Oksana Baiul (UKR) - 1993 World Figure Skating Championships, Ladies' Free Skate
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- Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC - 1993 World Figure Skating Championships, Ladies' Free Skate - First, a profile on Oksana Baiul, followed by her Gold Medal winning Free Skate.
As Hamilton says, nobody nobody has ever come from nowhere to win Worlds and goes in as fav for Gold in Olympics just weeks later. Then WINS. 15 years old.
Nobody beats her for feminine charm on the ice. For those who like the grace and ballet-like style, she is the finest.
Charlotte Vale I thought Rory Flack Burhardt was a beautiful graceful skater too.
@@lallemandpascal8576 this was Suryas gold... they just gave it to Oksana.
@@lorebay2593 oh yes you are right absolutely
@@reneedaughter nope Surya was great but Oksana earned this win
@@MTknitter22 Hello ! We can agree to disagree :) Oksana had too many choreography breaks and didn't have the technical skill to stand on the podium - let alone win gold. Of the top 4 ladies- 3 were stronger than Oksana at the 1993 worlds. Take care.
I remember watching this competition on TV in 1993. Oksana appeared out of nowhere, this 15 year old orphan with not even a home to call her own, talk about vulnerable, and she completely captured people's hearts. Oksana may not have been technically the best, but she skated with her heart and with pure, joyful abandon. It was a very memorable performance for those reasons. ♡
how adorable is she, my goodness.. it's just obvious she's an artist and has a beautiful spirit and how much she's overcome
Of course
Have you seen how she looks currently? She is 44 and could easily pass for 60.
She may have not had the most difficultly, but the thing with Oksana, she wins your heart over with her dance and her choreography... She doesnt look like shes just doing the choreography, she always adds something different everytime, she preforms with her soul!
An angelic princess on ice! Bless her coach for giving her the opportunity to grab her dream, to honor her mother and to prove she was a true champion!
A ballerina on ice
Abdullah Ja ++++++++++++100% !!!
she didn't have the sheer athleticism of Harding but her joy on the ice, the artistry and poise remain unrivaled.
she had such a turbulent life and career, really went through the wringer, I wonder how it would have affected her confidence had she known that nearly 30 years later we would still be watching and marvelling at such artistry. I love you. Oksana Baiul
Oksana was an artist not just a jumper. She wore her heart on her sleeve and exuded artistry whilst doing so! The best!
Never seen a skater like this, shés complete.!! Unique Oksana.
Definitely a shooting star! Free, easy, and age appropriate music! She was an Olympic Champion in the making!
the triple loop is timed so beautifully to the music - it really expresses the joy and exuberance of its beautiful, sudden buoyancy
Judging by the comments there are so many people thinking this is gymnastic on skates, but it isn't. First Its about dance, techcnical smootness, polishment in all movements, jumps, spin, all.
Oksana was THE Artist.
Yes, she was. Just look her arms, nobody is so graceful and complete, it's not just foot and legs, her entire body is involved, she was poetry and she demonstrated it in some creation during her professional short career
Magical, enchanting and nymph like. The way she felt the music was second to none. Clearly had substantial ballet training.
While this program may not have been an amazing feat of technicality or neatness, imagine the position she was in. To go from inexplicably losing everyone in your life and living with your coach who took pity on you while knowing at any time you could be tossed and forgotten in a Ukrainian orphanage to suddenly coming from nowhere, when you weren't ever a blip on a radar -- couldn't even crack the Ukrainian Top 10 -- to winning the figure skating World Championship within months. A complete skater built in mere months. An Olympic Gold to follow in 1994, shocking anybody who wanted to place bets only 2 years prior as to who would take it. How does that happen in real life?!? I mean she was likely well aware that she couldn't truly count on anyone but herself in order to secure the rest of her childhood and future.
She was a better "story" than a skater, perhaps, but you can't contest that she had an amazing triple Lutz nor the feeling that she skated from the depths of her bones. In the mid 90s, that counted for a lot. If only she could have been that way for a little longer.
She really did have textbook jumps esp the lutz
Звезда фигурного катания! Талант,труд.мужество,грация,изящество! Искрения , настоящая Оксана Баюл!
Тренер Галина Змиевская
Lovely to see a girl so young be world champion. She was also very beautiful.
Wow that little leap she did at the end was so graceful!
Oksana showed wonderful maturity for her young age!
So incredibly graceful AND athletic! What an artist!! Thoroughly enjoyed the program.
@@lallemandpascal8576 Oksana did not have the technical skills to be in this group. A the skaters except josee Chouinard and Nancy Kerrigan skated so much better than Oksana.
Looking back, watching the disaster of the latest Olympic figure skating and coming back to and falling in love with Oksana Baiul was... a foreshadowing.
