Sarah Hughes (USA) - 2002 Salt Lake City, Figure Skating, Ladies' Free Skate
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- Опубликовано: 2 апр 2010
- Salt Lake City, Utah, USA - 2002 Winter Games, Figure Skating, Ladies' Free Skate - Sarah Hughes of the United States had the skate of her life here, winning the Free Skate. With Irina Slutskaya of Russia placing 2nd, it was enough for Sarah Hughes to jump up from 4th Place to win the Gold Medal here.
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The smile on her face at 0:43 to 0:46. This is the reason she won. She was relaxed and where she wanted to be. No pressure. She said afterwards she was not thinking about a medal. She was thinking about her performance. And gave the performance of a lifetime. It was not about winning and losing to her. It was about doing her best. Still wonderful to watch.
I agree. The lack of pressure helped. But she definitely hit the ball out of the park with her long program.
@@davelee8961 Under the new system, Sarah's technique wouldn't get marks.
@@davelee8961 Sarah had no pressure because no one supports she would be the winner.
@@TT-ee4qp everyone accepts the results except you!!! SHAME ON U!!!! Lack of respect for the rightful winner!!! Too bad michelle fell on an easy flip
@@23Echeo To bad Sarah Hughes fell on an easy flip , a easy lutz, a easy terrible jumps wouldn't get marks today. 🤣🤣🤣
Sarah Hugh's technique never good enough to win any World champion or the National titles..... so lovely. 💞 🤣🤣🤣
Even now, it so beautiful. Sarah was the best skater that night.❤❤❤❤❤
I remember watching this live. Everyone knew they had just witnessed something very special.
@@evanperilstein5308 no need to insult her
I remember it too. I didn't understand what was going on but I knew she had just made an outstanding performance.
And one of the best laybacks of all time. Turned out hip, free foot parallel to the ice, amazing back position. That is how it is done.
Whose layback is The Goat, between Cohen, Hughes and Nikodinov, and why?
Pizno...wow...really difficult choice. I am going to go with Angela...if only because her rotation speed on the spin may have been a bit faster than Sarah. Sasha's initial position was flawless, but then she would drop the free leg...which I am not a fan of. I also have to mention Janet Lynn. The layback in her 1970 WFSC program is beautiful. Cheers!
@@fitgraphisva Also Katherine Healy had a gorgeous layback, and she could change direction within the same spin.
Pizno...I just watched video of her. Beautiful position on that spin. Thanks for the suggestion!
@@fitgraphisva You're welcome. It's never too late to discover a beautiful layback spin. Kkkk
Twenty years later and I'm still so happy for her!!!! I remember this night so well.
It's been 20 years, and her beautiful performance still brings tears to my eyes!😀
Seriously ? Under the new system, Sarah's technique wouldn't get marks.
@@TT-ee4qp this was the old system, which heavily rewarded risk taking (I.e., more difficult program) and being able to land jumps. And also pretty much only the long program really counted. She was literally the only skater that night who was able to fulfill both requirements that night. So she deserved it and more importantly, she was the underdog that night, the one who was able to do something that the big name skaters could not. So of course it was emotional.
There were of course arguments over the new system when it was taking shape as well. Plushenko for example had lots to complain about the win of lysacek because he landed a quad but was making mistakes all over whereas Lysacek didn’t have a quad but skated a perfect program. Plushenko even blatantly said under the old system, him landing a quad would win him the gold. So it’s all about perception anyways.
@@luceafarul579 OK. Fine.😶
I just saw this now for the first time in 2020 and I 'm having tears of happiness for this girl I don't even know, that's how much the pureness and authenticity of her performance has touched me.
You have to see the other Sarah's performance.....you would know that she was a middle skater....
@@TT-ee4qp the other performances weren't at the Olympics.
@@liveoakgap7489 However, Sarah's Olympics performance had no magic if she didn't make triple triple combo......which means her artistry was so so ......actually, Michelle and Irina had better marks in artistry.
And Sarah's terrible jumps wouldn't get marks under the new system.
@@liveoakgap7489 Sarah won the Olympics gold, but her performance wasn't the Olympics level.
