Nancy Kerrigan (USA) - 1993 World Figure Skating Championships, Ladies' Free Skate
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- Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC - 1993 World Figure Skating Championships, Ladies' Free Skate - First, a profile on Nancy Kerrigan of the United States, followed by the Free Skate where she had a complete meltdown due to nerves and pressure. She would place a dismal 9th in the Free Skate and end up dropping from 1st to 5th Place overall. Her failure to win a medal here made this the first World Championship since 1969 when a US lady failed to medal at Worlds and the first time since 1964 when the US team failed to win a medal at Worlds. By placing 5th here, the US would only earn 2 berths for the 1994 Winter Olympic Games and the 1994 Worlds.
Her face never matched with the program. No feelings made it souless and stiff. I can't enjoy any performance if the performer has a robotic expression.
Her arms were like of those North Korean soldier’s marching
One thing about Nancy; she always wore the best skating dresses. Too bad she rarely put together a clean program.
Keegan Thorpe thats right, it’s beautiful! When she came in, I was like „Wow, so classy and beautiful“. But I was really disappointed with her music and choreo
She nailed it in the '94 Olympics and no, Oksana Baiul did not skate near as well in '94 as she did here, and that wasn't even the best as Nancy's '94 performance. Nancy had some combinations that were absolutely perfect including a triple triple. Oksana got better marks in Lillehammer than she did here and didn't skate near as well. Something was rotten in Den, I mean Lillehammer.
@@GGE47 ARE YOU NUTS? That ballet performance Oksana did with the white costume, even if didn't pull a single jump, was better than ANYTHING anyone could do at the 94 olimpics. Her pink dress performance was AMAZING too, and she was not a big jumper, but she was (and still) the best in actistic part of te sport... Even today no one match that, we have Yuna Kim that is the perfect ballence since she can jump perfectly and has amazing artistic skill, but the artistic part is ALMOST Oksana's level.
@@theoperatripleaxel5417 Technically Nancy skated a much better program and you might as well include her short program, that counts too, and Oksana is way behind. Just too many two foot landings and gets a 5.9 from the Czech judge. Since the both got the same scores in artistry, the commiecrap judges cheated her out of the gold medal in the technical which Nancy skated rings around. Oksana was always weak in combination jumps which she did not even attempt. She still skated better in the '93 World's than the '94 Olympics. As bad as Nancy skated in the Worlds she still won a bronze medal which proves how little competition she had at the World's. '94 olympic committee committed a terrible and unforgivable sin in picking a majority of 5 communist judges who were still fighting the cold war. Since they got the same artistic marks, they most definitely cheated her in the technical merits, which is as open and brash and in our faces as they could get. They were saying ha ha ha America, here it is in your face what we did, now do something about it. I have known the communists to cheat numerous times in different events for decades, but this time they had a majority of 5 low life judges and they took real advantage of it. olympic committee, you are to blame for choosing these 5 commie cheats so shame on your sorry selves. It is not an oversight on my part to not capitalize the olympic committee. They don't deserve it.
Keegan Thorpe guess they just gave her medals for her outfits? Whatever
That was so horrible of her to ignore the little girl with the flowers. What a sore loser she was. She thought she was better than she actually was. Her skating never impressed me.
She wasn’t a sore loser here. She was upset with herself. Surely you understand the difference?
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She was bratty, she brushed past that poor girl with a scowl on her stuck up face
@@biscuitcase83 I couldn't hear what she said to the little girl, but maybe it was, "Give them to someone else. I don't deserve them." Not the best action, but understandable in the moment.
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No it isn't at all understandable
Her attitude stank
Skaters deal with disappointment and heartbreak all the time, they shouldn't behave that way.
It's not as bad as Bonaly taking off her medal at the 1994 Worlds but it's still soir conduct and childish
Even in her starting position you can tell that she was very nervous.
Yes, her face was already red when she began. She really looked upset already at the beginning of the program.
Did she brush by and ignore that little girl at the end of the video who had flowers for her?
Yes the bitch did.
wooooow. you know that little girl was probably waiting, giddy with excitement, just to have the chance to see nancy and homegirl couldn't even be bothered to stop. class act, that nancy kerrigan.
Poor little girl.
what minute in the video?
That poor girl! I feel so bad for her.
This was such a disaster, but a very predictable disaster for so many reasons. First, Nancy didn't skate well at Nationals either. Second, The US team was very weak here with irvin and kwiatkowski. Nancy always skated knowing kristi or tonya would medal if she bombed, but here she was the only hope. After mark mitchell cracked, she was really the only hope for ANY american medal. Third, the program was too hard and too different for Nancy in its construction (only time 3 lutz was early right after her sketchy 3 flip, tough entry into 3sal, didnt alternate hard/less-secure jump then easier/consistent jump like usual, etc etc). Nancy also struck me as a homebody then, so traveling to and performing in an Eastern euro venue may have played in too. Lastly, the worlds before an olympics always has extra pressure with olympic qualifying spots on the line. Honestly, the best thing for her 94 olympics was the attack/injury. It took the pressure off because if she bombed, one could blame the leg or emotional trauma vs just ordinary nerves.
