad and traveled extensively you need to get out. Oops I forgot you're caged due to insanity.
![[HD] Tonya Harding - 1994 Lillehammer Olympic - Free Skating](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/63flkf3S1bE/mqdefault.jpg)
I think it is simply amazing that someone can recuperate emotionaly, psychologically and physically that quickly and still provide with an olympic performance. Not many people can do that, that is her real win.
Recuperarse físicamente? No le rompieron la rodilla.
I miss when skating was just as much about the artistry as well as the athleticism. This was gorgeous to watch. Nowadays it is just a series of technical skills that happen to be set to music.
well, Nancy for sure had nothing to worry about in that department. She didn't have any skating skills to speak of.
Programs back then didn’t have enough packaging. Because they weren’t capable of holding much stamina. I think I like skating way more now a days.
@@javierleonides9074 plenty of great skaters back then!! Tonya. Oksana. Debi Thomas. Quite a few. Gordeeva and Grinkov in pairs were superb!
I think this was the best Nancy ever skated. That lutz combo--wow. And the spirals timed exactly to the music. Powerful footwork, too. She should have had all 5.9s in the first mark.
powerful footwork? nancy? you mean those crossovers and spiral?
This music suites Nancy's style of skating. The costume a Vera Wang...gorgeous. This is a lovely program. Nancy has beautiful body line and posture, wonderful knee bend and stroking. Young skater of today pay attention to the basics.
Very nice performance by Nancy Kerrigan in Lillehammer. Loved Oksana's too.
This program was so well choreographed to the music, it's unreal. It still speaks to me!
We all love you Nancy Kerrigan !!!!..... you will always be my inspiration!!!!!
Nancy was a very inconsistent skater up to this point. For her to rise to the occasion like this with all the pressure, media attention and recovering both mentally and physically from the attack is truly amazing. She could've easily crumbled and mostly everyone would've understood. My hats off to her. She deserved to win the gold in my opinion.
I think it's very impressive. I still feel Oksana deserved the gold though...she was just so passionate and lyrical on the ice, and she had skated intricate choreography with good flow, power, and speed. Still, this was a beautiful and very confidently skated program which deserved a lot of praise, and her medal of course.
Totally agree with you!!!
@@carlenamoss8955 agree 100%!! Oksana had far worse injuries and skated incredibly..well-deserved gold.
@@valmacclinchy Nancy ended up just having a bruised knee from the attack, but obviously the mental trauma would be much more severe as it anything higher would've bashed her kneecap. So hats off to her for putting herself together so quickly as Keegan said. I still think Oksana deserved the gold, they both made mistakes but Oksana was more interesting to watch
@@mht4908 yes, Oksana was definitely superior
Still to this day, she had the classiest, most beautiful costumes ever. So different from the over the top tacky, gaudy skating outfits so common in the sport.
The performance of her life, but Tonyas performance in 1991 where she landed the triple axel is better than any of this girl performances
andres segu i 1991 this was the 1994 performance. Tonya has to be on in all performances not just 1991.
tonya's sp that year in nationals was better than this IMO, bigger jumps, fast spins, descent choreo, ok footwork.
Whatever Nancy's personality is off the ice, we don't really know her, that said, this girl has classic lines in her skating and got robbed not winning the gold. She was flawless.
She wasn't flawless. And Oksana's performances were exquisite..like ballet on ice.
it's nice. but that's all. Nothing compared to the elegance and finesse of Oksana, She skates very nicely but is like a wooden horse next to the butterfuly Oksana.
Although oksana is my favorite and I'm a bigger fan of her style of skating, I do like Nancy's own style of skating. She's that modern American clean sophisticated skater just like the Vera wang outfits she wears. She's made her own style of skating and is a great contributor to her sport.
I agree! It was drama combined with the best skating in the history of the sport. And I adore Katarina! Again-technically-Kerrigan may have been stronger, but I have never seen such artistry and grace, before or since, as from Oksana. She was ethereal on the ice-her movements so beautiful. I was priviliged to see her do the Swan Lake routine live during a travelling ice show, and it took my breath away. She could have been a ballerina.
