Midori Ito - 1990 Worlds LP (UKTV HQ) 

This lady single handedly raised the bar for women's technique... the first woman to do a 3-3 and the first woman to do all jumps as triples, and the first woman to land a 3A at World's and Olympics. Gracious, polite and with a smile that can light up an area. Quite frankly her form of joyous artistry always appealed to me more than others posing and posturing on the ice.

30年前なのに今でも勝てる人が居ないような演技ですよ。３Aの高さ、3lzの助走キャンセル、速さ、壁にぶつかりそうな大きさ、後半の3-3から畳みかけるような疾走感、化け物なみの体力。そしてみどりさんは音感、リズム感がとっても良いので、音楽にのった演技がこのプログラムを忘れられないものとしてます。

観客がどよめき、総立ちになる。世界が認める伊藤みどり。なんて素晴らしい。

トリプルはもちろんなんだけど、フライングシットスピンの高さにも驚き。 こんなに高く飛べる選手はいない。

33 years later and no one, let me repeat, no one has the height on these jumps like Midori Ito. The 2nd triple of the triple-triple combination was even higher than the first. Friggin amazing.

Such a long program, that alone required so much stamina. Her performance was truly incredible.

スピード、ジャンプ、スピン、ステップ、滑り、全てが破格。3A(3回転半じゃなくて3回転と2/3回ってない？)もすごいけど、後半に見せた3T&3Tのセカンドジャンプは、1stジャンプより高く飛んでて凄い！ほんとスペクタクル&ドラマチックスケーティングという感じ。伊藤みどりは、フィギュアスケートをアスリートスポーツに変革した大天才ですね。今見ても、息を呑む迫力があってあっと言う間に4分間が過ぎていく。まさにレジェンド。 Her speed, jump, spin, steps, skating, and everything is exceptional. The 3A (Not 3 revolution and a half, but 3 revolution and 2/3 !?) is also wonderful, but a second jump of the 3T&3T shown in the second half is flying more highly than the first one. Feeling as a true spectacle and a dramatic skating. Midori Ito is the great genius who reformed figure skating in an athlete sport, isn't it? Even now, 30 years later, I hold my breath to see this. 4 minutes are passing soon. Midori Ito is really a Legend.

That was the best triple axel I've ever seen. Man or woman. The TOWERING height, the speed, the flow out the landing. Incomparable.

滑走スピードがとても早いですね！　ジャンプはとても高く舞い上がる　信じられないですね！　最高の天才スケーター　🎉❤😊

Best triple axel ever by a woman in this performance.

天性の才能としかいえません。みどりさんを超える人はいまだにいません。

スケーティング速度が速いので、リンクをいっぱいに使う。高度な技術が必要だ。それが高いジャンプの必須条件、素晴らしい。

安心して見られる。 この滑りは今も世界一位ですね。

気持ちええな！ジャンプの正確さと高さよ

This performance still rocks almost 30 yrs after. WOW. Inhuman.

Triple axel and triple/triple combination in 1990? She's light years ahead of her time.

At her best, the greatest female jumper of all time. Her technical ability would be competitive even today.

Best triple axel ever from a lady. Not even close.

That triple axel. Drool. What an unbelievable athlete.

3A、3T+3T、3Lzに目が行っちゃうけど3Loのあの飛距離ってもの凄いよ。高さを出して跳ぶジャンプなのに。

みごとなトリプルアクセルそして高さ、終始落ちないスピード！ 真央ちゃんが目標にしてたのもうなずける。

Only 2 seconds of run-up to the huge 3Lz, immediately slow down to 1 foot step and turns, then the explosive 3A, and what a soft landing every single time!! 3:07 eagle to 3Lo... difficult sequence but so smooth and beautiful. Loop jump is underrated despite of its difficulty. She controls the incredible speed changes by edge work, and even speeds up in the second half of the program to 3T-3T, so light in the air. Split-split-2A-crazy spin🤣 Her smile at the end is so cute😃

woow soo beautiful her jumps are huuuuugeeee unbelievable.. stunning program...

