THE KING !!! The only the unique the greatest skater of all time he has everything: Great athlete artistic sense and incredible musicality virtuoso technique breathtaking speed class elegance allure charisma and eternal cool modernity And what a smile !! No skater comes close to him. And especially not today because apart from jumping again and again, no current skater has a single one of Cousins' extra terrestrial qualities..
This is amazing skating - I feel the need to comment again. I was trained in the 80s and it was all about quality. I'm an old fart now, but I could do sit spins and spirals as well as Robin, because that's how we were taught to do them. I have the photos, if anybody wants to question that. Couldn't do anything else like him. The issue is quality - my coach was a British girl who could do double axels in the late 60s and grew up with Curry. Everything was about length and height.
schulz1 bring back height and length. Not just going up and down on the spot, barely getting the revolutions in & flailing arms above head to get extra GOE😞
No quads, no triple axel, flip or lutz like you would see today but this is phenomenal skating. It is just so brilliant - I could watch this over and over again. Robin had everything. If only skaters today could get me this excited about this sport.
The 70sthe 80s was the golden era you would no everything about the skaters, with Alan weeks and that fantastic theme tune when there had at the time of every championship and you hated missing the programme.to see John,robin,jane and Christopher,and the international skating of Scot Hamilton,katerina Witt,debbie Thomas,liz Manley, Ekaterina and Sergei the young pairs skaters from Russia,who hardly made a mistake in the Olympic in 88 with that brilliant skating programme to win.now I could only name yuna kim ,and kostner of Italy.,the last time I watched live .
He was so graceful! I was in New Orleans for Mardi Gras during the Olympics, and we had a hard time deciding when to leave the house for the parades, etc.
That is a few days ago robin and Chris and Jane ,was saying on the BBC Olympics programme I think how many jump should come it play if someone can't do quad jump it should be a point systems quad 20 points what quad 5 points , triple 15 points twice 10 points.but it should give skaters a chance to do as many as possible to have a chance and presentation and elements the same
You are quite correct floskate. I know I remember that his lace broke at one of the 3 events in '76 but got confused. If I remember, he skated to different variations on 3 Blind Mice that year for his long. If anything Robin was plagued by bad luck at certain points in his career - his broken lace at '76 Worlds, his knee and heart breaking withdrawal at '77 Worlds and the trip in '80 Worlds in the short.
I've wanted to see this for years. I heard that it was better than his Olympics performance. Shame he was so far behind. Robin won the short despite his fall, had he gone clean in that part of the competition I'm sure he would have won the whole thing because in those days they used to total the marks. Great free skaing performance.
I could weep when I see what has happened to skating since the new scoring system was introduced: dozens of talented young Russians who feel a failure in their national championships when they missed a quad, and even if they do achieve it they're injured within two years and have to leave the sport. Let's bring back the artistry, the old scoring including the compulsory figures and finally redress the balance between bulldozer and ballet. By the way: my last sentence is worth 10% more than my first.
penxtwide, that wasn't my point, either, so I think we are in agreement. I am in no way disputing his contributions to the sport, and I am just genuinely happy that he was able to retire w/ a clean performance. Realistically, though, it was indeed frustrating to see him frequently miss jumps--often easy ones. e.g., he would have won the 1979 Worlds easily, had he not fallen in SP and doubled two triples in FS.
robin was clearly the better skater there was no question about that he was coming from behind in figures many times and here had a fall on footwork in the short program but already olympic champion before this event he clearly demonstrated he was the best skater in the world
@azsk8fan Funny you say that. I first saw Evan and he reminded me of Robin. I don't think it's so much a difference in skating styles as a difference in the judging system these days. It's ALL flailing arm movements, not just from Evan. Seems the more you move your arms the more difficult the routine is, I don't know. I've seen Evan skate very elegant programs that are reminiscent of this one.
I totally agree. Evan Lysacek doesn't have the speed, height or flow of Robin Cousins. I still don't know how Evan won the OGM. Nor do I know how Johnny didn't make the podium!
No. The first one in competition was done 2 years earlier (although they had been done in practice well before that, including by Robin), but they were not needed at this time.
He won the free skate section of the competition but because of his figures placing and a deal fall on his footwork in the short he won silver overall.
I've never understood why Cousins didn't do a triple lutz or flip. Artistically great, but technically he could have been much better. There was no way he was going to beat Hoffman after his performance. Cousins was lucky at the Olympics to win. Imo. And I wasn't a fan of Hoffman
You do talk such arrant nonsence nondesciptnyc. Frequently made mistakes on his SP? Worlds '79 and Worlds '80 are the only time he made mistakes in the SP. Clean SPs at every other international championships from '77 through '80. Not on youtube is his '79 Europeans LP - one of his best performances and oddly enough his '76 Worlds - he was the only skater to land 5 triples at '76 Worlds. Robin gave many superlative performances - you're too young to remember them.