Baiul was NOT the last to skate. She was followed by Bonaly a medal contender & Witt. The French had put in a major protest over Bonaly's placement after the short. Katarina Witt had a 5 minute standing ovation & the media attacked the judges. All of this put immense pressure on the judges. Witt was given the honor of skating last and Bonaly would've been given a big score had she completed her program relatively clean. Nobody got robbed. It was the most fairly judged competition ever.
I grew up watching Nancy- she was my complete inspiration to start skating. She also happened to end up living in the same town as I do now. I see her every once in awhile- at holiday masses or restaurants. She is a LOVELY person. I think people take Nancy’s innate shyness and corresponding awkwardness as her being cold or standoffish intentionally. She’s just intensely private in a world that wants to only have her known for a really awful moment in her life. I don’t blame her.
Glad Oksana Baiul won the Gold, she was definitely the best in the '94 Olympics.
i am not a huge nancy fan, but this performance was absolutely spectacular. she easily bested oksana here. and i think had she hit the flip in the lp she would have easily won the event.
Silver meant Oksana would've disappeared from skating. She was badly injured at the games & wasn't allowed to properly heal. Her federation was bankrupt. She didn't have a proper team. She had no real support system. She was pushed to tour & compete while injured w/o medical care. She was surrounded by exploiters & needed a new team. Reinstatement would've given her a chance to do this & improve her technique to reach her full potential. The sport denied her reinstatement.
Absolutely GORGEOUS program and skater! Go, Nancy!!! @-)--
Britta Lindgren was the 'referee" the one who doesn't vote. Her job is to point out all the details that the judges missed. The ref. is impartial her role is to keep the judges as honest as possible. She saw errors in Kerrigan's work and pointed these out to the U.S media that demanded an explanation. So the "flawless" skating by Kerrigan is a myth she had mistakes too. Why would Lindgren & every judge have it out for her? You folks are just wrong.
And I know how GORGEOUS Nancy has been with her skating. It never comes to my mind how beautiful she was when she was at the prime of her life. And even if she had children, later in her life, her personality continues to change along with her mentality. And the same thing also applies to Michelle Kwan and her superb skating. I have doubts that Michelle will ever stop skating because, her heart is in her future. And that is figure skating amongst other endeavors.
I think half the folks here aren't necessarily Kerrigan die-hards, they just wanted the fairytale Gold-medal ending. That is how it supposed to end, right? So when everybody didn't get their fairytale ending, they took it out on Tonya and Oksana. Kerrigan's troubles weren't over when yrs later tragedy struck the family again when her brother shot their dad to death in an argument. The biggest creepy moment came a yr later when Kerrigan and Harding sat down for a face-to-face interview designed to spike TV ratings. That was creepy!
Peace too!!!!
For me till today this ladies competition is the best olympic competition and i love watching it over and over again.
It was so nerv-wrecking with the harding-kerrigan thing. The accident between oksana and Tanja S.. Than in the free thta harding did not come out to the ice, the broken shoe. And than katarina witt . For us in germany it was so great to have 2 skaters in the last group These were great times for our skating. So this for me forever the best ladies event.
Two 5.6s on technical marks wtf. German and Czech Republic judges needed their eyes checked
Great costume, great beauty, ok skater. Sorry! Oksana was just so much better.
why can't the commentators just shut up and get lost in the beauty of it all.
@WHATTHEBUCKSHOW I totally agree. That night was my first time watching figure skating (after watching all the drama on the news) and now I'm hooked!
Nancy you were wonderful - history should have two books...who won the gold and who should have won the gold. You deserved to win the Gold.
mac daddy You really think she should have won? I thought she did a spectacular job here, and so did Baiul. When I was a kid, I thought Kerrigan should have won. Now, knowing a lot more about skating, I think the judging was fair. I wasn't trying to be a jerk. I just wanted to share my opinion. :-)
EdGringo78 Your opinion is very valid. It was a tough competition for sure...I would have been happy if Nancy won though.
Except she moved like a big airplane in descent , with a remote personna and without an ounce of finesse!
The 16yo swan lake on ice? ya sorry Nancy no competition
Nancy Kerrigan is the epitome of grace under fire. Compare her to Kwan...oh, the pressure...oh, my foot hurts....and then check out Nancy....knee whacked...hounded by the press...and she comes back to do THIS! She is a winner in every sense of the word and I believe that she should have taken home the Gold...so so so close...Tara blew Kwan away and this was just one judge and 1/10 of a point...Kwan got 5.9s to assure her 'win' and here Nancy was robbed by the Brits and Germany...hmmmm....
