THE greatest female skater EVER. It annoys me when people say her artistry was not good. Artistry is not about flailing your arms around, it also includes style and flow and Midori has a great style. That position in her layback spin was just gorgeous.
So true. Thanks for saying that. I am also annoyed with that narrative. She is the greatest female jumper, no room for doubt, even among male skaters, she could be one of the best of all time. Also, she had her own artistry, which is genuine and organic. Her spin was pretty, she recognized every single note in her steps, she punctuated her jumps to the rhythm of music.
Nobody has ever skated with this much speed and reckless abandon while at the same time being completely secure. She controls nothing on her takeoffs. Momentum is her friend. Her ice coverage in the air is better than anybody in history. She goes so high and jumps so far that her rotation speed almost looks like it's in slow motion leading to completely secure landings. 32 years later and I still can't believe what I'm seeing every time I watch this.
THE BEST FEMALE FIGURE SKATER OF ALL TIME... MY FAVORITE OF ALL TIME..... HANDS DOWN... AT LEAST IN THE TECHNICAL PART... ANYONE WHO WOULD ARGUE ARE MORONS. 26 YEARS LATER, AND STILL UNMATCHED. MY GOD, THE POWER, GUTS, AND FORCE OF THIS WOMAN IS TRULY UNBELIEVABLE.. TYPHOON MIDORI!!!
she is the best skater in women FS history. people never realize people's mistake judgement however people looking back to try to figure it out who is the best. then people will realize she is the one. hall of flame the legend of skate. even now 2014 we never meet woman like her such a triple 6 types complete in human history
Midori was the best female jumper ever. that triple axel was HUGE and the speed she had across the ice was unreal. that's what allows her to land triple jumps effortlessly. especially that triple toe-triple toe combination.
Vette gaddia I agree. She would shit on everyone today. She had transitions and more difficult technical elements than those of today's skaters. Her technical marks would be through the roof!
Troy Turner Of course, Ito had the best triple axel of all the female skaters who ever lived. But she also had the old World style of artistry that we do not see from most of the top skaters today. Technical skaters of her day knew they can not win a World class championship without artistry.
If she skated today, her GOEs would be obnoxiously high. And with good reason. She doesnt miss a damn thing & everything is done with finesse, force, power, speed and most of all: a joy and passion for skating.
An utterly seminal performance! She literally would have beaten Kurt Browning's 1989 WC LP (he never even attempted a Lutz, 2-footed his quad, did not complete his 1st triple Axel and I swear his combination looks like a double-triple...but, for the sake of argument, give him full credit). She landed 6 different triples and since the toe loop is the easiest . . . she did two in combination . . . for a total of 7 beautifully executed jumps. A Master class demonstration! The Americans (& British) always downplayed Midori's greatness - largely because she competed against (initially) Jill Trenary and Kristi Yamaguchi. It was very unfortunate because she was the singular female figure that elevated figure skating to an ATHLETIC sport on a world stage. It was so very sad when the sport didn't embrace her athletic brilliance - even at the 1988 Olympics - she landed 7 triples, 2 in combination - one of the finest performances I've ever seen (flawless!!) and all the commentators talked about (both American and British) was her lack of artistry, RIDICULOUS!!!! She was sheer brilliance! A giant black eye when looking back on the exhibition (if they don't consider it a "sport" why should we!!) Her artistic marks were artificially lowered to the extreme merely to keep the door open for the "favorites". Her 1989 World Championship LP skate remains to this day (01/2016) the finest LP in the history of figure skating!!
terrific analysis, but i like her 1990 LP better. I also think she did an NHK in 89 that she used for her 1990 Worlds LP and that NHK was unbelievable, best LP ever I think. Although for her 1990 World's LP Scott Hamilton said it will be 50 years before we see another Midori Ito again and Toller Cranston said she was beyond 6.0 and no one was in her league.
