Worlds 2001 Ladies LP Irina Slutskaya RUS 

Кван самая скучная фигуристка в истории

@@alexeydymov5602Slutskaya is the sloppiest skater. All she does is jump.

@@carlochapelle9331 ага, а Бильман кто делал?

@@alexeydymov5602so what? Kwan had better spirals and she’s got the complete package. Skutskaya is a “one trick pony”.

@@carlochapelle9331Кван не сделала ни одного каскада 3 3. Катание везде одинаковое. Ноль эмоций

+Matt G. LIke the Paul Revere of jumpers.

Jimmy Seraphin 7 of the 9 did.

@@jjh2456 Two were missing.

@@lancewilkinson4192 doesn’t matter. 7 of 9 gave Kwan the victory. It actually wasn’t close. Kwan won by a large margin here.

@@jjh2456 I agree with you. But my point was that the other two had to have been insane to NOT give Kwan 1st place. And what I love about youtube is that you can go back and see all their dirty biases.

@@lancewilkinson4192 it was obvious during this point in her career there was a sort of bias against Kwan. I know in 2000 and 2001 they didn’t want Kwan to win, but it was obvious that she was the best on the night that they really couldn’t deny her.

I agree. I think if Irina had a better vehicle that more effectively played to her strengths and hid her choreographic weaknesses (like the spiral sequence, yeesh), she could've won this more convincingly. A long program version of her well-done "Culture" or "Totentanz" might've done the job, I think.

She was one of the most gifted skaters in terms of raw talent but never fully developed it. If she invested more effort into improving her artistry and choreography and stopped telegraphing her jumps she could’ve been even better.

Just those two triple loops. Michelle would have ended up with a lot more underrotated jumps.

She also would have gotten no credit for that second three jump combination.

michelle rarely underrotated jumps...she may have gotten a call on the lutz edge but she always rotated her jumps.

@@Seresu1 Tara Lipinski would have ended up with the most underrotated jumps.

​@@Seresu1Michelle extremely consistently fully rotated her jumps. Either she was on and they were fantastic, or she was off and it would be very obvious. She didn't cheat jumps

Not a truck driver 😂😂😂😂💀💀💀💀

+troy0515 You mean, hired someone to choreograph all of her programs! It was the same issue with Maria Butyrskaya! That is why none of their programs except one here and there, ever seemed well constructed and most of times were all disjointed. Now, if you look carefully and on slow-mo, both of her 3loops were under rotated, hence classified only as 2Loops. Weirdly enough, the broadcaster don't seem to catch this after the slow motion replay.

+Incredible Mann Underrotation of jumps was not considered pre IJS.

+Incredible Mann re: never getting called out by judges for under-rotation ...She got a pass because of who she was.

Russian women in general have bad choreography and it's still the same today. strange since pairs and ice dancers from that country are amazing and even the men. the women don't pay attention to lines, pacing, edge work, proper posture and positions. There skating is a hot mess and this is the country with a tradition of ballet. I just don't get it.

@@vistaprime Nowadays with Eteri's students having bad programs/not paying attention to edges, posture etc. we can 'justify' it by the fact that her skaters are leading, those programs work because all of her skaters are constantly medaling and receiving high pcs. however, with Slutskaya and Butyrskaya it never worked that way, they were always behind chasing Michelle, Sasha, Shizuka. And that's ridiculous to me why no one pushed Slutskaya to develop artistically, or work on consistency with her 3-3.

corruption

@@hannibaljustincase9985 BINGO.

only remarkable thing about her jumps was the height. it's so weird to think that entire world has the image of Irina being incredibly athletic jumper, while Michelle being the more artistic performer while Irina never had any consistency with her 3-3s, and even while doing 3Lz or 3F, those jumps were too big for her to control the landings. What also bothers me how she insisted on doing -3Lo combos even though she was doubling like 90% of them

She traveled a lot on the ice on her spins. Not so great.

I can see Irina skated with her heart, just like Michelle. That's why I like Irina.

I believe she was on meldonium in 2005/2006

I don’t know why anyone would choose Don Quixote for a figure skating competition program. It’s purposefully inelegant. I don’t know what the commentator was smoking saying after Michelle’s skate that Irina had the edge in presentation.

Kwan

But Kwan was cleaner. It was the polish that Kwan had that was lacking in this performance.

Oh please. She has no basic skating skills, like Surya Bonaly. Her greatest asset was how beautifully high her jumps were. But there is no choreography here, no connection to the music and no beautiful positions. If you call this "polish" than so is a heard of angry elephants in a finely appointed dining room.

You only get credit for what you complete

she was lucky to get silver ahead of Hughes and Butyrskaya.

barkingtree88 Except you are wrong and clearly didn't watch