The Salchow and a bit of Olympic History

Stumbled on this video - quite interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxtm5cW_YxE

(edit: checking if the link was live)

Wow, lots of egregious inaccuracies for something hosted on the official Olympic channel (and I've only made it halfway through). Had to take a long pause after they showed Kurt Browning's quad toe attempt in 1988 and referred to it as a salchow (and call all the skaters who pioneered jumps "ice dancers"), and mentioned the triple salchow and triple axel specifically only to show Boitano "doing a real beauty" with a video of his triple lutz.

ETA: The mispronunciations and reference to Goebel's "double quad sequence" (actually a quad-triple combination) and the comment that his "salchow scores were outstanding." :rofl: The latter would actually make some sense to say under IJS when referring to a high GOE for a salchow, but is laughably inaccurate in reference to a 6.0 competition.
 
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Wow, lots of egregious inaccuracies for something hosted on the official Olympic channel (and I've only made it halfway through). Had to take a long pause after they showed Kurt Browning's quad toe attempt in 1988 and referred to it as a salchow (and call all the skaters who pioneered jumps "ice dancers"), and mentioned the triple salchow and triple axel specifically only to show Boitano "doing a real beauty" with a video of his triple lutz.

ETA: The mispronunciations and reference to Goebel's "double quad sequence" (actually a quad-triple combination) and the comment that his "salchow scores were outstanding." :rofl: The latter would actually make some sense to say under IJS when referring to a high GOE for a salchow, but is laughably inaccurate in reference to a 6.0 competition.

Good to have the corrections, then!
 

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