I will say that Midori, if she skated well, was always chosen to win after 1989. It was all up to her. She was the anointed one, not Yamaguchi. In a lot of ways Yamaguchi and Ito were the Evert/Navratilova of figure skating. Martina was the athlete and Chrissie was consistency and a will of steel. People didn't realize that Martina was a VERY tough competitor and Evert was quite the athlete. Kristi was quite the jumper and was really doing the second hardest program after Ito. Yes, Harding had the axel, but Kristi's triple triple was harder and her jumps were more consistent. Midori was the greatest jumper of all time but her artistry was excitement she generated and her incredible charisma. She was no ballet dancer but she was quite the artist taken on her own terms. I was a big Yamaguchi fan but in retrospect I'm sad Midori didn't win in 1992. She deserved the gold medal and Kristi would have have won it in 1994.
I saw her skate live with the Campbell's Soup/Tom Collins Tour in the 1980s. The video doesn't really convey the speed she would have on the ice. In my opinion, the best female jumper of all time. Not only did she have speed, but she had tremendous height and distance with her jumps. It was unbelievable seeing her skate live.
I just watched Valieva skate to the world record and still think Midori's performance here is more exciting. Actually far more exciting and has never been equaled.
This is the truth. The Russians have found a way to do these jumps but not really DO them. Tight tight legs, fast rotations, no excitement. Valieva pales in comparison to this, especially since she still has a little girl's body. Midori was small but she was a woman. Only 3-4 people in history have been able to land some of these jumps after going through puberty and Valieva isn't one of them.
I normally get annoyed by Scott Hamilton commentating but here, he is absolutely right to be so excited by Midori Ito... She has fans all over the world, including here in London UK.
love the triple loop coming off a spread eagle in the slow section ..... how many times have i watched her programs and just marvel at how amazing her jumps are .... and her skating and transitions were good too as well as her spins and footwork ... she's the only one who really does transitions going into jumps back then
This is from The Herald Scotland newspaper August 16, 1992 about Midori changing figure skating. "Midori Ito of Japan has reclaimed figure skating and is transforming a sport where elegance once ruled. Like ice dancing, figure skating is a mix of ballet, gymnastics and showmanship but a new athleticism has been introduced to the sport. In 1988 Little Ito, as she's affectionately known, became the first woman to perform one of the trickiest of all skating manoeuvres -- a triple Axel (named after Axel Paulsen, a Norwegian skater at the turn of the century). ''She's the only woman I've seen who can compete with the top men. Her jumping ability is incredible,'' says Canadian gold medallist Kurt Browning. Midori Ito ''is in the vanguard of a new breed of athletes poised to turn the sport into acrobatics,'' reported The New York Times recently."
The 80s had some of the best skaters of all time...Scott Hamilton, Torvill and Dean, Katarina Witt and this amazing young lady, Midori Ito...just fantastic!!!
she was the only one woman in the world doing the triple axel now and the only one woman ever to have landed in the competition. awesome phrase ever said to the japanese athlete.
This program is truly unbelievable.. she was SO damn far ahead of the competition, she could have competed, like Hamilton said, and won the male competition that year.
Anybody who mentions her in the same breath as Harding knows nothing about skating. Yes, Tonya was very athletic and had a few great moments. But Midori was 50 years ahead of her time. Some idiot on another thread said her toe jumps had bad technique. I tried to explain, no, the technique is perfect, pick with a stretched leg, reach up and back to get height and distance, edges always correct. No pre-rotation. I don't think good technique means what he thinks it means.
What an incredible moment in figure skating. That triple axel was spectacular! I also loved the part of the program where she lands the Triple toe-triple toe combination and Scott Hamilton says “I’ve never seen a lady skate like this ever”. The music picks up at that point and she just flies across the ice with such confidence.
They all do harder triple triples now but they don't look like this. Ito was capable of doing a triple axel triple toe loop. There is video of it. Nobody today can do that combination.
Fan du Japon + Passionnée par le patinage = JE SUIS STUPÉFAITE !! :o Elle patine différemment ... je la trouve spéciale !! Elle mérite d’être connue à travers le monde entier!! BRAVOO Omedeto Midori-chan!