This is an excellent analysis. Yes, this program layout was too ambitious for Nancy. Glad she pulled herself together for the 94 Olympics under all that relentless scrutiny.
Although Nancy did skate in eastern Europe to medal in 91 and southern Europe in Albertville. I do agree the layout was very challenging, even that spread eagle to lutz incredibly difficult and she struggled with it. Its too bad Harding had slipped and didnt make this world team, it might have made a real difference for the next year.
@nicholasp1096 by eastern Europe, I mean a country and crowd that had been under Communist rule until 1989. Czechoslavakia was not as Westernized like Germany or France. There was not a huge American presence in the stands. I remember thinking the arena looked dimmer and the crowd subdued compared to previous Worlds venues. Its just my opinion, I cant say if that actually affected Nancy or the US team as a whole.
@@wileecoyote671 Also interesting Kerrigan as part of the world sweep in 91 was under a unified Germany from just the year before. ( Only a few months before actually). I think her Neil Diamond program would have been a better fit for her, this program had too much going on in it, but kudos for her for still keeping in that level. Also she never did or attempted 2 triple lutzs in any of her other programs.
@nicholasp1096 very odd about the lutzes, yes. She was confident enough in 3lutz to open her short programs with it (first jump), but never her first jump in any free skate and never planned to repeat except here. Strange.
She’s not a very talented skater. The tonya affair probably saved her
Mrs. OlLady nobody gets to that level without talent. Impossible.
Sorry, I think her attitude was her worse trait. She's just a bad loser. And she just blanked and pushed past the little girl who had collected her flowers at 10:38 in a bad way...
she was always such a poor sport.
A pretty face, a slim figure and pretty dresses. And what else? Nothing about her skating is minimally impressive, I don't get all the fuss around her back then... She looks like a doll, but not an athlete. She doesn't even seem to have a nice personality, she looks somewhat snobbish, if you ask me. The USA threw away their most precious gem in figure skating : Tonya Harding. I'm portuguese, fond of this sport, recently into Tonya and Nancy's case and let me tell you: never in my life have I seen a skater as strong, skilled and powerful as Tonya Harding. I don't believe she had the slightest reason to fear this Nancy, let alone throwing away her whole life and all the hardwork and suffering she had to endure in order to get where she was in the early 90's! I don't believe she was guilty of any of that, but regardless, America should have given her a second thought and treasure her. No one in the world will ever beat her. Her talent is unmatched, even today.
Melissa Figueira Ferreira tonya was amazing! Nancy was great too. You should look at Midori Ito, jumped even higher than tonya!
Tonya, is that you?
@@melissamajors4925 Totally. Can't you tell by my resemblance and by the language I speak in my videos? 🙄 Gosh...
@@melissafigueiraferreira5794 You are definitely mean as a snake like Tonya.
Today, we have women figure skaters that can jump quads over Harding's triple axel.
I don't like her style. She doesn't give me emotions
Nancy was a lovely skater - I just wish she could have learned how to handle media attention better. I admire her realness, but being in the public spotlight requires a bit of a poker face.
@Patrick In all fairness why shouldn’t she have profited from it? She was the one attacked. Im a massive fan of Harding’s jumps and power btw
It was heartbreaking when NBC Sports showed a closeup shot of Nancy's face while she waited for her scores to be called out. The poor girl looked likd was ready to burst into tears at any moment!
From the opening pose you could see something was wrong. Eyes darting around & shaky hands. I don't care what anyone says every skater has this type of performance at some point in their career. Love her dress.
For worlds championships this sucks
Sarah? Could you do better?
Put yourself in that position. At that point it was all mental.
The fact that the british judge gave both Oksana and Nancy 5.8 for artistic impression is a joke. And she also gave Oksana only 5.5 for technical, and only 0.2 lower for Nancy. That makes it even a bigger joke.
To be honest I never got the baiul hype
Me neither. Every time I watch her performances, it's a bit of struggle to enjoy: Very overwrought and unpolished. Feels junior-ish to me. I don't think judges should be going concessions/leniency in points for injuries either, as they apparently did for OB. I don't think NK was an incredible phenom or anything, but I often think she outranked OB when it counted (94 Olys). OB was lovely to look at (and commentators would often comment upon this, "waiflike" or "doe-eyed") which I think tended to distract viewers from the reality of her abilities.
