I am an American and I remember watching this the day after it happened and I just CRIED with joy because it was so beautiful! I don't care what country you're from, I can appreciate good athleticism and good sportsmanship and all the hard work and dedication it took to get there! And THAT'S what the Olympics are supposed to be all about, not about politics and all that other garbage.
Hallie Harker me too!!! That's why I'm on this page! I watch this when it originally air back in '06 with my Mom and sis. I'll never forget this performance. It left such an impression on us--it was so beautiful.
me too!! I also watched it live, it was amazing. Still the most beautiful performance till today. And her joy about it also affected me a lot back than. Great so watch over and over again...
Maybe it wasn't the technically strongest performance I have ever seen, but in terms of elegance she's unbeatable. Not only is she flexible but she's flexibly elegant - she uses her own body not to show that she can bite her foot but to show the music and harmony of the program. She's a genius :)
The most impressive thing about this performance for me was her spiral. Just a few deep strokes and she's across the rink in one go. Such amazing edge control and she makes an absolutely gigantic pattern that goes from board to board. People ooh and aah over Sasha Cohen's spiral and although Cohen had incredible extension and flexibility, the other 2 aspects (edge control and the pattern she makes on the ice) doesn't come anywhere close to Arakawa's. Great performance and a well deserved gold medal.
yup. people don't realise a spiral is not just about flexibility, but it's about stability and speed. people always used to complain about yuna's spirals as well but both these ladies could do them on a tightrope complete with edge changes with no wobbles with their hands in all sorts of positions (often skaters put one hand on their supporting leg for balance) and be across the rink after a couple of strides before you could blink.
To me, today's style of skating is just jumps and spins with stroking added, I abhor it. But this, this is pure elegance. Shizuka Arakawa, Sasha Cohen, and Yuna-Kim, are the people I regard as the greatest skaters of the early 2000's.
Indeed. There are many talented skaters now, but the programs are too "programmed" for points and base scores. It's like strategic skating and the music and artistry is by-the-by. Buttle, Rippon and a few others are able to choreograph around this, but so many "figure jumping" programs now.
I know, as a figure skater, whenever I have a new program, it's so difficult to do something different. Sometimes it even feels like there's barely anything but jumps. It seems that everyone today argues about skating not being a sport, it's too cutesy, and it's not competitive. The USFSA thinks that they've fixed it by scoring by the new judging system and frankly, disregarding anything but jumps in a program, but really all they have done is increased the cuteness, and the non sport attitude of the public. It's simply less interesting then it was just 8 years ago. I can tell you right now that the sport was much more competitive and fair back then then it is now.
She definitely deserved the win here. A somewhat conservative performance on the technical aspect, but the execution and the spiral were beautiful. Not to mention I'm absolutely in love with that costume 💜
Arakawa Shizuka , símbolo da persistência e humildade. Parabéns pelo seu talento! Não canso de assistir esse vídeo, 10 anos se passaram então e me emociono novamen te!
If anyone was going to beat Irina Slutskaya, I'm glad it was this program. This was beautiful. I'd forgotten how beautiful her extension is. Her Ina Bauer is exquisite.
I watched this famous skating again after my first seeing Opera Turandot on RUclips. So the first time I knew the meaning of her performance today, it's beautiful.
Shizuka Arakawa is the best Lady's skater ever. Perfect mix of athleticism and elegance, beauty. We are so proud of her. She is the symbol of Japanese women strength, beauty, quiet determination, hard work, and intellect. Perfect 10. Almost decade later, we still remember her beauty. No fist pumps. No fake performance. No drama. Not like any other nation or any other women.
Going back and watching this performance nearly has me in tears. It is so beautiful. She actually holds her positions! I miss miss miss spirals. That was always one of the highlights of skating programs for me. They don’t do them anymore. Programs are too fast and frantic with all of the footwork and transitions in and out of jumps. I can’t believe this was 15 years ago.
The beginning of the end for me was when they removed the spiral as a required element from the short program. (I believe in the 2010-11 season.) I am trying to get back into watching figure skating again but watching quad with hand over head, quad with hand over head, quad with hand over head with some "frantic" (your words) moves in between just isn't doing it for me. I hate today's footwork. Here, in 2006, it had become more intricate but still traveled fast. Then it became so intricate that it's just tedious to watch. A showcase of "these are the moves I can do" but with no meaning or purpose beyond collecting points. Do you remember Yuka Sato's footwork? I miss that kind of footwork. Incredibly skillful but also exciting to watch!