Actually, Irina Slutskaya was robbed at the 2002 Olympics.
never ever gets old. she's a lawyer, studying for her MBA at Stanford
I remember this live on tv. I was trying to get home but was stuck in a cab. My husband was watching and gushing over Sarah’s performance and I told him from the cab “tape it so I can see it!”
I feel like her score in the short program set something free in Sarah - based on the scoring at the time, she didn't feel she could possibly win, so the pressure was off. She just wanted to do the best she could do *for her.* So she skated her heart out, put all of her love for skating into the performance. Plus, she seems to have fed off of the energy from the audience. The better she did, the more they gave her in response. The cleanest possible jumps (including a triple-triple!) and some amazing spins. And that combined energy NAILED IT.
I come from a theatre background. I hate auditions, because I'm competing. When I'm performing, I love when an audience gives me energy, and I try to better my own performance.
I keep coming back to this one. The precision, her surprise/joy at the precision, the build up with the crowd absolutely roaring at the end... she had to win. Some moments are just magical!
Nobody expected her to win. She just went out there and put on a great show.
She didn't really win the Olympics....the other better skaters like Michelle and Irina made mistakes......
@@TT-ee4qp she won. Champions don't make mistakes.
@@liveoakgap7489 Under the new system, Sarah's technique wouldn't get marks. 😆😆😆
@@liveoakgap7489 Sarah Hughes got ZERO World champion and ZERO National titles.....she was just lucky at the 2002 Olympics. 😙
There was actually a big article in Time magazine that favored Sarah because she was continuing to get better every year and had beaten Kwan and Slutskaya earlier in the season.
What an incredible performance 😊
This is when the Olympics were just pure beauty! Great memories!
Not a dry eye in the house that night! Love, love, love an underdog! Phenomenal
One of my favorite Olympic memories. I remember watching this at 15 and being mesmerized. Sarah embodied the Olympic spirit to a tee. It was all about the skate and not the medal color. Her reaction along with her coach in the warm-up/dressing room was priceless. What an awesome moment. Hard to believe this was 20 years ago!
I was 20, I loved the 2002 Winter Olympics, they are my favorite of all time
I was 16, and remember that moment like it was yesterday.
Yes! I remember watching this and being in awe of her performance and so excited for her. She absolutely embodied the Olympic spirit and sportsmanship.
I was 40, and it feels like yesterday. And now quads are the norm!
@@CN-dl2cj Next year (after the 2002 Olympics )........Sarah got the 6th place at the 2003 World medals.......she knew she deserved it.....
@@TT-ee4qp her gold medal weighed her down
Triple loop combos are underrated in skating it's absurd they are given the same value as triple toe combos when they are far more difficult. And Sarah had two of them her flawlessly
if you are going to use all your luck in one night, let it be on the night of the free skate of the Olympics... God Bless Her....
perfectly said!
A little funny.
I still cry watching this. Amazing performance.
I play this video from time to time whenever I need a feel good moment. It hasn't failed yet to make me feel good and let out a much needed cry. Mostly what I love is her enthusiasm, even during the routine, and her pure joy after.
You don't know what is skating sport......
@@TT-ee4qp it's ice skating. You must be thinking of roller skates.
Sarah's risk to do two tripple-tripple combinations fully paid off! The performance is as beautiful as difficult! A magnificent, solid and impressive performance! ❤💝🧡
Her triple triple combo was overrated...... wouldn't get marks today. 😂
My favorite Olympic moment. I rewatch it all the time. I was only 11 at the time but I knew that I had just witnessed something magical happen.
I remember this almost 19 years ago. I remembered only one of my brother predicted Sarah and everyone else thought winner would have been Michelle or Irina!
@@timothychow177 I felt terrible for Micjelle it was so sad.
I'm not sure why this was so memorable. Something about her graceful confidence that just said "This is my night". ❤️
She came back from fourth to win the gold and landed two triple combos! I know why it’s memorable! Haha :)
@@speeeee35 True, of course, but I didn't even remember those facts. I just remembered her joy and confidence and I think of her performance as an example of what being in the right state of mind at the right time can do for an athlete.
In sports, it's called,"In The Zone". She was in the zone that night. She worked hard for years and it all converged that night.
@@fritzgolden6237 Yes, all true.
So true.
I remember this night..spectacular!
