They were magnificent as a couple but after having watched so many of their performances I have to conclude that Sergei was the better of them individually. He’s no less than a delight to watch, my eyes are glued to him when they skate 🥰
This was their best performance of the "R & J" number. Had she landed the throw 2A perfectly, it could easily have been the best FS in history, because of the choreography, costume, their youth, speed & flow. It was a much more mature program compared to the previous numbers. Marina Zueva did a great job, Bravo !!
Also...Katya singled the 2A in their multi-jump combination. Sergei hit it. I had to watch it again to notice it. But really, who cares. They are just so wonderful. And that step-through overhead they do...one of my all-time favorite lifts. So difficult and they make it look so easy.
Romeo and Juliet all over again.....this lifetime they came back as Katia and Sergei we will never see them again but in 300 years they will be back as ?...like i said not in our lifetime to see again but they will be back...they were and are old souls and will someday finish their lives together...til then rest in peace Sergei.....
TheSaltyMahwah I never noticed that! Thank you 🙂 Romeo and Juliet is about young lovers besotted with one another. As this was there last LP before turning professional, marrying, having a baby, experiencing the fall of the Soviet Union transitioning to Russia, moving to the US...and then they returned to amateur skating with Moonlight Sonata as their LP, portraying their path to adulthood, the deepening and expansion of their love, that includes the bonds of parenthood...ahhh, the connection is blissful. ❤️
Why do you say that, Christine? Do you notice something others didn't or are you just lamenting that it wasn't picked up with routine surveillance? No one would otherwise suspect a 28-year-old world class athlete of having a heart condition ...
Watch at 0:54 watch Sergei's head he keeps it turned to the right as they do their triple toe loop so he can see that his Katoosha makes it through the triple with him...you can actually see the excitement in him when he sees that they both made it thru that triple toe loop..How he loved his Katoosha with every fiber of his being....! Katoosha was his nickname for her. You will never see two people again love the way they loved each other....
No one before or after will ever beat Gordeeva and Grinkov.....I challenge any pairs skaters to try..."never will it happen"..they were the very best and will never be beat technically or artistically ....and for sure no one will match the love they had for each other that is why they are unbeatable....!!
I wish I would have lived in that era of skating. Such a beauty, a real art. It has a soul. Eteri, has destroyed a soul of figure skating and there will time it will be judged with a right judgment, and from her orn skaters.
@@alwayzatiger1she is famous russian couch . She exploits young prodiges to the point of serious injury. The artristry is not important anymore, now is all about the elements. Apart from that, all skaters go through so much phisical distress that they are unable to participate in the olimpics past their teenage years
No she wasn't 79 pounds or 4 foot 8, either. The announcer had that very screwed up. Two years before at the Olympics, she was 84 pounds and 5 foot tall. She grew and became a woman, obviously you can tell from looking.
Carla Iris Yes, I think she was close to 5’ tall then and 90 lbs. She had loss some weight just prior to Calgary, from being ill, some loss of conditioning when she had to rest with a stress fracture, and “some sense” or expectation that she was supposed to lose some weight for the Olympics. She said she started the 87-88 Olympic season at a perfectly reasonable 90 lbs, but dropped by four to 86 lbs, the weight you remember. I think she’s a little taller here than in Calgary, and whatever weight she was at with the new height, I thought looked great on her. Certainly 90 lbs or more, still very slender, and petite, but also stronger, less fragile, and more of a woman’s shape that detracted nothing from her technical skills. In fact, I don’t know if she could have been landing the side by side triples consistently without the extra power her greater mass and muscle brought her.
Exactly. I actually came here to post this. During the Olympics, they talked about how she was in the 80s, in terms of weight, and here you can tell she's definitely more filled out and proportionate. She was very lanky in Calgary, and had the body of a woman here.
Очень красивая пара, глаз не оторвать! Сергей грациозен, элегантен, красив! Само совершенство! Екатерина утончённая, хрупкая, очень милая! Грустная история...
This might be their most different long program in their amateur career. Kudos to them for incorporating a triple jump. But I can see why they didn’t bring that back for 94’. Katia just wasn’t consistent with it.
Странно как-то ... парень всю жизнь спортом занимался, две Олимпиады выиграл, и сердечником врождённым оказался...Врачи столько лет ничего не замечали?!
Nowadays they have a new pairs couple that are just as good or even better then G&G was. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. I have enjoyed watching their talent as well. Need more skater pairs like them from America, which I saw Charlie and Davis they skate great too.
Tessa and Scott are great, but to me G & G are still the top. Their lines are long and beautiful. Seemingly so much ease and grace. The perfect amount of drama in their expressions, never overdone. Of course, I feel the use of classical music allows for their programs to build with the arc of a story. The popular music that Virtue and Moir use maintains the same level of dramatic intensity throughout: much less interesting, i.m.o. Many of today's skaters have such frenetic use of their arms ( though not V and M). I find it distracting and lacking in musicality.
