KAREN PRESTON 1994 CANADIAN NATIONALS FP
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Karen's heartbreaking yet strong performance at 1994 Canadians that prevented her from making the Olympic and world team, as Josée Chouinard placed 1st and Susan Humphreys 2d.
Her tears are painful to watch, esp. since she coped well with pressure and fought through the whole performance, landing 6 triples and a gorgeous double axel but only 3 triples are clean (flip, salchow, 1st toe) and half of them are two-footed (flutz, loop?, 2d toe though the latter two slightly) and falling on a courageous second triple flip attempt (that was close and would have assured her a spot). What is more, this program is maybe too focused on jumps and lacks artistic intricacy, although it is skated with good speed, attack and flow.
How unfortunate that Humphreys outskated her (she had the skate of her life and landed six clean triples but it was a close call as the commentator says. Still, she deserved to be ahead of Karen if not of Josée, and the judges were extremely fair and did not consider the past her strength and good standings on the world scene-, the present -this FP and the future -she most probably would have placed higher than Humphreys at worlds and OG as she had poor performances at worlds and O.G. and after that season her carreer went downhill but who could have known?) Karen, after the trauma of being written off the national team, quit eligible skating and went pro, which I think was an emotional and rushed move, as the next season, there was no contention at all with Josée gone and a weaker Susan, so that an unknown Netty Kim won the 1995 Canadians and did not even qualify at worlds!!!
Poor poor Karen, this FP must be her worst memory but it is nevertheless a good one and the only chance to see this new Swan Lake FP which I never saw the GP versions of (if anyone has them, please post them). Hope you enjoy and "live" it like I do.
Wow - the cameras really captured the drama 🎭. The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat all in a split screen. Wow. What an impact.
Great fight. Great fight. Sharp strong movements. Best double axel I've seen.
Susan had the skate of her life on this night, she did earn her spot, it wasn't a case of Karen being "dumped". I feel for Karen, you can tell how badly she wanted it, and she knew it probably wasn't enough judging by her expression. Karen is now a coach at the Canadian Ice Academy. I'm sure she'd be a good coach. She had some very positive things to say about Canadian figure skating right now.
Do you think had Karen gotten to go to worlds that year over Susan she could have medaled? The field was pretty weak, and Karen had more international name/clout than Susan had. Tanja and Marina were 3rd and 4th and Karen would have beaten both at the 93 worlds without Josee causing that crazy ordinal flip, so I think the bronze at the 94 worlds would have been very possible for Karen. In that sense it was even sadder she had to miss those worlds than the Olympics where obviously Karen never would have been a potential medalist.
roger leblond Karen couldn’t have been a medal contender in 1994.
Heading to that worlds, Bonaly, Chen and Sato were heavy favorites for podium with Chouinard and Markova being spoiler.
Surprisingly, Szewczenko and Kielmann were just regarded as long-shots for medal as you can see their low marks in SP with clean skates.
That is, Szewczenko was suuuuper lucky to win a medal there with Chen withdrawing after QF round, Chouinard and Markova skating badly and Kielmann falling her last 2A.
There was no place for Karen at 94 Worlds. Rather Czako was more probable for winning a bronze there than Karen.
something happened after 1992.... shes started two footing everything!
I wish she would've come back with vengeance the next season.
Really heartwrenching to watch. Kind of ironic that both she and Susan skated so Swan Lake. Although in the words of Dick Button, 'there wasn't much Swan in that Swan Lake' - and this applies to both of them. Very close, but I would have gone with Karen over Susan.
Great fight.
@herminator65sf I mean atleast wear something that's relateable to the music.. Though over played..its lovely to watch skaters perform programs atleast relate-able to it.. I agree with you fully Herminator!!
The amazing thing is she would have won the bronze at Worlds over Szewcenko with this skate yet it wasnt enough to make her own Olympic team.
Karen couldn’t have been a medal contender in 1994.
Heading to that worlds, Bonaly, Chen and Sato were heavy favorites for podium with Chouinard and Markova being spoiler.