Oksana won. She is the skater who is most imitated in the sport even to this day. Many champions wanted to be like her, Kwan, Slutskaya, Lipinsky, Cohen, Hughes, Weir & many more. She left a beautiful difficult spin to the sport & even her spiral which no other skater since has been able to duplicate. OB was a master of edge control.
Oksana was a ballerina on the ice. She had amazing musicality. She made everything look effortless!
Diva on Ice! Utter perfection. Not like these lazy Janes' of this olympics; multiple falls. The Nancys and Scotts of yester-year would never think of coming out
on the ice for the Olympics with any chance of skidding, tripping or falling. They were READY and not giving us their PRACTICE routines.
Wow, when I see this again now, her routines & Oksana Baiul's routines, I really don't think I could say who was better. At the time I was just a kid,& naturally I was rooting for the person from my country,so I was angry about the scores. But seeing it again now,I can totally see how close it really was.I don't think I could have picked-they're both such different skaters with different styles.Though it seemed like back then,the short program didn't count practically for anything.I know even now the long program always counts for more,but back then it seemed like it was everything. Like when they explained how it was that Oksana won,I'm still confused because it almost seems as though they didn't even factor in the short program. But of course Nancy looked so amazing in her Vera Wang,she really changed how women dressed in skating-her outfits where light years ahead of their time,& by today's standards don't look dated at all.
Baiul did it eforthless. That is the 'simples big' diference: Feathery skating...
Anyone who has been a skater knows the diference! ;)
Soraia Branco yet it was a feathery MESS of a program for Baiul and more errors on her part. She didn't deserve the nod.
I prefer feathery mess rather then harsh.
Not only in skating but also in any kind of communication...
@@soraiabranco8687 Oksana was beautiful...ballet on ice! Well deserved Gold!
Scott Hamilton ISN'T a trained international judge not everything he says is to the detail of correctness. BUT HE GOT IT right when he said "It's gonna be close." Scott KNEW Oksana was fully capable of outpointing Kerrigan. Because she had so many other qualities Nancy didn't have which made her skating refined & polished.
Doing what she did best. You can't ask for anymore. Flawless, no, but still a graceful and courageous world class performance.
Nancy wasn't as in control with her skating as Tonya was. Tonya shouldn't have been banned from doing what she loved and was ridiculously good at.
The Dude and where do you get this insight from? You, just as much as I, do not know the full truth. I choose to believe her. Make your best judgement, but you can claim that you know facts when none of us truly know the full story. And how ironic that you're using the phrase "for the love of God" when "God" wouldn't promote scandalous incidents.
The Dude I respect your perspective. However I feel different. I base this on Tanya's body language and the constant abuse she received from her husband. He was bound to do this if he was a background of violence. It makes more sense that her husband and her team was all behind it. I believe Tonya, but that's just me. Obviously you feel different so we can just agree to disagree and move on :)
The Dude she apologized. Whether she knew about the threats or not, were all human we all feel vengeance. It's only natural to make mistakes. She owned up to it and apologize. That's why I feel that she shouldn't have been banned. Like I said you feel that it was the right move. Okay good for you, bye.
She was banned from competing, not skating.
The Dude I agree..of course Tonya knew about and wanted it done. All three guys arrested separately said she knew. There is so much interview footage and info about her calling for Nancy's practice schedule ect. Jeff passed two lie detectors saying Tonya knew....etc... I mean she may of been a good skater , but she never ever always won at her events, maybe 10% of the time. For people to watch her Olympic skate compared to Nancy's and still.say Tonya should of beat her is ridiculous.
@oofahman I don´t know about the rip off part. But, Kerrigan was so superior to Biaul. The line, the control, the strength all there. Kerrigan showed a strong modern style. I´d take it anytime over twirling tops and dying swan ballet affectation.
Nancy was lucky to get a medal at all. She had no right to even be at those games. Kwan was robbed of her opportunity.
what inspired this beautiful choreo sequence? a small town deputy sheriff directing traffic?
Bahahaha. That's about right.
i'm surprised she didnt get a solid 6.0 score, with her SP so beautifully done.