I also smiled at the end of her program! Wow! ❤️💚💙
Absolutely superb!!! I was watching this live on TV and jumped up screaming and clapping from my couch. Sarah brought that whole arena to its feet, and rightly so.
I was totally paralyzed watching this. I feared if I moved or cheered she would fall and fail. I held my breath. After she finished, just like you, I exploded. A classic moment.
I remember it well. A great moment in sports.
Probably my favorite olympic skating performance. It was particularly exciting and poignant because the olympics were on home turf/in the US that year. Just extra-special. The crowd was cheering so loudly and raucously that (she said in an interview) she couldn't hear her music at the end of her performance and that's why she finished it a second or two before the music ended.
@@hkonyt797 It's a accident that Sarah won the Olympics.....she was lucky to skate a clean program........she never done it before and after.
@@elaineen1 Next year, Sarah got the 6th place at the 2003 World championship. 🤭🤭🤭
Her squeal of delight at landing the triple toe loop was wonderful. I loved the excitement in Scott Hamilton’s voice when she landed her first set of triples is the voice you’re hearing when you’ve landed something you’ve been struggling with.
This is my favorite Olympic story. She was just 16 and skated the cleanest program ever. Reminded me so much of Peggy Flemming elegance . Beautiful all these yrs later.
Very reminiscent of Fleming. I always wondered if that was what Sarah was going for!
She just seems so polished and graceful.. This was just great skating. And she won it fair and square.. SHE DELIVERED. Sadly.. the others had not. SHE WON. THIS IS CLEAN skating
Her performance was boring....just clean.....🤭🤭🤭
Sarah's SP got the 4th place....that's why she didn't deserve to win........
@@TT-ee4qp she didn't fall on the ice. You're supposed to skate on it, not slide down on it.
@@TT-ee4qp they don't give out medals for the short program.
This is one of my all time favorite videos. I watched it live in 2002. The emotion of that moment remains with me to this day. I find great inspiration in the accomplishment of Sarah Hughes. Her reaction to learning she has won while in the locker room under the stands is worth seeking out. Tears every time.
So lucky.
@@TT-ee4qp Sarah is so much prettier than Kwan.
Agreed!!
Her coaching making sure she took a moment before getting off the ice to take in what she just did at the Olympics! Bravo that’s a true testament to their relationship
that 3s-3lo was super impressive.
Super underrotated
@@joejoematic8206 ))
Bravo to Sarah and her team 👏❤️. In the history of upsets, this one is up there for sure! From a homemade ice rink to olympic gold. Love her story.
Wow!!!!! This brought back memories!!! What a smile on MY FACE!!!!
I love her squeal at 4:50 when she realizes she is through the obstacles and home free
The music is so beautiful too!
This performance, after nearly 20 years, gives me goosebumps!
So easy ? 🤭🤭🤭
@@TT-ee4qp Are you really The Ghost of Ludmilla Slutskaya?
Sarah rocked and WON; square, fair, and honest, tied at the end and the WINNER of the free skate WINS the gold. Sarah's marks from the judges, they left room for the "top three" and they did NOT come through.
@@mrunning10
Sarah was lucky. 😙
Sarah's technique and terrible jumps were overrated and got ZERO marks today. 😇
Sarah was a Olympics Cinderella who never won any World champion or the National titles. 😄
@@mrunning10
After the 2002 Olympics, Sarah placed 6th at the 2003 World championship......so well deserved. 🤭🤭🤭
I think one of the reasons why she did so well was that she was so damn relaxed.
I think she just felt she had nothing to lose and probably thought she was not going to win. Only when the others stumbled did the realization hit. Great job!!!🇺🇲❤🏅
Just an incredible, amazing performance by a young 16-year-old! Under the pressure (hardly any, after her 4th place finish in the short program), she mesmerized everybody who saw this outstanding performance. She just skated as calmly as if she were practicing on her home rink. Love that terrific spin finish! Nobody expected anything like this, with 7 triple jumps (5 in combination; that were more difficult than those from Irina Slutskaya (silver) or Michelle Kwan (bronze) in the free skate from her, or her vault from #4 to #1 by the judges. But she got lucky in that Kwan fell on a triple jump, pushing herself down to 3rd for the bronze. The sheer joy on Sarah's face after stopping (at 5:17), is one of the greatest smiles in an Olympics performance I've ever seen! Her scream of excitement (at 7:16) after seeing the judges scores I've also remembered! It's 20 years later, and now she is 36, with a law degree (May 2018) from the University of Pennsylvania. A smart and lovely woman. If she skated to that program 100 times, she would never have done it any better than she did on Feb. 21, 2002! The greatest artistic performance in a figure skating event I've ever seen or probably will see again, and to win the gold after 4th place in the short program may never be done again!
