Katarina Witt wins the Gold and becomes the first woman after Sonia Henie to win back-to-back gold medals at the Winter Olympic Games. Her playful interpretation of Carmen is a work of art.
Video quality is poor but that still does not make the magic any less! When I think of Figure Skating - Katarina Witt and THIS performance are still the first! I do not think ever would be a star like her. Thank you, Katarina! You are an important part of my childhood.
The thing that always amazed me about this woman (other than her stunning looks) was her competitiveness. She had those laser like eyes that she would lock on competitors and the audience. Truly a world-class athlete who happens to look like a supermodel.
For some reason I've never connected to her as a competitor - she seems so cold and calculating, but there is no question that this program and her skating truly set the standard for artistic skating - it's dramatic perfection and very few skaters (kwan being one) have even come close to it since.
this is the reason that the sport calls figure skating... the programms the girls show today are not show those charakter... But Kati Witt really make a show of her program
she is so greate.... i ones of my idols... the costume is great an perfectly to the music... She is totally the best carmen on ice ever... @tuttyfruttybublegum remember it´s ´88 and not 2007... so it´s clear that the custome is not so beautiful as the costumes they wear today!
I agree with loona, you can't criticize something you don't know... this was a great great perfomance of Katarina ! Skate before as her and then talk. oh my god !
Katarina Witt is a wonderful skater and an olympic champion, but no one jumps like Yuna Kim. I think Tara Lipinski came close, but she's so tiny and covers little space. After watching all 4 of Witt's performances, I think it's an understatement that Yuna Kim's performances are 'one' of the greatest. There's not much difference in ladies' jumping techniqies, most female skaters jump like Witt.
Divine skating! Skating competitions remain, to me, an odd creature, however; imagine having a running commentary provided to a music or theatrical performance, where the only thing considered is how many "moves" of various kinds are performed!? This strange and very superficial thinking must constitute a tremendous frustration for the real artists of skating. Witt speaks from her soul; that is what matters, here as in all art. Skating was never a sport.
Dick Button needs to shut up... the slow section in meant to add in choreography and catch your breath. I'd much rather see Katarina's posing than Debi Thomas' "athletic" Carmen that didn't hold a candle to this masterwork.
