Men's Long Program + Fluff Pieces - 1988 Calgary Winter Olympic Games, Figure Skating (US, ABC)

[@theresabollman8061]

Calgory did a beautiful ceremony...thank you from the USA.

[@redd605]

One of the greatest Olympics games ever the greatest men, women,pairs competition , when small watching late night in the United Kingdom, and still have on VHS tapes , unbelievable year for sports 1988 summer and winter Olympics

[@sam_tyler]

Thank you so much for posting this. It was an epic competition!

[@TheLkell00]

Who made the ending "MMMMMMmmmmmm...."? Classic broadcasting! @1:03:17 We were all so proud of him and look at how proud of himself he is! And Brian Orser and his random throw-away jumps is always so surprising. Great contest. Nuts. And Orser said shit!

[@npe1]

It should never have been so close. Although I liked Orser's skating, Boitano was head and shoulders better in this event in all three sections.

[@smoothALOE]

Boitano should’ve had straight 5.9s in both categories. I dunno how any of the judges could’ve given him a 5.7. For Brian Orser, everything was slightly not as good. I’d have given him straight 5.8s.

[@dalev.186]

Orser: an outstanding performance. Boitano: the performance of a lifetime. Clear winner.

[@waynehentley4332]

Orser was supposed to win no matter what! It was his turn because he'd lost out in 1984. The fix was in that's why it was 'close' but fortunately not enough!!

[@dalev.186]

@waynehentley4332 I've read that it would've happened but 1 judge said, I can't do it, I can't make the sport into a farce, and gave the nod to Boitano even though he was supposed to be in on the fix. Integrity beat the odds.

[@waynehentley4332]

​@@dalev.186 I've read that it was the Soviet judge and he got banned by his country!!

[@patcurrie9888]

Tight competition Boitano higher in school figures and free skate than Orsor =80% of total. Boitano should have won Short. It was close but, judges gave it to Orsor. Thanks for posting.

[@nancycornett9949]

Thank you for posting this!

[@tuxtommy69]

The close 5-4 split came down to the Danish judge's marks. Boitano 5.9/5.7 Orser 5.8/5.8. Both totalling 11.6, the tie breaker is the Technical Merit (the 1st mark given), giving Boitano that judge's first place ordinal (5.9 vs. Orser's 5.8) . The following year the rule was changed to make Artistic Impression mark the tie breaker. If that had been in effect at this Olympics, Orser would have had this judge's first place ordinal (5.8 vs. 5.7) and thus The Gold Medal!

[@beeharbour]

Well, Orser would have won the gold if the Soviet judge had stuck to the deal he made with the Canadians to put him first no matter what. Who knows what other deals were made to make the result closer than it ought to have been.

[@ebonylady]

​@@beeharbourI totally agree. Boitano performed under intense pressure and didn't break. He earned that medal.

[@will74lsn]

6.0 for artistic impression from the TCH judge 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@michaelshelley1289]

right? i thought that was pretty funny too!!!

[@will74lsn]

1h14min30s "This was not a major mistake in the overall perspective of the situation." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I guess that the overall perspective of the situation was that the results had been fixed so that Orser win no matter what.

[@vickenator]

Amazing to hear them talk about how the Soviets have never won a men's gold in figure skating, knowing within four years there will be a decade-long juggernaut of Russian men's wins: Petrenko, Urmanov, Kulik, Yagudin, Plushenko (though Petrenko was actually Ukrainian). I mean, I guess they weren't technically wrong: Soviets never did win a men's gold. It was all Ukrainians and Russians!

[@smoothALOE]

Former Soviets, haha!

[@waynehentley4332]

What's Dick saying? Oliver Hoener did a 3Lz after the 2A.

[@sandranorman5469]

BTW so sad to see Orser trying to copy Boitano’s split jumps…

[@TheLkell00]

He added his own crazy jump thing to it. Loved both, but, yeah, Boitano's ending was glorious!