Surprisingly, Szewczenko and Kielmann were just regarded as long-shots for medal as you can see their low marks in SP with clean skates.
That is, Szewczenko was suuuuper lucky to win a medal there with Chen withdrawing after QF round, Chouinard and Markova skating badly and Kielmann falling her last 2A.
There was no place for Karen at 94 Worlds. Rather Czako was more probable for winning a bronze there than Karen.
@@wj3781 But you are saying Szewcenko was lucky to win bronze and Preston could beat Szewcenko which means she would have had a chance.
The commentator couldn't tell that Lutz was on two feet???
Karen should have been sent to worlds over Susan. Susan going to the Olympics was fine but after her poor Olympic showing she should have been dropped from the World team for Karen. Karen would have won the bronze ahead of Szewcenko clearly at Worlds.
I think that your ‘What if’ statement is really meaningless. Cuz Karen couldn’t have been a medal contender in 1994.
Heading to that worlds, Bonaly, Chen and Sato were heavy favorites for podium with Chouinard and Markova being spoiler.
Surprisingly, Szewczenko and Kielmann were just regarded as long-shots for medal as you can see their low marks in SP with clean skates.
That is, Szewczenko was suuuuper lucky to win a medal there with Chen withdrawing after QF round, Chouinard and Markova skating badly and Kielmann falling her last 2A.
There was no place for Karen at 94 Worlds. Rather Czako was more probable for winning a bronze there than Karen.
It is amazing to think Josee, Susan, and Karen all landed 6 triples (even if all 6 of Karen's werent clean). Amazing when you look at the following years especialy 95-99 the abysmal level Canadian women were producing. Susan won her lone Canadian title with only 2 triples, a much poorer skater than she made the Olympic team with her, and which would have had her nowhere near making the team vs the likes of Josee and Karen skating well here. At the 95 and 96 Canadians Susan couldnt even beat a 3 triple Netti Kim and a 3 triple Robinson with only 1 triple of her own in 95 and 4 triples but mainly just triple toes and I think 4 falls (and botching the short program already) in 96. Susan badly fell off after showing promise in 94, and Karen, Josse, Tanya Bingert, Lisa Sargeant all retired. I wonder if some of those might have been too quick to retire, especialy poor Tanja who had still yet to make a Canadian and Olympic team at the time of so much depth and could have made a bunc hin the years following. Oh and Josee's pathetic return in 96 where landing only 1 triple she lost Canadians to baby Robinson, and didnt go to worlds.
Karen *should* have continued into 1995. I can understand her bitterness here, but if she had learned how to clean-up her landings even slightly, she could have soldiered on and won in 1995. Hindsight is 20/20 and in 2017 I can't even find a single video of Netty Kim who won 1995. No Canadian short, no Canadian long. Weird, a year prior -- you could see everyone's programs. No video of her showing at World's... Fuck! Not even a photo! Who the hell is Netty Kim?!? Almost as if she never was...
I don't mean to be rude, but the commentators are quite stupid here -- there is no way that the technical program could have been the deciding factor between Preston and Humphreys. Since they finished 3rd and 4th in the TP, the one of them who placed higher in the free skate (whether by a millimeter or a mile) would have ended up higher in the final standings. The factored placement system was instituted in the 1980-81 season, and this was 13 years later! Get it together, people!
I think they meant mentally the short program standings had an effect potentialy when the performances in the long were relatively close. I am sure Debbie Wilkes knows full well all you said, she is no dummy.
Wow, she looks exhausted at 3:00
@lookscudkill I wouldn't call landing five triples having a bad day...
Humphreys had no business being on that team that year; she should have been pulled off the team after her Olympic performance. Preston was a better skater bar none
Didn't Humphreys ultimately cost Canada the chance to skate at the olympics when she refused to let another skater take her place when she was injured??? I remember her - I saw her at church when I opened the washroom door (for anyone); she forgot to lock it and there she was the ice princess on the throne. I was so mortified.