Elizabeth Manley (CAN) - 1988 Calgary, Ladies' Long Program 

thank you for sharing that very touching story

@@adamfirebear Thank you for your comment.

RIP your mother

That is very moving thank you for sharing your story! ❤❤

@@ripet85 Thank you for sharing your thoughts!

I still remember her long program to this day...the joy that she felt and demonstrated was the highlight of those Olympics for me. She out-Carmened all of the hype of Witt and Thomas and stole the show.

@@maryb6872 I AGREE!!! She was the best! I loved her joyfulness! She deserved the win. That annoying Carmen duel was stupid. Debi should have chosen something else.

I must have missed that back in 1988. I am so glad for her triumph. That poor girl. But how wonderful she is and hher program so inspiring. I'd like to see her life story as a movie

There should have been a movie about her life. What is interesting is she has just as an interesting life with her life coaching and teaching professional and amateur hockey players how to skate. She is such an inspiration. She is still very beautiful and cute as ever.

Yes indeed..and as well as a moment like this, knowing you will be set for life financialy due to this moment must not feel too bad either. lol

It definitely doesn't guarantee you money for life, you should look up the bronze medalist Debi Thomas...

It's exactly what I was thinking too.

@@meggy0 exactly! Sad but true point in your remark about the current living situation and financial difficulties Debi's has been having. I am hoping that she has her mental health battle with manic depression under control, as having that contained once the available medicine or combination of meds can be a major factor is stabilizing many areas in ones life.

Jim McKay was such a class act. So many Olympic sports like figure skating owe him a great deal for bringing the casual viewer into the sport.

Correction: One of the most underrated Great Sporting Moments.

This is one of the highlights in sporting history and is very, very well-known. I don't think anyone is "underrating" it.

SRPDirector TM you were 8 and I was 28 - was already a life long skating fan esp Cnd 🇨🇦 skating fan - Liz Manley is my skating hero - love her to bits 💕❤️💕

I was 16, but the same sentiment...now I never miss a competition!

I watched every minute of figure skating from Calgary 88 on a beat up black & white tv in my dorm room - didn’t even know Liz was in pink until much later when I saw photos in magazines 😂🤣 this is my FAVORITE performance of any skater ever 💕❤️💕

Jim McKay always seemed to know what to say in the moment. He was a class act.

@@mikeg8375 Yesssss 🙌 indeed. We need more like him at the Beijing Olympics to get to the bottom of this Valieva scandal. The current lightweights working at NBC seem to not grasp the depth of the scandal and journalistically can’t keep up with Terry Gannon. Dick Button could keep up with Jim. When there were judging scandals, they were all over it. Here people are afraid to ask questions. A mess.

@@dmp7252 completely agree! I think the quality of coverage has gotten worse and you're right it seems they are afraid of rocking the boat.

I watch this every so often and that's the line that always gets me. So true.

Thomas Sutherland, watch Midori's Calgary LP before Liz's. The US commentators' excitement over Midori's triple lutz was extraordinary.

@@lsrasr158 exactly! it almost appears as if Midori's jump goes so high in that lutz that the top half of her body (it may just be an illusion though from that angle when you watch the first time and then when they re play) is above the boards!

@@Parker528 Watch Midori's 1990 worlds' LP, the Canadian version. After her skate, Toller Cranston cannot contain his excitement reviewing her triple toe triple toe and her triple axel. On the triple axel replay, Midori's skates are at the top of the boards!

@@lsrasr158 will do!!! its available here on you tube, I presume? So the year Trenary won Worlds, and the year BEFORE Midori misjudged her skate and actually went out and nearly collided with a cameraman, whom she promptly bows to in apology and goes on to finish that program? Which I think allowed the US ladies to sweep the medals? thank you for that tidbit, cant want to hear Toller's play by play! namaste

@@Parker528 midori's 1990 worlds LP is available on youtube in 3 versions, US UK CDN. Trenary won the 1990 worlds because Midori had an awful compulsories. Even though Midori won both the OP and LP she finished 2nd. And yes 1991 worlds is the year Midori fell out of the arena into the camera. you can watch that on youtube as well. The US ladies swept the medals at the 1991 worlds. Midori did get revenge at the 1991 Lalique tourney which she won.

I think they were credited for past performances, not so much for this performance, which sucks but is how it goes.

She was first in LP. She didn’t win because of the compulsory and the SP.

Totally agree. Witt played it safe and was overmarked

@@thomstephens Exactly. There was nothing technically difficult about Witt's performance.

@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 Which is why the judges placed Witt behind Manley here in the free skate. The judges placed everyone behind Manley in the free skate.

You sound bitter. Katarina’s was stronger in the compulsory’s and short program, she deserved to win

This is why the ISU eliminated the figures after this Olympics.

​@@flywings111.....And NOW, without Figures...the sport is just a jumping gymnastic Competiton for girls.

Derrick Oates, Liz was terrific that night. But when it comes to jumping ability, no one matches up to Midori. Watch Midori's 1990 Worlds in Halifax LP. The triple axel she did there was rated by all 3 broadcasts, US, Cdn, Uk, as probably the best one in the competition including the men. Or the 1992 Albertville olympics 3A Midori did at 3 minutes and 10 seconds into her LP. The olympic channel honored it as one of the impossible moments at the winter olympics. Liz Manley was great that night in Calgary. But when it comes to technical, Midori is in her own league (Toller Cranston comment at the end of her 1990 Halifax LP).