So slow ,movements very conservative program a paused triple triple toe loop, many mistakes uncomplete jumps and the fact that Nancy was ahead of Marina Kielmann who did a better and difficult performance
Kielmann did beat Kerrigan in the long program though (Kielmann 5th, Kerrigan 9th). Kielmann was only 10th in the short though so she couldn't quite pass Kerrigan overall.
Wow she actually chose some good music for once, instead of the usual elevator robot stuff.
Yeah and without the misses this would have actually been a pretty good program. Not like the short program even if she skated better as the music was just awful, cheap, leftover trash. I think maybe the bad choice of music was part of making her seem boring.
Did anyone catch her leaving at the end???? While stepping down a little girl brought her flowers and she walked and pushed right by the child. Kerrigan is a poor loser and needs to grow up.
@@lila2986 it's almost at the complete end. The little girl is in the bottom left screen
Aww the poor little girl. Nancy has always been a sore loser.
Beautiful dresses and expensive - worth more than $10,000 US. She choked it happens. I much preferred the little orphan waif from the Ukraine. She had a joy. Nancy was teh grande dame - she the looks, the money, the team between her and talent. She just never pulled it together.
Let’s be real, if the whole Harding incident didn’t happen, nobody would really know who is was. She was very beautiful, but he programs were not exciting. She had very little passion and her moves were very robotic.
Tonya was prettier and a better skater too.
Nancy had her skating dresses made by a designer, Vera Wang that is why they looked so nice.
Knee Bashing incident took place that the 1994 US Nationals. Here, it was just the pressure of being the favorite; and by this time of the competition, she was probably told that she was the last hope for the US team to win the only medal at these Worlds (US has not ever medaled at Worlds since 1969 entering these Worlds). She choked, pure and simple.
3Axel1996 the pressure would have been there too from the US medal sweep in 91, when Yamaguchi, Harding and Kerrigan swept the podium for the first time ever
But Kristi Yamaguchi of United States won the gold medal twice in 91 and 92 at world championships.
a bit like Gracie Gold so good and bad. Good, her maturity and good technique. the bad, find her robotic and a genuine emotional connection to the music is lacking.
She is not near as good as Tonya!!!
In 1993, Tonya was fat and badly out of form. She couldn’t even have managed this performance, let alone contend for a medal.
Who cares? She’s great
@@alexanderp7459Fr Nancy is so good
Her reaction to an overwhelmed 15 year-old girl who came from nothing beating her and crying of joy tells you everything you need to know about this woman. She wasn't even that consistent of a skater, anyway.
She wasn't reacting to Oksana in any way She was reacting to her disappointment in not skating well, in not being her best version of herself.
@@genednomyar3383 Agreed 100%. Her reaction was about her poor skating, nothing else.
@@genednomyar3383 She’s talking about how she acted the next year when Oksana beat her at the Olympics. She made fun of her for crying, a young girl who had lost everything and had the skate of her life.
@@kimberlygilliam6112 She didn't make fun of her for crying. I think people make too much of that. Someone told her she was late because she was getting her make up done, and she just made a remark that she would just cry it all off anyway. It was just an offhand remark, she wasn't taunting her yeesh.
I don't think that's fair. you don't know her. She is disappointed. Anyone would be. She has two World and two Olympic medals over basically a 4-year international career. I'd call that damn well consistent and being able to handle the pressure of major events.
What a mess!!😂😂
She placed behind Baiul because her speed, flow across the ice, her line, body positions, her choreography & her use of the music were not as good as Baiul's. Oksana's had more power & refinement to her skating overall. Loading the jumps is used when you lack the skill in the artistic elements which are vital during the free skate back then.
How the GB judge awarded her 5.8 with those leaden limbs beats me.
She had such a bad attitude.
9:52 "i just wanna die" lmaooo what
Wow. Easy for you all to criticize and make fun. Have any of you ever had that kind of pressure? I bet not.
When she ignored that lil' girl with flowers. Hmpfy
Spoiled brat
I always saw thru her...she was an overrated skater and thought her sh@t didn't stink.
This was a huge disappointment for her, but kind of understandable when you put it in context. Not only was she feeling the pressure as the American number 1, the favourite and the leader after the short, but she'd also just seen Baiul, Bonaly, Chen and Sato skate pretty much flawlessly. No wonder she went to pieces.
Who here's feels sorry for that little girl at the very end trying to hand her flowers more than Nancy!? I do!
Typical Nancy behavior..
As much as I was never a Kerrigan fan, this looks really hard to go through. The K&C section was very candid as Kerrigan could never keep her emotions to herself.
As the first skater in decades to not give the US a podium finish was likely a huge embarrassment.
I can easily see how this program was intended to be iconic and how the last spiral over the chorus section from the title theme was intended to inspire a standing ovation prior to the end of the music. It was all there for her, she just couldn't pick it up. This program never once came together the entire season.
She really struggled with inconsistency throughout her career. It's really amazing she was able to put it all together at the Olympics a year later.