Haterz gonna hate. Let them stew. Oksana was enchanting and deserved her win at Worlds. Deal.
and I love the moment where she brings one arm up and looks at it while she pauses....like she's watching a butterfly that just drifted across the ice, and she can't help herself becoming intrigued and excited. this program has everything...theatricality, lyricism, comic charm...
Margaret Tudor Оксана молодец! Она гордость Украины
Not the most consistant jumper but one of the most entertaining and artistic female skaters ever.
I fell in love with her the first time I saw her at Europeans and I was rooting for her to win the Olympics. I was overjoyed when she did!
I love her. Oksana is the best ever!
I was hoping to see her for many years performing at this level..so sad this wasn't the case :(
It's probably difficult to keep it Up if you become that succesful so young, you're often not mentally ready for it. That she had recently lost her mother must have affected her skating too, that makes it even more incredible how she manager to win those medals at 15 though.
In modern figure skating world all skaters only can keep there best skating level for no more than 4 to 5 years. Only Plushenko kept more than 10 years staying at the top level of skating world.
This is the best version of this program in my opinion .
This made me smile
This is a cute program and well skated but I wish she had done something different for the Olympics a year later... this program just seems like randomly stitched together snippets of music that ends rather abruptly in my opinion. Both of her short programs, on the other hand (this year and the next year) were masterpieces.
Great Oksana, I love your skating. And GREAT UKRAINA 💙💛 💙💛 FOREVER
All of Oksana's JUMPS were massively powerful jumps that received big credit for their athleticism. This rule was added in 1989 after Midori Ito at the 1988 Olympics. I've seen all of the skaters who competed there and not one was able to get the air under her jumps like Oksana. Its very difficult. This is "quality" jumping at its best. Oksana's jumps were magnificent beauties & were bigger than Candeloro's, Stojko's, Kurt Browning, Viktor Petrenko & others. No other female came close--not even Harding. I was shocked astounded when I saw her live to see such power coming from such a skinny body! Even Oksana's leap into her flying sit spin & flying came were extraordinarily higher than all other. Athleticism in jumping is beauty. Glad I saw Oksana live which is why I'm not fooled by the liars here on youtube. The RIGHT skater won---no contest. Live Oksana was magnificent! TV does NOTHING for her skating. BIG jumps are amazing & incomparable. Her jumps were magnificent & were tied to great speed, flow & otherworldly choreography, line, position & expression. She'd have done all the combinations had the sport not BANNED her. Oksana would've slayed them all once she rested, healed & started working with a REAL coach after assembling a top notch skating team since she'd earned 1 over million dollars Stop deluding yourselves the Americans BANNED Oksana Baiul to prevent her from winning more. Oksana knew how to COMPETE & skate. She was so superior to anything coming out of America & everyone else on the world stage. I'm sad for what could have been had Oksana not been BANNED from the world & Olympic competiton. If only decent folk ran the sport it would've grown & evolved through Oksana . But in the years since Oksana figure skating stagnated & its died. RIP. Tara, Sara, Shizuka & Yu Na combined fail to equal one Oksana in terms of worth to the sport. Hopefully, Oksana Baiul sues the ISU & Ottavio Cinqantta!
fusock If you don't understand the eligibility rules that were instituted which covered the time frame in which Oksana competed you should refrain from blabbing. If you don't understand the politics of the era learn them before blabbing. Everyone knows after the 1992 Olympics the rules were changed to include pro skaters competing in the Olympic games. It was to become a permanent rule. This rule change would also allow amateurs to compete in pro events to earn money to support their skating easing the funding burden on their federations. This rule, it was thought would also create a stronger pool of competitors which would be good for the sport. It would supposedly be a win-win for all. Yet when Oksana's team pushed her to go pro she did so for one season before changing her mind filing for reinstatement as an Olympic eligible amateur. Her federation accepted her decision and got behind her. Reinstatement is left up to the national federation. Yet, in Oksana's case a special exception was made by the ISU who took it upon itself to override the reinstatement decision made by the Ukrainian skating federation. Essentially the ISU council held a vote taking away Ukraine's reinstatement power, thus, preventing it from reinstating Oksana Baiul to Olympic & world competition. For its trouble the ISU voted to compensate the Ukranian Skating Federation with monetary funding. The ISU well understood that marquee skaters are the lifeblood of the skating federation. Yet, it chose to choke off Ukraine's skating future. It feared Oksana's popularity would attract sponsorship monies that could have helped build Ukraine into a skating power. This action by the ISU was really contrary to its stated mission of helping to promote skating throughout the world. Former ISU president, O. Cinquantta was being showered with expensive presents and was wined and dined by the wealthy federations. These federations voted him into power despite that he knew nothing about figure skating---it made him easily pliable to their schemes. Indeed, in the latter half of 1994 the ISU took a vote to oust its reigning president at the time, Olaf Paulsen a former figure skater turned sports scientist and skate maker in favor of O. Cinquantta, a former speed skater. Cinquantta had no interest in figure skating. His only concern was growing, funding & promoting speed skating. Therefore He was willing to do as he was told where figure skating was involved as long as his price was met. Keeping Oksana Baiul from returning to Olympic & world competition was high on the list of president Cinquantta's ordered priorities. Essentially, actions were taken to stop Oksana from reinstating under the stated rules of the time. So Oksana was basically, banned from reinstating while other pro skaters were allowed to reinstate. To top off that insult, amateurs like Michelle Kwan, were regularly allowed to compete in pro competitions and do pro shows w/o being banned. Meanwhile another rule was enacted banning all pro skaters from competing in world & Olympic events. As I stated, if you don't know the politics of the era, refrain from blabbing erroneous info or implying that others are liars. You are free to do your own research and it will help to read or translate Ukrainian and Russian. Clearly you only follow the American side of an international sport.
