Skating before an adoring home crowd in his last amateur performance, Ondrej Nepela does enough to win his third World title, beating Sergei Chetverukhin and Jan Hoffmann into the silver and bronze medal positions.
Ondrej Nepala was Slovak skater representing Czechoslovakia... trained by his coach Hilda Mudra...Austrian born lady who fell in love with a Slovak man...and lived in Bratislava as Slovak national speaking Slovak language and German!!! Czech skater? Well , general Wikipedia..states something different..The commentator knows nothing about Ondrej Nepala.....why would it annoy Slovaks? The commentator is showing how ignorant he is towards other nations....
@@janakumlec5363 As an austrian this is interesting. Mudra was born hildegard klimpel and emerged from the vienna skating school and later studied geography and biology at vienna university before moving to then cssr. She also coached the legendary josef sabovcik. Somehow the slovakian version of jutta müller.
@@janakumlec5363 In german and austrian tv. Athletes from the soviet union were allways presented as sovietrussians, no matter if the athlete was an armenian, georgian, uzbek, latvian etc.
Очень любила Ондрея Непелу...И всегда за него переживала... Во время Олимпиады в Саппоро убежала со школьных уроков, чтобы болеть за своего любимого чехословака. Я его считала самым стильным и очень красивым...🥇
Wikipedia clearly states Ondrej Nepala was Slovak skater representing Czechoslovakia. He was born in Bratislava. His coach was lovely Hilda Mudra Austrian born lady married to Slovak. She moved and lived in Bratislava. She spoke Beautifully Slovak language and German. She passed away 22.11.2021. R.I. P. She was a lovely lady. This commentator is useless!!!! Missing all real facts.
Floskate- Wow! You are a genius! This is so much better than the old black and white, foggy versions of 72 and 73! Question: Is Ondrej's 73 short program available anywhere on youtube? Since it is the only one he ever did, naturally we have all been trying to find it (especially his fans on his facebook page.) Any word on that? Thanks!
Oh, that is too bad! Well, who knows! Maybe they will show up sometime! I was excited to see that you found Ondrej's exhibition skate from '73! So anything is possible! Thanks for your answer!
Thank you very much, floskate! That was really great, Ondrej's performance in Bratislava! I cant' believe that I can see it again! Could you, please, have the videos of exhibition skate of Christine Errath (Pariser Tango) and the free dance of Green-Watts and Buck-Buck?
И чем это катание отличается от того, что показывают в 2021м? Только количеством оборотов в прыжках. А скорость и чистота линий и сейчас не у всех такая.
It was the ignorance and unconscious bias of the times. Sadly that ignorance and bias hasn't completely gone away. But the commentator died in 2015 I believe.
Nor would Babe Ruth, Yogi Berra, Martina Navratilova, Joe Namath, Wilt Chamberlain, or Olga Korbut -- all among the greatest champions of their sports -- be competitive today. Athletes are products of their time; as technology, training, equipment, skills, etc., develop, standards change. You cannot diminish the accomplishments of one of the greatest skaters of his day by comparing him to skaters in 2017. The sport has progressed and the criteria by which its athletes are/were measured have changed, as well. What may look antiquated to you now, was state of the art in 1973. With this in mind, it is fairly safe to assume that today's top competitors will seem similarly behind the times 20-30 years from now.
Michael Vaughn...I agree with you. Although I don't think the human body could do more than a quad. The sport has pretty much peaked at quad jumps. That said, today's level of skating will stay relevant and up to standards for all time.
Непела - гений фигурного катания. Лёгкое скольжение, изумительно красивые линии. Он изящен, как фарфоровая статуэтка. Помню, мы семьёй болели за Четверухина. Катание Непелы казалось скучным, сам Непела - уже великовозрастным, "старым". А Серёжа Четверухин был такой красивый, нам и катание его нравилось. Непонятно было, почему его всё время вторым оставляют. Сегодня понятно. Да, Четверухин очень хорош собой, но - посмотрите, какие корявые, неровные у него линии по сравнению с Непелой. Колени торчат. И посмотрите, как изящен Непела. Какие у него красивые, чистые прыжки, да все движения красивы. Это не только результат труда, с этим родиться надо. Непела был гениален.
