I was definitely a fan of Yuka … artistically and that impressive speed . She was better than a lot of skaters , she has elegance , grace and poise. Such a gentle little creature she is , and I’d love to know where they get their choices for music . It’s like a magical, almost Disney like quality . Very cool , thank you for posting this .
OK who is here in 2020. Anybody else that was a young skater at this time and just got excited again by seeing Yuka's great skate. Great time in skating. Love to all 💗
@@theresag1969 hi there. Yes I seen her Dad and Mom skates. They were incredible skaters themselves and Yuks has their presence. Much love and stay safe!😊
Yuka's amazing speed on her straight-line footwork! SO much better the tedious footwork we see these days. I'd give Yuka's footwork a level 4 in a heartbeat.
not the best skate of the night. she bounced many of her landings. fell out of jumps. but her speed, her edging, her footwork...definitely in a class by itself.
I watched it live on television back in '94, and it's still crystal clear that this totally left behind Oksana's long program/free skate. 1. Kerrigan, 2. Chen, 3. Sato, 4. Szewczenko in the long program that night.
I agree! Oksana was over marked in both the short and long. How she ever beat Nancy with all those mistakes is beyond me! I will say that Yuka's short is cost her a medal placement and with Bonaly . . . she might have come in third if she had a better long program skate (her short program was superb)!
She wouldn't be able to keep up like Yuka did. Baiul had a hard time keeping up with her own program music and the bigger Olympic rink. And then Baiul's two footed jumps and omissions would just slow her down anyways.
I can't imagine Baiul having such incredible ending footwork, considering she didn't have any at all in her entire long program. Seriously, how did she win the gold with a performance that lacked some of the basic long program required elements? What a joke that night has turned out to be in retrospect.
She left out her triple toe loop...still had 6 clean triples...more than Oksana, who had 4 clean triples...Yuka was so undermarked here..yet she won the World Championships after these Olympics!!...Go Yuka!!...Don't know if you're reading this, but we met at 2002 Nationals outside Staples Center..you took a picture with me!!!
just needs to loosen up that landing leg knee. Yuka's landings always had a slight jerky quality to them, like her knee didn't absorb them just right. love her speed and flow, though.
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長年この競技を見てきましたが、この演技が歴代で一番好きです、音楽とのマッチングや後半の怒涛のステップもっと評価されて良いと思います。
I was definitely a fan of Yuka … artistically and that impressive speed . She was better than a lot of skaters , she has elegance , grace and poise. Such a gentle little creature she is , and I’d love to know where they get their choices for music . It’s like a magical, almost Disney like quality . Very cool , thank you for posting this .
OK who is here in 2020. Anybody else that was a young skater at this time and just got excited again by seeing Yuka's great skate. Great time in skating. Love to all 💗
I just watch a video of her dad skating, Nobuo Sato.
@@theresag1969 hi there. Yes I seen her Dad and Mom skates. They were incredible skaters themselves and Yuks has their presence. Much love and stay safe!😊
The legendary family in figure skating🤙🏼😍
@@sallyyanyan Yes they are. Take care and stay safe!
Yuka's amazing speed on her straight-line footwork! SO much better the tedious footwork we see these days. I'd give Yuka's footwork a level 4 in a heartbeat.
Beautiful and lovely! How I miss this era-figure skating was so divine in the 90s!
Yuka deserved a medal. Love Yuka.
何と優雅に滑る佐藤有香さん。 この様に綺麗な動きをする選手がいたことを、知りませんでした。
現役で滑って居た頃を見て見たいと思います。
This was actually the best free skate of that night.
I would give it to Chen Lu’s free skate. But this one was way better than Nancy Kerrigen’s LP for sure.
@@jf2602 Wrong. She had visible bobbles and didnt even land a triple toe. Fourth best of the night. But clearly better than Oksana's.
@@metsdudenj I love her and I am thrilled she won in Chiba, but too many near misses here and step-outs. Well-done and admirable, but not her best
@@metsdudenj I would place her 2nd or 3rd in the free skate
not the best skate of the night. she bounced many of her landings. fell out of jumps. but her speed, her edging, her footwork...definitely in a class by itself.
Artistically, she was the best of the night. Way better than both Nancy and Oksana
I watched it live on television back in '94, and it's still crystal clear that this totally left behind Oksana's long program/free skate. 1. Kerrigan, 2. Chen, 3. Sato, 4. Szewczenko in the long program that night.