You are not understanding the eligibility rules. ISU allowed eligible skaters to collect prize money only in ISU sanctioned competitions, namely the The Grand Prix Series. I've heard Baiul say in interviews that she had already achieved all of her goals, such as being World and Olympic champion, and she decided to retire from ISU eligible skating to cash in on her post-1994 fame. But then she started partying too much with her new wealth and the freedom it gave her and got in trouble for drinking on the Champions on Ice tours (they fired her eventually because of it), driving drunk and crashing her Mercedes, and eventually alienated even Galina Zmievskaya and the Petrenkos, and was not even on speaking terms with them by the time the next Olympic season came around. Michelle Kwan by the way may have competed in non ISU pro events, but she wasn't allowed to accept the prize money from the one or two events she took part in, and thus didn't lose her egibility. Pro ice show tour participation was not banned by the ISU, and every top ten ranked eligible skater in the world skated in these tours during the spring and summer. There was no conspiracy to deny Baiul's re-entry to eligible skating. She was just a drunk and her career, eligible or otherwise, was already washed up before Nagano.
misina211 you should check your facts. Today Oksana Baiul has sued Galina Zmievskaya, her former agency and others who she claims mishandled her career. She was awarded a multi-million dollar judgment. She says today she barely spoke English and was coached to say such things. Her legal briefs claim she was exploited by others. Reading all the events she skated I agree with her. She was forced by her team to skate pro events on an injured knee to make them money. Oh, and btw the 0.168 level of alcohol found in her blood doesn't make her a drunk. Tara Lipinski is a heavy drinker why not talk about that? She gets smashed a lot. The 0.168 found in Oksana's blood in her mercedes accident. Well it was about a teaspoon. Try again. Oksana could have made even more money as an Olympian what with the international endorsements she lost going pro. She had 3 million w/o going pro. You know nothing about sports marketing You should shut up and learn. Why create a system where a board of snobs handpicks who can be eligible to compete at the Olympics and who cannot? Why not let everyone be eligible to go to the Olympics as long as your country sends you? This is the way it is i tennis, basketball, skiing, and all other Olympic sports. Skating should have been that way too. I agree with JJ Truth. Oksana Baiul was robbed. Tonya Harding should have also been allowed to skate professionally or at the Olympics. We saw her banned from reinstating to the Olympics. Plus Harding was banned from skating as a pro. So please shut up and refrain from posting stupidity. You are a stupid hater. Enough said. The chick was robbed. Oksana suffered from depression yet the media promoted her as a drunk another lie. Fake news.
+C no evil You don't have any idea what you're talking about. 0.168 is over twice the legal limit for blood alcohol, which is .008.
The legal limit is 0.08 idiot. 0.168 is less than a teaspoon not twice the legal limit. Read the decimal point. You don't understand the metric system nor its conversion. Or could be you're just an ass.
I always want to give her a hug.
Невероятно хороша, легка и невесома, как пушинка!!!!!🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥✊✊✊✊✊✊
Оксана БРАВО ТЫ НЕПОВТОРИМА АРТИСТИЧНАЯ ОБАЯТЕЛЬНАЯ ТЕБЯ ЛЮБО ДОРОГО СМОТРЕТЬ УДАЧИ ВО ВСЕМ ТЕБЕ🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
So effortless and really lovely to watch! Much better than Free Skate that gave her gold in Lillehammer year later.
She was so great, everyone loved her style.
Perfection on ice.
I think her marks were fair overall. 5.8, I think, is too high for technical because she did have a couple of shaky landings and no combinations. Plus her spins were very weak. I think 5.9s are a little high, but I get it because she was so charming to watch and very different from any other skater. I still think Surya Bonaly's program was better and should have won gold. In a way, I wish the judges hadn't given Oksana so much adoration so quickly. Perhaps without so much fast success, she would have competed for a few more years and she could have grown into a much more brilliant skater. We saw the improvement from '93 to '94. Imagine what more she could have done, what other interesting programs she could have created.
intldawn Bonaly would have won if it weren't for her mistakes in the short program
@@beckyy584 What mistakes in the SP? Surya went clean and was in 3rd place after the Short (behind a clean Kerrigan and Baiul, and ahead of a clean Chouinard).