figureskatersonline.com/news/2010/02/07/olympic-moments-to-remember-sarah-hughes-in-2002
I want to party with you.
I do love Michelle, unfortunately she fell , Sarah really did a great job to win 2002 Olympics gold. And Sarah's performance made me feel happy like take a Sunday walk.
I like the way she talks to her friends like no biggie!!Love this 🥇⛸️
just lovely.. her joy is so palpable… a moment she’ll never forget for as long as she lives!!! “flow” at its finest… that’s what the olympics is all about
I was a kid in 2002 and couldn't realize the beauty of this performance. But watching it now like holy craaaaaaaap girl
I used to skate with her early in the morning for two years before this performance in Hackensack, NJ. I mean I was on the ice with her at the same time. I used to talk to both of them all the time. This performance was sort of like an out of body experience for her. She skated with more elegance and attack than anybody had ever seen before. I was so happy she won. But in some ways it was a shame it happened so early for her. She never cared about winning again, understandably. She probably could have had quite a career. After you've won Olympic gold and you have a real brain I can see why your mind would move on to other things. And she was one smart little girl.
@@jondavwal13 wow thank you for some info about her. I honestly didn't know her name and came accidentally across this performance. I think after the Olympic gold your sports life is complete and either you find a new motivation in sports or you move on and become a 'normal' person.
@@rocksane It's a accident that Sarah won the Olympics.....it's impossible happened again....
@@TT-ee4qp Kwan had the accident. Fell down on the ice
Now that's in the zone!!! One of the best athletic performances I've ever seen every one of those jumps we're near perfection, and what a time to do it congrats Long Island Girl😀😀😀👍
I remember watching this live. I always enjoyed Sarah Hughes. I was thrilled for her. She totally deserved the win!
"TAKE THIS IN!" Robin said to her. I absolutely LOVED IT!!
This performance always makes me smile.
Make you cry.......
Pure art, gorgeous!
I remember watching her I was so excited for her it was so perfect loved everything about it
I'm glad I'm here just for the artistry and sheer joy of this performance. I remember watching it live at the time and (thankfully) I know nothing about technique, so relate to it a purely emotional level. Here is someone having the best day of their life and I am here for it, 20 years later.
Seriously ? Sarah's artistry was not as good as Michelle kwan and Irina.
@@TT-ee4qp Hello loser
@@Mirrorgirl492 Yes, Sarah Hughes was a loser in the figure skating history....🤭🤭🤭
Yesss!! ✨💙✨
@@fanc.5711 Or not. 🤭
Still to this day one of the best Olympics performances
Seriously ? So boring.....
However, Sarah had more artistry than Tara Lipinski......(*^ω^*)
This is when the Olympics was about presentation, great choreography, music. I am disappointed in today's pair/dance. 2002 and 1998 were Olympics were people performed, told a story and had stunning performances.
The triple toe - triple loop combo was insane! So well done
She had never skated at that level and never staked at that level afterwards. A stunner!
It's a accident that Sarah won.....
I watched her combination jumps in a very slow-mo, and those were not under-rotated in my eyes.
Spectacular! Almost make me cry 🥹🥹🥹
Seriously ?🤣🤣🤣
A classic lay back spin ! Too bad its not done anymore. The "Code of Points" has ruined the beauty of skating.....
Yes, I agree. Sarah's layback did rival that of Sasha and Michelle. Which says alot!
SH's program is a marvel of rare technical purity and above all so much above that of all the other skaters on the artistic level. Having made this very sure musical choice of Lever Du Jour extracted from Ravel's Daphnis and Chloé is the proof of great finesse when the others skate on worn music so heard and without much interest a well deserved gold medal !!!
the artistic level......once , I guess.