@@lsrasr158 Yes and while the quality of the jumps liz did this night (besides the triple loop which looked slightly two footed) was superb, the difficulty was not that amazing, even for 88 standards. She did only 4 triples, none in a combination at all. Same as Witt who only did 4 triples although they were all toe loop and salchows, and atleast did a comibination or two. Granted one was a lutz, which was rare at the time but other than that. Compare that to not only Ito who did 7 triples, but many of the other girls were attempting more difficulty, even Leistner, although Leistner's jumps were done nowhere near as well this night she was still attempting much more. She tried 6 triples including flip, loop, toe, sal, and various jump combinations.

@@richardross4677 Accurately stated. Had Midori come 2nd in the LP ahead of Katarina, Liz would have won gold. I think Midori with her 88 Calgary LP started the movement that changed ladies skating and pushed it forward to more athleticism. Watch Midori's 1990 world's LP on CDN tv on youtube. Toller Cranston just raves about her.

@@lsrasr158 While I think Ito probably should have won the 88 long program, if I were a judge I would have placed Manley 1st and Ito 2nd in the LP in order to drop Witt from the gold. I like Witt but her winning her historic 2nd Olympic gold with that skate, which paled in comparision to her 87 worlds winning LP in everyway, was kind of cringy. Amazing to think many years later Yu Na Kim could not win a historic 2nd Olympic Gold with a light years superior skate (well one of the biggest controversies ever but that is another topic). I agree Ito was the one who permanently raised the bar in jumping in ladies skating, pushing for ladies to do all the triples and 7 triple programs. And while she was decades ahead of her time, it took years for ladies to even start doing triple axels again (besides the odd one from erratic Tonya Harding) but atleast the women suddenly began doing 6-7 triple programs with all 5 other triples which was unheard of back then. And it was all because of Ito and her influence. I mean like I said it telling that Manley's program with only 4 triples, no triple combination, not even a triple-double, and no triple flip, was considered an amazing technical skate for the time. It is why I kind of laughed when Manley in her book spoke of her thinking of coming back for the 94 Olympics saying "and many of the top ladies weren't doing jumps I was doing". I was wondering if she were in a time warp and thinking it was still 88, by 94 everyone was doing a triple lutz and triple flip, even the nobody skaters as I learnt when they televised the entire womens short from the 94 Olympics. Even journeyman girls finishing 15-25 were attempting a triple lutz-double toe combo in the short program.

@@richardross4677 I agree with your 88 Calgary analysis that Liz should have placed 1st with Midori 2nd in the LP. I don't believe Midori received the credit she was due for moving the bar forward in ladies skating the way she did. Scott Hamilton acknowledged it in her 89 world's exhibition skate at the end when he said "witnessing the birth of a new age in figure skating". And the CDN announcer in the beginning her 90 world's exhibition skate "she has added an entirely new dimension to ladies free skating". Watch the CDN version of the 90 worlds LP of Midori. I have never heard a skater praised the way Toller praises Midori. Do you think if Midori stayed amateur, she would have won in 94? I think she was smart to turn pro to earn money skating while she could.

Me too I pull this up & makes me so proud of Elizabeth & my Canada ❤️

remcat03 as I’m watching this again 😃🤗 in Sept 2019 am so glad Liz didn’t have “a character program” - by Calgary I’d had enough of the battle of the Carmens - who cares - pick your music and show us you can skate - use exhibitions to become characters - love how Liz skated in Calagy and that she showed everybody what she could do (damn those figures - so glad they’re gone)

@@ej3016 I know, if not for the school figures, Liz would have won gold.

Question how tall is Manley again compared to the others?

Wow, this place sure is full of bitter Katarina Witt haters!! She won having delivered what to me and millions of others all around the world was the most mesmerizing performance of all times in female's figure skating history! I admit that Liz Manley was better technically, but guess what?! The figure skating is NOT just about jumps and skating from one end of the ice rink to the other end with high speed, it is ALSO about ARTISTRY and it was there where Katarina was head and shoulders above all the rest!! She truly put her whole heart and soul into the tragic story of Carmen and moreover, she WAS Carmen that night!! Everybody is entitled to his or her opinion and so are you, but this is mine!! And very obviously, the judges thought the same that night in Calgary!! PERIOD.

So do I. I don't watch near as much skating on tv now. I keep going back to watching the skaters I grew up watching. I am a figure skater and I don't like where the sport heading. Too much focus on quads.

It wasn't condescending. Jim didn't know skating like Dick or Peggy. He only knew the hype between Katarina and Debi. So he thought no one was going to beat them two.

@@zigzaggyp746 Plus Manley had a history of struggling to keep it together at all in big skates. He probably figured she would do well to survive the performance with few enough mistakes just to hang onto 3rd given her history.

Considering the night was a whole bunch of yuck, I was so thrilled when Liz seized the moment.

@@lilbatz what happend

I think the double to double toe combination towards the end was supposed to be a triple double. But oh well.

IThinkWithMy Dick You probably don't know then what's going on with Debi now. She lost her licence as a surgeon and can't do that job anymore, she is I'm debut and lives with her boyfriend and his two kids in a trailer car. She also may have a mental illness.

@@Alchamei her husband also abuses her and she just takes it they both said so

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Me too! Loved it!