One thing was doing her in - she wasn't conventionally "pretty". That's all. Her posture and positions weren't the best but they weren't all that bad either. As if Ms Witt had nice positions. Her skating skills were very good, lots of speed. Runout on the jumps was stupendous. Very little build-up leading into the jumps, too. Looks decent even by modern standards, back then it was ahead of the competition by light years. And she expressed the music nicely. I seriously don't understand the second set of marks. This girl should've won an Oly gold. If anyone has ever been robbed by the figure skating "establishment", it's her. She was a true trailblazer
Two things. Midori should have won in 1988. In 1992 she fell twice and she lost her chance to win in the short program. Second, you have to give Kristi credit. She pushed herself to the limit. Landing the triple lutz, triple toe was solely to keep up with Midori. And she killed herself to try and land the axel, even though it never would have been as huge as Midori's and she never landed it. She might have had she lost in 92 and kept going. Artistically, Kristi was one of the finest ever, and Midori, to this day is the greatest technician who ever lived. Such a shame they had to be exact contemporaries. Both were deserving champions.
I will add that if I had to pick who was better, it was Midori (who was the greatest figure skater of all time). But Kristi was about as lovely as they come as a skater (please with the Michelle Kwan nonsense). Midori was also extremely artistic and had incredible charisma. You were on the edge of your seat when she skated, and it wasn't just the jumps, she skated fast, she spun fast and she had a reckless abandon that was infectious.
I've known Midori-san since she was 10 years old.You can say she wasn't pretty as most felt that way back then. The fact is she had over developed thighs from a lifetime of jumping . Bowed legs,big nose,ears that stuck out and crooked teeth. Not to mention 100 pounds but being only 4 feet 8 inches tall made her look chunky.Despite the shortcomings, she was/is absolutely adorable and beloved across the globe. Unsurpassed talent and a living legend.With the best smile on the planet.
@@hennagaijin100 You are right in that Midori was built like a little fire plug and thick-waisted. This really limited her aesthetics and ability to achieve better artistry through proper bodyline and posture. Her performances were never pretty to look at, but that's not what she was about. They were always exciting. Even so, because of those limitations, she not seen as a "complete" skater, which is why her second mark always suffered.
@USAGymnast I TOTALLY agree. And, with all that, she had charm, grace, modesty and kindness as a person too. in 1991, where she jumped out of the rink & hit a camera man during her performance, she went back to check if he and his camera were ok. Just a wonderful sportswoman!!
世界初3A決めた試合で世界初３回転６種も同時に達成してしまう凄さよ
みどりさんのような女子選手は2度と現れないと思う。
何度見ても飽きることがない。
素晴らしい選手です。
トリプルアクセルが3.5回転じゃなくて3.75回転になったのも歴史的瞬間だよね
100年に1度現れるスケートの天才。私の存命中に、再び見られるかなあ？彼女のおかげでスケートを見る楽しさが判った。
30年経っても異次元
凄すぎて当時の採点方式では評価が追いつかなかった
多分未来から来たんだと思う(笑)
2021年になっても見に来てしまう
英語は詳しくないですがアナウンサーの方解説の方が称賛しているのが嬉しいです それと他の動画を見ても伊藤みどりさんは海外からも愛されているのがわかります
未だにナンバーワンプレイヤーでレジェンドです
THAT'S NOT JUMPING, THAT'S FLYING!
TRUTH!
SO TRUE
Like for real though!! She is an angel 👼
2011年にこの動画を見ています。
今や日本には紀平・坂本という素晴らしい選手が現れていて、彼女たちの滑りを心から讃えますが、でもやっぱり本当に心奪われるのはこの伊藤みどり選手の演技です。
THE greatest female skater EVER. It annoys me when people say her artistry was not good. Artistry is not about flailing your arms around, it also includes style and flow and Midori has a great style. That position in her layback spin was just gorgeous.
So true. Thanks for saying that.
I am also annoyed with that narrative.
She is the greatest female jumper, no room for doubt, even among male skaters, she could be one of the best of all time.
Also, she had her own artistry, which is genuine and organic.
Her spin was pretty, she recognized every single note in her steps, she punctuated her jumps to the rhythm of music.
She did, but she didn’t have it from the beginning. It came with time, with maturity and with experience
今の華奢な選手には絶対出来ない滞空時間の長いダイナミックなジャンプ！！！！！
素晴らしい…かっこいい！！！
みどりさんのスケートは見ていて楽しい。爽快な気分になります。スピード出してステップからのハイジャンプ、スピンのブレのなさ、安定感、まさに天才。
2５年前の演技がこの素晴らしさ！
高さも、大きさも、彼女を超える女子スケーターはまだ現れていないと思う。
私の中で一番の人。
tachihara1000
Nobody has ever skated with this much speed and reckless abandon while at the same time being completely secure. She controls nothing on her takeoffs. Momentum is her friend. Her ice coverage in the air is better than anybody in history. She goes so high and jumps so far that her rotation speed almost looks like it's in slow motion leading to completely secure landings. 32 years later and I still can't believe what I'm seeing every time I watch this.