That was craptacular.
Matt G. 🤣
Matt G. LMAO
Matt G. Too busy doing commercials and not practicing
She’s a terrible skater! I never knew!
Watching this, makes you wonder why Tonya thought she was a threat. They were on the same level artisticly, Tonya was a better technician. Nancy was prettier with better costumes.
Nancy didnt usually skate this bad. In 94 she did a lot of 5 triple programs while Tonya had not done a single program with more than 4 triples since 91. At that stage of her career Tonya was not skating better technically, and she certainly was not considered by the judges on the same level artistically either.
And as bad at this skate was it was still better than the performances Tonya usually gave around now- look at her skates at 92 Skate Canada and 93 U.S Nationals online if you dont believe me. And this was Nancy at her worst.
Rob Juddas Nancy had a lot of weak performances and wether Tonya landed triples or not her other moves were still better looking, spins, death drop, Ina Bauer etc but to each their own I guess
Tonya at her best was miles better than Nancy. Tonya made feminine choreography look like really hard work but Nancy made fluidity look like hard work. Tonya was completely undone by 1993 and was in no shape to compete. But if you see her performances at the 94 Nationals, had Nancy competed Tonya would have given her a serious run for her money. No Triple Axel but it was a 5 triple program.
Tonya's spins were no match for Nancy's slow clunky ones. So few people mention Tonya's spinning but she really was among the absolute best in that category in this era. The power behind Tonya's jumps were something Nancy could not rival. Instead, Nancy attacked with expensive costuming (like, seriously, Vera Wang? This supposed "poor working class girl" was wearing Wang at every event?), expensive choreographers and brand-name expensive music. She threw money at whatever she couldn't pull off naturally and where Tonya had the largest deficits: effects that could be bought with cash.
A lot of people bought the story that the Kerrigan family was not much better off financially than Hardings, but the fact is: Stoneham is an expensive town as an exclusive suburb of Boston. It *always* has been. It has never been a "poor" area.
Rob Juddas false. 94 nationals tonya did every triple except that axel
Not a champion. Saw her sour face at a Champions on Ice show even there with no competition she cracked and snarked her way through a bad performance. Too much portraiture in her presentation. Oksana felt the music as did Lu.
Another hot mess of a performance. She is NOT a natural jumper.
Clunky boring snd windmill arms
Lmao. She's hella wak
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I remember this. “I just wanna die.” Nobody told her to have fun and skate with joy. She got too caught up in her own packaging as America’s new “Ice Princess”. They just never let her love her skating. All that privilege showered upon her and she was left doubting she could ever stand upon the pedestal they had already placed her on.
She was already stressed and in bad mood before she even started, I feel bad for her though.
She was hyped up so much after Yamaguchi retired. They were calling her the "Ice Queen". She was expected to inherit Yamaguchi's title and go onto win the worlds and then the Olympics. Some people can take that amount of pressure, but Nancy never could.
@@ilovebeinagirl Yeah, finishing second in the '94 Olympics was shameful.
I’m afraid I found her a bit wooden and robotic, no feeling from the heart or connection with the music. Always a bit disappointing as much as I wanted to like her
She wore all the best costumes etc..but could never outskate Tonya.
Since this was shown on tape delay in the United States, I wonder if NBC did two puff pieces-one for if Nancy had won or at least had earned a medal and another for if she did not do well. The puff piece seemed intended to prepare the audience for Nancy's performance.
As did the commentary early on in the performance. When Bezic said "not a good sign" after a fairly minor mistake on the first jump, it was as though she sensed what was about to happen.
Dylvente Agreed.
Oh yes NBC was known for this... Pressure pressure pressure that's all they ever said. Yawn this was by far my least favorite skating season too! The rink was dark and dingy! Yuck!
@@DylventeBezic the choreographer had worked with Kristi Yamaguchi and most of the top skaters.
She knew the in's and out's of the skating community and the personalities of the skaters.
I'm sure she knew Nancy might not be equipped to handle the pressure.
I actually preferred Bezic's commentary compared to Peggy Fleming's, who sometimes sounds like Alice in Wonderland.
Looking back you now realize how well Yamaguchi handled the pressure and expectations of her.
@@shihlin1 I agree with you about Bezic's commentary. As for Kristi, I think she is among the best ever. Unlike her main rivals at the time, she almost never bombed.
Sadly, Nancy was never a lady off ice. It was a skill she had to learn over time.
+skatergirl She didn't learn it well enough as she's a husband-stealing homewrecker..
Tonya was way better than this pathetic excuse for an "athlete". What a bitch to her coaches!
skatergirl neither was Tonya....
@alice hatterz Spotted the adulterer . . .
I'll never forget this beautiful outfit. It's stunning
She blew right past that little girl trying to hand her bouquets of flowers.
Nancy was a snob.