I mean... Impossible jumps! Harding was the only other woman who jumped huge like this but she was second to Midori! The slo motion of that triple axel just leaves me shaking my head. Also, 3/3 combination after the halfway point with the second toe loop higher than the first!!! Uh freakin mazing

とおじは あまり考えなかったですが 女子でこのスピード、半端ないです❗ 今でも十分すぎるくらい行けそう‼️🙋

The hight, rotation & speed coming out on her triple axels were incredible 👏

３Ａと３ー３のダイナミックなジャンプとエッジの正確さが際立ってます。身長と体重のバランスも良いのか観ていて爽快です。４回転の今の時代でも参考になる素晴らしい演技だと思います。

The height of her jumps is insane

I really like her transition from 3a to the spin

Midori might as well be a helicopter with her ridiculously high jumps.

Oh man, if only she was born later so that we could see her come up in the ijs era. A once-in-a-lifetime talent.

Now this is called JUMP!!!! Jumps these days are twizzles. She made the figure skating a sport. I miss her humongous jumps.!

Perfect performance.

The TRUE 88 Olympic champion and quite frankly the REAL 1990 world champion as well. The judges simply did not know what to do with her. She changed the sport.

The great Midori Ito, the only woman skater who consistently landed the triple axel.

Midori is so fantastic 💝

just brilliant.

And that triple axel was better than the one she did the previous year at Worlds! much better landing position!

Even though other ladies have landed the triple axel since Midori, none have the explosive height, speed and distance she did.

The greatest jumper in women's figure skating ever. The height, the speed, correct technique Ito put on display make today's pre-rotated, quarter short, wrong edge jumps by 14 year olds look embarrasing.

This was the best triple Axel ever done

世界が熱狂とはこの事

Flawless

I agree that this is the best triple axel done by a woman that I've ever seen -- and I've seen many, many 3As. The height is ASTOUNDING, fully rotated and clean. Can any of the current Russian skaters match this ? Maybe, but I haven't myself seen it yet ....

The HEIGHT on those jumps. Omg.

英語の称賛する解説と画質も相まってまるで古い洋画を見てるみたい！

I think she was so underscored on the second mark. No, she wasn't the greatest performer ever born, but this program was marvelous. Giving her 5.7 on the second mark is as close to an outright atrocity as it can get

The speed she has going into her jumps is insane! She skated with more speed than skaters during her era and even now.

she was the best then, she skates so fast, faster than the rest of them, takes very risky moves, graceful and athletic

salute to midori ito

Midori was Ninja jumper！

This performance would be a contender in present times. I’m honestly shocked we never saw a quad jump attempt from Midori. She loved to jump and had tons of hang time.

I like the commentator; he really appreciates Midori's skating. She did an even better 3X axel than at 89 Worlds

if you think about it, if today's point system was around back then midori would have been unbeatable. I wish she was could competing these days like this😄😄her long program technical score would have been competitive with the top men. truly one of the best jumpers of all time

3Aに後半に3-3…。

..I Still get GOOSEBUMPS when I watch her skate!!

今の男子、女子の4回転よりみどりさんのトリプルアクセルが感動するし興奮する

That layback spin cured my acne and helped my crops grow

Look at the guy in the audience at 3:50. I think he was amazed (fainted) how high her 3T-3T combination. Midori is just amazing. Nobody is even close to her after 25 years. Female skaters should try more difficult jumps like 3A and quad jumps!

6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6. This 6 is what every judge should have given her every Mark !!! She skates absolutely perfectly ! The height on her jumps and the way she covers the ice rink it’s almost as if the rink is not big enough for her 😂She is so graceful I could watch her over and over all day long !Best ladies figure skater ever 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏Then after her Tonya Harding ! Why did the British Judge give her the lowest score of 5.6 I do not understand that ! I am British and I am ashamed that a British Judge gave her that score ! Figure skating is the most corrupt bunch of judges in any sport ever 👎👎👎Disgusting !Tonya could have done a six rotation axel and she still would never have got a 6 absolutely shameful !Fantastic figure skater she’s hardly out of breath well done 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏

I just can say wow!

Her power...unmatched and that triple axel...unbelievable... To this point I have never heard a flip called a toe salchow. Interesting...but obviously not incorrect

3:49 that man in the front of audience died of shock

In SlowMo you can see how much room she had left on the Triple Axel. I'm sure she could complete a quadruple jump if she tried :)

Minha favorita e a melhor de todas, ainda está pra surgir alguém que faça melhor

Jill Ternary shouldn't have won at all that year. Midori's LP was unmatched and she improved artistically without slacking off the difficult 3/3 combinations. if she was still skating and skated under the new COP system, her technical marks would shit on anyone in the last 10+ yrs. she is the best female jumper I've ever seen.

