Brian Boitano Wins Gold
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- Опубликовано: 19 фев 2017
- "They were hanging the medal around my neck. I was watching the American Flag go up, and I was listening to the Star Spangled Banner. I felt for that brief moment that everybody in America was watching me.” Olympic gold medalist Brian Boitano looks back on the moment that changed his life forever, at the Olympics on February 20, 1988.
I love Brian Boitano for ever !!!
The best ice skater ever ❤️! I saw him in person a few times, wow! So passionate and magical and magnificent!
Loved that amazing and magical performance! It’s my favorite after all these years! So emotional! I felt what he felt at the end!! Thanks for the magic, Brian!! 🇺🇸🌟🥇
One of my favorite skaters! Loved his Olympic freestyle!
The best Brian won!! I remember watching both programs of Orser and Boitano. No question that Brian Boitano was the clear gold medalist!!!
Yes to think the idiot judges made it closer because of politics is absurd. Boitano was superior in every way and deserved .2 higher for technical and .1 higher for artistic, I had it scored 5.9 5.9 and Orser 5.7 5.8 and Petrenko 5.8 5.8, I had Orser third in the LP.
Ashley: Absolutely. The whole "broken tie" issue between Orser and Boitano was nonsense. Any judge that scored Orser the same or higher than Boitano in tech or artistry should have been sanctioned. The press made Orser's loss all about his fall out of the triple flip, but the truth is that Boitano did two triple axes (which Orser didn't do), two triple flips (which Orser didn't do) and a triple-triple combo (which Orser didn't do)...not to mention Orser's junior-ish style, puppet-on-a-string choreography complete with cringe-inducing knee slap. The fact is that not only was Boitano much better artistically, but he buried Orser technically. So, even IF Orser had made his triple flip, Boitano should still have earned a decisive win.
Boitano isn't being metaphorical here when he says Orser was the next one "chosen" to win the Olympics and that politics were at play. The truth is the fix was in for Orser to win. That's why the score was so close when it shouldn't have been. More than one judge was compromised on the panel to vote in Orser's favor no matter how he skated. At the link below, see Boitano's coach, Linda Leaver, speak candidly about being approached 15 years after the Calgary Olympics by the ONE judge that just couldn't go along with the scam in 1988 and had to vote his conscience. He paid the price for it too, by being fired from his skating federation. She speaks at 17:10. This interview is from 2016.
ruclips.net/video/XdUttJfNQLg/видео.html
Amazing...
After "The Battle of the Brians" in Calgary where he won the gold, people forget that he came back and competed in the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics, placing sixth.
if he won second the story would be he became the coach for Yuzuru!
I probably would not make a good coach or judge. I tend to judge by how much I enjoyed the performance. And while many are American like me, there are many I just love to watch who are not American: Elvis Stoyko. Denise Bielman, Uka Sato...a lot! They just have that special touch. Brian is my favorite American skater///and there are tons of those!
Amazing.
This is what Brian Boitano did.
Brian Boitano Italian American.
I've never seen a man eat so many chicken wings
Ekaterina Witt
Ikr!
Bryan of the Boitanos from Favale di Malvaro. A myth!
landed it well? he two footed that second triple axel!! still deserved to win, though...
I agree!
He didn’t. It looked like in tv but it wasn’t two footed.
His Olympic gold pales in comparison to what he did to those grizzly bears in the alps