That she actually over rotated the 3A and had to fight to hang onto it is testament to that
世界で初めてトリプルアクセルを跳んだだけでなく、このフリーで彼女は６種類のジャンプと後半3-3をほぼ不足なくクリーンに跳んでいますよね。今でもこれは当たり前などではなく、それどころか今現在2015年になってやっとロシアに出来そうな選手が１人あらわれた、くらいの状態ではないでしょうか。加えてイーグルからのトリプル、フライングスピン、スピード、躍動感。まさにLegendと呼ぶにふさわしい、当時だけではなく今でも驚きに目を見張る、珠玉の宝石のような演技だと思います。
+goldzerda
本当にそうですよね。
みどりさんのジャンプを見ると、今の選手の回転不足ジャンプなんてお遊戯に見えちゃうw
+goldzerda ,さとちゃん さとちゃん,
後半の３−３なんて後の３回転トゥーループの方が高く飛んでますからね。信じられない。本当にすごいですよね！
みどりさんは天才。女子フィギュアで天才は後にも先にもこの人だけ。
定期的に見に来てしまう
前半だろうが後半だろうが軽々とジャンプを跳び、高さも飛距離もいまだに超える人は現れず
スピンも最高！
Even now (2016) "I have never seen a lady skate like this ever"! Amazing!
今でも、「こんな風に滑る女、見た事ない」！驚異的！
いまだに彼女のこの演技を超える選手はいない。本当に取る肌が立つくらいに感動します。男子も真っ青なジャンプです。彼女がオリンピック金メダリストでないなんて悔しいです。リレハンメルは2年後だったから十分できたのに。
引退は残念で悲しかったのを憶えています。
観客に愛されてる。
THE BEST FEMALE FIGURE SKATER OF ALL TIME... MY FAVORITE OF ALL TIME..... HANDS DOWN... AT LEAST IN THE TECHNICAL PART... ANYONE WHO WOULD ARGUE ARE MORONS. 26 YEARS LATER, AND STILL UNMATCHED. MY GOD, THE POWER, GUTS, AND FORCE OF THIS WOMAN IS TRULY UNBELIEVABLE.. TYPHOON MIDORI!!!
I was very young at this time, but I will never forget watching this performance live and the emotion I felt that day.
カタリナビットが後年のインタビューで、この世界初の女子3Aで控室が大騒ぎになったと振り返っていましたね。
当時は彼女の演技力、美しさがどうしてもジャッジに評価されなくて、それでも彼女は文句も言わず自分を高めることに集中していた。誰が強いとか、誰が勝つとか、そんな考えはもはや超越していて、常に自分との戦いだったと思う。ジャンプのダイナミックさはもちろんだけど、よい演技をしようとする正しい姿勢が観衆の心を掴んでいた。観衆とこれだけ一体になれたスケーターもいないと思う。
見ていると、素晴らしい演技に感動して涙が出る。
そして元気をもらう。
@@fumi-20 様 返信を有難うございます。かつての日本には、こんなにも素晴らしいスケーターがいたことは日本人として誇らしく思います。
オリンピックの演技は別として、この世界選手権の演技がいちばん好きです。翌年のシェヘラサードは完成した演技でしたし、彼女自身もトリプルアクセルをきれいに決められたことで思い入れはこちらのようですが、私は断然このプログラムが好きです！みどりさんのキャラクターとパワーが爆発していて観ていて楽しくなります。それに、このプログラムの演技から伊藤みどりの伝説の始まりと位置づけられる大事なプログラム、演技、大会だと今でも思っています。
+masahiro izumi
シェヘラサードの時のトリプルＡはもう完璧すぎましたよね。でも私もこのプログラムが大好きなんです！
それに音楽構成が素晴らしいです😊
もうこんなジャンパーは出てこないと思います。
当時ＴＶ中継を観て涙流しました。
she is the best skater in women FS history. people never realize people's mistake judgement however people looking back to try to figure it out who is the best. then people will realize she is the one. hall of flame the legend of skate.
even now 2014 we never meet woman like her such a triple 6 types complete in human history
Love Midori but she did not complete the lutz here, Mao in 2014 also attempted to complete all 6 types but edge deduction on lz again :(
Hanting Chen Huh? 0:49 definitely is a Triple Lutz.