I sure as hell don’t see weak spins. Europeans always do better than Americans on spins.
@@e2theeyepie
right . I loved Surya and Oksana. But Surya was better this time.
Lot of people in those years sayed that for many judges the body of a colored girl was not good for to be world/Olimpyc champion. I think that was the problem. Like for ballerinas, at last in those years: colored girls don't have the appropriate body shape. Can you believe it? Surya Bonaly was just AMAZING, one of the best skaters ever
They were setting Oksana up as the "favorite" for gold in Lillehammer. Her performances there, especially her LP that she two-footed her way through with no combination until she tacked on a double toe in the final seconds of her program, was just as weak. Nancy Kerrigan, love her or hate her, was absolutely robbed, and she knew it. She was flawless in both her programs, just doubling her opening triple flip in the LP, which isn't even a mistake. She was the picture of sophistication with a style and type of dress that both Michelle Kwan and Kim Yuna would later come to emulate. Oksana in her LP looked like a contestant in one of those child beauty pageants in her pink feathery dress complete with ponytail scrunchie, hopping around to a Broadway medley in a routine that wouldn't have been out of place on the junior circuit.
The minute the Olympic press started calling her the "Orphan from Odessa" over and over again, I knew the ladies' gold was predetermined. She was to be the feel-good story of the Olympics. Adding to the Hallmark moment would be that her dear friend, surrogate Godfather, and fellow Ukrainian, Victor Petrenko just so happened to have won gold (ripping off Paul Wylie) just two years earlier. Imagine that!
The truth is the Ukrainian Skating Federation was corrupt to the core during the 90's, and their judges were implicated and sanctioned in the famous toe-tapping cheating scandal and the Olympic ice dance competition in 1998, among others, usually getting help from Russia, Czech Republic, and Italy or France. The fact that both Paul Wylie and Nancy Kerrigan lost to Ukrainians who gave far lesser performances at the Olympics at the height of the Ukrainian eastern bloc judging schemes is no coincidence. Surya was a victim of that here because they were setting Oksana up for Lillehammer.
This is such a crazy difference from her free skate on the olympics!! This is good but man the Olympic skate I could watch 100 times!!!
Incredibly enough, this girl won world and olympic with just 5 jumps: 3L, 3F, 3L 3S, and 3T, 2A. And besides the Short, she never used a 3-2 combo. How the hell did she win these golds?
You are so right! It is like WTF?
I give her credit for a well choreographed program. It was beautiful and the lutz was huge but Surya should have won this even if it was 5-4 judging. Surya should have won every technical mark by .2 or .3. It still frustrates me today. Put today’s system in and Surya surely wins even with inflated PCS scores that I’m sure Oksana would have received.
Biased judging. Oksana only landed 4 triples at the '94 Olympics. She didn't have triple combos in the LP. Nancy landed 5 triples with a triple-triple and a triple-double. Oksana didn't have any difficult combo spins as Nancy as well.
I’m still watching her in 2022
Happy 46th birthday.
Beautifully skated by Oksana, but Surya should have won the gold in this tournament.
Oh hell now. Surya didn't know how to skate or use edges. She was lucky she ever placed on a podium.
Scottytoohotty52
I find Surya unwatchable while I like Baiul. I was born 1993 so I followed figure skating after Oksana retired from competitions.
I,too, find Surya Bonaly unwatchable. Later in her career, she wasn't so choppy, but at this time she was very choppy. She'd have these long interruptions going into jumps, little footwork, little edgework. One can be a power jumper and still have some artistry.
Thank you, as the composer of the story behind the music...!
Surya Bonaly, like Lu Chen, Nancy Kerrigan, Maria Butyrskaya, Michelle Kwan, Nicole Bobek, Sasha Cohen, Tara Lipinski & a few others are TV skaters. The TV magnifies their skating making it look bigger & better than it is live. Oksana Baiul, Irina Slutskaya, Aleksie Urmanov, Katarina Witt, Dorothy Hamill, Anna Rechnio, Kira Korpi and a few others are LIVE skaters whose movements & skating fill up the arena when watching them in-person LIVE. But their skating doesn't translate to TV. Always attend a live event BEFORE passing judgement. Gritschuk & Platov were simply electric live while Torvill & Dean were slow & reserved. Figure skating is BEST when watched live.
I have seen all of them live and your post is rubbish. Michelle Kwan looked better on TV especially Tara whom audiences complained about not being able to see her movements. Kerrigan skated like molasses in real time. Chen Lu was fast with beautiful flow but her jumps were microscopic. I have seen them all over several years. Save the drivel for someone who doesn't know any better its wasted on me.
