Although Dick Button was very complimentary about Annette's performance, it was not as good as Linda Fratianne's. However, Annette was got a great lead in the school figures, I believe, and that gave her the ultimate win of the gold medal. So sad that Linda didn't win but also sad that school figures were totally eliminated from competitions. I believe that school figures (compulsories) do have a place in "figure" skating just not the major piece they once had.
Annett's performance was not that much different than that of Fratianne's. I even think Annett had a bit of charm about her in this LP that Linda didn't. She finished 3rd in the LP while Linda was 2nd, which was correct. Maybe Sandy Lenz arguably could've been 3rd or * yikes * even 2nd in the LP, but she had no reputation.
@@AT-jm4dl this was an absolutely horrible performance and you can't even compare it to Linda's. That's why they changed the rule and made the short program a higher percentage than the figures correctly. It's a new rule have been in place Linda would have won the gold.
If the ordinals system that was implemented starting at the 1981 Worlds, here's what the results would be: GOLD - Fratianne - 4.2 ordinals SILVER - Poetzsch - 5.2 BRONZE - Biellmann - 9 4th - Lurz - 9.2 5th - Allen - 10
They should have changed it a year earlier this is just a dreadful performance. It's hard to believe this woman was a 2x world champion and Olympic champion mainly really because of the figures.
@@averyfrederick5745 I think the results of Lake Placid had a lot to do with the switch to the ordinals system starting in 1981. We shouldn't forget controversial Olympic results are what led to scoring changes in figure skating. In fact the men's and ladies winners from 1972 scored so high in figures, they could afford to finish 4th and 7th respectively in their free skates and still win the gold. That's what led to the introduction of the technical program in 1973.
There are no 'if' in a sport! You have to accept what the rules were at 1980 Olympics. Or do you Americans also admit that at 1990 Worlds Jill Trenary shouldn't have won with that awful free skate and Mitori Ito should have won Worlds? Or you don't say a thing just because Trenary was American?
"Nice triple toe loop. It looked clean from here." It did? Where was Dick sitting? It's possible he was in a position where he couldn't see her second foot touching down. And before that a single salchow followed by a squirrelly double loop. Annet Poetzsch was 4th (SP) and 3rd (FS) but because she was first in figures, she won gold. Denise Biellmann was 2nd (SP) and 1st (FS), but because she was 12th place in figures, she came in fourth overall. So without figures, Denise would have won. Some interesting trivia about Anett I read on her wiki: She married Katarina Witt's brother, but divorced in 1990, and their child was the German pair champion in 2000 with partner Robin Szolkowy, who rose to international fame with his next partner Aliona Savchenko. This was yet another Olympics where the figure skating was tarnished by compulsory figures. Although Denise Biellmann won the free skating, I was not totally pleased with her performance, and at the time felt terrible that I thought she may never win a gold medal in Worlds or anything. If you look in the records, Denise also won the free skating in the 1978 European Championships two years before this Olympics but was 4th then also, to Anett Poetzsch, again! Finally, Anett skipped the 1981 Worlds, and Denise had worked on her figures like crazy to come in 4th in figures, and won the 1981 Worlds. That made me happy for her and she had a good pro career after that. Even if you believe that figures are as important to free skating as the barre is to ballet, which I don't, why should it ever have been judged as part of skating competitions after the very early years of skating? You go to the ballet to watch people do ballet, not to do preparatory exercises at the barre. And you go to skating to see skating. It made skating like the biathlon, where they ski and shoot.
ya and that was the least of her problems go back to the short program to see her stunning DOUBLE LOOP DOUBLE TOE COMBINATION what a joke she won terrible skater
A few missed opportunities in her jumping passes but once she settled down, she put forward a strong performance. She had very nice height and ice coverage in her 2Axels. Very nice Flying Camel, and in general, she was a nice spinner. I really appreciate her commitment to her choreography and her determination to deliver the best performance regardless of a few missteps. Good job 👍👏👏
I would not call that performance strong in comparison to other skaters in that competition. Almost all the jumps were wonky. The opening layback spin was pitiful. A lot of "skating on two feet". I could go on.
This is got to be the worst Olympic gold medal performance ever. She had the ugliest positions, Good shelves crooked in the air just not a good skater in my opinion.
