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9:57 "We don't know a lot about Lenka Kulovana" ; 12:40 "We have not seen Lenka Kulovana before" hmm... She was 5th at 92 Europeans and 11th at the Albertville Olympics the season before this competition... And she'd already been 6th at Europeans in 1991, and beaten Nancy Kerrigan at the 1990 Internationaux de Paris on her way to win silver. So she sure was on the radar of FS experts... Thanks so much for this upload (as well as so many other gems!!), I had never seen many of these performances - including Lenka's lovely skate here. Watching her clean, light and sharp skating skills, always in control (other than the turnout on the 2A) and with a detailed choreography and attention to detail, right after Surya's skate, to then see that the judges gave Bonaly 5.4 to 5.7 in artistic impression(!), while only granting her 4.7 to 5.2 sure was... "just how things were in Figure Skating" when a skater didn't have a lobby - in stark contrast to the Gailhaguet's relentless, always extremely vocal fight for higher marks... Anyway: Thank you so much!! :D

The beginning of the end of the Golden Age of ice dancing. That includes Evan Bates before he meets his partner on and off the ice. Thanks for posting, and I can watch these videos of the Golden Age of figure skating anytime!!

I really don't understand Steven Cousins' score. I tend to watch the ladies' competition more but I thought Steven's performance was really well-executed, no errors...maybe he did easier jumps than the others?

Obviously a great skate from both. But Chen Lu, to me, was just magical - due in large part to Sandra Bezic's choreography. The whole masterpiece of a program, including daring just to take the few seconds in the middle of the program, of just standing still and letting the moment linger in complete silence... Art. It needed this perfect skate for her to win after Michelle had been "preparing the judges to give her the title" all season long through superior performances. But the sad thing is: as unlikely as it was for Chen Lu to deliver this perfect performance (with 2 HUGE, clean 3Lz'es, as opposed to Michelle's small jumps), and for Michelle to have a 3T(scratchy landing, slightly dipping forward)2T instead of the 3T3T that was announced as "the queen maker", BOTH of those 2 unlikely things ended up happening. And yet, the judges just said: "Doesn't matter. I don't care". Ugh. This was one of those times where I'm convinced if the starting order had been the other way around, and Chen Lu happened to skate after Michelle Kwan, Chen Lu would have won. This decision was, to me, not OK. :( (though I do love Michelle's choreography and improvement from the cute little jumping bean she was just 1 season prior - to me, she had a beautiful silver medal performance)

1) I don't understand how Kurt Browning can call Surya's 3Lz at 1:21 "double footed". Whatever the angle he viewed it from, especially being a skater himself. Weird... 2) Yuka Sato in 1st for me. Compare her step sequence with any one of the little-kinda-steps Surya was doing here and there, and it looks like they're not even competing in the same discipline. Yes, Surya had 2 clean 3Lutzes and a nice 3T-Euler-3S2T, but her landing on the 3Lo (hand down, no control, quick stepout) cancels out the (only)2T of Yuka. Yuka's 3Lz and 3F were "barely squeezed out", and all her jumps obviously are nowhere as big as Surya's, but they're clean and... sharp. Surya telegraphs the jumps, esp. when it comes to the Flip, she just completely halts any choreography or interpretation for several seconds before jumping, and that gives me the vibe of a "jump competition event". The 3T at the end of her 3F3T was missing half a turn, so with the rules of back then, should be counted as less than a clean 2T. And in hindsight, given how atroceously Surya behaved during the medal ceremony, I'm relieved she wasn't ever crowned a world champion. In Yuka Sato's home country, a country where respect and honor are so important and highly regarded, she tried to make the statement that "even just the possibility of ranking Yuka ahead of her could only be a travesty". And that was, at best, not remotely the case. She ruined this amazing moment for Yuka, who wasn't responsible since she wasn't a judge herself, instead turning it into a "please let me hide away right now" moment for her. And even back then, right after they both skated, pretty much all international commentators saw Yuka's skate as the superior one.

What a cute interview with Nancy & Paul.

That was fantastic I really enjoyed it, but it brings it home what is happening to the world 🌎

Deeply moving. Thank you, Jayne and Chris.

So hard to listen to Peggy and especially Dick bash Kira's skating non-stop. It's like they were hoping she would make mistakes, and then Dick almost sounds gleeful when they happen.

