Final Group's 6-Minute Warm-Up - 1994 Lillehammer, Figure Skating, Ladies' Free Skate

[@mm-xk5wi]

Nancy's program was AMAZING! So far ahead of Oksana

[@malvavisco10]

0:47 I always thought Oksana had the coolest signature in this! PS this video is great quality.

[@figureskating2724]

Loved the music and the way they wrote the names on the screen. Nice intro.

[@jja8750]

Beautiful.

[@AlphaPoe]

Nancy, Chen Lu, Oksana and Yuka, the best.

[@malvavisco10]

@Sam I think you're right! With the long ponytail whipping around, the position of the layback, and the skirt shape--it looks just like Kristi from her 1992 Olympic short program. And it makes sense, since she was the reigning Olympic champion at the time, so all the new competitors were skating in her shadow, so to speak.

[@MTknitter22]

Surya was very talented as well, she often gets very left out with congratulations for a good performance that year as well!!!

[@TheWayWithKhuwayne]

Her performance plus Nancy should have been the top 2 in the technical program considering neither made a mistake. Oksana should never had been third especially double footing the lutz but it goes to show that Surya had been screwed over on occasions despite performing with more greater technical content than others such as the 1991 & 1993 Worlds & other competitions but having a lower placement overall.

[@giocurve]

I love Oksana's signature.... :D

[@jantellit123]

Most of the world hadn't heard Oksana's story until AFTER the Olympics. No the Tonya & Nancy story was promoted globally which is why the media interviewed a lot of skaters & Olympic athletes about the matter. Judges spoke of being moved by Kerrigan's sympathy story. The Brit, Polish & Canadian in particular. Sorry the crime victim was the big story at the games. Baiul made the judges respect her she earned it.

[@Yuhon100]

Yes, her story was full of sadness, and she barely won it over Nancy with the 5-4 split vote, entering the 1994 Olympics as the reigning World Champion, it advantages her. I think Oksana won it on the tiebreaker based on artistry, and she is the rightful winner because her artistry is brilliant.

[@RaymondHng]

@kwansansog (continuation) So 5 judges placed Baiul at 1 while 4 judges placed Kerrigan at 1. Since the Free Skate is two-thirds of the score and the Short Program is one-third of the score, Kerrigan's placements of 1 in the SP and 2 in the FS gives her a Total Factored Placement of 2.5 (1 * 0.5 + 2 = 2.5) and Baiul's placements of 2 in the SPand 1 in the FS gives her TFP of 2.0 (2 * 0.5 + 1 = 2.0). The lowest TFP wins the entire competition.

[@hydrolito]

Kristi Yamagucci wasn't at Lillehammer except as a commentator, however the Silhouette wasn't listed so I think was added as as special effect and she won the 1992 Olympic and resembles her so is likely hers.It list Chen Lu of China in the comments at the top but shows her spin later so wasn't her.Also they didn't show spinning sequence of Tanja Szewcenko or her autograph but I don't think it was her. So I think your right that the silhouette spinning is of Kristi Yamagucci.

[@piznoctsauo8141]

Epic.

[@lflagr]

Does anyone know why CBS completely ignored Tanja S. in this broadcast? Makes no sense.

[@3Axel1996]

Delayed broadcast allowed them to edit as necessary. Since she was not the most well known of the Top 7 skaters (according to CBS), and due to time constraints, they chacked her. I mean, cut her out from the final broadcast.

[@corawaller-jacobs8007]

@@3Axel1996 , thank you for addressing this. It puzzled me when I watched some of the video (I think it was yours) of the full CBS broadcast. I kept going back to see if I had missed something, like an announcement that she wasn't going to skate...but then they do show her place at the end. I later watched The Skating Lesson''s video on this competition and someone there had the theory that CBS opted not to show her because of her collision with Oksana. Because Tanja looked just fine, it may have downplayed the fact that Oksana had won gold despite being injured. I think what you say makes sense. I wonder, though, if they would have edited it differently and left her in had she skated before Oksana and Nancy. By the time she skated, their placements (at least in relation to each other) had already been decided. Surya was still in it for a medal, technically even the gold, and she was also very popular, so CBS must have felt they needed to move straight to her and then finish it up with Katarina. Still, I don't like it. They talked a lot about Tanja, and I want to say CBS even showed an interview with her earlier in the broadcast.

[@barkingtree88]

I wonder who the spinning silhouette is in the beginning.... is it Kristi Yamaguchi?

[@cleverkittn]

I recall watching this live and at the time, it seemed Nancy had it...until Oksana skated her exquisite and courageous program. It seemed then so obvious that as fine as Nancy had been, Oksana clearly poured her entire soul into her performance, and that (plus the unplanned triple added at the end of her program, very gutsy) made all the difference. For all Nancy's perfection, she always left me cold, much as I wanted to root for her as an American.

[@hollyjolly2066]

I am right with you on *everything* you've said - couldn't agree more!

[@mariogomes9137]

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[@closetogod5010]

Nancy just new she was going to win.