@@mattg.812 It was a weak field that year, so yes this was one of the best in this field just due to how bad the field is. If you did 2 triples that already put you near the top. This was placed 3rd behind Biellmann and Fratianne which was correct. The others didn't skate better, Marie Allen is a more stylish skater but did 0 triples, and Watanabe did not skate well, and Lurz is clearly inferior. And with her lead in figures on Fratianne it was enough to win.
@@InfernoBLK72 Linda is overrated. She has never been robbed of a medal and she won many ridiculous gift medals she did not deserve- bronze at the 80 worlds (Watanabe was robbed), gold at the 80 Nationals (Marie Allen was robbed), gold at the 77 Nationals (Burg was robbed), winning the free skate at the 78 worlds (this was a joke, she deserved 5th in the long, but still would have won silver overall).
Linda Fratianne deserved to win the gold medal. This skate here is going to give me nightmares. I guess she could of just laid down on ice and took a nap and still won. Sad.
Linda is one of the most overrated skaters ever. I would have had her bronze behind Biellmann as well considering Biellmann was light years better than Fratiannezzzz in free skating. Poetzsch was about the same and much better in figures.
@@tylerbam7183 There was some strange scoring Dagmar Lurz bronze? Ugh Ugh. I think Linda Fratianne was rooked too, as well as Biellman. If the figures helped Poetszch win and Lurz get a bronze, glad they were done away with.
@@floskate Fratianne was overrated and should not have even medaled. I hated her skating and even worse she was and still is a whiny arrogant bitch, still complaining about her silver all these years later. Thank goodness she is forgotten today, irrelevant as she deserves. Denise should have medaled over Lurz atleast even with figures. Her free skating blew everyone away, that should have atleast compensated some for her figrues weakness.
Bah for me Fratianne was a generally overmarked skater herself. I saw both skates and for me the FPs were basically the same and I know for a fact Poetzsch is much better in figures so it makes sense she won. The only times Fratianne beat Poetzsch she bombed the free skating anyway, a fact many forget, which did not happen here.
She is very creative!!!! I see moves that I don´t see these days. And I love it when they spin so quickly, not everybody can!
You know, all this time I thought she was wearing orange until I saw this cleaner version.
I like her. Wish there was more videos of her.
Interesting we're looking at Katarina Witt's former sister-in-law.
Although Dick Button was very complimentary about Annette's performance, it was not as good as Linda Fratianne's. However, Annette was got a great lead in the school figures, I believe, and that gave her the ultimate win of the gold medal. So sad that Linda didn't win but also sad that school figures were totally eliminated from competitions. I believe that school figures (compulsories) do have a place in "figure" skating just not the major piece they once had.
Annett's performance was not that much different than that of Fratianne's. I even think Annett had a bit of charm about her in this LP that Linda didn't. She finished 3rd in the LP while Linda was 2nd, which was correct. Maybe Sandy Lenz arguably could've been 3rd or * yikes * even 2nd in the LP, but she had no reputation.
poetzch was over marked in the short and lackluster in the long did not deserve to win overall.......terrible
@@AT-jm4dl this was an absolutely horrible performance and you can't even compare it to Linda's. That's why they changed the rule and made the short program a higher percentage than the figures correctly. It's a new rule have been in place Linda would have won the gold.
Linda Frattione was robbed! Damn Cold War and crook judges
@@AT-jm4dl Yes....but Anett should have been placed 6th-8th in the short. The judges manipulated results in the short to assure Poetzsch a win
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If the ordinals system that was implemented starting at the 1981 Worlds, here's what the results would be:
GOLD - Fratianne - 4.2 ordinals
SILVER - Poetzsch - 5.2
BRONZE - Biellmann - 9
4th - Lurz - 9.2
5th - Allen - 10
They should have changed it a year earlier this is just a dreadful performance. It's hard to believe this woman was a 2x world champion and Olympic champion mainly really because of the figures.
@@averyfrederick5745 I think the results of Lake Placid had a lot to do with the switch to the ordinals system starting in 1981.
We shouldn't forget controversial Olympic results are what led to scoring changes in figure skating. In fact the men's and ladies winners from 1972 scored so high in figures, they could afford to finish 4th and 7th respectively in their free skates and still win the gold. That's what led to the introduction of the technical program in 1973.
There are no 'if' in a sport! You have to accept what the rules were at 1980 Olympics. Or do you Americans also admit that at 1990 Worlds Jill Trenary shouldn't have won with that awful free skate and Mitori Ito should have won Worlds? Or you don't say a thing just because Trenary was American?