@@TT-ee4qp hmmm ironic i guess..No always and more important at the right moment and for all her life !!..All the others are far behind they just skate when SH dances and is expressive...And for all your poor life your arrogance smells like feet because where is your gold medal ? The only medal you have is that of bullshit when SH is an OC for eternity ....Dont forget you are nothing
@@guillaumedupont7565 Sarah did a good job to win the Olympics gold 2002, because she hadn't any mistakes. Did she have better artistry than the other skaters ？Well, No.
@@TT-ee4qp LOL!! Oh please sad hater top telling nonsense SH has by far the best artistic level compared to its adversaries....SH is a thousand times superior to all of them as they are all inexpressive dry and stiff ... the others are applied school arid and especially soulless next to SH even the darling of the American public MK is without expression or amplitude and the favorite is quite incapable of doing a spiral or a layback spin with as much grace and amplitude of virtuosity as the 2002 Olympic Champion
The artistic sense is also the musical taste and if that of SH is perfect all the others have disastrous kitsch and corny music
SH's choreography is inhabited and delicate, she expresses it with maturity and authenticity with all her body and above all her soul when the others are laborious, tense and stiff and there is only a blind or a fan of one of her opponents to claim the opposite.
@@guillaumedupont7565LOL. You totally deserved to win the Joke Olympics gold. Good luck 👍.
Incredible. She got the day she deserved. Wonderful to behold💜
Of course Sarah was lucky because the other better skaters like Michelle and Irina made mistakes.
Sarah did a good job, but Tara Lipinski was overrated......
Sarah Hughes is what I imagine Brianna of Outlander to be like (sorry for the off-the-wall-referece). Not necessarily pretty in the usual sense but *a force of nature* - someone that you can't ignore. Even here when Sarah was only 16 and kind of a dorky teenager she has those moments of unconscious power. You can't fake that! I love her!!
I just always loved the choreography to this music.
Agreed! This choreography was classic and outstanding. Not enough credit is given to it.
So glad she changed the last minute of her program...It really added to the excite and intensity...I was BORING before...
Agreed!!
One of the 2-3 great sports moments of my lifetime, watching someone go for broke, let it loose, and deliver.
Росиян и давят потому что мы лучшие!!
Honestly this is like the point of the Olympics to me is seeing someone completely unexpected have the best day doing the thing she loves the most at the exact right time. I remember watching this when I was 13 and knowing nothing about skating and SCREAMING bc you could just see how good she was doing even if you didn't know why exactly.
My other favorite is this one ruclips.net/video/Go_bbW1C2Zs/видео.html
@@JohannaisaViking Some people didn't deserve the Olympics gold and got it with good lucky....... what a Olympics spirit. 🤣🤣🤣
Никогда не обесценивайте чужие достижения, если не хотите, чтобы обесценивпли ваши!
А Сара - чемпионка!
She didn't deserve it. 😊
Sarah Hughes didn't fall, didn't stumble, and looked brilliant on the ice. Anybody who saw something different is delusional. The other skaters looked like amateurs.
You said it . . . she was great here!
She was amaising! Choreography, transisions,artistic skills ... And jumps were the best! SHE can be compared with the contemporary girls. Not like Slutskaya or Suria Bonaly.
@@sincerita1plus • Contemporary girls ? 😂
I remember just screaming ….being from LI our girl left everything on the ice and had fun.
@@hebbie831 She skated like it was just another day in the park. It was
Just watched this after many years and compared to the Beijing performances, especially the Russian ones, this one brought me such joy.
Much better than Tara Lipinski.
Saw her interviewed tonight on TV. Had to come watch this again. I remember watching this when it first aired. I was worried about the ice, because she was on fire that night. I mentioned I saw her on TV tonight? Still beautiful. Gracious and centered. Would love to meet her someday.
Simply amazing!
Just to let others know the last song 🎵 by ravel and her choreography is in 5/4 time. She has to count in five while skating ⛸️ not the usual 4 or 3. It makes the last triple so suspenseful and explosive when counting along. She lands exactly on the 1st beat
Great catch. Is a musician. She's probably breaking the 5/4 down to 3/4 + 2/4 or vice versa. Or in 5 if the phrase pushes into the next bar and more beyond.