@@hantingchen5497 are we watching the same clip here? Even Scott Hamilton said "Opening jump is a Triple Lutz".
@@matthewhines9787 late response but ya I dont know what I was thinking when I commented that woops lmao
@@payrolldepartment5678 I dont know what I was doing when I commented that lmao woops
彼女は日本の歴代女子アスリートNo 1だろう
いえ、世界一です♪
何度も何度も見に来ちゃう。
Midori was the best female jumper ever. that triple axel was HUGE and the speed she had across the ice was unreal. that's what allows her to land triple jumps effortlessly. especially that triple toe-triple toe combination.
+Troy Turner I think she is one of the best. And she makes ALL of the current crop of female skaters look like students.
Vette gaddia I agree. She would shit on everyone today. She had transitions and more difficult technical elements than those of today's skaters. Her technical marks would be through the roof!
Troy Turner Of course, Ito had the best triple axel of all the female skaters who ever lived. But she also had the old World style of artistry that we do not see from most of the top skaters today. Technical skaters of her day knew they can not win a World class championship without artistry.
何でも見ても、今と変わらない印象。素晴らしいジャンプは今もあきない。涙が出ました。一人で戦い一人でジャンプを確立した人はみどりさんしかいない。
7 triples including a 3A and 3T-3T combination in the 2nd half… in 1989. Iconic.
2023年の暮れに観ましたが、この演技から3４年経過した今現在でも彼女のジャンプは異次元です。
スケート靴の素材は当時とは比べ物にならないほど軽量化し、ジャンプ技術がITで分析され尽くされている現代においてもです。
数年前のロシアの４回転跋扈時代においても、この高さで飛んでいた選手は誰もいない。
女子で彼女を超える人が現れる日など来るのか・・
当時としては男性スケーターよりも高難度なことをしていました。どうしてみどりさんだけこんなに突出していたのだろうか?
ジャンパーとしてこの人を超える女子選手は未だ現われていません。
リアルタイムで観た時から、何度観ても、35年経った今でも感動で鳥肌が立ってしまう素晴らしい演技！伊藤みどりさん、ありがとう😭
まさに歴史が作られた瞬間ですね。
それを今でもこうやって見られるのはなんとありがたいことか。
Настоящий боец и при этом очень трогательная эмоциональная девушка,настоящее золото!
If she skated today, her GOEs would be obnoxiously high. And with good reason. She doesnt miss a damn thing & everything is done with finesse, force, power, speed and most of all: a joy and passion for skating.
誰も彼女のジャンプを越えられない。
An utterly seminal performance! She literally would have beaten Kurt Browning's 1989 WC LP (he never even attempted a Lutz, 2-footed his quad, did not complete his 1st triple Axel and I swear his combination looks like a double-triple...but, for the sake of argument, give him full credit). She landed 6 different triples and since the toe loop is the easiest . . . she did two in combination . . . for a total of 7 beautifully executed jumps. A Master class demonstration! The Americans (& British) always downplayed Midori's greatness - largely because she competed against (initially) Jill Trenary and Kristi Yamaguchi. It was very unfortunate because she was the singular female figure that elevated figure skating to an ATHLETIC sport on a world stage. It was so very sad when the sport didn't embrace her athletic brilliance - even at the 1988 Olympics - she landed 7 triples, 2 in combination - one of the finest performances I've ever seen (flawless!!) and all the commentators talked about (both American and British) was her lack of artistry, RIDICULOUS!!!! She was sheer brilliance! A giant black eye when looking back on the exhibition (if they don't consider it a "sport" why should we!!) Her artistic marks were artificially lowered to the extreme merely to keep the door open for the "favorites". Her 1989 World Championship LP skate remains to this day (01/2016) the finest LP in the history of figure skating!!
terrific analysis, but i like her 1990 LP better. I also think she did an NHK in 89 that she used for her 1990 Worlds LP and that NHK was unbelievable, best LP ever I think. Although for her 1990 World's LP Scott Hamilton said it will be 50 years before we see another Midori Ito again and Toller Cranston said she was beyond 6.0 and no one was in her league.