Without the figures Biellman would have won gold. She was a better tech skater and performer.
@@flywings111 Wow--so all Americans? I am one and think Midori should have won. and Linda or Denise should have won here.
Even after all this time I still think Linda should have won
I had a feeling Dick Button would have some positive feedback for Anett's performance!
So weird to hear them say East Germany
Lol Dick Button trying to interview non-native English speakers, shouting "were you happy with your performance!?" Poor girl
Why poor?! With a Gold medal nobody is poor...😂 🙄
"Nice triple toe loop. It looked clean from here." It did? Where was Dick sitting? It's possible he was in a position where he couldn't see her second foot touching down. And before that a single salchow followed by a squirrelly double loop.
Annet Poetzsch was 4th (SP) and 3rd (FS) but because she was first in figures, she won gold. Denise Biellmann was 2nd (SP) and 1st (FS), but because she was 12th place in figures, she came in fourth overall. So without figures, Denise would have won.
Some interesting trivia about Anett I read on her wiki: She married Katarina Witt's brother, but divorced in 1990, and their child was the German pair champion in 2000 with partner Robin Szolkowy, who rose to international fame with his next partner Aliona Savchenko.
This was yet another Olympics where the figure skating was tarnished by compulsory figures. Although Denise Biellmann won the free skating, I was not totally pleased with her performance, and at the time felt terrible that I thought she may never win a gold medal in Worlds or anything.
If you look in the records, Denise also won the free skating in the 1978 European Championships two years before this Olympics but was 4th then also, to Anett Poetzsch, again! Finally, Anett skipped the 1981 Worlds, and Denise had worked on her figures like crazy to come in 4th in figures, and won the 1981 Worlds. That made me happy for her and she had a good pro career after that.
Even if you believe that figures are as important to free skating as the barre is to ballet, which I don't, why should it ever have been judged as part of skating competitions after the very early years of skating? You go to the ballet to watch people do ballet, not to do preparatory exercises at the barre. And you go to skating to see skating. It made skating like the biathlon, where they ski and shoot.
ya and that was the least of her problems go back to the short program to see her stunning DOUBLE LOOP DOUBLE TOE COMBINATION what a joke she won terrible skater
A few missed opportunities in her jumping passes but once she settled down, she put forward a strong performance. She had very nice height and ice coverage in her 2Axels. Very nice Flying Camel, and in general, she was a nice spinner. I really appreciate her commitment to her choreography and her determination to deliver the best performance regardless of a few missteps. Good job 👍👏👏
I would not call that performance strong in comparison to other skaters in that competition. Almost all the jumps were wonky. The opening layback spin was pitiful. A lot of "skating on two feet". I could go on.
This is got to be the worst Olympic gold medal performance ever. She had the ugliest positions, Good shelves crooked in the air just not a good skater in my opinion.
@@mattg.812 It was a weak field that year, so yes this was one of the best in this field just due to how bad the field is. If you did 2 triples that already put you near the top. This was placed 3rd behind Biellmann and Fratianne which was correct. The others didn't skate better, Marie Allen is a more stylish skater but did 0 triples, and Watanabe did not skate well, and Lurz is clearly inferior. And with her lead in figures on Fratianne it was enough to win.
What music was she skating to?
Excerpts from the Broadway show "Funny Girl."
彼女は規定で２位に約５点の大差をつけ、逃げ切って金メダルを獲得した。前年の世界選手権ウィーン大会が酷い出来だったので心配されたが、表現力も身に付けたのが立派だった。但しＮＨＫの中継で福島幸雄アナウンサーが「技のペッチか、美のフラチアニか」と言ってたのが、力が入りすぎてて苦笑した。
Brilliant skate! Fullly deserving of the gold medal.
Lackluster skate! Linda Fratianne should have won.
@@InfernoBLK72 Linda is overrated. She has never been robbed of a medal and she won many ridiculous gift medals she did not deserve- bronze at the 80 worlds (Watanabe was robbed), gold at the 80 Nationals (Marie Allen was robbed), gold at the 77 Nationals (Burg was robbed), winning the free skate at the 78 worlds (this was a joke, she deserved 5th in the long, but still would have won silver overall).
Are you blind?! Ffs!
