I love their embrace at the end- he seems genuinely moved, almost collapsed, and she is embracing him and holding him up more than the other way around- followed by a buddy-like handshake and kiss on the hand. Sweet.
Fabulous. Thank you for this complete CBC coverage. I remember watching this live and seeing them win with this beautiful performance. Note the rare forward outside death spiral at 4:59; I remember Debbi Wilkes saying it was the first one she'd ever seen. Love Josee jumping up and down at the end! I think the entire country was jumping at the end there!! Congratulations Fred and Herb.
They had some extremely difficult elements that was not always reflected in their technical scores. Their death spirals indeed, two of them were so much more difficult than anything anyone else was doing at the time, their lifts of course, still the best to date in 2017 even and their side by side spins were always with a change of edge.
Plus the fact that they performed their triple twist at around the 3 minute mark. It’s such a difficult move that most pairs perform it right off the top or in the first minute. Just shows how confident they were with that move and how great their conditioning was.
Since this team, I haven't seen anyone do a triple lateral and a split triple twist! Current teams even have hard time doing a clean triple twist. COP really has hurt originality in programs today.
You have to realize that they purposely skated "slow" to portray their music and program, especially the middle section. You can't keep powering through with this music. Watch their earlier programs and you'll see that while yes, they were very raw, they had the power. How soon people forget! But it depends on the program. And they did skate with more pace in this program the following season (Olympics 94 season).
They were the only ones in the world to ever do that lateral twist. Looking back on it now, holy crap I can see the difference in technique is pretty massive- the regular twist he gets a big boost from her jump and inertia into the spin but the lateral twist he has to toss her almost completely on his own strength and the core support it takes from her to manage that landing yeesh.
@1234ImaginaryLane lol you too. i see him alot although i am quite intimdated by him. Though i have heard he is pretty nice, but i mean how am i going to say hey your mr eisler olympic champion huh? can i have your autograph?
Of course they were capable of creating speed. They just didn't match the speed of the other Top teams across the ice. Specially the Russians and it was so evident.
I love their embrace at the end- he seems genuinely moved, almost collapsed, and she is embracing him and holding him up more than the other way around- followed by a buddy-like handshake and kiss on the hand. Sweet.
Wow! I remember watching this in high school and it still send shivers down my spine over and over again!!! Wow!!!!
healwithmusic same!
One of the most amazing moments in Canadian Figure Skating history! Hands down!
I love how you can see the Canadian team and their coaches jumping up and down like crazy during the final lift!!!
One of the greatest moments ever in skating.
Fabulous. Thank you for this complete CBC coverage. I remember watching this live and seeing them win with this beautiful performance.
Note the rare forward outside death spiral at 4:59; I remember Debbi Wilkes saying it was the first one she'd ever seen.
Love Josee jumping up and down at the end! I think the entire country was jumping at the end there!!
Congratulations Fred and Herb.
They had some extremely difficult elements that was not always reflected in their technical scores. Their death spirals indeed, two of them were so much more difficult than anything anyone else was doing at the time, their lifts of course, still the best to date in 2017 even and their side by side spins were always with a change of edge.
Plus the fact that they performed their triple twist at around the 3 minute mark. It’s such a difficult move that most pairs perform it right off the top or in the first minute. Just shows how confident they were with that move and how great their conditioning was.
They were amazing to watch
Since this team, I haven't seen anyone do a triple lateral and a split triple twist! Current teams even have hard time doing a clean triple twist. COP really has hurt originality in programs today.
They're just quadfests today. Routines are non existent.
You have to realize that they purposely skated "slow" to portray their music and program, especially the middle section. You can't keep powering through with this music. Watch their earlier programs and you'll see that while yes, they were very raw, they had the power. How soon people forget! But it depends on the program. And they did skate with more pace in this program the following season (Olympics 94 season).
its amazing how many people chide them for it but praise Katarina Witt for the exact same thing.
They could have skated faster here but they were certainly capable of speed-just check out their short program from the year prior.
They were the only ones in the world to ever do that lateral twist. Looking back on it now, holy crap I can see the difference in technique is pretty massive- the regular twist he gets a big boost from her jump and inertia into the spin but the lateral twist he has to toss her almost completely on his own strength and the core support it takes from her to manage that landing yeesh.
wonderful and great
AMAZING!! OH, CANADA!!! :)
LLoyd owns my skating rink :D
@StewNWT Actually it was in Prague ... Czech Republic ... Nevertheless there were a huge quantity of Canadians ...
@1234ImaginaryLane lol you too. i see him alot although i am quite intimdated by him. Though i have heard he is pretty nice, but i mean how am i going to say hey your mr eisler olympic champion huh? can i have your autograph?
engaging team, but veeeeeery slow. im so used to the russians. ;)
The only thing that they needed to do was skate with more speed..
They were certainly capable of speed-just watch their short program from ‘92, which I think was their best program ever.
Of course they were capable of creating speed. They just didn't match the speed of the other Top teams across the ice. Specially the Russians and it was so evident.
katerina and Sergei are the best.