I will say that Midori, if she skated well, was always chosen to win after 1989. It was all up to her. She was the anointed one, not Yamaguchi. In a lot of ways Yamaguchi and Ito were the Evert/Navratilova of figure skating. Martina was the athlete and Chrissie was consistency and a will of steel. People didn't realize that Martina was a VERY tough competitor and Evert was quite the athlete. Kristi was quite the jumper and was really doing the second hardest program after Ito. Yes, Harding had the axel, but Kristi's triple triple was harder and her jumps were more consistent. Midori was the greatest jumper of all time but her artistry was excitement she generated and her incredible charisma. She was no ballet dancer but she was quite the artist taken on her own terms. I was a big Yamaguchi fan but in retrospect I'm sad Midori didn't win in 1992. She deserved the gold medal and Kristi would have have won it in 1994.
何度見ても、あの3Aの高さはオバケ。 彼女は美のフィギュアからアスレチック・フィギュアの時代を切り開いたパイオニアですね。 おそらく当時はサーカスのように見えたのでは無いかと思います。
当時彼女だけは別格で、他の選手の演技が貧相に見えたのは私だけでは無いと思います。
鳥肌もの！
これ以上のジャンプを魅せる女性スケーターは、これからも出て来なさそう。
I saw her skate live with the Campbell's Soup/Tom Collins Tour in the 1980s. The video doesn't really convey the speed she would have on the ice. In my opinion, the best female jumper of all time. Not only did she have speed, but she had tremendous height and distance with her jumps. It was unbelievable seeing her skate live.
My coach at the time was in Paris for these worlds and said that her jumps were higher than the boards
@@victoriagill3337i bet!! her jumps were so amazing to see in real life!
男子での４回転はこの数年で当たり前になった。それまではついこの間まで３回転時代。今でも女子の３Aや４回転はまだまだこれからの課題でやる選手も少ない。ところが伊藤みどりは２０年以上もまえにこの３Aをやりとげたとんでもない存在なのだ。彼女はフィギュア史の偉人だ。
ジャンプもすごいが、なんだこのフライングシットスピン！高え！
フィギュアの神に愛されたひと
Huge respect
I just watched Valieva skate to the world record and still think Midori's performance here is more exciting. Actually far more exciting and has never been equaled.
This is the truth. The Russians have found a way to do these jumps but not really DO them. Tight tight legs, fast rotations, no excitement. Valieva pales in comparison to this, especially since she still has a little girl's body. Midori was small but she was a woman. Only 3-4 people in history have been able to land some of these jumps after going through puberty and Valieva isn't one of them.
Never before nor since, still the Gold, IMO. LOVE this beautiful young lady.
When we get a time machine , I will definitely go to see this. May be I am already in this video as an audience!?
I normally get annoyed by Scott Hamilton commentating but here, he is absolutely right to be so excited by Midori Ito... She has fans all over the world, including here in London UK.
This could still win medals today! So great.
やはり今見ても異次元のスケーターだ❗️外国な方からの歓声が凄い❗️会場総出のスタンディングオベーション😂
I LOVE the look on her face just after she nails the triple axel! PRICELESS!
Seriously, my heart soars everytime she jumps
There will never be another Midori Ito.... A force of nature.... Absolutely flawless technique...
Watching her skating makes me really regret that the new scoring system wasn't implemented earlier.
もうこの演技を300回ぐらい見てますが色褪せないし、いつ見ても感動します。2024年の今でもこんな演技をしたら余裕で優勝出来ると思いますが、35年前の演技ですからね。今なら女子選手が4アクセルを跳べるのと同じぐらいのレベルだと思います。100年に一人の天才と言われていますが、この演技は100年後でも色褪せないでしょう。
ほんとにね
何回観ても観にくるたびに泣ける
RUclipsで何度も思い出した時に観に来れるっていい時代ですね
love the triple loop coming off a spread eagle in the slow section ..... how many times have i watched her programs and just marvel at how amazing her jumps are .... and her skating and transitions were good too as well as her spins and footwork ... she's the only one who really does transitions going into jumps back then
Best worlds-performance ever! In my opinion the most impressive female skater...even after 25 years!