[@barbaras3206]

Odd, too. Was it all the endorsement deals her handler boyfriend got her before she ever skated on olympic ice? Campbell's, seiko, Evian, etc. Before ANY win OR lose. With her injury CBS gave an undisclosed amount for ads, to her married boyfriend handler which rumors tell were huge because of smacked nk!! (Eliminate the triple axel lady quick). Nk didnt have to sk8 nationals because of injury...then at olympics oksana is rammed by german sk8r needs steroids for pain and 3 stitches in landing leg, but manages to get gold. Seems someone was making sure nk won. Chicago suntimes put THIS together. Scandal!

[@its_msk]

@@barbaras3206 😂😂😂😂

[@MTknitter22]

yup SURPRISE

[@jantellit123]

Harding wasn't one of the last six skaters. She was skater number 8.

[@hydrolito]

They got the top 6 plus Tonya who was #8 so what happened to #7?

[@nightswimmer99]

Beautiful spins and interesting signatures. They did seem to reflect the on-ice personalities of the skaters... Nancy's writing is very straightforward; Oksana's had flair; Surya's very dynamic with the symbol thrown in for extra punch... It's hard to defend Tanya Harding but I believe that was a cough drop, not gum... without it she would have been hacking all over the interviewer due to her asthma.

[@marina_8036]

Tonya?

[@Dylvente]

I believe Witt ended up in 7th after the free skate.

[@cdricgay]

too bad !... they didn't show us tanja's writing...Probably they thought she couldn't go up on the podium. She was nearly unknown, in those days.

[@faeryquene]

@Karosanyo Apparently not to the judges.

[@jantellit123]

You can see Oksana waving a warning to the other skater who kept on coming. That german girl was intent on taking Baiul out of the competition. I'm sure Kerrigan approved. I'm pointing this out because the pro tours went out of their way to promote the 2 skaters as best of friends. This must have been really hard on Oksana to pretend to like people who are going after you at every chance. Women who hate your guts.

[@RaymondHng]

@kwansansog The difference was just a hair. Kerrigan got 1st place ordinals from GBR, USA, JPN, and CAN judges. Baiul got 1st from the former Iron Curtain countries of POL, CZE, and UKR along with CHN. The GER judge was from the former GDR and gave Baiul 5.7 and Kerrigan 5.8 for Tech and Baiul 5.9 and Kerrigan 5.8 for Artistic, so both are tied with 11.6 totals. The tie breaker in the Free Skate is the higher Artistic score, so Baiul won by just 0.1. See watch?v=iFv_tPbTQ2s for an explanation.

[@Beargeek616]

As much as I DETEST Kerrigans poor sportmanship and her attitude during and after these games, I still feel that she should have won gold at these games. Oksana got a blind eye and had a lovely, but simple jump, pose, step program. Kerrigan had more technical content, more difficult spin combinations, more difficult step sequences and more jump combinations. Bayul did not...

[@hydrolito]

I saw the Olympics on TV in 1994. I thought Oksana's long program was much more artistic and fun to watch. Kerrigan's was 2nd. In the short program I thought other skaters had more artistic programs than both but then Nancy won on the technical aspects.

[@jantellit123]

Your "feelings" don't amount to truth. Oksana did not get a "blind eye." Her program was intricate with every move finished. You can't do it nor can you appreciate the work that went into it. The free skate is about the 8 artistic elements not executing a lot of jumps. America is in decline which is why so many posters don't have any character & basic decency. You don't get a free ride just for having a US sticker on your back.

[@hydrolito]

I only recall Oksana two footing one jump in the short program, and her long program was much better.I don't recall any sloppiness except in her short program. Tonya Harding is like a Jr. High kid talking with chewing gum in her mouth.

[@chriscoyne9717]

hydrolito she has chronic asthma and it was a cough drop

[@chriscoyne9717]

Nancy was such a bore

[@AllenJones-w3p]

Kehrigen is a joke. She tarnished her Olympic silver by making a damn Boston Yankee jackass out of herself!

[@iceroby72]

@cleverkittn Exquisite and courageous program???? It was a crappy mix of bad jumping technique and winky poses without any real artistic content.... Hers sad story won the gold medal for her.

[@cheecheedivine]

Those judges should be ashamed of themselves. Nancy was robbed.

[@russiaboy58]

cheecheedivine girl please - Nancy skates like a hockey player and didn’t even try a 3 flip. Gimme a break; she’s lucky the judges put her ahead of Lu Chen...

[@carrietremble]

@@russiaboy58 She did try the triple flip. She popped it into a double. That was not intentional; she did not have a planned double flip in her program. She also had a 3/3 in her program. Oksana's program is used by the ISU to show what an IJS program should NOT look like.

[@CandyisAwesome86]

That was a beautiful intro with the signatures. Then there's Tonya. 😒

[@ewanoxborrow1024]

CandyisAwesome86 I personally loved Tonya to be honest, she had talent, you can't deny that

[@Cmc995]

Tonya was/is amazing, stop the hate lol

[@ferdyspears]

2:29, that is how a triple lutz is supposed to be done. Not even a hint of cheating it by moving it into an inside edge. Really first rate. Brava!