Honestly I think part of her problem for the 92-93 season was this program she never seemed truly comfortable with it. It probably seemed like a great idea at the time to have Nancy skate to Beauty and the Beast but it never really seemed to click with her.
I agree. I think the best performance of it came with her debut of it at the '92 Skate America. It kind of went downhill from there. Also, she felt over comitted to things outside her skating.
I think this music was like a curse to her. She fumbled/fell several times in almost all performances involving this track. I’m not a Nancy fan at all, but I feel sorry for her here, and especially the 1993 pro ams
Yeah but 5th place still would have been enough if one of the other skaters had placed somewhere around there. Had they sent Tonya Harding or Nicole Bobek that year, they might have been okay!!
I assume this means to get 3 Olympics spots which in those days you had to medal to get that for your nation at the next Olympics.
She looked so sad and bewildered at that meltdown. Its amazing to think that a year later at the Olympics she has the performance of her life in the long program. Somehow in the midst of all that craziness with the assault on her knee - she found inner toughness. She didn't win the gold but she had her best result ever at the Olympics and skated a clean program.
She should've won. Figure skating is a sport after all.
Homegirl imploded.
I loved the choreography here and the program was exquisite. Too bad she didn't put it all together because this was much more beautiful than her 94 Neil Diamond.
7:31 what was that supposed to be? Couldn't hold on to an Ina Bauer I guess
Chris Coyne Lmao...Good catch👍🏻
Maybe she got a bit behind with all the problems and so there wasn't quite enough time to hold out an Ina Bauer, yet too long to really throw in a different shorter dance element...
She threw in a triple for points
I think it was just the transition in the 2A.
if i need a good laugh i just watch this program haha!!
Never really understood the spin rules of the 80's and early 90's. Some of the spins were only 2 rotation long yet they still counted as full spins?!
+Incredible Mann That may be the reason behind Michelle Kwan's hideous and conformist "lay-neck spin", since she came out from the early 90's.
2 revolutions per position in a combination spin, and I think in a solo spin with no changes of foot or position, the spin must have a minimum of 3 revolutions. Best example to see this is Chen Lu's 1996 Worlds LP. Bezic choreographed it to give Chen Lu the minimum number of revolutions per position, per spin needed to meet the requirements at the time (the 90s). But this was only for the LPs/FSs.
Her physical beauty outweighed her skating beauty
Mrs. OlLady she was America’s answer to Katarina Witt, but without the skill or personality.
She not even that beautiful. Very typical white girl.
I guess if you think a horses face on a human is beautiful?
@@Littlemissdirtbag I don't know if it's possible to have your teeth shortened, but if it is, that would've done her a world of good....
@@ilovebeinagirl tonya looked way better
Sandra Bezic does the commentary here.
She had worked on choreography with Kristi Yamaguchi and most of the top skaters.
She knew the in's and out's of the skating community and the personalities of the skaters.
I'm sure she knew Nancy might not be equipped to handle the pressure.
I actually preferred Bezic's commentary compared to Peggy Fleming's, who sometimes sounds like Alice in Wonderland.
Looking back you realize how well Yamaguchi handled the pressure and expectations of her.
Agreed! On everything you said.
Sandra Bezic reminds me of a more sophisticated Pam Shriver - total bitch. She said the most backhanded things about so many skaters.
Alice in Wonderland lmao 😂
I remember watching the fluff piece back in 93 and knowing she was going to do poorly simply by the negative spin they used with it.
The petulant, temperamental, bratty side of Kerrigan finally surfaces moments after she gets off the ice.
Instead of dealing with her mistakes, she turns into a whino.
This is what her poor coaches had to put up with day in day out.
She dealt with the problems. She overtrained for the next year, and proved she was ready in October of 93 by winning Piruetten. Then after undergoing the injury from the attack at nationals' practice, she had to work twice as hard to recover and be ready for the Olympics, which she did. She accomplished her goal and had the skate of her life.
@@genednomyar3383 👏👏👏👏
@@antoniovivero8914 Thank you, Antonio. I'm glad there are still some people who appreciate Nancy Kerrigan and what she accomplished. I loved her skating, and watched her every chance I got.
Her reaction was totally understandable. She had just skated terribly! What did you expect to see?
she wouldn't even take the flowers from the little girl. figures.
Her dress though is timeless. Beautiful...
I don't know why everyone is saying she is whining...she isn't...she is saying she screwed up big time and lost it..the title...because she knew she can skate better than that...u people need to learn how to listen...u all get real...
By this time,they have already formed a bitch opinion about Nancy Kerrigan and nothing will change them. They need to be treated the same way in their lives and talked about as well. They need to know what it feels like, especially when your intentions were good, or is there any good intentions in them ? They are so gossipy and are easily fooled,so gullible. Every time she looks left, she's a bitch, every time she looks right, she's a bitch.