今だったら後半に 3A-1Eu-3F 3Lz-3T 何か+2A とかやってのけそうです 過去の選手なのに、今も夢を見てしまう選手です

Unreal

The one and only. Almost too hard to believe frankly.

6.0!!!

Way more exciting than Trenary!

Justo acabo de ver esta obra de arte y quedé maravillada, pero alguien que me explique por qué no ganó el oro?

野球のピッチャーのように道具であったり体格だったり140kマックスだったのが2024年には160k当たり前のような世の中で、しかし伊藤みどりさんのVをみると、これは前回オリンピック？去年のワールドカップ？みたいに錯覚してしまいます。靴だったり技って進化していくはずですがとにかく、スケーティングスピード、ジャンプの高さ、降りる場所は素人にも解るくらい遠くに着地されているしみどりさん越えしたかたいらっしゃるかしら🤔とさえ思います。何度でもみることできますそして、誇らしい😍 みどりさん最高🎊🎉

Glad to see the Soviet judge gave midori a 5.9 - one of the only two - on the second mark. Midori was so obviously robbed. I don't want to say racism, but there is simply no other explanation for the placements.

I don't understand how she got a Silver here over Jill Trenary...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐💖

4:17 -- Michelle Kwan would copy this same move 12 years later for her own Scheherazade program.

what the hell is a triple toe salchow?????!!!!! it was a triple flip!!!

This was before they replaced the real jumps in skating with very tight spins.

Круто и красиво !!!

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@floskate im having a hard time understanding technically. a flip takes off from your right foot, well at least in midori's case. a toe or a salchow takes off from your left. yes, the edge requirement for flip is inside just like the salchow but its still not the vaulting foot. just trying to understand the logic behind the 'triple toe salchow' term.....

I admit I didn't watch Jill Trenary's performance from that Worlds but how the heck did she beat Ito who had a triple axel, a triple-triple in 1990, spectacular jumps altogether, amazing speed, great choreography, musicality, etc? It is difficult to grasp. Was it due to compulsory figures?

How did she not win 1st?!

Survey question to all Midori Fans: if there is one triple Axel execution that is the finest, highest, and most dynamic that Midori has done, which one is it? For my it's the her triple Axel during her 1994 dura soft colors technical program, clad in dark blue outfit. Minus the self-applause, I think that is the highest and most perfect triple Axel she's ever done. It would make sense given that she lost a lot of weight so she probably could soar higher during that time. What about you guys ?

I don't know if it sounds weird but I always have wondered, especially at the Olympics, why they can't give out more than one medal in figure skating? Like one for artistic and one for technical? That way it gives all the skaters a chance to excel at whichever side they are good at.

3:48 Dang she should watch out, almost bumped against the fence XD

Any of her triple jumps is not even close to "under-rotated" which is really common nowadays.

How the fuck is this thirty years ago

Did he say "triple toe salchow" on her flip?

Trenary skated beautifully however Ito was flawless

Wow!!!!!!!! This is the first time I have seen this performance and this is how you win a worlds!!!!!! I guess she had a crazy short and that is how she ended up not winning!!!!!

the fact that there were only three 6.0's is ludicrous. did they someone could possibly put down a better technical performance?!

浅田真央、紀平梨花の2人とは次元が違う！ もちろん2人も好きですが、伊藤みどりは別格。 例えるなら、山口百恵や聖子や明菜、安室奈美恵や浜崎あゆみは時代を作ったけど女王美空ひばりには敵わないみたいな…

After this year they got rid of the compulsories. Trenary didn’t stand a chance of beating Midori after that. Midori moves ladies figure skating forward my miles in her career.

whats triple toe salchow ??? I thought its a triple flip 2:01

why did she lose, cause of figures?

ну япона мать.. я все переживала чтоб она в бортики не врезалась с таким катанием

Every time I watch this I have to comment on the sorry excuse for figure skating that exists today. Ten Russian women who do every jump pre-rotated with their arms over their head moving like turtles getting about 5 inches in the air. It's unwatchable. Olympic figure skating was the most popular sport in the world once. Now nobody could care less. The speed, height, and distance on Ito's jumps have never been matched and never will.

I love madori ito but them legs are not the beat she lands very bull leggedi wish she had fixed that but she was amazing an strong an powerful a legend in the sport