You all do realize that G&again skated in the pairs event while V&M were competing in ice dancing, a completely different sport with completely different rules, right?
V/M D/W are ice dancers like T/D from 1984 they are legend for ice dancing. For me a couple which was close to G/G was elena and anton 1998 2002 they are russians too 😂 russian athles are good on ice
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30 years, and no other couple were able to create such series 🌷 they were perfection
They were perfection..the greatest of all time
They were always absolutely beautiful to watch.
Nobody does it better; I could watch this forever.
Нет слов выразить свою признательность, спасибо вам. Вечная память Сергею.
НАША ПАРА! СОВЕТСКАЯ ШКОЛА! ГОРДИМСЯ И СЕЙЧАС! Спасибо за чудо! Светлая память Сергею.
Freaking amazing! 😲❣️🥰 Never has there been another G&G. 💞
They were magnificent as a couple but after having watched so many of their performances I have to conclude that Sergei was the better of them individually. He’s no less than a delight to watch, my eyes are glued to him when they skate 🥰
He is so handsome on top of that
Hard disagree. What made them magic was their equality.
Самая лучшая пара. Талантливые, красивые, а главное - счастливые!
Бесконечно бы их выступления смотрела, но слезы не дают
So very beautiful. No one comes close.
Непревзойденные !!! Браво ! Аплодисменты !!!
This was their best performance of the "R & J" number. Had she landed the throw 2A perfectly, it could easily have been the best FS in history, because of the choreography, costume, their youth, speed & flow. It was a much more mature program compared to the previous numbers. Marina Zueva did a great job, Bravo !!
I think this is my all-time favorite G&G performance, for all the reasons you mention. Not flawless, but simply stunning.
It's Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky
rachel bordeaux This is Romeo and Juliet.
Their mistakes just made them look human... they were the best & made skating look effortless
Also...Katya singled the 2A in their multi-jump combination. Sergei hit it. I had to watch it again to notice it. But really, who cares. They are just so wonderful. And that step-through overhead they do...one of my all-time favorite lifts. So difficult and they make it look so easy.
I love this program and think it is most elegant &’perfect
RIP DEAR SERGEI FLYING WITH THE ANGELS.
Lovely as always! Oh my favorite videos to watch here on RUclips are of the incomparable G & G..💞
same only thing i watch really
grand and gorgeous oh yes!! G&G i love them
Romeo and Juliet all over again.....this lifetime they came back as Katia and Sergei we will never see them again but in 300 years they will be back as ?...like i said not in our lifetime to see again but they will be back...they were and are old souls and will someday finish their lives together...til then rest in peace Sergei.....
Лучше нет !
И не будет !
Шедевр , гениально !!!
Love the way this performace ends the way that moonlight sonata begins....
TheSaltyMahwah I never noticed that! Thank you 🙂 Romeo and Juliet is about young lovers besotted with one another. As this was there last LP before turning professional, marrying, having a baby, experiencing the fall of the Soviet Union transitioning to Russia, moving to the US...and then they returned to amateur skating with Moonlight Sonata as their LP, portraying their path to adulthood, the deepening and expansion of their love, that includes the bonds of parenthood...ahhh, the connection is blissful. ❤️
No matter how many times I watch Sergei skate, the fact that nobody caught his heart issue is something that I can never understand
Yes, so tragic. 😢 We can only hope Sergei is in the Glory of Heaven.
Why do you say that, Christine? Do you notice something others didn't or are you just lamenting that it wasn't picked up with routine surveillance? No one would otherwise suspect a 28-year-old world class athlete of having a heart condition ...
He had a risk factor, genetic in nature, that is linked with premature heart attacks.He had severely clogged coronary arteries.
And I agree with martha, So very beautiful, and no one comes close, still.
Watch at 0:54 watch Sergei's head he keeps it turned to the right as they do their triple toe loop so he can see that his Katoosha makes it through the triple with him...you can actually see the excitement in him when he sees that they both made it thru that triple toe loop..How he loved his Katoosha with every fiber of his being....! Katoosha was his nickname for her. You will never see two people again love the way they loved each other....
sheryle Jeffers he does that every program, every time, no matter when. I love it !
They have the best footwork I have ever seen. Every step in sync perfectly!!!!!
RIP Sergei
They are something else
No one before or after will ever beat Gordeeva and Grinkov.....I challenge any pairs skaters to try..."never will it happen"..they were the very best and will never be beat technically or artistically ....and for sure no one will match the love they had for each other that is why they are unbeatable....!!
You said it perfectly! On all accounts they are unbeatable ever!
I like to stop and start the video to see their synchronicity. It’s simply stunning how their lines are the same. Just beautiful.
