Detroit, Michigan, USA - 1995 Skate America, Ladies' Long Program - Michelle Kwan of the United States edged out China's Chen Lu to win the Long Program. By doing so, Michelle ended moving up from 2nd to win the Gold Medal.
I loved her with Frank. They were sooooo good together. I know they parted ways. But when they were together, they were magic. They changed the world! Iconic performance.
What I always loved about Michelle with Frank Carroll is that they always had her choreography set and world/Olympics ready by the first combination. Watching this and then worlds it’s the same footprint. Just worlds has a bit more dramatic makeup and the extra familiarity. I feel the same way about Lyra Angelica. It wasn’t until her last year working with Frank and all the seasons after she left him that you saw completely different versions of the same program with each competition
I would give this 5.9/5.9 based on what I saw. Knowing she could be better artistically like she was at Worlds that year, I guess I could justify a 5.8 on the second mark, but honestly, can you imagine a skater today showing up at a competition with such amazing technical content and a ridiculously well choreographed program ????!
@@grantgoffin4774 Not only Michelle kwan but also Lu Chen deserved to win the 1996 World championship. They are so different style and both so well deserved the gold. Michelle's performance was dramatic, epic and passion. Lu Chen's performance was elegant, graceful and beautiful.
Wow, that was terrific. The way she performed this program at world (and maybe the spirit of the moment) made it more captivating, but technically, this was better. Just beautiful.
@@jjh2456 No it wasn't. Her 1999 Skate America long program 3toe/3toe was her best one ever imo. 2001 Worlds one was slightly underrated in the long. She did it better in the qualifying on that messed up skating boot!
At that time you could do as many solo doubles as you wanted, but only 8 total triples (if you also had the 3Axel). Now it's a limit on total jumping passes.
After 1992, when Ito and Kristi went pro, the technical level of women’s amateur skating went down. They consider a triple Toe triple Toe an amazing technical feat in this program when Ito and Kristi had been doing harder triple combos 5 -7 years prior to 1995.
Trish Johnson besides if there were a triple jump that I didn’t have in my arsenal, I’d rather it be the salchow which is the triple with the lowest credit. Pick another Olympic gold medalist before or after her who had as much technical content or choreography as hers. Besides who are you to say that her choreo is amateur or at a junior level. The judges don’t seem to think so and neither did the judges in the pro level where Kristi racked up wins year after year.
Tina Pham she didn’t switch it. It was her natural laziness. If Frank Caroll could not correct her lay back, then it really is just her natural laziness or lack of attention to it.
Jose Hill not really. Dick button would always call her out on it, saying it was a bad position on a layback. In fact it was if not the only criticism he had of Michelle Kwan. when you see the proper way of doing a layback with the free leg higher up and parallel to the ice (as Kristi does), the lazy layback spin of Michelle is a visual cacophony
First competition of the year and she does a performance that was even better than her eventual Worlds winning program! I think it's funny they compared her consistency to Yamaguchi as Kristi hardly ever skated clean and couldn't do a salchow to save her life, lol.
uwoeric yes kwan is nowhere near the caliber of Yamaguchi. Kwan may be slightly consistent but in what? Doing the same mediocre and predictable program/choreography of less technical jumps ? She maybe able to consistently do triple Salchows but so what? That’s the easiest of all the jumps. Can she do a Triple Lutz-Triple Toe combination like Yamaguchi? She can barely do a triple toe triple toe combo , again the easiest of all the combinations, and she never did it at the Worlds or Olympic stage. And can you compare her lazily positioned layback spin to Kristi’s picture perfect one? And Kwan’s slow tentative speed to Kristi’s? If Kwan also did pairs like Kristi did in 88-1990, would she be as consistent as Kristi? Yes she Kwan is consistent - consistently tentative skater at clutch time - that’s why she doe not have an Olympic Gold medal to show for it. Kwan never had Ito and Harding to contend with. Kristi did and prevailed over both with her technical and artistic prowess, AND DOING IT WHEN IT COUNTED, unlike Kwan who always led after the Short Program- despite a lack of technical content-but could never do a triple triple in the free skate and skated with cautious speed.
quiddy wow. Tell us how you really feel. Lol. I agree that Kristy was levels above buy Kwan held her own and was a beautiful skater and technical beast in her prime
Trish Johnson omg you’re such a troll. Let’s put it this way, Kwan doesn’t have an Olympic Gold medal. She doesn’t have Kristi’s triple Lutz- triple toe combination. What else can kwan do better than kristi? Speed ? nope. Layback spin ? Nope. Kristi has done programs with 7 or 8 triples like 92 nationals , or 91 worlds
Trish Johnson um no, Kwan did not land the triple toe triple toe More times than Kristi at the world or Olympic stage. When did Kwan hit any triple triple at the Olympic or worlds? Please pray do tell.
peek a boo, getreandsee... I see you. WHY? What makes you think YOU ARE BETTER than everyone else? Are you bitter? You have a whole lot of growing to do, getbetterandsee. LOL.
