Nicole Bobek - 1998 United States Figure Skating Championships, Ladies' Free Skate
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- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - 1998 United States Figure Skating Championships, Ladies' Free Skate - Nicole Bobek placed 3rd in the Free Skate and ended dropping from 2nd to 3rd Place overall.
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This was certainly one of Nicole's best performances ever! It was clean and her lines were beautiful! She should be really proud to what she added to figure skating!
When she was on she was AMAZING!!!! Such a great talent and a great loss. Love her!!!!
The best spiral in figure skating!
Sasha Cohen would like a word.
I haven been watching ladies figure skating for awhile now, and she is one of the best, actually Nicole is my favorite.
The way she uses her ARMS and HANDS ! Superb and the best I've ever seen ❤
Also, I must say, Nicole had so much style and class during her skating performances. She always wore such beautiful skating dresses on the ice. While watching diffrent lady skating routines, I have not seen any other beautiful gowns like Nichole's.
I agree with everybody here she’s so gifted and I think deep down inside, like all of us, some deep fear and self-loathing, but she coped so beautifully through his joy of skating and that comes across so marvelously. As a purist, her lutz takeoff is so bad that it’s really a flip jump or what we call a flute. but the power speed and grace is remarkable!
Everything she did was just so grand, so beautiful.
She'll always be a legend and a champion to me❤
Fucking brilliant.
She was a troubled genius. Love her
Ones of the most wonderful skaters, Nicole. I wish she stayed with it and not gone astray.
Goddamn Nicole is so pretty
Her skating always reminded me of Oksana very balletic and had that snap out of her jumps . Her spiral started the trend . Too bad she couldn’t always skate like this
Perfection! Beautiful skater!
By far Nicole’s best free skate performance by a mile.
It's " Ladies Figure Skating"....and she looks like a young lady...as opposed to many skaters today who look like little girls....
This was clearly one of her best long program performances ever, but ... fans ... would you say this was her BEST? 5 triples + 2 double axels, and a doubled loop. She's given performances that included 5 triples before including a triple loop, but other issues within the program. What do we think???
She should have been Lipinski at these nationals
3:57, that was a double axel, not a salchow
Did anyone else notice at 3:59 how Dick calls the double axel a double salchow?
I know he was getting some stuff wrong, but wow. Calling an axel a salchow?
It’s almost as if he’s human, and he was commentating in real-time.
She did great here. I wonder what would have happened if she performed this well at the Olympics that year? Maybe the Bronze medal? Would she have beaten Chen Lu?
Kawaii Nicole❤️❤️😊😊👏👏
Who is responsible for teaching her that ghastly technique on her Flip and Lutz? Her rotation was beautiful, but the technique with that free leg was amongst the worst.
Bobek was a US champion and world medalist, but she wasted so much of her talent.
"No flash photography",... that sure makes this video dated.
Why? There are cameras on cellphones with flash and there are people who for some reason have flash mode as their preferred mode.
Yes, what could have been. She was inconsistent in her skating, refused to put in the work that Michelle and pretty much every other skater did, liked to party, and alienated all her coaches, and like Christopher Bowman was addicted to drugs. She is absolutely NOT someone I would want to use as a role model for anyone.
THIS is how you move on ice! The U.S ladies today should study her skating.
I always wonder what she could’ve been if she had had a better support system, worked harder, & was more focused. She really could’ve won some titles & been a legend.
Nicole Bobek was an elegant almost regal presence on the ice--Beautiful skating here....
Oh the way she holds her arms in a way that finishes the line in the spiral is so lovely...and then she holds the upright back position even as she comes out of the penchee position so that she is still doing a gorgeously stretched arabesque, with a lingering feeling of freedom and line.
Nicole Bobek was just wonderful here. I remember loving to watch her back in the day. Superb.
Both of her costumes this year were gorgeous.
She always had beautiful costumes
what could have been if she skated like this at the 98 olympics
I knowwwwww. It’s such a bummer. I think she would have won bronze or at least it would have been very close. Especially in the short program, where she was nearly last to skate so she would have gotten amazing marks for a clean performance. That was crushing to see.
She would have been 3. Easy.
It would have been close, but I still think Lu would have gotten the bronze. For a clean sweep, especially at an Olympic Games, all three have to be head and shoulders above.
Funny how her only mistake here as far as the triples go was the doubled loop, and then that's the only one she landed successfully in either program at the Olympics.
I always remember that, too, LOL. Figures that one of her nemesis jumps would be the only one she landed clean at Nagano. That's Nicole! :)
For me, it is one of the best programs I have ever seen in my lifetime. It had everything!
She's so magical! I simply love her, flaws and all. Finally someone told her to milk that spiral for all it's worth. As far as pure skating is concerned, she's a natural talent. She moves across the ice naturally, and there's nothing forced or contrived. I think the stockings over her boots accentuate her longer line as well.
Dwayne Parker Well said. I'd always watched her, 'flaws and all,' to see her do three things: the layback spin (although she trades it in here for the Biellmann spin instead), footwork sequence (lights up to the audience) and the spiral sequence, where those spectacularly long, gorgeous legs get their best exposure.
mca1218 Couldn't agree more. And when she hit her jumps they seem to have a spark. Like fireworks. She was electric.
something about the snap and attack in the jumps matches the march of the music nicely as well
She had the "IT" factor. She was a joy to watch when she was on and had many great qualities on the ice. Too bad her coach died because Carlo had her on the right track. Nicole won the U.S Nationals and a World medal. Many people can't say that. Congrats on a great skating career.
Nicely stated.
that costume is so pretty
Ballerina on skates! The figure skater danced gracefully!