Amazing people, and all the people who made this film, it was great, just beautiful, God blessed us with so so much, be grateful.♥️♥️🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸

Great to see them like two small kids, enjoying and loving each other and their sport. Love you both. God is blessing us with the scenery, the nature. We are blessed.♥️♥️🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸

God, forgive me , to tell the two of them we’re threatened by Climate, is terrible. I’m 74 and sick of this main stream media , and others who are paid off to keep it alive and going. You hang the carrot stick out to two famous ice skaters, who love ice, and what it must mean to them. Did you talk about weather engineering? Crickets, did you talk about HAARP? All located in Alaska. Did you talk about DEW, Direct Energy Weapon Lazers? No crickets. No you tell them their ice is going to be taken away. People realize in 2024, so much manipulating of news and facts. Please get your story straightened out., before you make emotional statements that aren’t true. Listen to Dane Wigington ♥️♥️🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸

wow still fabulous, thankyou for doing this

Yagudin 100%. Why Plushenko was doing finger “gun” in a Carmen program …

watching this again, only strengthens my feelings Tara should have won. Her program was so far ahead of the rest of the field technically, and artistically she did just fine for someone so young. I would have given Kwan 5.7 and 5.9 and Tara 5.9 and 5.8. (seeing this again...I now like Slutskaya's long program a lot more than I remember! So much speed and power in her skating compared to Chen and Maria B.)

THANK YOU for including Midori in this (her World debut...I think?) I love her so much.

Gracias.

How beautiful

Sometimes dreams do come true. Similarly to some of the comments below I have been looking for such a video for about 10 years. It is a real treasure to be able to see the complete coverage of the event on Austrian TV with a wonderful commentary in German by Eva Pavlik. Millions of thanks for uploading it. By the way, have you got other videos of these Winter Olympics in figure skating? I would much appreciate it, too.

Janet Lynn is my favorite skater. The only other skater who skated similarly to her was Laurence Owen, Maribel Owen's daughter.

their unmisrakable magic is unchanged

Great competition!! Do you have the 1995 Legends, and Christmas on Ice?

Can you post Marie-Pierre Leray’s programs at this 1993 skate Canada ?

Can't believe Oksana's technical marks were so low!!! Rosalynn only did 2 double axles and still beat her. Katt only had a triple toe, a triple toe with a step out, and a double axel. Denise had 1 triple toe and a fall!!! Kadavy beat her with only a triple toe with a step out and a double axel. Oksana had a triple lutz, a triple toe, 2 double axles, and a double salchow double salchow; the best technically and the best artistically. BS

Heli skating! ❤️

I've never really kept up with Rachael's skating but wow this program was something else!!!

これは凄い！札幌オリンピックでこんなに長いVTRを見れるなんて！

This was absolutely stunning!! And the scenery is breathtaking! Thank you…thank you…thank you!

I forgot that Dick was actually positive in this commentary..

Thank you so much for posting another fascinating comparison! These two share the same coaching staff, yet they have vastly different approaches to skating which, in and of itself, is SUPER exciting. K&D looks more like a typical Leningrad pair-with somewhat raw skills and presentation without too much emphasis on maintaining consistently refined lines or not having “a hair out of place.” B&S, to me, looks more like a Moscow pair-with more focus on clean lines and “contained artistry.” Both are good, and I appreciate them both equally here! I know the audience sentiment was with B&S and I, too, wanted them to win, given the hardships they had faced w/ Elena’s traumatic injury. But they made too many small errors-even w/o the major fall on the final lift. The incomplete 3Tw alone may have been a dealbreaker here. Oksana’s overall skating, to me, lacks the refinement I generally look for in Olympic champions, and her flexibility isn’t always aesthetically pleasing to me. Most of all, the performance here feels tentative…but, then, they skated this front-loaded program without major errors. So, I am a bit surprised that their scores were so close-with Polish and US judges giving them both 5.7 for technical merit! I think the correct pair won here, and I have a feeling B&S would have won easily, had they both skated their programs cleanly.

Coucou 👋 Ça y est !! C’est enregistré !!! Ils ont toujours été les premiers dans mon cœur ! Et ils le resteront 💜💜💜

Thanks for posting Amy! 💞💞💞💞 I had not seen this documentary since it's original broadcast, and had forgotten how wonderful it was! And what a lovely version of Bolero was skated. Perfect! 🥰🤩

I love Peggy and dick button commentary on each performance

A classic layback spin, and Caryn’s program was beautiful. Of course, Paul had an awesome program to JFK. Thanks for posting!!

