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[Marco]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUcUyfS9UYQ

Must have been the only clean and fully rotated 3/3 from Sokolova and what a beauty! The rest is blah but so what! Watching that face and that smile at Nagano 1998 (well, that and Michelle) got me into watching figure skating.

 

[bardtoob]

Woohoo!!! Cupcake doing 3Lp-3T!!!

 

[pollyanna]

Tracy Wilson and Rob McCall won the 1989 World Professional Championships with this program, Billion Dollar Baby (begins at appr. 1:15).

 

[DORISPULASKI]

Nicole Bobek was third in the SP at 1993 Nationals with this performance to the cancan. Kathy Casey's reaction is priceless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2cLsaO67gA

 

[chipso1]

Nathan Chen meets the U.S. Olympic champions in Spokane

 

[MR-FAN]

Nathan Chen meets the U.S. Olympic champions in Spokane

ADOOOORABLE!!!!

ok, I admit it: I like Tara and Sarah a little bit more after watching this

 

[Cloudy_Gumdrops]

Nathan Chen meets the U.S. Olympic champions in Spokane

That was the cutest thing. Nathan is so shy. Adorable

 

[Dminor]

Thanks for that great Life Spiral...

 

[Squibble]

A few clips of Laurent Tobel, the 1999 French National Champion. It's probably a good thing that there has never been another skater quite like him. He is particularly noteworthy for his strange, slow straightline footwork and humorous choreography (not altogether to American taste ). At 6'4" with a powerful but lean build, the dude makes Evan Lysacek look puny!

1997 Cup of Russia SP -- Art of Noise

1997 Worlds LP -- Pink Panther

1999 Worlds SP -- Aliens/Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1999 Skate Canada LP -- Austin Powers Simply amazing. Skating while the arena's fire alarm was going off.

 

[blue_idealist]

I remember Tobel. He was funny!

 

[Karpenko]

I recently won my 5th montage contest with this montage:

Berezhnaya & Sikharulidze - "Daydream"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSj5VrJEaAY

Music is "Comptine D'un Autre" by Yann Tierson, enjoy

 

[vivika1982]

I recently won my 5th montage contest with this montage:

Berezhnaya & Sikharulidze - "Daydream"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSj5VrJEaAY

Music is "Comptine D'un Autre" by Yann Tierson, enjoy

 

[BigB08822]

Nicole Bobek was third in the SP at 1993 Nationals with this performance to the cancan. Kathy Casey's reaction is priceless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2cLsaO67gA

Cute video. Her coaches reaction is pretty funny. Apparently Nicole had never landed a 3flip in competition before and here she made it look like her best jump and it was thrown in, at that!

 

[Angela-Fan]

ADOOOORABLE!!!!

ok, I admit it: I like Tara and Sarah a little bit more after watching this

that was so cute!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_LcQQtO8WA

Yebin Mok's short at 2003 nationals. I don't know what happened to her, did she retire? It was a lovely short program.

 

[DORISPULASKI]

She had issues with, I think, her back. She tried to return to competition but didn't make it to Nationals, AFAIR.

 

[Angela-Fan]

aww that stinks Poor Yebin.

 

[shan]

Here's an exhibition of Donlan/Speroff from last season. I've never seen an exhibition of theirs and enjoyed it despite the video quality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M93Wr2LAQ98&feature=related

 

[OrioleBeagle]

"What the Buck"s review of "Skating With the Stars". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrHsJEr3tTg

 

[Foolhardy Ham Lint]

"What the Buck"s review of "Skating With the Stars". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrHsJEr3tTg

Michael Buckley knows his stuff. And he's funny too.
Thanks for posting.

 

[shan]

I had no idea that Armin M. played the piano so well. This is just beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6nzGq-acxE&feature=related

 

[BmcC102]

This is a MUST-watch, especially for those of you who are new to skating...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YmwEE62D5c&feature=fvst

I'll never forget the first time I watched Midori skate; her technical ability will never be matched, in my mind!