@Corey Adkins ur right she could have. I still don't know how she timed the triples during those piano runs in the piece by Rachmaninoff
@@danielaguilera474 if those were 1/8 or 16th note runs chances are in 5/4. I'd have to know exactly where in the recording. Then I could listen and figure out the duration of linear phrase and what's best in those runs for timing.
@@danielaguilera474 definitely 1-2-(3 land) 4-5 (1 land). Yes the meter made her skate much more elaborate 😚. Great catch. Thank you Daniel. The big down chords were 1 & 3. When she jumped. Perfectly with the phrase. It's complex actually. She landed on 3 and back up in subdivisions of 3 to then again land on 1. With a 3+3. Brilliant
So funny. 🤣
Sarah Hughes always pre rotated her triple triple combo. 😜
So overrated. 😇
Sarah Hughes didn't deserve to win the gold and her technique wouldn't get marks today.
🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭
Had she skated later, the scores would have been higher, which they should have been.
I wasn’t even alive when this happened, but watching this performance: you just know that she IS the Olympic champion.
Nope. Sarah skated the best LP of the night, but the final result depended on how the three skaters ahead of her skated.
@@3l3llala13 Actually Yep.
Chills. Incredible performance!! The music so effervescent, the dress simple but sparkly. It was all about the skating. Amazing to witness. I absolutely love her layback, it’s SOOOO pretty and her arms so fluid and graceful. Isn’t that what it is all about?
Как давно и недаано это было. Трибуны заполнены до верху, яблоку упасть негде. Ни пандемий, ни масок, прелесть и красота!
An American Classic 🇺🇸 ⛸
Sarah was also the best spinner in teh competition besides Slutskaya
the most beautiful of all the lay back spins. to be so poised so young. she went for it. amazing skate. congrats to sarah hughes.
A truely special performance. Thank you Sara ❤❤❤
wow! When triple-triple combos were the hype. 2022 Quad combos!
Yep next guys will doing quad axles
In a, cough, man's body though
Yeah quad combos typically with pre rotation etc. At least females and that's huge from the Russian side. Quads need to be capped. 1 is suffice if triples have correct technique first.
Как сейчас помню, в 8 лет тогда смотрела эту Олимпиаду и так ужасно была расстроена из за Слуцкой, и что опять засудили и всё-такое, и как трудно приходится на этой Олимпиаде России. Сейчас спустя 20 лет посмотрела оба выступления (наткнулась случайно на интервью Слуцкой), и объективно- американка откатала без ошибок и на льду она летает, а Слуцкая тяжеловато выглядит и ошибки сделала. Поэтому победа абсолютно заслуженная считаю
Заметьте, практически всегда на олимпиадах 1 и 2 место разделяет один голос. Вспомните Баюл-Кэриган! Тяжело в таких почти безошибочных прокатах приходится судьям, надо ж кому-то выше оценку ставить.
Sarah's SP got the 4th place.....that's why she didn't deserve to win.......
Я с вами полностью согласна!!! У меня сложилось сейчас другое мнение
@@user-tv4xo4lk5n Under the new system, Sarah's technique wouldn't get marks....
Till this day, this is the best figure skating performance I have ever seen….
Seriously? Must be the only performance you've ever seen. Check out Kwan's 1998 National Programs or her Tosca. Sarah Hughes had a lucky night. Period.
Okay thank you. :). I will check it out.
@@andreadetata4801 Michelle and Sarah had different styles. Here's a lovely program, Sarah did a great job.
I cannot stand figure skating. Just by chance I get home from work and flip TV on. I could see about half way through this was something special. No matter what sport it is, when you see something like this. Someone bringing their A game. You have to appreciate it. This is my favorite Olympic moment. Hands down. Not to discount The Miracle on Ice.
I’m right there with you. I guess just being Olympics and back then we didn’t have 10,000 channels. I remember she was just amazing.
Or Kerri Strugg on her second vault!
Egg-zackly. A factory mechanic was I. Came home, in my greasy jeans, flipped on the olympics and saw this. "That was effin' awesome, I said. She was on TV being interviewed tonight. Said to myself, "Let's check that out again".
