The Official Turin 2006 Winter Olympics Film - Part 2 | Olympic History

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In the second part of the official Olympic film of the Turin 2006 Winter Games we follow the climax of the women's figure skating competition as the final routines take place.
Following specifically the performances of Japan's Shizuka Arakawa, Russia's Irina Slutskaya and the USA's Sacha Cohen we focus on the build up, routines and results of one of the great stories from the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games.
Part 3 coming soon.
This video contains older content and is therefore published in 4:3 aspect ratio to maintain video quality.
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[@saragenovese7]

Shizuka Arakawa is a queen! She's over 40 now and she still has triple jumps, the 2A, all her beautiful spirals, spins, and of course the layback Ina Bauer. Timeless grace and elegance ✨

[@s.e.4906]

This is first time I watched Arakawa. Why she is so underrated? I think she has a perfect personality and perfect set of skills. Very well deserved medal

[@pomarekaire1344]

She paved the way for Yuzuru Hanyu

[@FlyAwayFlyHigh]

Shizuka Arakawa...beautiful and breathtaking!!!

[@scheckdj3350]

Will never forget your Gold Medal skate - Arakawa was absolutely breathtaking!!!!

[@caspian8650]

Her performance is what made me fall in love with skating. I remember being mesmerized in front of our giant chunky TV...probably getting scolded for sitting too close!

[@meilinwong1538]

Watched videos of Shizuoka Arakawa skates in ice shows . Her skates are always those of an Olympic Champion, graceful, elegant , mesmerizing and so technically apt .

[@mht4908]

Even if Sasha skated clean, it would be really hard for me to say which one I prefer. Sasha has such gorgeous spirals, and she commands your attention when she's on the ice. Shizuka expresses her passion for skating very well, always has great execution, and knows to come in hoping to be proud of her performance rather than focusing on the medals. It was a very well deserved win, plus that costume is exquisite

[@meltemdemrin3467]

She did what she said a clean program doing her best and won.

[@koichiakiyama2922]

It is year 2020, March, and I just found this. I did not know that there was such an interesting one like this. Thank you very much for making it.

[@JodyyThirlwall]

She was absolutely amazing!! Plus this documentary is nice :)

[@0714awesome]

They hade some wrong information here: After the halfway mark the bonus is not 2x for all elements, it is only 1.1x on just the jumps and sasha cohen lost points on the grade of execution plus the fall on the opening combination instead of just not completing it

[@koichiakiyama2922]

静香さん、勝負を超越した心境に達してたんだな。やることは全てやり、打つ手は全て打ち尽くした人のみが住める場所にいたってことですね。

[@beeswarm7604]

Woah Shizuka's illusions have me amazed, and it was only even playing for a second!

[@TheHolisticSoul]

I believe, if we talk about elegance in women's figure skating, we can include in the list Shizuka Arakawa, Mao Asada and Michelle Kwan. If we talk about power skating, we can include in the list Midori Ito and Surya Bonaly!

[@TheCandiceWang]

Bonaly and Kwan and now Yuna are my faves !

[@coreyadkins8775]

Why did you leave out Sasha Cohen in your inclusion? Her elegance and program artistry is what set her apart. I'm a professional musician. Her long program was by far the best composition as in what was created musically. Her nerves yes her nerves got the best of her under big pressure. That revamped Romeo and Juliet as designed is still one of the most artistic programs of all female skate times.

[@Agnieszka-sm6hd]

But Sasha had very bad technique...

[@ari-hr2up]

I was born in 2006 and being a figure skater i love this video and being able to look back from before I was born

[@user-nf1fl1qg4w]

Thanks for your upload. I am always enjoying watching your video, especially Olympics History Series.

[@deborahyu5760]

I don't know why, but i luv this video!

[@farahroslend]

Omg this is so touching...

[@Olympics]

A great story from an amazing Winter Games, thanks for you comment!

[@3Axel1996]

Ugh, after the 1/2 way point of a Free Skate, the scoring does NOT double in value for every element executed. Only the jumps are given an additional bonus of 10% of the value of each jump. Who fact-checked this?