I can't like this comment enough.
Give me a break. She was whining.
Wendy Fiolek being sad about something is not “whining”
Nancy never looked particularly relaxed before a performance but she looked really stressed to me here. It's clear the pressure got to her. What a shame. Poor thing.
Also, you don't always notice all the cameras that are around the skaters but you could see all the cameras pointing right at her, right in her face as she came off the ice. You get used to it at that level but man. Almost looks like paparazzi in the kiss and cry. How awkward
Her facial expression in her starting pose totally said it all -- complete deer in the headlights
Terrified. Paralyzed. Her walked to the ice was really bad body language. She needed a sport psychologist this season. Billie Jean King said it best: pressure is a privilege.
And she needed media training for her Kiss and Cry as she waited to get her scores.
It's interesting Kerrigan's childish and whining qualities really come through after she finishes her skate. Her coaches seem to know her whine all too much. What a whiner!!!! You just buckled under the pressure and skated a lousy program, Nancy. Get over it!!! Interesting Oksana Baiul won the Gold here while the U.S. failed to even medal. It wouldn't be the last time Oksana finishes ahead of Nancy as we know all too well (Oksana edged out Nancy for the Olympic Gold a year later).
I didn't hear much whining. I heard her say that the scores could have been much lower than what they gave her, so it seemed to me that she seemed grateful for the scores she received. And when her coach said, " we'll just have to see what others do," she replied that she wasn't interested in what they did but in what she did. In other words, she wasn't skating just to beat someone; she had gone out with the intention of skating a good program in which she hoped to skate her best. She didn't want others to have to skate badly just so she could place in the top three. I had avoided watching this program for many years, because I thought it would be too painful to watch. I finally watched it today, and did not find it that horrible at all. Her skating between jumps was still fine, and I still enjoyed the program as a whole. Yes, many jumps were singled or doubled instead of tripled, and out of the four triples she did land, there were problems with the landings of two of them. But in addition to the two good triple jumps, there was also a good double axle, and it was still a beautiful program. The only thing I heard her complaining about was that something was too tight, perhaps her right boot. Other than that, I heard her say to her coaches that everything had been fine, and that she basically couldn't understand why she had made so many mistakes on her jumps. Did you watch her short program? She skated amazingly well in it!!!!!!! As far as the 94 Olympics Long Program goes, that was a different night and a different skate, and on that night she skated much better than Oksana. At the 94 Olympics, Oksana skated beautifully in the short program although she two-footed the landing on her triple Lutz. Nancy had a completely clean short program with a gorgeous triple Lutz of her own, and she did win the short program. Remember, Oksana & Nancy's overall point scores where numerically identical after the long programs. However, Nancy received one tenth of 1 point higher score for the technical score, and Oksana received one tenth of 1 point higher for the artistic score. in the long program the artistic score breaks the tie, and that's why Oksana won the long program. In my opinion, Nancy's technical scores should have outscored Oksana by several points, and not just by one tenth of one point. I prefer Nancy's style of skating to Oksana's, so I personally also would have given her a higher score for the artistic marks.
@@genednomyar3383 Well stated, but remember the commie 5 and you have the answer as to why she won the gold medal and had it stripped from her and deliberately handed to Oksana Baiul. Czech judge giving Oksana a 5.9 in the technical part. That is an insult that will I will never forgive them for, which is one of many the dirty commies have committed over the decades and I finally got sick and tired of it. I didn't watch after that along with other events they have cheated in. I will never forget the Miracle on Ice where we had a bunch of college kids beat a group of grown men who were called the best in the world and we didn't have to cheat to win it. We just outplayed them and they took us too lightly. USA 4 USSR 3. They were a professional team and we had to have an amature team.
@@genednomyar3383 Exactly she was not whinnying she was very nervous here after she saw a sports psychologist for nerves I wish people had more empathy for her
I would like to point out.... That the American commentators would have buried a competitor from an other nation with a performance like this... They probably would have found some permanent " technical flows" & would have qualified a performance like this as " career ending"... But with 1 of their own....they hardly comment, or discuss this disastrous program . ( which can happen of course....)
Just saying that , as I think the American TV commentators are truly unfair....!
u109405 Oh stop with the nonsense! The main commentators at that time in Scott Hamilton and Sandra Bezic were very fair to all the skaters! Sandra choreographed for various skaters. You're own prejudice and generalizations on display here.
+ZigZaggy P So, Sandra Bezic choreographed for various skaters in the early 90s, who happen to be her clients and give her pay checks, and she wasn't biased while making her comments. Come on! You stop the nonsense!
First of all the second Nancy popped the Lutz the American commentator immediately said the gold medal was out of reach and secondly Sandra Bezic is Canadian.
+u109405 True, although Russian commentators certainly give the Americans no love. And Sandra Bezic is Canadian btw, not American.