JJ truth
Оксана королева льда! The best!
Yes!
И без бильмана, очень шикарно выступает! Артистизм зашкаливает, а костюм!
Where's her jump combination? How can you 2-foot a lutz, have no jump combination and win? The choreography is very shallow--she stands "still" quite a bit and flaps her arms.
Her Toe-Wally lol
As one of the commentators sneered about Surya Bonaly, “there ‘s more to skating than just jumps.” She’s right - like landing them cleanly. Several of Baiul’s landings were wonky, including two very badly two footed landings. Surya’s jumps were perfect. There’s also combinations - Baiul did not do a single one, and Surya did several. What about spins? Surya’s were difficult & centered perfectly. Baiul’s were simple, something you see in junior skating. And spirals? No stretch on Baiul’s - Surya’s were fantastic and difficult. Sure, Baiul correctly won the artistic mark, but that’s easy to do when you’re skating simple steps. May I remind you that this is a sport? Bonaly skated a very difficult program and did so perfectly. Surya had to overcome a lot of things too - it’s not easy being black in France. Surya should have won this competition, just as Kerrigan should have in the Olympics the following year. Nancy skated a very difficult program with combinations, an amazing spiral, and very hard, very centered spins. Baiul two footed several jumps, one so badly, she almost fell. Her spins were sloppy and uncentered. She threw in one kinda combination at the end - the only one she tried. A charming skater, Ms. Baiul, but in no way should her technical marks been anywhere close to Surya’s or Nancy’s. The most undeserving world and Olympic champion in the history of the sport. How fitting she & Viktor Petrenko come from the same area (tho they are hopefully safe in the U.S.) Petrenko is the most undeserving men’s Olympic gold medalist. After a couple of nice combinations in the free, he fell twice and the rest of his jumps were landed horribly. His spins were a disaster. Ironically enough, the most artistic skater in that competition had no combos, and a slight slip on a Salchow jump. He did not fall, and everything else was perfect. That skater was Paul Wylie, who deserved the gold. I would have placed Elvis Stojko second and Chris Bowman third. Petrenko should have finished fifth. The judging in these three events was the worst I have ever seen.
Wow I agree with this 100%. Scoring in figure skating is a travesty. There had to shady underhandedness going on here for OB to have won the 93 Worlds and the 94 OG. I'm not a big fan of either NK or SB but both were unfairly underscored compared to this messy, laughably junior-ish excuse for a program. OB has lovely musicality, I will give her that. But that's not enough to overcome the obvious weaknesses in her technique. Give her a few more years she might have been senior caliber. She wasn't there in 93-94 (nor was TL in 97-98, but that's another story).
She won deal
You are just toxic and jealousy. You say so bcs Oksana is from Ukraine, not from France or USA. I may disappoint you, but Ukraine can show the quality.
Surya was 100% robbed here
Не треба брехати !
Оксана Баюл була неперевершена !
Oh, this was her Olympic long program. I'd always wondered how it originally was supposed to end, because in Lillehammer she changed the last little bit of it & added a jump she'd messed up earlier, then added a few more.
Truthfully, spoken by Sandra Bezic when she stated "She hasn't even begun to develop." How much greater could Oksana Baiul had become? If only her sport had allowed her to reinstate to world & Olympic level competition? The sport would have grown exponentially technically & artistically. We could have seen some of the greatest skating ever. Oksana had a way of making those around her better too. Crowning the baby jumping of Tara and Michelle hurt ladies skating . They were pushed & crowned too soon. Standards where lowered or thrown out altogether.
Oksana’s dress is beautiful. Wish she had not distracted from her beautiful skating by wearing garish ballet garb. Her doughnut spin is exquisite. Thank you.
She is a spiritual scorpion I wasn’t surprised to see her birthday
Very soulful routine; she skates with so much speed and grace it's very easy for some laymen on here to mistake her ease on the ice as 'juvenile'. Waiting for the next Oksana to come along...
…maybe Isabeau Levito 💕
@@harveygirl95 just watched her bronze medal winning free skate thanks to your comment - I love her posture and she skated to Russian Dance music Oksana once used:)
I actually prefer her blue costume here than her 1994 cotton candy pink dress
Her pink dress looks like an Easter bunny princess.
In this case, it wasn't the difficulty/technicality, but the presentation that made this performance what it has become.
She is a pure artist
@MultiRazorb Bolero was an extremely difficult FD. Like 3Axel1996 says, it was full of complex handholds, very deep edging with almost no cross overs (so they were completely dependent on the strength of their running edges), and moves that were done with no set-up time. They were amazing at making the difficult look easy.
I think she competed wearing skates with crooked blades during this competition!
I think Bonali or Chen should have won this event. Honestly, she had no combos and the jumps were a bit shaky on a few...