That sentiment was why she got gold imo. It was that IT moment, that spark an athlete or performer sometimes gets and comes once in their lifetime and you get to witness it is humbling and exciting. A little miracle moment and let's face it she wasn't the prettiest and had the ummm hair cut but was so elegant and endearing and seemed old for her age but also so genuine. She always reminded me of a young Reba McIntyre in a way. It was just a special moment! Now Kerri Strugg that was a whole other level thing! And probably wouldn't even be allowed today BUT that was more like Anwar moment than performance. She was like the man who jumps on the grenade for her team and for her country. That is one special woman and moment in history, not just sports!
Beautiful performance. Enchanting choreography. No other way to put it
Too right.
She was lucky , she never did it before.
I cannot understand why people blame about her Flutz.... Michelle Kwan, Sasha Cohen, Fumie Suguri, Irina Slutskaya.... All of them jumped the lutz as the Wrong edge.
well, her flutz was arguably the most visible, and the jumps was just... ugly in itself- that's why I think many people picked on it
@@hannibaljustincase9985 of course I know that Irina's Jump quality was very high but she was tight like a Michelle... But! I think Irina is a real gold medalist. In Short Program, She should be the first Place instead of Michelle. In Free Skating, I agree the result (Sarah 1st, Irina 2nd only in Free)
@@asleepyyoungman9272 Michelle fell, unfortunately. But Michelle's artistry still better than Irina and Sarah . But Sarah really did a great job to win. Happy for Sarah.
@@hannibaljustincase9985 And Tara was Flutz Queen.
She nailed it! And very underrated. Thar haircut though...
Yes, I agree about her haircut. She could have made it a little longer, without getting in the way of her eyes when on the ice.
@@freeguy77 Yeah that was real confusing. She looked 45 years old...I think Slutskya had the same deal going on.
How the fuck is she underrated? She won the gold. LOL stop trolling youtube for opportunities to call everything underrated.
She was 16 years old in 2002... Cut her some slack.
90s and 2000s had the ugliest hair styles in history. Also the ugliest clothing styles as well. Absolutely disgusting. It’s puts the 70’s & 80’s to shame and that really saying something bc their hairstyles and clothes were absolutely awful 🤮
Sarah Hughes is planning to run for N.Y Congress. I just recently heard about it. What do you think?
Love her! Class act
I don’t know her politics but I’m sure she would get my vote.
It's interesting how often the underdog wins the Olympics. We want the one with the credentials, like Kwan, to win, but it's really about this particular performance that wins. Often the underdog is relaxed enough to come through
So true. Usually it ends up being someone totally unexpected who comes out of nowhere and wins the gold (Shizuka Arakawa, Oksana Baiul, Alina Zagitova etc.)
@@aliciascott4299 agreed, though oksana was the reigning world champion so she didn’t quite come out of nowhere :-)
And underdog Sarah had the hardest book and executed well. That's how you win the Olympics.
Amazing her home crowd ❤😍💙💕💖♥ Sarah Hughes.
She was so awesome
My fav Olympic performance along with 2010/2014 Yuna Kim. The only two skaters who literally look like flying on ice.
Much better than Tara Lipinski.
THE girl next door-------the cute girl--------at 16 y/o, goes out & just skates like nothing I have ever seen Not even the glorious Peggy Fleming had this program, that smile, & the joy of skating like she had never----------would never, ever, skate, again. Absolute beauty, on ice. It's The skate for the ages ! --------MJL< 77 y/o
Under the new system, Sarah's technique wouldn't get marks. 😁😁😁
And she wasn't a artist on ice .
@@TT-ee4qp Of course sha was and your daeling was a stif and souless robotic doll
the 16 year old is now a lawyer in new york city
She didn't make a mistake. She skated clean and was flawless. She skated without the pressure and, in the end, she came out on top because the others fell. Great job, Sarah, you were great!! Well deserved!!!❤
Yes, Sarah was lucky because the other better skaters like Michelle and Irina made mistakes. 😆
Under the new system, Sarah's technique got ZERO. 😁
@@TT-ee4qp I reckon that matters zilch
Such poise
Wonderful performance 👏 🎉
All of the girls fell, she stayed on her feet.