Astonishing news...I am the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE (JESUS). No one comes to the Father (GOD) except through Me. John 14:6 Are you afraid of dying? Jesus died for you. Believe and repent today!

Great show!! I especially loved Paul’s skating to JFK, despite the fall on the flip.

OMG! I've been a fan of T&D ever since I first saw them figure skating, way back in the early 1980's. They picked up in artistry on ice where Canada's Toller Cranston left off. I've seen Toller live in Kingston, Ontario, and T&D in Victoria, BC. They remain beacons of creativity and grace on ice. This video is a wonderful reminder of PERFECTION!

I watched Bolero as it happened in 1984 ... the expectations were high and the performance was higher. I will never forget. Now I have more of them to treasure.

It was amazing to watch chris and jayne on real ice, I loved George on the train 🚆 trying to find ice for chris and jayne. Thank you for showing us the way ice is disappearing at a alarm rate ❤😊xx

Do you have any idea where I can find and see the boitano long program with the CBC commentary?

Superb! What a gift these two exceptional people have given to the world with their talent. Thank you for posting this. I can keep watching it over and over.....

Love this couple they are awesome and I love their love for each other so unique so special so enduring. I do believe Jayne is Christopher’s one pure lasting solid deep relationship over all others she’s been his truest faithful friend

Simultaneously fascinating, informative and challenging. To see them both trying new experiences while learning about the devastating effects of climate change on the coldest parts of the planet is encouraging yet sobering.

When skating was skating ❤❤❤

What a pleasure to watch ALL of these women! Today, *most* world-class female skaters have similar looks, similar approaches to artistry, similar generic music, similar flowy, pastel-ish pretty-but-unmemorable costumes, etc. etc…and many have AWFUL edge quality and technique, designed to complete multi-revolution jumps at the expense of “honest” skating. Sometimes, from a distance, you can’t even tell skaters apart. In the 1970s through the early 2000s, in particular, it was SUPER exciting to see competitions because each skater had her own style, her own aesthetics, her own costume design, her own technical “quirks,” etc. etc., and they all kept us on the edges of our seats. Today, the same excitement simply isn’t there in women’s figure skating w/ the exception of some unique skaters…and I truly appreciate people like AmyNicole uploading these precious videos! THANK YOU.

Great show. Thanks for posting!!

Thank you for this! I also was unable to access this program before, but have certainly wanted to watch it. Thanks again!

I always felt like the commentators hated Kira Ivanova so much...was it because she was from Soviet Union? I mean, I get it...her program was pretty blah and her skating wasn't all that great, but she didn't deserve the amount of hatred Dick was giving during her performance :(

Another fascinating comparison! Like your comparison of Shishkova/Naumov vs. Brasseur/Eisler from the other day, these two couple have one thing in common: The male partner is stronger than the female overall. But Mandy did pretty well here-containing her enthusiasm to a minimum, not getting those “stiff knees” she sometimes got-and keeping her composure. Sure, there were hiccups here and there-and what was that haphazard pair spin about at 1:35 or so…but those 5.6s shocked me a little, to be honest. I&D is a good couple, for sure, but I always found Kyoko’s line to be awkward and her feet to be unpointed and flat-typical “symptoms” of Marylynn Gelderman’s students. By comparison, Jason has a wonderfully sensitive lines (minus the rounded shoulders) and feet…and he was definitely stronger of the two. Here, I think W&S had an edge over I&D, especially with I&D missing both SBS paths and a whacky SBS spin. At least, that 5.8 for tech merit was too high for I&D for that performance with two major errors.

CURIOUS COMPARISON!!! You know, they are both WONDERFUL couples, but they share a common weaknesses-which primarily involves the female partners’ “weak legs”…as though they were skating on eggshells. Again, both are WONDERFUL couples, but they could have been far more successful, in my opinion, had the females matched the power and skills of their male partners. With this said, I find Evgenia’s edge quality to be far superior to Isabelle’s, and S&N had cleaner lines. In that sense, I would have given S&N an edge over B&E. I really like B&E, but Isabelle’s edge quality always bothered me more than her 2As…