I could watch that ina bauer any time. I was actually watching the reaction of the photographers, especially after she landed her triple salchow-double-double combo, and I can tell they knew she was going to win. They've covered these events for so long that they're probably the better judge than those sitting in the judge's seat.
A big Thank-You to Dick Button for clarifying that "That's a lady skating"... I thought I was watching the mens' singles till his remark made me realize Why Yes that is INDEED a lady skating...
Шизука победила абсолютно справедливо, такая плавность, классика, величие. Понятно, что сейчас с таким набором на ЧЕ не попадешь, но я помню, как в те годы выступление Шизуки произвело невероятное впечатление. Поэтому бесконечно благодарю Юну и Мао за то, что совершили революцию в женском ФК в последующие годы, а наши девочки подхватили и преумножили
Wow! Nowadays skaters don't hold their positions on certain moves but for half s second! Seeing her hold positions for that length of time, to me, only strengthens the performance not distract from it! Now, it's noe you see it, then you don't! That was beautiful and she should have won! Personal best!
she showed us elegance and softness that great men's jumpers cant express. i believe those women's skaters who are trying to jump to the sky should stop doing it. Men jumps higher anyway. They should try to show what men can not do.
She is very earthy and might just as well have been skating to Moonlight Sonata since there is no fire &passion necessary for this music Puccini's Turandot.
and this is why they limited how many times you could use features in the code after this -- e.g., you can only use the donut position once, or the biellman position, etc., in a program
wow in those days a triple triple seems to be such a huge deal. even a 3T-3S was huge. and when Yuna came out with the 3T-3L it was considered the most spectacular thing ever. these days a triple triple is unofficially compulsory from junior level up. 3T-3L is a staple for the top 10- juniors and seniors.
They were doing triple-triple combinations in the 90s as well. Kristi Yamaguchi did a triple lutz/triple toe loop in the 1992 Olympics. True that only the top women were doing them, but they were done.
I get what you mean. Slutskaya was the first to do it. But it wasn't in every program until the last two years. Yuna was the only one doing it in 2010 so it was still pretty rare. Then everyone seemed to follow her.
Because the Lutz-Toe has more rotations, sometimes helped your score more and these days more people do it. Plus that combination let Mao down a lot of times.
Actually the point was how the prominence of jumping has changed in skating. The Lutz Toe combination features a lot when before it was a big deal. None of those other combinations feature as heavily.
Shizuka is the most forgotten Olympic gold medalist skater ever, and Sasha is the most forgotten Olympic silver medalist skater ever. I never hear anyone mentioning either of them on tv during skating competitions, when plenty of other Olympic medalists, including non-gold medalists, are talked about a lot. Weird, isn't it?
Her nickname is Cool Beauty?? Who calls her that? Like, “Wow, Cool Beauty won the Olympics!” Or “And now please welcome Cool Beauty tonight on the Jay Leno Show..”
I am an American and I remember watching this the day after it happened and I just CRIED with joy because it was so beautiful! I don't care what country you're from, I can appreciate good athleticism and good sportsmanship and all the hard work and dedication it took to get there! And THAT'S what the Olympics are supposed to be all about, not about politics and all that other garbage.
Hallie Harker me too!!! That's why I'm on this page! I watch this when it originally air back in '06 with my Mom and sis. I'll never forget this performance. It left such an impression on us--it was so beautiful.
me too!! I also watched it live, it was amazing. Still the most beautiful performance till today. And her joy about it also affected me a lot back than. Great so watch over and over again...
Also me....🙂❤️💯 Great performance!!!
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11 years and still loving her performance, it was magical
Still to this day one of my Favorite Olympic performances ever! She was absolutely stunning and deserved the GOLD!!
Maybe it wasn't the technically strongest performance I have ever seen, but in terms of elegance she's unbeatable. Not only is she flexible but she's flexibly elegant - she uses her own body not to show that she can bite her foot but to show the music and harmony of the program. She's a genius :)
美ということ、芸術と言うことですね。彼女がアクロバットではなく美を追求していたということが表れている。彼女が求めていたものが本当の美であったからこそ多くの人の涙を誘うのでしょう。本当に美しいです。ありがとうと言いたい。
She's so graceful. I love the way she skates. So classy and elegant, every movement was so fluid.