She's so beast...
I know that's weird to say about a figure skater but...COME ON!
かわいい💠最高だわ！
This is from The Herald Scotland newspaper August 16, 1992 about Midori changing figure skating. "Midori Ito of Japan has reclaimed figure skating and is transforming a sport where elegance once ruled. Like ice dancing, figure skating is a mix of ballet,
gymnastics and showmanship but a new athleticism has been introduced to the sport. In 1988 Little Ito, as she's affectionately known, became the first woman to perform one of the trickiest of all skating manoeuvres -- a triple Axel (named after Axel Paulsen, a Norwegian skater at the turn of the century). ''She's the only woman I've seen who can compete with the top men. Her
jumping ability is incredible,'' says Canadian gold medallist Kurt Browning. Midori Ito ''is in the vanguard of a new breed of athletes poised to turn the sport into acrobatics,'' reported The New York Times recently."
これだけ会場を熱狂させた選手は他にいない。金メダルは無いけれど、世界一は伊藤みどりちゃんです。みどりちゃん、有難うございます❣️💖㊗️
Can you imagine if she were in her prime today? She'd be landing back to back quads!
トリプルアクセル決めて、後半で3T-3T！震える
The 80s had some of the best skaters of all time...Scott Hamilton, Torvill and Dean, Katarina Witt and this amazing young lady, Midori Ito...just fantastic!!!
I've never seen a triple/triple combo done with such security, ease and insane speed. On both jumps
Undeniable legend of triple axel
I love everything about Midori Ito's skating. I think my favorite jump of hers, for me, is her 3Loop.
Same here. Spread eagle to 3Lo, eagle-ina bauer-2Lo, 2Lo-3Lo.
Any of them is always eye pleasing.
ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL, ALWAYS A CHAMPION!! My Heart soars with You Midori Ito! POSITIVELY "SHOCKING" SOME OF THE MARKS THESE "JUDGES" GAVE..
日本の放送より はるかにこちらの実況解説の方が興奮している(笑)
会場の興奮と同レベルじゃないか!!!
このパフォーマンスにはこの反応が当然だ。
Midori Ito era genial, que velocidad y que altura en sus saltos. Simplemente LA MEJOR.
みどりさんのことを海外の解説者か何かが『フライングガール』って言ってたらしいです。
やはり高さが突出してるんですよね。
この当時はスケート靴も今より重かったはずですから凄すぎます。
当時の男子選手もみどりさんのジャンプをお手本にしたそうです...
she was the only one woman in the world doing the triple axel now and the only one woman ever to have landed in the competition. awesome phrase ever said to the japanese athlete.
This program is truly unbelievable.. she was SO damn far ahead of the competition, she could have competed, like Hamilton said, and won the male competition that year.
伊藤みとりさんの演技が真央ちゃん、羽生くんへと繋がっているのだなぁと・・・今見ても凄いの一言です。💖フランスでもかなりの人気があったのですね・・・☺️
This performance was way ahead of its time.
何度見てもすごいの一言みどりさんは世界一素晴らしい。とても感動して涙が出ました。😅❤🎉
Her jumps are huuuuge😍
Anybody who mentions her in the same breath as Harding knows nothing about skating. Yes, Tonya was very athletic and had a few great moments. But Midori was 50 years ahead of her time. Some idiot on another thread said her toe jumps had bad technique. I tried to explain, no, the technique is perfect, pick with a stretched leg, reach up and back to get height and distance, edges always correct. No pre-rotation. I don't think good technique means what he thinks it means.
That's really amazing!
She has a lots charismas,
audience always loves her.
She's the only skater I've seen who gets FASTER with her second triple jump. Amazing.
Only Midori Ito can control a Midori Ito jump
frankly should have won the 1988 olympics.
YES! I always thought that too!
Figures - plus they intentionally marked her down for the favorites in next group.
What an incredible moment in figure skating. That triple axel was spectacular! I also loved the part of the program where she lands the Triple toe-triple toe combination and Scott Hamilton says “I’ve never seen a lady skate like this ever”. The music picks up at that point and she just flies across the ice with such confidence.