Who has the gold medal for the 1994 Olympics? Oksana. Who has the 1993 world championships medal? Oksana. Who is recorded in the official Olympic records as Olympic champion? Oksana. When the lists of winter Olympic medal winners is recorded in any encyclopedia it lists only the gold medal champion. For 1994 this would be Oksana. The best win period. Crazy old fools.
Why does Scott Hamilton say that the triple lutz combination jump and the double axel jump were the only difficult elements in this program? You have to be well-trained to pull off any one of the required elements, you can make mistakes on any of them, and if nothing else was difficult, then why did no other skater at this event perform a similar spiral sequence, for example?
maravillosa aun despues de 6 años, es la mejor de todas
My mother and I were supporting Oksana and almost cried when she won the gold medal. Kerri was good, yes, but not so elegant like Oskana.
BDW You could feel the anguish of Oksana in her participations, because she knows that Kerringan Have all media attention.
The double axel is a forward jump,2 and 1/2 revolutions landing in the opposite direction and the lutz is an inside edge jump. Doing three rotations of a lutz is extremely difficult going right into a double two loop...w/out two footing the landing [someone say oksana bauil?] Nancys' spiral sequence was fantastic but you have to do the jumps.Nancy DID do the jumps w/no two footed landings&deserved to win the OP.How Bauil was placed in 2nd is beyond me.4th would've been more appropriate.
She also two-footed TWO landings, Kerrigan did not. Kerrigans grace and elegance far exceeded that of the waif from the Ukraine.
Kerrigan's endings were always better tight. Technically, if it wasn't for the bogus GBR judge, she would have beat Oksana.
LOL @ all these comments from these haters in here. As if Nancy asked to be hit the knee and almost put out of these games. This girl went through hell 6 weeks prior to the event. She had to rehab like crazy just to give herself a chance to get on the ice and all some of you want to talk about is how she could have been more gracious in defeat. Lets see how you feel if you work your whole life for something and almost have it taken away once by a thug with a baton and the other time actually have it taken away by an anti American German Judge..
Actually, the British judge marked her much lower as well, not just the German. Would you call that judge anti-American too?
Tacks Sherbo you can clearly get that something is off when you are 0.2pts lower than the pack...
JusticeForTheSilenced like the idiot swinging that baton had precise control over where he hit her.... you are silenced...
It took four other commie bastards to pull that off. It was by design that the German judge took all of the heat taking the attention away from the other no good pinko judges. He even placed her 2nd here. This burned me up more than the Tonya Harding thing. In the long program he had them tied, but made damn sure he put Okasana in the tie breaker which was the artistic performance and all of the attention went towards him. Another western judge and we talk about the amazing comeback Nancy Kerrigan did winning the gold medal which she really did win.
The press is responsible for the image of her being all of the things that pelican peter said.
Oksana did not win the gold medal. Those commie bastards cheated Nancy out of it. They were still fighting the cold war in their cheating ass brains.
You Americans could've watched Tonya & Nancy go against each other in the US pros where they both belonged. Skating could've witnessed a new era of young skaters headed by Baiul, Kwan, and many more taking the sport to new heights. The sport was better off if she'd missed those games.
That murder has a bearing on Kerrigan's character. In court Kerrigan's ex-sister in law testified that her brother Mark resented how everything in the family was built around Kerrigan. He grew to resent it til his became hate that boiled over. She isn't close with any of her siblings. She's a monster.
jan tellit Too bad he took it out on the dad! They should have put him 'away'!!
yeah, still no reason to murder someone for the most common problem in the world
When there is successful famous child in a family usually everything revolves around them. Yet no justification to killing somebody
After this short program, many thought the Gold was hers. If she would have grab the Gold and Bayul the silver, we would have the delight to see Bayul perfect her techniques and develop as a sublime skater towards Nagano 1998.
Now THAT would’ve been a really thrilling competition - Oksana vs. Michelle vs. Tara
I love this program, but casting a critical eye, Oksana's spins and step sequence were superior. If Oksana hadn't botched the combination, there is little doubt she would have won the short.
The music is called Desparate Love by mark militano
. Im not sure if I spelled his name correctly.
Kerrigan looked rehearsed like she worked very hard on each element. You could see her concentrating very hard. It was a by the numbers performance no inspiration. The music? What was the performance about? Even in the lp a Broadway medley is better than a Neil Diamond medley.