Heriberto Rivera Jr. Nobody cares what you think. First, don't put yourself about the "experts." You are trash and you are greatly unqualified to post the crap you have since you know nothing about skating. Your arrogance is disgusting. Why in the world should the skating judges cater to your untrained opinion? Should everything stop for you. Rot.
Just like her Olympic LP. Nancy was totally robbed.
Damn your hostility is astounding. You seemed disproportionately angry, take it easy...
Какое скольжение, какое скольжение. И при этом какая скорость
Oksana was just barely 16 years old gorgeous and scared little girl, while Nancy Kerrigan was already a 24 year old woman. Nancy Kerrigan began to make fun of this young poor little girl from Ukraine who had a dress that "was not to the standards of Kerrigan" !!! Kerrigan thought that nobody heard those nasty comments, but she was wrong ! Oksana Baiul stole the souls and hearts of hundreds of millions of people ALL OVER THE GALAXY for her class, art, style, femininity, sweetness, discretion, soft voice and beautiful performances, and yes..., HER INCREDIBLE BEAUTY !
Honestly just kind of a big surprise that she came out of nowhere and won gold everywhere, they must have really liked what she did, I don’t think it’s that great! Don’t get me wrong she’s cute and a lot of charm on the ice, is definitely a talented performer but a lot of Her landings sucked. Two footed landings and under rotated on some. The usfsa and all other judges must have been tired of all the other women at the time lol, Tonya, Chen Lu, Surya, Josee etc and yes even Nancy didn’t have a chance, Oksana was chosen
Oksana was the most unpopular person who has been Olympic and world champion with no combination or spinning a dancer that was all Surya bonaly deserve to get the gold
When the world got to see her - I remember this :) She was special !
The best skater ever .
Yes, nicely done, smooth as ice.
She had 'it'. Plain and simple. And media catapulted her. At the very end, international judges here and in Lillehammer overlooked her technical flaws and rewarded her twice (at 15 and 16 yo), over more deserving competitors, such as Bonaly (WWCC93) and Kerrigan (OOGG94).
Sorry good case can be made for Bonaly in 93 but she kicked Kerrigan’s butt at the 94 Olympics
The U.S media worked hard to bring Oksana down. It judged her placed her under its microscope magnified every flaw while it kept silent about her strengths, good qualities & perfections. The media created false gossip & distorted depictions of Baiul reported directly from her enemies in skating. The U.S media played no part in building her up. Here they were relieved that(7 triples) Bonaly didn't win the 1993 world title. It was assumed their girls could regroup & beat Oksana & so they preferred Oksana as world champ rather than (7 triples)Surya. But they didn't know the Olympic games would become Baiul's world stage, the Olympics made her--not the media. The publicity here is controlled these P.R vignettes are concocted stories put together by Micheal Rosenberg & Michael Carlisle--Viktor Petrenko's plotting U.S agents. Petrenko, Galina & the agents all of them were manipulating, abusing & exploiting this kid. She could've avoided all of the negative fall out in the U.S had she not been banned from the Olympics. She would've stayed in Ukraine & blossomed. Ukraine made her talent--not America. But Galina & Viktor wanted to come to America to make their fortunes using Oksana as their meal ticket. As Olympic champion the money would've followed Oksana where ever she went even into Ukraine. She was badly ripped off exploited & abused in America. No corporate endorsements or sponsorship only skating like a mule to build up other people's tours. Bob Young the man who ran the U.S rink where Oksana trained was a convicted sex fiend who preyed on young skaters. He likely sexually molested, sexually harassed & raped a young Oksana as well. Bob Young harmed so many skaters the rink was closed. People around skating knew Oksana was being terribly exploited & even abused. Yet, no one said anything most felt she deserved whatever terrible things happened to her for winning the OGM. I have heard this stated in private circles! In an act of gross corruption Oksana Baiul was banned by the sport---in an effort to allow American girls to reach the podium. All while preventing Oksana from winning more medals improving & reaching her zenith. She had no real help Galina was never a real coach which is why she couldn't pass the license in Ukraine. She headed for America where coaches weren't required to be licensed; where anyone could hang out a coaching shingle even an out of work skating choreographer--like Galina Zmievskaya. It was all an orchestrated sham. The only thing real was Oksana's drive, will, her ability & determination to overcome. I've come to admire Oksana as a person even more than her beautiful skating. Oksana, unlike most celebrities from deprived backgrounds leading harsh lives managed to overcome if not triumph over the hellish & nightmarish hand that life deal her. Other celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, River Phoenix & countless child stars throw in the towel on their lives. Oksana Baiul is a true champion. Figure skating should be BANNED from the Olympics----this is my view. Oksana Baiul was robbed of her competitive glory. OKSANA WAS ROBBED!