Lots of just skating around! Dang! School figures ruled the day
Яка техніка, а швидкість, молодець!!!?
anett durfte nieeee zeigen was sie konnte nur das k.witt der liebling honeckers erste ist .anett ich habe dich geliebt
This was good..but Not a Great Olympic performance. LINDA was Better.
Linda Fratianne deserved to win the
gold medal. This skate here is going to give me nightmares. I guess she could of just laid down on ice and took a nap and still won. Sad.
Linda is one of the most overrated skaters ever. I would have had her bronze behind Biellmann as well considering Biellmann was light years better than Fratiannezzzz in free skating. Poetzsch was about the same and much better in figures.
@@tylerbam7183 There was some strange scoring Dagmar Lurz bronze? Ugh Ugh. I think Linda Fratianne was rooked too, as well as Biellman. If the figures helped Poetszch win and Lurz get a bronze, glad they were done away with.
"This skate here is going to give me nightmares." Lmaooooo ok regardless of who's better, that's just hilarious 😂
no Linda didn't deserve to win
Horrible skating. Missed jumps, stiff, abrupt moves, seems like she is just going through the motions at slow speed.
Her double axels were nice. But a nice double axel does not a gold medal make.
Seems CRAZY to be 4th in the Short and 3rd in the Long....but STILL walk away with a Gold Medal! 🤨
Compulsory Figures > Actual Skating 🤔🤯
She was horrible in the short program. She should have been way lower than four. She should have been like six or seven but it's politics.
@@averyfrederick5745 She was 4th since other messed up too. Watch Emi's short which was clearly worse and was 8th.
It was because bof the compulsory figures
I hate it, lol. Razzamattazz
aweful How could this win.
Horrible..figure skating is subjective as you can see. Not deserving to win any medal at all. Not sure what Dick Button was watching nor the judges.
Charmless awful routine
Fratianne was robbed!
Are you kidding? She was about as boaring as the east german!
No real fluidity or beautiful edges. Her skating is very angular and unappealing.
IMHO of course.
As stiff as a board! Robotic! An atrocious performance!!😥😥😥
This sucked clearly Denise Biellmann should have won
@@floskate Fratianne was overrated and should not have even medaled. I hated her skating and even worse she was and still is a whiny arrogant bitch, still complaining about her silver all these years later. Thank goodness she is forgotten today, irrelevant as she deserves.
Denise should have medaled over Lurz atleast even with figures. Her free skating blew everyone away, that should have atleast compensated some for her figrues weakness.
@@corymajor7811 wow cory seems like you haven't forgotten her!
@@1ACL True but I have not forgotten Sotnikova or Tonya Harding either. :) Being not forgotten does not mean something positive always.
Summarized in one word? Horrific.
thats being kind she was awful and never should have won
probably the least worthy olympic ladies champion
I guess raising your arms up to the sky is artistic. Okay performance I guess, but definitely not special.
Amen to that. So many wonky jumps, too. Terrible layback spin. And no combination spin. I could go on.
It was an awful performance.
I can't believe they would shove Dick Button down the throat of skaters and coaches just as they're getting their scores. It's sooooo rude.
Not worthy of Olympic Gold,,,,Fratianne got robbed.
Gary Simmons if anyone got Robbed it was Denise Bielmann, she outskated Both Linda and Annette by far.
Tarotista Chris ,,in the Free Skating that’s true, but Denise was too far behind after figures, and figures were worth a lot in those days.
@@garysimmons1485 True, yet in the 70% of the score, Biellman killed them.
Poetzsch was slightly overscored in figures and heavily so in the SP. Fratianne would not have won the gold, even with a win the FP.
Bah for me Fratianne was a generally overmarked skater herself. I saw both skates and for me the FPs were basically the same and I know for a fact Poetzsch is much better in figures so it makes sense she won. The only times Fratianne beat Poetzsch she bombed the free skating anyway, a fact many forget, which did not happen here.
To bad Biellmann was a poor figures skater, otherwise she would have won gold.
Dustin Gabe This was a Bland & uninspiring program. Never liked Poestch. I think I've actually seen one program that she skated well.
RAFA AMARILLAS Biellmann wasn't that good either especially with that horrible so-called triple Lutz
@@rolandgreen7484 Yeah Fratianne is way overrated and overhyped. LOL at the predictable crybaby comments from American retards here.