Phenomenal
Oksana was graded & placed correctly. She was magic that night & just unstoppable. But had they continued in the future Chen would have been better.
You insult Kwan? One of the greatest skaters to come out of the USA? I think the history record will remember Kwan as far greater than Kerrigan who stole Kwan's chance back in 1994. Which means this girl would've anchored 4 American Olympic teams. = far, far greater than Kerrigan!
No the Chinese,Czech & Polish judges too this makes 4. British judge was reprimanded & she admitted to being influenced by the sympathy vote for Kerrigan.
Thats true. Sasha could just outskate Nancy with her artistry because Nancy is NOT an artistic skater.
You are really commenting on choroegraphy, and not on her interpretation. As far as 0:32 and 1:38-I wouldn't have put those moves in, but she did do them well. I admit I prefer Oksana artistically over Nancy, but Nancy really was the stronger skater-but Oksana won on artistic merit. Oksana did several two foot landings, and several others were shaky, but having seen both skaters live, I again say I prefer Oksana. But that doesn't negate the facts-footage shows it. Peace.
That was Verne Lundquist with Scott Hamilton, not Dick Button doing the commentary but take care! I'm not a Kerrigan fan but Chen Lu should've won. Bauil was placed way too high in the OP.
Beautiful and clean (although a bit stiff at times), but really nowhere near to Oksana’s performance
Cohen's skating leaves me cold. She was an artistic flop at the skating box office as well. Oksana drew far more audiences & had tons more fans than Cohen could ever hope for so she wasn't more artistic. Millions of people can't be wrong. Cohen has far more opportunities than Baiul.
Something to emulate
Middle of the pack skater was kerrigan
Her poor mom couldn’t even see her daughters performance
At 3:58, Tonya clapping, but really thinking: " Fall, bitch, fall !!"
I actually preferred Oksana's SP to Nancy's. However I thought that Nancy was technically superior in both the SP and LP. Nancy also had the most beautiful skating dresses (I know that has nothing to do with the quality of skating.) I didn't care for her music selection... except for where the step sequence starts in the SP to the end. Nancy was robbed of the gold medal. I don't know why the Polish judge gave Oksana a 5.9 for technical merit in the LP... not fair at all.
Because Oksana was like a ballerina on the ice, and she also had amazing musicality, she was one with the music..that made the artistic score higher, as it should be. Oksana was phenomenal and deserved her Gold.
Thought Kerrigan's skating would've improved I was underwhelmed at her work.
Theres a point where you learn your program and another where you love your program. nancy knew her moves well but she did what she was suppose to, it lacks the heart of someone who wanted it more. Like she said, very rigid and sharp.
Further proof. 1994 Both Nancy and Tonya retired. Oksana is still preforming to this day, because its not just her program or her moves, it's her passion.
The head judge also the expert judge on the panel Britta Lindgren stated Nancy's spirals were weak. She had only 1 good one the one with her hand over her heart. Britta judged her jumps flawed not clean & that Oksana's jumps were higher, longer, stronger, cleaner. The triple-triple was the highlight of NK's program. Technically she offered nothing but jumps. Weak technically elsewhere. Frontloaded = only flawed jumping offered. There are * artistic elements NK did not excel at any. s
@4utalentseeker: she's from stoneham, mass.
Anyone here knows the name of the music she skates in this program?
And that's how you say: Get behind me, Satan.... on ice. Well, done!
Nancy is Satan on ice. proud arrogant snobby, scheming and conceited
Fluffymuffy Pelican hush up, Tonya.
not everybody has sasha's flexibility.
What kind of music is this?
Was NOT a 2 footed landing it was a TOUCHDOWN. The jump did Not come to a complete stop as in a two-footing landing. Baiul had control of the jump. Keep lying to yourselves. Nancy was NOT in Baiul's league. In Norway this was NOT a 2 footed landing. But Kerrigan did flutz her triple lutz jumps. Missed the edge on the 2axle jumps are jump because of the edges.
Control? She couldn't control the outside edge on her lutz jumps,or the take off edge of her double-axle jump. Control? The lousy edges on her spirals that shook & how about those spins that traveled? No skater will ever duplicate Baiul's choreography in the "Swan" or any of her programs far too complex. Keep fantasizing you live in an alternate universe of insanity.