They all do harder triple triples now but they don't look like this. Ito was capable of doing a triple axel triple toe loop. There is video of it. Nobody today can do that combination.
@@jondavwal13 Rika Kihira has done 3A-3T in competition although she does not get the same kind of height on her 3A as Midori did.
キレも高さもスゲー、点数もスゲー 伝説なだけあるわ
Excellent !
解説のスコットハミルトン興奮してる 自分も興奮したけど✨
1989～1990シーズンは特にスケートに釘付けでした！
今でも真央ちゃんがソチでやっと出来たレベル☆彡
みどりさんに憧れて３Ａにこだわり続けると言ってきた
真央ちゃんでさえ５種類のJUMPをプログラムに入れて
いなかった！
それがずっと引っかかっていましたが、やっぱり天才じゃないと
出来ないプログラム構成ですね～♪
伊藤みどりさんの様な選手が私の中ではいまだに現れていません。
安藤美姫ちゃんが４Sの他に５種類全部入れていたから近いかなぁ？
とりあえずみどりさんが五輪で金メダルとれなかったのが不思議です！
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!
完全無敵なみどりさんの演技、3Aを見事に決めて、後半に3✖3を余裕でとんでしまう驚異的身体能力 もうこういうスケーターは現れない
Fan du Japon + Passionnée par le patinage = JE SUIS STUPÉFAITE !! :o Elle patine différemment ... je la trouve spéciale !! Elle mérite d’être connue à travers le monde entier!! BRAVOO Omedeto Midori-chan!
I dont know why I just get goosebumps when she lands the triple axel
Super.
One thing was doing her in - she wasn't conventionally "pretty". That's all. Her posture and positions weren't the best but they weren't all that bad either. As if Ms Witt had nice positions. Her skating skills were very good, lots of speed. Runout on the jumps was stupendous. Very little build-up leading into the jumps, too. Looks decent even by modern standards, back then it was ahead of the competition by light years. And she expressed the music nicely. I seriously don't understand the second set of marks. This girl should've won an Oly gold. If anyone has ever been robbed by the figure skating "establishment", it's her. She was a true trailblazer
Two things. Midori should have won in 1988. In 1992 she fell twice and she lost her chance to win in the short program. Second, you have to give Kristi credit. She pushed herself to the limit. Landing the triple lutz, triple toe was solely to keep up with Midori. And she killed herself to try and land the axel, even though it never would have been as huge as Midori's and she never landed it. She might have had she lost in 92 and kept going. Artistically, Kristi was one of the finest ever, and Midori, to this day is the greatest technician who ever lived. Such a shame they had to be exact contemporaries. Both were deserving champions.
I will add that if I had to pick who was better, it was Midori (who was the greatest figure skater of all time). But Kristi was about as lovely as they come as a skater (please with the Michelle Kwan nonsense). Midori was also extremely artistic and had incredible charisma. You were on the edge of your seat when she skated, and it wasn't just the jumps, she skated fast, she spun fast and she had a reckless abandon that was infectious.
I've known Midori-san since she was 10 years old.You can say she wasn't pretty as most felt that way back then. The fact is she had over developed thighs from a lifetime of jumping . Bowed legs,big nose,ears that stuck out and crooked teeth. Not to mention 100 pounds but being only 4 feet 8 inches tall made her look chunky.Despite the shortcomings, she was/is absolutely adorable and beloved across the globe. Unsurpassed talent and a living legend.With the best smile on the planet.
@@hennagaijin100 she’s so beautiful 🥺
@@hennagaijin100 You are right in that Midori was built like a little fire plug and thick-waisted. This really limited her aesthetics and ability to achieve better artistry through proper bodyline and posture. Her performances were never pretty to look at, but that's not what she was about. They were always exciting. Even so, because of those limitations, she not seen as a "complete" skater, which is why her second mark always suffered.
She just THREW all of her jumps. Amazing. It didnt matter if it was an edge jump or toe. All marvelous
@USAGymnast I TOTALLY agree. And, with all that, she had charm, grace, modesty and kindness as a person too. in 1991, where she jumped out of the rink & hit a camera man during her performance, she went back to check if he and his camera were ok.
Just a wonderful sportswoman!!
Just fantastic.
how can watching this not make you feel good inside? seriously?