[@msmithrandir561]

I won't say who my favorite skater is....Arakawa was beautiful....The thing is, I think Irina Slutskaya is so underated always. I cannot believe after 2 falls Cohen won silver Slutskaya should have won the silver

[@officeaddict33]

Slutskaya skates like a truck driver. She skated fast and had some big jumps but had zero grace, horrible posture, pumping her body, she couldn't point her toe even if you paid her. Sasha Cohen is inconsistent but she is renowned as being one of the most beautiful skaters of the modern era. Sasha was also in 1st after the short program where she was near perfect. So she had a lead already. That's why she only dropped to 2nd place instead of 3rd.

[@qiqisongs]

officeaddict33 Her lead in short program is less a 1 point though. But i think she skated beautifully.

[@hydrolito]

@@officeaddict33 Truck driver needs to keep truck from slipping out of control on dangerous roads in bad weather.

[@meltemdemrin3467]

*Arakawa* : hmm mao cant make it better go olympics just to have japanese representation *Also her* : whoops _gold_ .

[@LeviBulger]

At first I thought you meant Chairman Mao

[@2008avf]

I wonder if you will make a video like this someday about sochi that shows people what really happened and how the judges ruined that ladies competition giving the gold to sotnikova who didnt deserve it.

[@karenstanley3861]

+Ara Flores I believe this will happen one day!

[@2008avf]

+Rene Denise Let's hope so, and that they won't change the story conviniently (giving wrong information like the new york times…) just to "clean" their hands.

[@pallafox]

+Ara Flores That's gonna be one hard video to make since they cannot justify those scores to the actual performance Sotnikova did.

[@stranger5314]

Gold for Kostner, silver is Sotnikova is silver and bronz probably the American one. Yuna must be 4th or 5th.

[@user-ii2qs4ib6x]

Keith Arnei shibal are u crazy? Ur so ironic! How come a skater be on 3 or 4th in fact she skated perfectly.

[@kojimabots3946]

I bet they would never make one for Sochi since that was a complete SCAM.

[@pallafox]

It's now 2021.. still nothing for Sochi. Total scam indeed. I'll never forget my shock when those scores were revealed. Unbelievable.

[@babycampbell2367]

This is quality content

[@marthaanderson2967]

Sasha's Romeo &Juliet programme was sooo beautiful.

[@katrinaeloize]

Nikolai morozov works at the rink I go to!!! I didn't know that!

[@BelleBlack1]

If you bring honor to yourself, you will bring honor to us all.

[@davidchau7698]

I miss those years when 120-130 is enough to get gold

[@mariamrusishvili1724]

David Chau do not say like that ... those times PCS was given completely differently. 62 was Shizukas score and also GOEs that she got were just 0 s and 1s. With exactly this skate she can earn a lot more. Also they were doing 6 jumping passes those times if I am not wrong

[@maritaolsson7356]

Irina and Michele Kwan ,, my favorite!

[@icenice1705]

日本人の誇り!!

[@ks173erika]

美しい演技でした。

[@erisl7057]

Make one for sochi lmao

[@david_1697]

what a great story

[@nisi8221]

フィギュアスケートは、トップ３に順位を付けなければいいのに。３人とも今まで観客にたくさんの感動を与えたことを考えると。

[@ludmilabobko6463]

Відчувається робота Ніколая Морозова. Його фігуристи завжди красиво, особливо катаються. Жаль що він не працює зараз з Юдзуру. Бо останнім часом програми його бідні на хореографію. Ні тренера толкового у Юзу ні хореографа зараз немає і це зразу видно...

[@maychen4801]

Sasha Cohen and Oksana Baiul are the most elegant female figure skaters in the history of the sport because of their flexibility. No one else even come closer.

[@aracelichely2954]

Excuse but flexibility is not the same as elegance, you are confused :/

[@ancamg]

Yulia Lipnikaya

[@vaughnlcoleman]

2 seconds into the video, and by her makeup you can definitely tell this is from 2006.

[@BelleBlack1]

From your makeup we can tell you're from the gutter.