JJ truth Yes they did. Christine Brennan used to irritate many of us with her biased
commentary sometimes. But!!! This little darling captivated the crowd like no other and they could not deny her the win. Ha!!
Do you have the literature to back up this whole senerio? Links? Or is this just your opinion? Banned from the Olympics really? Seems that after the Olympics Oksana partied hard and had a drinking problem that landed her in jail from multiple DUI even crashing one if her cars? Sad that she ruined her life and it has been said by some that yes Oksana indeed fell victim to some very illegitimate people in the US.
EUROPEAN BURMESE Nobody has ever accused the U S Figure Skating community of being non-political, remember.
EUROPEAN BURMESE She was a troubled orphan but it doesnt mean she was treated well by those wishing to profit off her either.
I don't think I've ever read a more unfocused, unsubstantiated rant. If Baiul was taken advantage of by anyone, it would have been the people closest to her--Russians and Ukrainians, not Americans. Baiul is from eastern Europe where drinking problems are very common. While unfortunate, it's not a surprise that she struggles with alcoholism. More than anything or anyone, that's what sent her life on a downward spiral.
As far as the American media goes, they LOVED this girl. During the '94 Olympics, they couldn't stop blathering on about her being the "Orphan from Odessa". If they said it once, they said it a thousand times. The "orphan" public relations push behind her was SO strong, I KNEW she would win gold no matter how she skated, and she did--for an error-riddled LP with lots of two-foot landings, childish choreography, an outfit that made her look like a pink flamingo complete with ponytail scrunchie, and only one jump combination thrown in with only a few seconds left in the program, a double toe tacked on to another jump. Nancy Kerrigans' sophistication and flawless programs blew Baiul out of the water. Setting the COP aside, you could take Nancy's '94 Olympic programs and put them in a competition today, and they wouldn't look out of place. Not so with Baiul's programs, especially the LP, which haven't aged well.
Nancy was really the first ladies skater who proved you could be sophisticated on the ice without all the tacky gold lamae, puffy sleeves, feathers and sequins. It was Nancy that paved the way for classy skaters like Michelle Kwan and Kim Yuna. Nancy was robbed because of the public relations campaign for the "Orphan from Odessa" who got the sympathy vote, and the American media certainly did their part in making that happen.
There's a lot more to ice skating than jumps. Surya does them brilliantly, but is not nearly as elegant and interesting to watch as Oksana...
Why she didn't have jump combinations?
Because she couldn't do them
Well she came out hit five straight clean triples ... I'd say it was much better than her olys ... I think everyone was really excited how a new star just appeared out of nowhere and everyone felt for her ;) she was just so lovely but yeah her jumps, while solid here, were very telegraphed, lots of simple crossovers
Ok. There was not a single jump combination in that program. I still don't see how that beat Chen Lu and Bonaly.
Combinations weren't given as much weight back then. You can't judge by today's standards.
+Jose Hill Please remember Oksana was ahead of Bonaly and Chen Lu after the short program. So, they had ground to make up. Oksana danced more in the first 30 seconds of her program than Surya did in her entire program. Jump combinations are not required. Artistic impression is. Lu did have the complete package... but she did not do well in the short.
Bonaly's jumps were choppy and not as powerful as Oksana's. Her flow , positions and edges inferior to Oksana. Chen had neither the power, elegance or artistic quality of Oksana. Enough said. She was better than both those two.
Because she's the abandoned, orphaned skating waif....?? JK. I love OB.
@@cnoevil.5146 Chen certainly did have power, elegance, and artistic quality -- what on earth are you looking at? This LP from Baiul was not as finished off as it was at the Olympics, it felt more juniorish. Chen had a whole extra Triple Lutz over Baiul and I would mark her higher on artistic as well. Her interpretation of Nausicaa was quite mesmerizing and more nuanced than Baiul's program; she was the real winner here. I would also mark Bonaly over Baiul in this instance, she did the jumps cleanly here, it was her best technical skate ever. Lu Chen - 5.7/5.8, Bonaly - 5.9/5.6, Kielmann - 5.6/5.7, Baiul - 5.5/5.7
better than kerrigan
Oh, I see it now. I just hadn't ever seen someone do that without another jump in front of it. Thanks!
@1dallasmetalgirl, I heard about the bent blades too, but did not know when or where, thanks for that,, this clip is so inspiring to me and I'm not even a skater. What determination and inner drive along with sweet innocence she shows here,
@MultiRazorb Well, for 1984, it was. You also had to look at the complexity of the hand-holds, the changes in direction and the positions between the two, the deep edging. Also, they flow and ease as to how one move transitioned to the next. It was a lot different from what judges have seen in the years prior. They were the first to use a single theme for the entire dance (beginning with Mack & Mabel in 1982).
People who are saying she isn't a good skater. Go check her the "the swan" program.