Does anyone know the names of the songs she's skating to? I did a google search but am probably not writing the question well. Any help would be appreciated. Her music is always so lovely and spot on.
+AnneMarie Donahue She skated her short program to a song called Desperate Love )I don't know the artist) and her long program was to an instrumental Neil Diamond medley.
+Dennis G Thank you. :)
Mark Militano is the Desperate Love artist (and he too is a former Olympic figure skater!).
Aaaaaah shaddup (cough, cough).......lol You, my friend, has CHARACTER.
Myth #2. We know that Bonaly & Witt skated after Baiul if they skated well each of them could have taken at some votes away from Oksana. But these votes wouldn't have come from the "western bloc" judges. But Witt & Bonaly both failed making big mistakes in their programs. Witt still had the artistry to do some damage & Bonaly was a medal contender. Neither would've have won but they could've hurt Baiul's chances. Kerrigan wasn't robbed---she was beaten. Baiul won fair & square.
She looks like she could be Daisy Ridley's mother
Skates like a giant Boeing 747 ! Arms made of stiff metal.
HAHHA...that made me laugh...but yes, you are right. HOWEVER, she is PRETTY!
martha anderson LOL
-_- yup. . .
martha anderson Tonya skates Ike a bull moose and has dreadful arm movements and footwork.
Aspen Robinson bull moose with the first 6.0 for technical merit. Nancy was the first to get whacked and made it everyone else’s problem
Reminds me of the type of moves cheerleaders make. Terrible choreography. Same weird stiff arm choreography in her long program. A program designed for a man not a woman.
I was never a fan of Nancy Kerrigan. Her spins aren't very good compared to Tonya's. But what a great performance after all she went through.
Wow...5.6
Only in your dreams, sweetie...only in your dreams
One judge out of nine? Please...
Now before you act out, THINK how many insulting posts you continue to make and that will make you more liable to be reported against.. IF you choose to mock Nancy Kerrigan for your own folly, I will view that as a threat against Nancy Kerrigan and it will NOT be tolerated. And also can it with the comic attitude if YOU want to be treated like a human being.
I think jantellit123 is really Tonya Harding in disguise! >:-)
People can say what they want about Nancy, that she's a bitch or whatever, but to me she was always and always will be a wonderful figure skater. She has the beauty and the talent to be the complete package. There is no doubt in my or others minds that she won that gold medal hands down. She was ripped off by the eastern bloc judging.
Funny, I ask other figure skating fans about this debacle and no one remembers the alocholic electrified poodle from the Ukraine..hmmm...remember? I doubt it..
Vera Wang FTW
Oksana Baiul?
Who were her coaches anyway, I don't believe I ever saw her coaches or tonay's coaches ever again
Marry and evy scottvold. The last potential skater stopped skating in the early 00's. I forgot her name but she had beautiful choreography Ohhh Jennifer Kirk was her name. Mary and evy coach in Florida now. Good people. Hard and tough trainers. But good people.
They were also Paul Wylie's coaches, and coached him in Albertville when he won silver.
Why are you comparing a sheerleader to a ballerina?
Dance is transition, not position...
Sorry to inform you: this is (artistic) figure skating: the poet of the movement wins....
Nancy definitely skated faster, more graceful, and looked better than Tonya but I think Tonya’s choreography and moves was better
Tonya was stressed by the media, and those cameras around her did not help
Kerrigan was a left-over from the Witt era. This was a changing of the guard. Baiul/Bonaly was robbed in the technical program maybe even Chen Lu. The new skaters were so far above Nancy it wasn't funny. She robbed Kwan's chance Kwan was to debut here. Kerrigan a black sore on the sport.
Kerrigan was mediocre hack. Lucky to get the sliver. Only the BEST win the GOLD medal its the highest reward for the absolute best. Oksana Won the highest award every time she versed Nancy. You don't matter. IT'S OVER OKSANA WON SHE'S THE ICONIC CHAMPION= GOLD!!!
Stop asking in US skating circles. In Norway Kerrigan skating ability is not taken seriously. Her skills were derided as only able to hold up a leg. She is famous for winning the silver medal from the sympathy vote. I've worked abroad and traveled extensively you need to get out. Oops I forgot you're caged due to insanity.
Sure hope you live a perfect life to toss around those titles. All drinkers I know are 1 night away from a repeat. What's in your cup?