Profile: Katarina Witt

[wonderlen]

The Katarina/Debi rivalry came 4th on Time Magazine's Top 10 list of Figure Skating rivalries

http://www.time.com/time/specials/pa...968197,00.html

http://www.time.com/time/specials/pa...968192,00.html

The list was

1 Yu Na Kim and Mao Asada
2 Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan
3 Brian Boitano and Brian Orser
4 Katarina Witt and Debi Thomas
5 Alexei Yagudin and Evegni Plushenko
6 Michelle Kwan and Tara Lipinski
7 Scott Hamilton and Scott Cramer
8 Jamie Sale and David Pelletier vs. Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze
9 Linda Fratianne and Anett Poetzsch
10 Todd Eldredge and Timothy Goebel

The list was compiled at the time of the last Olympics. I dont think Kim and Mao would top the list now. It would probably be Tonya & Nancy, the Brians, and then Kati & Debi.

I think Kim and Asada should def top the list. You are talking about two nations worth of peoples with long history and bitterness, plus in the age of instant online media and internet, the fight taken to a whole new level. The only thing missing is wacking the knee thing (If there was ever a case, it will be hiring an assasin, not bashing knee - thanks God for not happening). Plus the rivalry start from junior years into the Olympic. Thats a lot longer than Tonya and Nancy.

[judgejudy27]

I wouldnt have Tonya and Nancy anywhere near that high. Apart from the scandal of the clubbing it wasnt an amazing rivalry. Nancy came out ahead only twice before the 91-92 season, then Nancy won every meeting starting in early 92 onwards. On a personal level apart from the skating nobody thought much about it until the clubbing either.

Eldredge and Goebel on the list, LOL! You have to be kidding me.

Hamilton vs Cramer? Pretty good rivalry for a couple years but did anyone really care that much at the time.

Yamaguchi and Ito should definitely be on the list, how can you leave that off in favor of the aforementioned.

Lambiel vs Joubert was a pretty good rivalry over the years.

Klimova & Ponamarenko vs the Duchensays was a hot rivalry for awhile, and Davis & White vs Virtue & Moir should definitely be on there.