Michelle Kwan 關穎珊 (USA) - 1997 World Figure Skating Championships, Ladies' Free Skate

[@gyufrtsgftrs436jjg]

After all these years, this is still my favorite program of her's...... only a shame we never got to see it with 100% of her magic... but this was really close! ❤

[@edrivera8824]

i think this performance is the BEST choreographed!

[@towright]

I don't care that Michelle doubled the second triple lutz. This was an amazing program. I love the music, choreography, and passion in this program

[@jjh2456]

If she did they would have probably would have given it to her.

[@excalibur1812]

Ditto!

[@jjh2456]

The crowd here was pulling for her here.

[@kemdiugbor3438]

I wish that they can do this kind of video package for the skaters. I wonder why they don't do it anymore.

[@johnseals1986]

Choreographic MASTERPIECE!

[@sunshinesun101]

You can tell that Lori Nichol really invested a great deal of time and detail no this program....

[@troyaturner1979]

I'm not surprised that Michelle won. She was a lot more of being the complete skater than Tara was.

[@tally1604]

this was a beautiful skate. if only Michelle'd had a clean short, then the right skater would have won gold

[@excalibur1812]

I think the international judges had it out for her. They were always under-scoring her and over-scoring Butyrskaya, who all I ever saw her do was jumps and fall. She had NO artistry or musicality.

[@tally1604]

@@excalibur1812 true, that. Michelle had to be head and shoulders above everybody else for the judges to put her first.

[@psylockheart]

i wished she had done the second double axel in the end. the ending felt hurried

[@ginoluci8109]

Guess they couldn’t find her a chair in the museum ?? Lol

[@russianskatingfan]

She should have won here. Tara did not deserve 1st in the short program, and Tara should been 3rd in the long behind both Michella and Irina anyway.