 

[OrioleBeagle]

John Zimmerman and Sylvia Fontana on "Queer Eye For The Straight Guy"

Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avGjbIfctcU

Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I70X3fqJbkk

Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LZK2aOvqEk

Part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eua2G1DRnsU

Part 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgrL_HkiqqM

 

[floskate]

I just uploaded some very rare footage of the 1972 Winter Olympics. Check them out:

1972 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony (Home movie footage - great stuff and never before seen)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOcz_xn1TLI

1972 Figure Skating Highlights Part 1 - includes figures, lots of clips of ladies and Janet's complete LP with flying swans in the background

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SscrUDzeDcs

1972 Figure Skating Highlights Part 2 - a different source but shows more of Magnussen as well as Lynn again and a good dollop of Rodnina & Ulanov for good measure....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH2dk9V3rRI

 

[Frau Muller]

I just uploaded some very rare footage of the 1972 Winter Olympics. Check them out:

1972 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony (Home movie footage - great stuff and never before seen).....

Thanks - this is great. Question for Trivia experts: Who is the female skater who skated into the stadium with the flame? I recall that she actually fell rounding one of the turns...but this seems to have been edited out of all known films of the event. I wasn't expecting that the official film of the Sapporo Olys would have shown it but I was hoping that it would be in some home-made film...or maybe somewhere in the vaults of NBC (or whichever company telecast it live)?

 

[Rock2]

Joubert at about 11-12 years. So cute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWVZqU95s-g&playnext_from=TL&videos=ljeFTKABarY&feature=sub

Probably 13 since he went to 2002 Olympics at 17 I think...
And I must say, he didn't look too comfortable on the blade in 1998 to come as far as he did by 2002. That's a lot of development in a very short time!

 

[floskate]

Thanks - this is great. Question for Trivia experts: Who is the female skater who skated into the stadium with the flame? I recall that she actually fell rounding one of the turns...but this seems to have been edited out of all known films of the event. I wasn't expecting that the official film of the Sapporo Olys would have shown it but I was hoping that it would be in some home-made film...or maybe somewhere in the vaults of NBC (or whichever company telecast it live)?

I've seen that too somewhere I think but can't recall where. I think perhaps one of those sporting bloopers shows? Sorry I can't help with that, or the name of the skater herself.

 

[Seerek]

Interesting to note the high marks Karen Magnussen received in her free skating routine considering the two late mistakes she made...

 

[matti]

I just uploaded some very rare footage of the 1972 Winter Olympics. Check them out:

1972 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony (Home movie footage - great stuff and never before seen)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOcz_xn1TLI

1972 Figure Skating Highlights Part 1 - includes figures, lots of clips of ladies and Janet's complete LP with flying swans in the background

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SscrUDzeDcs

1972 Figure Skating Highlights Part 2 - a different source but shows more of Magnussen as well as Lynn again and a good dollop of Rodnina & Ulanov for good measure....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH2dk9V3rRI

Thanks, babe! Great stuff.

 

[vivika1982]

I just uploaded some very rare footage of the 1972 Winter Olympics. Check them out:

1972 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony (Home movie footage - great stuff and never before seen)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOcz_xn1TLI

1972 Figure Skating Highlights Part 1 - includes figures, lots of clips of ladies and Janet's complete LP with flying swans in the background

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SscrUDzeDcs

1972 Figure Skating Highlights Part 2 - a different source but shows more of Magnussen as well as Lynn again and a good dollop of Rodnina & Ulanov for good measure....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH2dk9V3rRI

Thank you.Really great

This one was almost one year on youtube but is new for me and i've never seen this program of Bestemyanova/Bukin:
Guitar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVW-su1udIc

 

[Frau Muller]

I've seen that too somewhere I think but can't recall where. I think perhaps one of those sporting bloopers shows? Sorry I can't help with that, or the name of the skater herself.

re. 1972 Sapporo Opening Ceremonies skating torch bearer, I found these tidbits (but not yet a link to a film of the fall):

According to newspaper articles of Feb. 4, 1972 (the day after), the hapless young lady was a local skater, age 16, named Izumi Tsujimura. She fell most likely due to very high wind but quickly picked herself up and made it to the foot of the long staircase, where she handed the torch to runner (a "Mr. Takada"), who lit the cauldron. Tzujimura was never a member of an official Japanese figure skating team. She was just selected because she was a young local skater.

Interestingly, Ms. Tzujimura was not the first torch-bearing skater to fall during an Olympic opening ceremonies. That "honor" went to speedskater Guido Caroli of Italy during the 1956 Cortina D'Ampezzo games. According to numerous on-line articles, his skate caught on a TV cable and he went down. Somebody helped him up and he went on to light the cauldron himself. Caroli had competed at the '52 Oslo Olympics but he is best known for this blooper moment.