I was in SLC and saw this. I had counted her out because the Nationals program was boring (except the incredible dress). But with the improved program and her great combos, it was obvious in person that she would win compared to the top three
Sarah said : I never done that before. 🤭🤭🤭
It's a accident that Sarah won because the other better skaters like Michelle and Irina made mistakes. 😙
@@TT-ee4qp she handled the pressure the best. I agree she wasn’t the best skater generally but that program that night was the most dynamic and fluid. Olympic gold often goes to an underdog with less pressure
@@annaamericanaccent9184 Agree, but Sarah had no pressure because no one supports she would be the winner.
This is what true champions do !!!!
Seriously ?🤣🤣🤣
Her coach!!! Happy😂😂
Like Velvet Brown....created an inspirational moment and realized her dream, then moved onward to the next and most important phases of life. More athletes would live happier, more fulfilling lives if they realized this.
A accident....
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Which upset was more heartbreaking for Michelle Kwan? I think this one was because in 98 Tara Lipinski was in second place entering the free skate so I think people thought she could beat Michelle. But Sarah came from 4th place with this performance to win the thing and I do not think anyone thought that would happen.
To me, 98 was the bigger surprise because Kwan skated really well. But I suppose in 98 she had the consolation of youth and time. She fell in her free skate in 2002 but that seemed to be a bigger heartbreaker for her at the time, her exhibition skate was a pretty emotional one.
I think both losses hurt equally but for different reasons. The first one hurt because Michelle was SO favored to win and yet didn't. The expectations, including her own, were so high, and they didn't pan out. In '98, there wasn't enough distance between Kwan and Lipinski artistically that Kwan could afford to pull back technically, but that's what she did. She skated safe, expecting her reputation and artistry to make up for the technical deficit, and lost.
In '02, there was no question that Michelle was light years ahead of Sarah artistically. Michelle had SO much sympathy from '98 carrying her into Salt Lake that all she would have had to do was skate clean with one triple-triple, and the judges would have given her the gold, even with Sarah's performance. So, I think her odds were better to win in '02, regardless of how favored she was in '98, because of the wider distance in artistic presentation between Michelle and Sarah.
1998 had to be more heartbreaking because she skated a clean program. There wasn’t much more she could have done to win. 2002 she had mistakes so losing should not have been so surprising.
@@L1623VP That is really just your opinion. Michelle Kwan skated the same way for ten years. Never added a jump or a combination and always had that same pathetic soap opera look on her face (look at me, I'm artistic). Sarah outskated Michelle in EVERY way that night. Michelle was entitled and the result was the belief that the judges owed her gifts. She never seized the moment, with the one exception being her 1996 worlds program, ironically the only year she was the underdog. Your discussion of 1998 is nonsense. Michelle got straight 6.0s at Nationals that year. Tara was not supposed to be in the same planet. Fortunately, the international judges aren't Santa Claus and they give the gold medal to the one who deserved it. It is a sport after all,
@@jondavwal13 Yes, it is my opinion, and I'm entitled to it, but thank you for informing me of it in your own snarky way.
As you should know, figure skating is a "sport" with a LOT of politics involved. Those dynamics also need to be taken into consideration when making assessments about competitions. Michelle had a LOT of sympathy going into the '02 Olympics because of her '98 loss. That support in combination with a long program that was skated freely with a triple-triple would have won her the gold in Salt Lake. Why? Because she is the more complete skater by far than Hughes, who deserved to win "that night", as you said. However, if they skated their best side-by-side with a triple-triple from Michelle, it's no contest. Michelle is the more complete skater. I like Sarah, but she looks a bit doppy and awkward on the ice.
As far as Sarah's technical superiority goes, many skaters have pointed out her clear under-rotations on both triple-triples and other jumps in her Olympic long program in subsequent years. So, those combinations weren't really legit to begin with, but back in the 6.0 era pre- and under-rotations weren't penalized. Still, that doesn't change the fact that those combinations were cheated. So, maybe she wasn't as technically superior. All I know is that under those rules on that night, Sarah deserved to win. On any other night with a triple-triple from Michelle, not likely.
I have also said before that Michelle stagnated technically and expected her reputation and artistry to make up for the deficit in her technical marks. That was a huge mistake in both Olympics, so in the end Michelle only has herself to blame because she skated safe, and when you skate safe you lose 99% of the time.