Robin Cousins - Lake Placid 1980 Gold | Olympic Memories
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2024
- One day in Lake Placid...
Robins Cousins cemented his place as one of the great British winter Olympians with gold in 1980. In his Olympic Memories, Robin looks back on those glorious moments.
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Love seeing Robin atop the podium. Today’s Russian robots are deeply depressing. I would love to see another Robin rise from the ranks, but if not, I will cherish having this humble legend touch my life. Thank you.
Роботы?!
Попробуйте повторить!
@@ТатьянаВасильева-п8фrobots
Not just robots, but drugged-up-to-the-eyeballs robots. So glad that they have been banned, hopefully forever.
Талантливейший фигурист.
Robin is the most elegant scater of the all times. The best both: artist and sportsman! How i loved him! What a pleasure to see him again! Thanks for video!
Simplemente maravilloso felicidades
Felicidades campeón ❤
Superstar Skater ✨
I loved the way you choreographed "The Cutting Edge" film!
ロビン・カズンズ選手の時代は3回転とダブルアクセルの時代でした。しかし回転数が異なっても彼以上に「身のこなし」の美しいフィギュアスケーター
を見たことがありません。ブルシェンコと同じ「ダンサータイプ」の最高峰の選手でした。英国から自伝を取り寄せてオリンピックで金メダルを取った
時のマイケル・ジャクソンのプログラムは誰が振り付けたものなのか知ろうとしましたが、マイケル・ジャクソンから祝電が届いたという一行だけで
した。あれだけの振り付けをもし彼が自分で考えていたとしたらすごいことだと思います。ロイヤル・バレエ団からの誘いもあったとのことです。
I really like Robin Cousins, but a lot of people thought Jan Hoffmann should have won. While Cousins is classic and elegant in his style with lots of speed, height in his jumps, and flow across the ice, he came in fourth in figures and missed his triple loop in the LP. Hoffmann won figures and had no mistakes in the SP and LP.
It was an incredibly tight result. But Robin won the SP, and he also won the FP, because half the marks were for 'artistic impression', and six of the judges rated Cousins higher overall. He was definitely the more elegant and exciting skater to watch, and had some unusual tricks up his sleeve, such as being able to spin both ways, or the sheer height on his single and double axels. So he was a favourite with audiences, whom, as Robin indicates in the interview, judges are very aware of when deciding their (subjective) presentation scores. By comparison, the compulsory figures section of competition only accounted for 20% of the overall marks, and was not accessible to spectators _qua_ spectacle (the judges would trail behind each skater on the ice to see how accurately their blades followed a prescribed repeating pattern - not even TV could make that interesting to watch); and the discipline no longer forms part of ISU or Olympic competitions. You might say Cousins was lucky, but he and the other skaters were all competing on level ice, and them's the rules. In a sport where the tiniest of errors can send your ass crashing onto the ice in an humiliating and costly fashion, luck always has a hand; you just have to ride it. And really, it could not have happened to a nicer or more engaging person than Robin Cousins - so it also made for a great 'underdog' story. Jan Hoffman was a worthy opponent, however, and he went on to win the world championship a few weeks later, by a similarly slender margin. As with any sport, it's what happens on the day of the race that matters. So one could say that honours were even, and anyone still fretting about the result forty years later should probably get over themselves. I can think of a lot more egregious scoring controversies in ice skating over the years!
@@Ozymandi_as Yes, figure skating seems to make judging controversy a tradition. After the 1980 Olympics, there was the controversy of the men's Olympic gold in 1992 (should have been Paul Wylie) after Petrenko missed four jumps in his disastrous LP, including two falls, the ladies gold in 1994 (should have been Nancy Kerringan) after Baiul only had a triple toe loop, double toe loop combination tacked on in the last ten seconds, men's gold in 1994 (a good argument could be made for Stojko who had a more difficult LP), pairs controversial gold in 2002 (we all know how that ended), and the ladies gold in 2014 (Although I think an argument can still be made for Sotnikova's win there are just too many behind-the-scenes "coincidences" and connections related to her victory). Actually, a lot of people think 1994 is the year the judges got all the gold medals wrong. Although I love G&G as a pair, Sergei made several mistakes in the LP that should have led to M&D getting the gold in 1994 too, but as they say, "That's figure skating!"
По технике проиграл Хоффману баллов 10 по современной системе оценок. Прыгать надо уметь: риттбергер на 2 ноги без выезда, т.е на минус. На вращениях много не набрать, Хоффман тоже неплохо вращался. Хоффманн сделал 3 лутц- уникально по тем временам и риттбергер чисто! А 3 - й тулупп в комбинации.
Тебя забыли спросить ,,,специалист хренов! Задрал со своим неуклюжим Хоффманом.Ему до Робина, как до Луны. Без тебя как- то на Олимпийских играх разобрались в 1980, кто лучший.Смирись уже!😂😂😂
It was an incredibly tight result. But I can think of many more egregious scoring controversies in international ice skating over the years, many of which were politically motivated, which was not a consideration here. According to the rules of the day, which are the only ones that matter, RC won the SP, and in spite of the flawed element, he also won the FP, because half the marks were for 'artistic impression', and overall, six of the judges rated Cousins higher than Hoffman. He was widely considered to be the more elegant and exciting skater to watch, and he also had some unusual (at the time) tricks up his sleeve, such as being able to spin both ways, or the sheer height on his single and double axels. Cousins was a showman, and a favourite with crowds, whom, as he indicates in the interview, judges were very aware of when deciding their (subjective) presentation scores. By comparison, the compulsory figures section of competition only accounted for 20% of the overall marks, and was not accessible to spectators _qua_ spectacle (the judges would trail behind each skater on the ice to see how accurately their blades followed a prescribed repeating pattern - not even TV could make that interesting to watch). So much so, that in the coming years the discipline was phased out of both ISU and Olympic competitions.
You might say Cousins was lucky, but he and the other skaters were all competing on level ice, and them's the rules. In a sport where the tiniest of errors can send asses crashing onto the ice in humiliating and costly fashion, luck always has a hand; you just have to ride it.
And really, it could not have happened to a nicer or more engaging person than Robin Cousins - so it also made for a great 'underdog' story. Jan Hoffman was a worthy opponent, however, and he went on to win the world championship a few weeks later, by a similarly slender margin. So one could say that honours were even.
As with any sport, provided there has been no foul play - such as use of banned performance-enhancing substances, for example - it's what happens on the day of the race that matters. To come from fourth place to first was not easy to do in ice skating, where rankings rarely changed from section to section of an event, so RC really won his title in thrilling style. Anyone who is still fretting about the result forty years later should probably get over themselves!