[@aaroncorcega9441]

The Lutz of Sasha is an Flutz , even if she completed the jump combo she would lose the points of the combo

[@mingthemerciless7225]

this is one of the worst ladies figure skating events in recent Olympics history, for the simple reason all three medalists under performed in free skate, for different reasons though. Arakawa won gold medal here with only 5 triple jumps, you read it right, only 5, even in 90s, girls had to throw 6 or 7 triples to medal, and here we are in 2006, the gold medalist only had 5 triples, it's unheard of! She skated clean but her program was so watered down, not even worth the mention, if you want to watch Arakawa, check her 2014 world championships to see how good she could be, she won that world title with 7 clean triples include 2 very difficult triple-triple combinations in the free skate. If that doesn't impress you, here is another interesting fact, during the warm up on that Olympics night, Arakawa threw a 3lz-3lp-3toe three triple combination, extremely rare and extremely difficult back then, even now you don't see many skaters can pull that off in warm up, but she did it with such ease. I remember we watched it live on tv, it's truly unbelievable to witness that 3 triple jumps, she did that just for fun in warm up also let people know how capable she can be. But once she got on the ice, she changed her program, didn't even attempt any triple triple combinations, she also doubled a planned triple jump, in the end, she only had 5 triples. She changed her program all because a few minutes earlier, she saw the short program leader Sasha Cohen faulted her free skate. Arakawa knew at that moment, she didn't need triple triple to win a medal, she was the 3rd in the short, now Cohen was down, all she needed was a clean skate to get on the podium. But there is a catch, Arakawa was not the last skater in the final group, not only just that, another heavy favorite Irina Slutskaya (sitting at 2nd place after short ) would skate later after her. So Arakawa's safe plan was to medal, but not to challenge Slutskaya who will skate later after her and can easily beat out a watered down 5 triple program. Lucky for her, a few minutes later Slutskaya had an awful skate too. Arakawa made a calculated move for a podium finish and in the end, she got a big surprise, an Olympic gold medal, exceeded her own plan.

[@anastasiaanastasia9182]

Tactics matter

[@RaymondHng]

In the video, Arakawa did not watch Cohen's Free Skate. 6:06 She was backstage listening to the music of her program on headphones. Also, the video never claimed Arakawa was the last skater, but mentioned that Slutskaya was the final skater. Arakawa never competed at 2014 Worlds, but won the 2004 Worlds..

[@LoveSongsSupermacist]

Her coach told Shizuka to change 3-3 into 3-2 right before her performance and she followed it. She said it in the interview.

[@moreandmore4378]

@@RaymondHng Yes she did not know, but her coach (based on her interview on 2007) knew that cohen messed up so they watered down her free program.

[@sorestedhebytheTumtumtree]

Do you mean 2004 World? She doesn't seem to be in 2014.

[@smurfiennes]

I was rooting for Sasha, but she didn’t perform well unfortunately.

[@acapellall2938]

The rusian is more good that the girls of USA. 😐 why the 3 for she?

[@e.i.3077]

Her spirals were not that great and her fall interrupted her program a lot.

[@byronlin9982]

how did sasha get a medal at all? she skated horribly. just ridiculous.

[@mingthemerciless7225]

She had a fall and a touch down in her first two jump passes, but her other jumps were all good, and her spiral, footwook, spin and her program elements were superb, also here is another fact, among 3 medalists, Sasha Cohen actually is the only one who had 7 triple jumps in her program, she fell on her opening triple (a deduction) and had a hand touchdown in the second(another deduction), but her 7 triples were all completed. Arakawa and Slutskaya both only had 5 triples in their programs, and that's a fact, you can argue Sasha's poor opening jumps due to the fall or touch down, but her program even her jumping element layout were head and shoulders above the other two medalists.

[@rubybartle8552]

The man's voice is so annoying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@shimadori]

Ruby Bartle

[@rubybartle8552]

Are you just going to say my name or what?

[@geoboe84]

Although Arakawa skated cleanly and deservedly won, her style was a bit too soft and feathery, almost putting you to sleep.

[@phoenixrises1845]

conservative, yes. I wanted to use the word weak.