She did a double axel-double toe combination, not a double salchow-double toe. Big difference.
Alex So funny, no one dared to correct Dick Button, even though the female commentator had said "Axel" just as he was saying "Salchow."
I love this program. And I think she should have worn this dress at the Olympics. It was breathtaking. I no much is made of her "poor" technique ... but she looks so good doing it .. lutz ... flutz ... I don't care ... she just looks so beautiful. Finally, somebody told her to hold the damn spiral for more than 5 seconds. Here it was marvelous.
Love this program. Well put together!
Say waht you want about how she did about Nagano, regardless, this performance earned her a spot on the Olympic team.
I truly believe that had Nicole skated last in the event, she would've finished second. 5.7/5.9 for me as well. 5.8/5.8 for Tara.
If she skated last, she would’ve been too tight and she would’ve fell and she wouldn’t even made the Olympic team so pretty much what you say is bull crap
@wheresbaby7783 You've made a lot of assumptions, but I suppose I made some too. Mine were about the judges, not how "tight" Nicole might have been.
Regardless, it was just my opinion. No worries, it didn't happen, so it's all good 💙
If you see her at the end of this, she looks toward the sky closes her eyes an said "Thank you Carlo.[Fassi]" He was her first coach and treated her like a daughter. Sometimes when you go home again you want to say thank you to someone in the worst way but you can't. I believe he was watching her the whole time of this championship and by the time of the Olympics she was just to tired and sad to compete. I believe if he had been alive, she would have given it her best shot and even though she may not have metaled, she would have had the joy she had in '97 and '98. Regardless, he probably would have hugged her and said something like "Good girl. We did the best we could, huh? I am so proud of you!!!" Sometimes no matter how hard we try, there are some people we just can't replace.
She was a wonderful skater indeed
I always did love Nicole! Fun to watch!
when she was on she was on...
Back when fluffs and warmups colour commentary seemed to last FOREEEEEVER. xD!
Oh I agree. I love this program!
This was amazing
I didn't realize this was in Philly at the time
Anyone who knows about skating, would you say technically and overall, she is better than Nancy Kerrigan? I think her jumps look bigger and that stretch spiral was way bigger and her leg was higher.
I would definitely agree Nicole Bobek was overall the superior skater to Nancy Kerrigan. Bobek's technique on some of the jumps was faulty (did she ever manage a "true" Lutz?) while Kerrigan's technique really was relatively spot-on textbook. However, Bobek's jumps had far more fluidity. Bobek really *moved* on the ice with grace and speed (particularly when she was "on") while I couldn't use either of those words to describe Kerrigan.
Kerrigan had a starched rigidity to her skating, which translated into a regal, controlled persona. Bobek was unpredictable, erratic and somewhat non-committed, which translated into excitement. Her knees were not afraid of bending, she was not afraid to change her mind. A wild child capable of everything and nothing, depending on the day -- and often you got one end or the other. Rarely was there a "middling" performance. It was either 1st, 2nd, 3rd place or it was nearly dead last.
Bobek's spirals were superior. They were higher, they felt more free. Kerrigan had to practically hold her leg up to get that extra inch and they weren't delivered with the same joy. Bobek's spins were superior. Neither of them were particularly great but Kerrigan was one of the worst spinners of her era. She tended to lose speed quickly and struggled to get through them. To me, they were her biggest weakness. Bobek's were often on the slower side but she maintained that speed.
@@sbe79 I don't think Bobek was better. Kerrigan was just as inconsistent as Bobek and still won many medals while Bobek has just that 1 world bronze.
@@milkybum6339 Exactamundo, Nancy was a beautiful skater if a tad inconsistent. Shoulda really won gold in Lillehamner.
Nancy had better fundamental skating skills and excellent technique on her jumps. However Bobek is leagues above Kerrigan in the presentation and artistry categories
Beautiful spiral....like Sasha Cohen's.
I would have placed her 2nd at this Nationals. 5.7 5.9 from me.
She was the queen of the flutz.....I loved her
is it really a triple flip? she never really went to an outside edge at all. or is it just a flutz? i think dick is just excited she had a good routine, but ya he does often make mistakes when they jump........ i think he knows what they're doing, the wrong words just come out.....i forgive him, he's pretty old lol
@trav16z agreed.
look at those dresses! styles sure have changed 😀
The US doesn't have great skaters anymore..The Russians (WHO NO LADY HAS EVER WON GOLD) have taken over
I always thought highly of Bobek for all the objectively right reasons and held she was vastly better than she was ever given credit for. Scoring is subjective and the politics of the USFSA and theirs is beyond vicious, period. You play their game or you are DOA. They make certain of that.
Not to go pejorative, but I never ever understood why Kwan could remotely be considered anything other than mediocre at best. Seriously. She never had anything. She honestly never did.
Kwan was, if nothing else, consistent. She completed the elements (esp jumps) required at the time, and developed significantly from a child skater to a mature skater when the attention was on in the mid 90s. I never dislike Kwan, but at times I was a little bored with some of her skating. Still, she stayed on her feet when others fell.
HowDareThey1970
With a consistently dead routine that was easy to that of everyone else, that's why Kwan hardly ever fell. Then you had her parents who got into the faces of the judges before an event, but I digress...................
death2pc
Another pressed bitch that needs to tear down Michelle to build others up. So pathetic! LOL
get a life!
PS. Has done and did more than your tired ass ever has or ever will.
+death2pc Very very true, about the politics of the USFSA. Just as Tonya Harding about it and what she had to endure.
that is because you do not know skating. you are dumb
She was a national champion and a world bronze medalist, but I think she wasted so much of her talent.