I wish I would have lived in that era of skating. Such a beauty, a real art. It has a soul. Eteri, has destroyed a soul of figure skating and there will time it will be judged with a right judgment, and from her orn skaters.
Agree the choreography she has is horrible and too many jumps
I just watch clips of figure skating don’t really know the history. What is Eteri? Like a figure skating judge or something?
@@alwayzatiger1she is famous russian couch . She exploits young prodiges to the point of serious injury. The artristry is not important anymore, now is all about the elements. Apart from that, all skaters go through so much phisical distress that they are unable to participate in the olimpics past their teenage years
Gordeeva and Grinkov fear ? no way they attack the ice.....!!
Красивая пара была..❄❄⛸⛸❄❄⛸⛸❤❤🌹🌹🌺🌺🌎🌎🇷🇺🇷🇺
No she wasn't 79 pounds or 4 foot 8, either. The announcer had that very screwed up. Two years before at the Olympics, she was 84 pounds and 5 foot tall. She grew and became a woman, obviously you can tell from looking.
Carla Iris And Sergei grew, too. Height, and filled out muscularly, too. 🙂🙂
Carla Iris Yes, I think she was close to 5’ tall then and 90 lbs. She had loss some weight just prior to Calgary, from being ill, some loss of conditioning when she had to rest with a stress fracture, and “some sense” or expectation that she was supposed to lose some weight for the Olympics. She said she started the 87-88 Olympic season at a perfectly reasonable 90 lbs, but dropped by four to 86 lbs, the weight you remember. I think she’s a little taller here than in Calgary, and whatever weight she was at with the new height, I thought looked great on her. Certainly 90 lbs or more, still very slender, and petite, but also stronger, less fragile, and more of a woman’s shape that detracted nothing from her technical skills. In fact, I don’t know if she could have been landing the side by side triples consistently without the extra power her greater mass and muscle brought her.
Exactly. I actually came here to post this. During the Olympics, they talked about how she was in the 80s, in terms of weight, and here you can tell she's definitely more filled out and proportionate. She was very lanky in Calgary, and had the body of a woman here.
@@StargazerLily82 km i look i
I don't know why the commentator insisted on pronouncing Sergei's name Ser-gee-a. LOL
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Очень красивая пара, глаз не оторвать! Сергей грациозен, элегантен, красив! Само совершенство! Екатерина утончённая, хрупкая, очень милая! Грустная история...
Лучшие
Omg lol, how is she going to manage carrying all those flowers?
I miss G&G....🙄🙁
Здесь у них зарождается настоящая любовь друг к другу. В своём танце они показали свою настоящую любовь.
This might be their most different long program in their amateur career. Kudos to them for incorporating a triple jump. But I can see why they didn’t bring that back for 94’. Katia just wasn’t consistent with it.
He has less than 7 years left to live . They were the greatest.
Странно как-то ... парень всю жизнь спортом занимался, две Олимпиады выиграл, и сердечником врождённым оказался...Врачи столько лет ничего не замечали?!
вопрос на который нет ответа..
Вот такие врачи значит, что не замечали что у него проблемы со здоровьем. Это не врачи, а так одно название
🙏♥️🩷💖💕
she was only 79 pounds? wow
By 1994 they had a daughter wonder if they were dating at this point.
They were dating at this point.
Yes, they had a daughter, Daria (Dasha) in Sept. 1992. Married in April 1991.
Nowadays they have a new pairs couple that are just as good or even better then G&G was. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. I have enjoyed watching their talent as well. Need more skater pairs like them from America, which I saw Charlie and Davis they skate great too.
Never know some better pair skaters may develop soon
Tessa and Scott are great, but to me G & G are still the top. Their lines are long and beautiful. Seemingly so much ease and grace. The perfect amount of drama in their expressions, never overdone. Of course, I feel the use of classical music allows for their programs to build with the arc of a story. The popular music that Virtue and Moir use maintains the same level of dramatic intensity throughout: much less interesting, i.m.o. Many of today's skaters have such frenetic use of their arms ( though not V and M). I find it distracting and lacking in musicality.
You all do realize that G&again skated in the pairs event while V&M were competing in ice dancing, a completely different sport with completely different rules, right?
V/M D/W are ice dancers like T/D from 1984 they are legend for ice dancing.
For me a couple which was close to G/G was elena and anton 1998 2002 they are russians too 😂 russian athles are good on ice
@@amethyst5512 I read that they had the same choreographer.
Видеть не могу их выступления....так больно.Она осталась ,а его не стало. Она его предала и вышла замуж за другого.
Наталья Молчан Она его не предала. Ей было 24 года, она его любит, но его нет. А жизнь продолжается.
С ума сошли????
Perfection Elegance unbeatable.
Mesmerizing. L♥️ve.🙏🙏🙏⛸️💐