False. They didn't do that to Carolina Kostner of Italy in 2009 when she had a meltdown during her free skate.
She was being very candid, we usually don't get to see that. She had a huge let down and didn't know how to deal with it. I'd like to know how she got through it. That's a huge part of figure skating is dealing with the losses. I remember Michelle Kwan went through a bad year and had to refind her joy and love for the sport.
Yes, I agree about the music. Her best choice ever. She never performed the program to her best ability, though. I don't know if this is just projecting, but I think I'd find the music hard to skate to. It's so dramatic and tells you just where the jumps must be...would put a lot of pressure on you, I'd think.
It was a weak contingent the US sent this aside from Kerrigan and then she fell apart and that’s why there were only the 2 spots at the Olympics
....she's fckin pissed lol.
This was so heartbreaking to watch. Given her tendency to fall apart in the long program, I was afraid it was coming, but I had no idea it would be this bad.
Always a great technician. Just didn't put it together. Needs some emotion and artistry. Nancy was never an artist.
Maria Trotter not a great technician, good choreo but but great technique
In terms of jumps, she had nice technique. You could say her strength was her "crispness" in presentation and uncluttered jump entrances. Her spins were always awful because she couldn't maintain any speed on them. Her positions were occasionally nice, but tough to admire at a near stand-still. I'm still never quite sure why she included scratch spins, instead of gaining speed they always got slower with each revolution. She was like a robot on blades.
A great technician? Nonsense!!!
Actually, Nancy’s jump technique was pretty solid. Her Salchow and Lutz jumps, when done right, were textbook perfect. She just wasn’t consistent and there was something majorly off with this skate. Take the toe loop. She could do a 3T+3T with ease, but often would mess up the pick and pop.
What a lie Yamaguchi won the worlds just a year before & the 1992 Olympics as well. Kerrigan had medaled the year before in 1992. In 1991 the U.S swept the world championships. Kerrigan hadn't trained was doing endorsements & was arrogant she'd have no competition. She often won with lots of falls & mistakes in her programs.
That was crap and Nancy said it plainly afterwards. She gave the best Kiss N Cry moments! "I don't care what anyone else does, I care what I do." Bonaly deserved to win that year. Baiul had her classic two footed landings on two jumps and had three less jumps and had no reputation, how she won is beyond me. They really screwed Bonaly.
Surya was never going to be World Champion. The powers that be wouldn't allow that.
Racism...what a pity for Bonaly, it was so unfair...
@@carolinev5426 that and like Tonya Harding, she was considered too "butch" for skating.
Bonaly was a powerful skater but not graceful at all. Sorry, Baiul won, fair and square.
@@MsKendra79 Of course not! Too clunky! Too awkward! Not graceful enough!
It's freaky how everything the announcers said seemed to preview what was going to happen. Right after she blew the Lutz, they asked, "Can she skate well enough to medal?", just in time for her to blow another jump.
I always thought they recorded their commentaries after the fact b/c the spin on everything--the fluff in the beginning where her parents and coaches were doubting her--seemed like NBC already knew she had lost when it was edited together.
I worked in skating television and the commentary always was recorded after the performance. Very rarely was it live.
I believe the only true time it is live is for the olympics, if I am correct. I only know this because in 2014 at Sochi a commentator accidentally said Yuna Kim would be the Champion but it turned out to be Adelina
Abbey Szumloz I'm sorry but he didn't say it "accidentally" he said that because with fair judgment Yuna should have been the champion, that's why he was so sure saying "it's gonna be gold" he knew what he was talking about, too bad Sochi biased the competition and bribe the judges so their only skater left (since Yulia fell and was left behind) had the first gold medal in history, full of shame and dirt but they don't care aparently. Well anyways what I like more about this girl (Nancy) were her dresses ^^
xue 717 I was using the 2014 olympics as an example lol
She said, "I just want to die!"
She should’ve written a sad entry in her journal and moved the hell in... grace under fire? meh.
There is a heart for people (the audience) and a oneness with the music that the others lacked - simple. There was intense jealousy of little Oksana when she whooped the others at Worlds 1993. SHE had it all plus a feminine charm and grace on ice. The audiences adored her and there was much envy.
Boring skater
She looks terrified in her starting pose
Flippin' #BrattyKerrigan...
At 8:45, Nancy: "Omg, I just lost it...." At 9:50 "I just wanna die...". Her coach Mary Scotvold on right has that look on her face that indicates she knew it.
Ha!
Ha ha Kerrigan crazy whining in the kiss-and-cry area, should be accompained by "Psycho" music.
Lol English judge that gives 5.8 to artistic impression..... She didn t deserve a better note than S. Bonaly
The most ironic thing about Nancy's choking at the Worlds is that in addition to all of the obvious bad things, it actually set the stage for her own attack the next year. Because she didn't medal at the worlds, the US only got 2 spots for the Olympic team. This put the pressure on Tonya and her Goon Squad because instead of competing for one of 3 Olympic berths, they were only competing for one of two and thus felt that Nancy had to be eliminated to make sure Tonya would get a spot.
