If the Olympics were in 2001, she would have won in a LANDSLIDE. This program and her free skate to Song of the Black Swan/Dumky Trio will always be my absolute favorites.
No one has equaled her in how she carries herself on the ice. The epitome of poise and grace....nowadays they're just gymnastic jumping beans, checking the boxes. I don't watch anymore...they're just robots. the drama and emotion. It's NOT just jumps!!!
She originally used this music in the "artistic program" of a pro-am competition. It was a longer version. And after the performance, while the crowd was still cheering her on, said: "Michele conveys the feeling of flight more than any other skater." I'll always remember that because I could related to the comment.
@@angiemaniaciskatingfan723 She didn't need it Ange, it needed her. Her overall achievement and legacy is bigger than Olympic gold. Without her name on it, it's just another medal, without luster, without shine. Without Michelle Kwan's name on it, it has no magic.
Ironic, because her luggage got lost with her normal costume and her sister had to bring some practice dresses for her to wear here and in the long program.
She was their template. This is why Michelle was so consistent. While I love her artistically like the next guy, but she has always had that if you go back and watch her broadcasted performances. It's funny in one interview Michelle said the loop was her least favorite jump, but her toe-assisted jumps (lutz and flip) almost always had a blade assistance, much like a loop. 😂
Back then 2 footed jumps were two-tenths deductions (IIRC) .... I believe Peter said "one-tenth right there" referring to the flutz. I believe the judges took off for both the flutz and the two-footing. But I don't believe the jump was two-footed .... but it just barely, barely! made it through. The jump was just not executed well.
K J Did you watch the replay? I didn't think so the first time, but you can actually see particles of snow/ice kicking up from the left blade touching the ice. I think they deducted for it, either way.
As usual, corrupt judging biased against American skaters. It went on for decades. Just look at the travesty of the 1984 Olympic Ice Dance event where the judges strategically scored Judy Blumberg and Michael Siebert so that they would lose the bronze medal by a tie-breaker to the 2nd soviet pair. The judges claimed that they penalized Judy and Michael for skating to classical music, which they skated to Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov and had multiple tempo and meter changes. Then they hypocritical judges went on to give Torvill & Dean perfect 6.0's for skating to Bolero, which is classical music and doesn't change tempo or meter throughout the entire 16 minute piece. Completely biased judging saying the T&D transcended their sport. Apparently, they transcended the rules, too.
She did not. Tonya Harding was doing a spin with both hands clasped behind her back. Elena Liashenko was also doing a version of this spin as well in the late 90s.
Her luggage was delayed (or lost) so she had her sister bring some practice dresses. Funny, because her raspberry colored dress in the long program became kind of iconic.
I love, love Michelle... but at 3:49 you can tell that both her flip and lutz (wrong edge) jumps were not toe jumps, but rather pre-rotated edge jumps. Basically, her lutz/flip turned into cheated LOOP jumps. The ISU is cracking down on this now -- 208-2019 season.
idolfan9495 She’s talking about the excessive pre-rotation. Toe jumps are only supposed to pre-rotate by 1/4 of a rotation. Michelle’s flip and lutz pre-rotate by 1/2 a rotation. Krist Yamaguchi did the same thing. A lot of people think it’s a new thing that Eteri Tuberidze started, but it has been around forever.
generous technical marks considering the inside edge of the lutz and the two feet landing on the lutz. i would have given her 5.2 and 5.9. i m really bored with these american journalists and commentators. the marks she received were not at all undermarked. they are ridiculous.
It's breathtaking that Fleming and Carruthers both missed Kwan's obvious two-footing of the triple lutz, and that they were "shocked" at the marks Kwan got. In light of the mistake, Kwan was actually overmarked.
Matt G, please watch the replay where Peter Carruthers says there are two things went wrong with the jump combination. One, that it took off on the inside edge and two, that it was a 2 foot landing.