It’s 2019 and yet Shizuka’s performance giving me goose bumps.You’re my HERO!!
She's so graceful. And she could let her leg stay up so long. And the way she used her arms . . . One of my favorite skaters. And she's unique.
The most impressive thing about this performance for me was her spiral. Just a few deep strokes and she's across the rink in one go. Such amazing edge control and she makes an absolutely gigantic pattern that goes from board to board. People ooh and aah over Sasha Cohen's spiral and although Cohen had incredible extension and flexibility, the other 2 aspects (edge control and the pattern she makes on the ice) doesn't come anywhere close to Arakawa's. Great performance and a well deserved gold medal.
yup. people don't realise a spiral is not just about flexibility, but it's about stability and speed. people always used to complain about yuna's spirals as well but both these ladies could do them on a tightrope complete with edge changes with no wobbles with their hands in all sorts of positions (often skaters put one hand on their supporting leg for balance) and be across the rink after a couple of strides before you could blink.
⛸️❄️🌐🎌☺️1:35～
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何度観ても感動する
今のフィギュアスケートの方が技術的には数段も上のはずなのに、この映像を見る度に圧倒されてしまう。
That smile right at the end of her performance. UNFORGETTABLE
何回見ても素晴らしく、ただ感動します。😂❤🙌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💃👏👏👏👏
Her performance is beautifully crafted with a number of difficult techniques in spiral and spin. And, most importantly, it is very elegant !
To me, today's style of skating is just jumps and spins with stroking added, I abhor it. But this, this is pure elegance. Shizuka Arakawa, Sasha Cohen, and Yuna-Kim, are the people I regard as the greatest skaters of the early 2000's.
Shizuka is Grace Kelly on ice!
You are quite correct!
OK!
Indeed. There are many talented skaters now, but the programs are too "programmed" for points and base scores. It's like strategic skating and the music and artistry is by-the-by. Buttle, Rippon and a few others are able to choreograph around this, but so many "figure jumping" programs now.
I know, as a figure skater, whenever I have a new program, it's so difficult to do something different. Sometimes it even feels like there's barely anything but jumps. It seems that everyone today argues about skating not being a sport, it's too cutesy, and it's not competitive. The USFSA thinks that they've fixed it by scoring by the new judging system and frankly, disregarding anything but jumps in a program, but really all they have done is increased the cuteness, and the non sport attitude of the public. It's simply less interesting then it was just 8 years ago. I can tell you right now that the sport was much more competitive and fair back then then it is now.
日本の誰も未だにこの時の荒川静香を越えていない、神が降りている美しい演技だった
She definitely deserved the win here. A somewhat conservative performance on the technical aspect, but the execution and the spiral were beautiful. Not to mention I'm absolutely in love with that costume 💜
伸びやかで、こちらまでリンク上を気持ちよく滑っているのが伝わります。ホント、美しいですね。
My fave!! I still remember this, music is wonderful too!
Arakawa Shizuka , símbolo da persistência e humildade. Parabéns pelo seu talento!
Não canso de assistir esse vídeo, 10 anos se passaram então e me emociono novamen te!
Há brasileiros aqui 😁
I wonder who designed her dress, it looks so beautiful on her, especially with her flowing arm movements!
cj222100 incredibly, her mom!
The costume was one of my favorites of all time
That spiral transition to the 2nd half of the program is just phenomenal.
技術的なことはわからないが、後にも先にもこんなに「美しい」演技を見たのは初めて。
Love her Ina Bauer move, she skated very conservatively and clean. No mistakes.
Elegance and grace. That is Shizuka Arakawa.
If anyone was going to beat Irina Slutskaya, I'm glad it was this program. This was beautiful. I'd forgotten how beautiful her extension is. Her Ina Bauer is exquisite.
I watched this famous skating again after my first seeing Opera Turandot on RUclips. So the first time I knew the meaning of her performance today, it's beautiful.
Shizuka Arakawa is the best Lady's skater ever. Perfect mix of athleticism and elegance, beauty. We are so proud of her. She is the symbol of Japanese women strength, beauty, quiet determination, hard work, and intellect. Perfect 10. Almost decade later, we still remember her beauty. No fist pumps. No fake performance. No drama. Not like any other nation or any other women.