The one where she 2foots her lutz?? Yeah not a goof skater I believe…
Was this the same routine she did for the Gold medal in 94?
She is exquisite.
But the thing is that Bolero was also the gold standard in terms of technical skating in addition to artistic skating. Oksana skated with a ton of personality and charisma as well as ease and grace but technically some of her programs left a little to be desired. That's not the case with Torvill & Dean. It's virtually impossible to really fault Bolero either technically or artistically.
is the wally loop into the double axel her combo? cuz you still were required to do a cobo right if not you get reprimanded right
Yes, you needed any combo or get docked. At Olympics she snuck in that famous double toe that secured the gold.
And that second double axel looked two footed. No real combo. No footwork sequence. She was still a bit coltish. Only five triples, none repeated, none in combination. The donut spin was well done, the lutz and loop were big, but there was a lot of deficits in this program that seemed to be glossed over with charisma.
it's an inside axel - an axel taken off of a forward inside edge, versus a forward outside edge.
Big fan of Oksana, 1993thru 1995 , the drama between Nancy and tonya 1994 Olympic, with Oshkana coulision with the German girl, Scott Halmiton commited
Sometimes all the stars are lined up for the wrong competitor to win.
BINGO . The awful truth.
Charming performance but not worthy of the gold. Surya was AMAZING - no two footed landings, Surya's jumps were huge & clean & her spins impeccable. Oksana posed a great deal & had no combos. Just a travesty - should have been Surya's year.
I’m confused why didn’t you do a jump combination? She has to do it in the short program I mean that seems like a huge technical error by the her team mean just add a double toe onto any one of those jumps that’s easy that’s so weird
Bingo. And no true footwork sequence, no true combination spin. Her team made a huge coaching and compositional error, and same for Olympics 94 as she used this program again. However, it was worse at the Olympics with three clear errors there: two-footed flip, popped triple toe loop, two-footed triple toe near the ending.
She is a total skater better then bonali she skates with her hart
She did an inside Axel (easy jump, but not done much anymore). Willy Boeckl would be proud.
I like her a lot. And Surya Bonaly ....
I like you and you're one of my favorite!!!
Nancy was a talented skater. When on she had big jumps - not as big as another crash and burn skater of her times Josie Chouinard but huge. She also had a great style - modern ballet that hid a lot of flaws. If you look at her spirals they actually weren't all that extended but she made everything look artisistc and it helped she was so elegant looking with undoubtedly the best costumes ever - combination of elegance, sexiness, bling and sophistication. Sorry Michelle sometimes even your dresses didn't match Nancy's. But she too was an emotional or fragile and Nancy did choke for lack of words = this was the biggest. Still to have the guts to throw a triple triple and do it - kudos to her. I think Nancy was lucky to win the short in 93 but Baiul was very very new.. I think Oksana was better on the elements and program - such freedom, amplitude blended with musicality. Nancy of course was disappointed. I note a lot of criticism to her rather similar style skating in her programs. To be honest that is not uncommon. Michelle Kwan really had the same look to all her programs and her jumps were choreographed in a similar order to each program.
i can understand questioning Oxana winning over Lu, Lu was a complete package. but Bonaly? skating is not just jumps, as the new system shows, under CoP Bonaly wouldn't have had a single podium in her career, with her atrocious basic skills, no transitions, and zero choreo.
cop only awards technical aspects of skating. Bonaly could make a podium under cop just for the jump combinations she attempted. Cop doesn't deduct for falls unlike 6.0 whih rewarded the mastery of putting together 2 clean performances. Under cop you can fall over your butt and do a few jump combos and score high. 6.0 demanded mastery of both performances.
I totally understand why Nancy kerrigan made that comment about her. All she did was cry and like bursting into the cry. Kinda freaky.
With that sloppy ending that she won compared to Surya's amazing performance is a joke.
LEGEND
It was in Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia split on 01.01.93
Very juvenile program. No jump combinations, very simple spins, mediocre spirals, and almost no footwork. Technically mediocre indeed. No way should this freeskate have beaten either Surya Bonaly or Lu Chen.
I totally agree. This was a joke.
Ive bever seen anyone skate so smoothly
Every so often I re-watch the 1993 performances of Baiul and Bonaly to see if I can see what the judges see. Nope, still not even close. Yes Baiul is a more elegant skater and better edging (or any edging at all, since Bonaly has little), but the difference in technical difficulty between the two skates is so overwhelming that Bonaly still should have won by a mile.
i agree if you don't think that judging in figure skating was not rigged, think again. clearly in this competition, bonaly deserves the gold, and she should win the free skate competition. and in 1994 olympics, kerrigan should win the gold. both bonaly in this competition and kerrigan at the olympic had a much more technically challenged free skate than baiul hands down.
If you can't see what Oksana brought to ice skating then you must be blind as a bat. The rest of the field looks like a bigfoot on ice show.
100%.