I agree! Oksana was over marked in both the short and long. How she ever beat Nancy with all those mistakes is beyond me! I will say that Yuka's short is cost her a medal placement and with Bonaly . . . she might have come in third if she had a better long program skate (her short program was superb)!
Magnifique...
Tu méritait cette médaille d'or 👏
3:57 to 4:20 just Wow! I loved her! The speed, amazing 💪
And overall, the stamina!
If she had skated alittle better during her short program, Yuka would have been on the podium with her Long Skate here!
今だに佐藤有香を超えるスケーターを見ていない。それくらいのインパクトがあった。大好き。
そう思って下さる人が他にもいて嬉しいです。私はアメリカ東部在住で、プロになってからの彼女の目を見張る活躍にテレビ前で拍手を送っていました。VHSのテープはもう擦り切れてしまうほど繰り返し見ていました。本当にパンにバターを塗るようなスケーティングと模範的なスピンの姿勢、誰にもまねできないようなツイズルの速さには誰も太刀打ちできないと思います。惜しむらくは、彼女の才能を受け継ぐお子さんがいないことです。
実際に私がみたのは、プロになられてからのスケーティングで、アメリカのスターズオンアイスでした。雲の上を滑ってるかのような滑らかな音のない伸びのある滑りに引き込まれました！唯一無二の滑りで驚きました、素晴らしかった！
Holy crap the SPEED
very cute girl
Wait a second! This was better than Oksana Baiul.
Toney Henry i agree!
and better than Bonaly too. This should have been top 3.
Nancy Kerrigan, Yuka Sato, and Chen Lu all had better freeskates than Oksana Baiul at the 1994 Winter Olympic Games.
@@TheBob1901 Tanja Szewczenko's free skate and program was also far ahead of Baiul's free skate.
@@TheBob1901 Chen Lu fell on one of her last jumps tho
I love this performance, but just imagine if Baiul had used THIS music for her LP instead of the Broadway mix??!
She wouldn't be able to keep up like Yuka did. Baiul had a hard time keeping up with her own program music and the bigger Olympic rink. And then Baiul's two footed jumps and omissions would just slow her down anyways.
I can't imagine Baiul having such incredible ending footwork, considering she didn't have any at all in her entire long program. Seriously, how did she win the gold with a performance that lacked some of the basic long program required elements? What a joke that night has turned out to be in retrospect.
She left out her triple toe loop...still had 6 clean triples...more than Oksana, who had 4 clean triples...Yuka was so undermarked here..yet she won the World Championships after these Olympics!!...Go Yuka!!...Don't know if you're reading this, but we met at 2002 Nationals outside Staples Center..you took a picture with me!!!
That must have been so cool. She is easily one of my favorites. She is so cute you just want to pinch her cheeks.
so sweet story☺️
yet there are half wits out there who insist Surya was robbed in 1994 worlds because of racism and clearly know zero about skating
just needs to loosen up that landing leg knee. Yuka's landings always had a slight jerky quality to them, like her knee didn't absorb them just right. love her speed and flow, though.
also, she might've gotten a technical deduction for not doing the second triple salchow in combination.
Casey Strapp I think the split jump before means it was classed as a sequence...
サーシャ・コーエンに
ステップ教えたのは
もしかしてこの人かな？
Does the second 3S count in combination with the split jump?
It's counted as a technical combination.
What is she skating to? I recognize the final section from Midori Ito's 1988 long.
She looks like suga from BTS
Clumsy landing
Surta fue superior no hay duda le robo la medalla por ser loxal
Quel ennui.... C'est lent puis truqué...
今だったら10位にも入らないよねー。
でも、今の選手は彼女のエッジワーク真似出来ないよ。
世界プロフィギュア選手権３連覇したレジェンドです。
ソチとかもこんなもんじゃない？
割と大差はない
最近のロシア勢もジャンプ適当だったりして正統派は3回転ジャンプ正確に決める
確かに言われる通りですが、スポーツの技術は日々進化してゆくものです。
今の基準で判断しても意味をなさないです。それにステップに関しては決して劣っていませんよ。というかむしろ勝っているのでは？
フリップは明らかにルッツになってますよ
伊藤みどり選手の後だから物足りない…実際同時にお二人の演技を拝見しましたが全く魅力を感じませんでした