She will be ever my favorite skater
Going back and watching this performance nearly has me in tears. It is so beautiful. She actually holds her positions! I miss miss miss spirals. That was always one of the highlights of skating programs for me. They don’t do them anymore. Programs are too fast and frantic with all of the footwork and transitions in and out of jumps. I can’t believe this was 15 years ago.
The beginning of the end for me was when they removed the spiral as a required element from the short program. (I believe in the 2010-11 season.) I am trying to get back into watching figure skating again but watching quad with hand over head, quad with hand over head, quad with hand over head with some "frantic" (your words) moves in between just isn't doing it for me. I hate today's footwork. Here, in 2006, it had become more intricate but still traveled fast. Then it became so intricate that it's just tedious to watch. A showcase of "these are the moves I can do" but with no meaning or purpose beyond collecting points. Do you remember Yuka Sato's footwork? I miss that kind of footwork. Incredibly skillful but also exciting to watch!
Love Shizuka Arakawa! I also love Yulia Lipnitskaya's layback ina bauer, she's the best spinner for me ever!
I remember watching it on television. It is still one of my favourite programs ever!
Art.
My gosh she is so beautiful
Shizuka reminded me of Oksana Baiul with her beautiful artistry, lightness on the ice, and just magical effortless presence.
I still can't forget her spiral and Ina Bauer.
Watching this video in 2021.
gorgeous- it brought tears to my eyes
I just cannot imagine how much she must love the music from Turandot
⛸️❄️🌐🎌☺️1:35～
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何度見ても感動する！
これ、お気に入りです！
Thank you Elena!
*****
でしょー と
あひゃー ｗ
I could watch that ina bauer any time. I was actually watching the reaction of the photographers, especially after she landed her triple salchow-double-double combo, and I can tell they knew she was going to win. They've covered these events for so long that they're probably the better judge than those sitting in the judge's seat.
a great program and you can see the difference to the skating nowadays.
Cold Beauty and talent..what else?...The Best of all....
リアルタイムで観てた。
あまりにも綺麗で、箸を落とした。その後、ボーっと見惚れて
終わった後の余韻で動けなかったくらい。
One word: God.
A big Thank-You to Dick Button for clarifying that "That's a lady skating"... I thought I was watching the mens' singles till his remark made me realize Why Yes that is INDEED a lady skating...
She has amazing balance and flexibility.
That dress looks amazing, especially during spins.
Now this is a lady skating. Gorgeous program, dress and interpretation
편안하고 아름답고 보고 있음 마음이 편안해 지는 연기 였습니다
Шизука победила абсолютно справедливо, такая плавность, классика, величие. Понятно, что сейчас с таким набором на ЧЕ не попадешь, но я помню, как в те годы выступление Шизуки произвело невероятное впечатление. Поэтому бесконечно благодарю Юну и Мао за то, что совершили революцию в женском ФК в последующие годы, а наши девочки подхватили и преумножили
that ina bauer is so beautiful
技術的な事は分からない。ジャンプの技術が主に注目されているスケートと比べるのはナンセンスだと思う。羽生結弦さんのファンだけれど、たまたま見た荒川静香さんのこの滑りを見て、こんな優雅で流暢で芸術的な滑りを見た事が無いと思った！
She is breathtaking!!
she has wonderful flowing edges
Brava ✨🥇💐🙏🏻世界のひのき舞台でよくやってくれました…
こんなに日本人として嬉しい事は有りませんでした…素晴らしい演技に何回見ても涙が出ます…🎉荒川静香さん有難う御座います❤🎉💐🙏🏻
Wow! Nowadays skaters don't hold their positions on certain moves but for half s second! Seeing her hold positions for that length of time, to me, only strengthens the performance not distract from it! Now, it's noe you see it, then you don't! That was beautiful and she should have won! Personal best!
She is floating in the sky.
THE WAY MY JAW DROPPED AT THE INA BAUER PLS.
A great beauty . . . and a great figure skater.
my true idol 😇😇😇
When I saw this, I remembered the story of turandot :)
Remember that day she is my favorite
24歳には見えないなぁ、、今の真央ちゃんより若いんだもんね、、
Wonderful
Perhaps someday Japan will produce a skater who combines Miss Ito's power with Miss Arakawa's grace. When that happens, look out world!