Also, the 3rd American in this worlds, Tonia Kwiatkowski failed to even qualify into the main draw, so the US being left with 2 spots was partially because of her as well. Nancy was definitely one of the scapegoats in this situation tho, having wining the short but placing 9th in the free skate
But the attack was still so unnecessary. The only American in 1994 close to Tonya's skill level was Michelle Kwan, and she was too young to go to the Olympics. So Tonya would've made it into the top 2 unless she had completely flubbed up. Of course, no one ever accused her "goon squad" of having enough brains to figure that out.
@@lucindacampbell9754 I’m not sure the attack on Kerrigan was at all as rational or as clear headed. I think Tonya and her thugs were so consumed with jealousy of Kerrigan that they felt they needed her out the way completely…she was a competitor not just for medals but for endorsements as well. Their plan failed spectacularly obviously as Kerrigan won the silver and the huge contracts.
That’s all salacious soap opera fun and who knows if Tonya actually planned the attack, but it’s also probable she didn’t, she didn’t need Nancy ‘out of the way’ as if they were the only two skaters in the world? They weren’t and neither of them were going to win in ‘94
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I wonder if nearly having it all taken away from her made her a better person and skater later on? Performance nerves a killers, but nobody would ever succeed if they turned up that underprepared.
This was the year where at U.S. Nationals if you could just stay in an upright position on the ice, you received a good score. I don’t know what was wrong that year.
This was arguably the most disappointing performance of Nancy's career. While she was waiting for her scores to be announced, poor Nancy looked like she was ready to burst into tears!
She just fell apart! 😕
They should have sent Tonya to these worlds, but considering all her problems would she have have done any better? I loved Tonya, she was awesome but she was struggling and the judges had never liked her.
Nancy wasnt a terrible skater but this was definitely her worst program that ive ever seen. Some noticeable consistencies between this show and others is her unpleasant look for the whole performance, weak jumps, and slow spins. She was always very rude and had no reason to be from what I saw. The only reason I believe she got so popular was the fact that she looked like the definition of a sugar plum princess and judges liked that. Skaters who dont fit that build often get lower points even if they had a superior program.
She was trembling at her starting position
What a lot of pressure for a young woman. I admire her statement it doesn't matter to her what other people do, only what she can do. Overall, she is a beautiful and gifted skater, who sometimes has to deal with not skating perfectly every time. It's got to be hard. Years of training and work can all be undone with one moment of slip up. That is so tough to see, and we see it over and over, from so many athletes. We all have to be in awe of the years of dedication of every single athlete who even makes it close to Olympic level, and those who get there, and those who medal. It is beyond what most of us normal people can accomplish.
Jan Van, very well said. I find it unacceptable that those who don't skate, or even if they do skate, certainly not at this level, to believe they have the right to criticize or say unkind things. When you all who make mean remarks can skate at Nancy's level and compete with her, then maybe you can talk. I doubt it though, you'd be too busy ducking your heads.
@@michellewilcome2064 : I disagree. It's a tough think to be criticised all year a round. But it's part of the game. And even 99% of us are far from doing what she ( or other high level competitor) are doing, we are capable to discriminate. It's not because I'm not able/ capable (my self) to do a " Tiramisu" cake, I cannot discern the better among a few.
@@cameliap1146, Tiramisu cake?
Regardless, as a former competitive skater and now coach, I am protective, I guess.
She’s flipping the fck out in the kiss n cry “I want to die”? That’s not normal
To be fair...no medals won in 1964 because the entire World team died in a plane crash...
That was 1961.
Yes but the team was decimated and there were many athletes killed who would have medalled at the 64 Worlds,
this was sad to see, I remember this, it seem NK was only on the world stage for a couple of years but had a lot of expectations of her..
I’m so SICK AND TIRED OF PEOPLE’S OPINION!! That’s ALL IT IS NO FACTS! Stuff it!! Is all l have to say!😡
I was never a fan of hers, but this and the Pro-Ams performance were hard to watch. You could tell she was more nervous than usual even in her starting position. It seems like she was too focused on winning the gold after all her strongest competitors (Kristi Yamaguchi, Midori Ito, Tonya Harding) either retired from amateur skating or didn't qualify, she forgot that if she did what she was capable of, she may not necessarily win, but a medal would've been a guarantee
I'm not sure, but I don't believe Nancy was EVER able to land both the triple flip and lutz at the beginning of this program? Watching it again, I can't help but wonder if the order of her jumps just didn't work. Landing the triple flip and rushing right into the lutz with limited preparation (and intense music) would be difficult for any skater...
That look was priceless