Rika's coming close imo
While she was skating that night I heard my Mother say at the time in the other room "OMG she's absolutely stunning and better win" She Did!!
it's THE ina bauer.
確かにエレガントだった、確かに清楚だった、
確かに堂々としていた、確かに日本女性だったなあ！！
Shizuka supper perfomans , congragulation
A great performance in the free skate at the Olympics Shizuka was great at the Olympics in the free skate at the Olympics It was in February of 2006
今のフィギュアには足りない妖艶さがある。歴代史上の美しさだ
泣いた
Bravo
努力の荒川さん、無茶はしない正確無比！
What a stability! If the components had been linked by various choreography and transitions, however, her program would has been more beautiful.
Beautiful Japanese!
she showed us elegance and softness that great men's jumpers cant express.
i believe those women's skaters who are trying to jump to the sky should stop doing it. Men jumps higher anyway.
They should try to show what men can not do.
I just have to get this off my chest. Sandra Bezic is a pain. Glad we don't have to listen to her any more. Now I feel so much better!
looks japanese princess
She could've easily done the triple-triple.
No she not do triple triple because so much people have mistake
She don't want to have manymistake
None of the top ladies at that time did a triple-triple.. anyway, in the free, shizuka was around 9pts ahead of sasha cohen, the silver medalist
⛸️❄️🌐🎌☺️1:35～
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She is very earthy and might just as well have been skating to Moonlight Sonata since there is no fire &passion necessary for this music Puccini's Turandot.
今も魅了され続ける。永遠の氷の妖精？女神？を見たようだった。
She Is a lady skater!
Is it just me or is every single spin in this program exactly the same?
and this is why they limited how many times you could use features in the code after this -- e.g., you can only use the donut position once, or the biellman position, etc., in a program
You are absolutely right.
Lol
🌸🌐🎌☺️3-3-3
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wow in those days a triple triple seems to be such a huge deal. even a 3T-3S was huge. and when Yuna came out with the 3T-3L it was considered the most spectacular thing ever. these days a triple triple is unofficially compulsory from junior level up. 3T-3L is a staple for the top 10- juniors and seniors.
true. it's more like the 3F-2.75T
They were doing triple-triple combinations in the 90s as well. Kristi Yamaguchi did a triple lutz/triple toe loop in the 1992 Olympics. True that only the top women were doing them, but they were done.
I get what you mean. Slutskaya was the first to do it. But it wasn't in every program until the last two years. Yuna was the only one doing it in 2010 so it was still pretty rare. Then everyone seemed to follow her.
Because the Lutz-Toe has more rotations, sometimes helped your score more and these days more people do it. Plus that combination let Mao down a lot of times.
Actually the point was how the prominence of jumping has changed in skating. The Lutz Toe combination features a lot when before it was a big deal. None of those other combinations feature as heavily.
この時私は、USにいました。現地のSan Jose Mercury新聞が、トップ紙面全部を荒川静香に使いました。後にも先にも日本人がこんなふうに扱われたのは無いと思います。
ジュニアレベルまで落として取った金と書き込んでる人はこの大会の出場選手全員を貶したいの…？
This seemed really, really slow but it worked for her style of skating, with the soft knees and deep edges.
a real goddess
Shizuka is the most forgotten Olympic gold medalist skater ever, and Sasha is the most forgotten Olympic silver medalist skater ever. I never hear anyone mentioning either of them on tv during skating competitions, when plenty of other Olympic medalists, including non-gold medalists, are talked about a lot. Weird, isn't it?
Her nickname is Cool Beauty?? Who calls her that? Like, “Wow, Cool Beauty won the Olympics!” Or “And now please welcome Cool Beauty tonight on the Jay Leno Show..”
3:23❤️
Who can tell me the name of music? Please
🇯🇵荒川静香さん金メダルおめでとうございます、荒川静香さん大好きです♥
Still the best ina bauer
She covers so much ice with so little effort.
You are MY feiverit danser on the ise
이나바우어 미친.... 대박...
🌐🌸🎌☺️😃1:35～
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😊🌐❄️⛸️🎌2004
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6:56 she’s looking uncomfortable...... haha
There's this skater whi lost her mothers life just two days before the shortprogram