Aside from the most amazing dance ever seen on ice, it is dubious why Pasha and Evgenyi supproted the obvious plagiarism of Nyman (cold song in Purcell's King Arthur opera 1691). That said... Purcell's music is amazing and Grishuk/Platov's dance is the best ever. I really wonder how they'd do in the current format of the ice dancing.
Даааа! Это уже даже не спорт. Это демонстрирует высшие возможности и достижения человека. В данном случае физические в самом талантливом художественном воплощении. Такое на льду увидишь пару раз жизни. Браво, Татьяна Анатольевна, Браво Оксана и Женя!
I love Tracy Wilson - the announcer - (though even a decade later she didn't seem to learn the lesson) but she was so wrong here. They weren't polished? Seriousy? This is the very definition of polished - a staggeringly intense performance that to this day is one of ice dancing's masterpieces. You don't want to take a breath because you think it might shatter the mood.
@Proustable Oh yes, she called it wrong here for sure... a great program, even if (don't hate me for saying this) it reminds me of Torvill and Dean's Bolero (the music, costume colour, single theme etc).
Просто нет слов...Танец не отпускает ни на секунду, даже дышать во время проката невозможно. Смотреть можно бесконечно, каждый раз потрясает. Невероятной силы произведение!
Pasha Grishuk and Platov perfomance in 1998 is THE best in the history of Olympics (In my opinion)
I am fascinated by the edge work and emotional connection they established with the audience. They say skaters like these are one out of a hundred thousand
eltarm, I have to totally agree with you on moron Tracy Wilson. The first time I saw this performance, I said, who is this idiot announcer. She absolutely ruins the end. Fortunately the wonderful music partially drowns her inane comments out. I wish there was a way to edit this video and erase all her comments. Sadly, they keep using her in subsequent Olympics. There has got to be someone else out there than this third-rate skater for commentary. Someone who has actually accomplished more
Somehow Oksana Grishuk reminds me of Oksana Baiul. Same first name, same blonde hair and the same passion and technical prowess that belies the same slight and slender frame.
Вот это скорость, аж в глазах рябит! При нынешних правилах об обязательных элементах в танцах так быстро не катаются даже акробаты-шорттрэковцы Дэвис и Уайт! А танец, конечно, шедевр, классика, его можно смотреть бесконечно! Низкий поклон Тарасовой!
This is one of the greatest performances of all time. I love America, but the CBS lady announcer is total loser. Sometimes, we americans can not be gracious losers. I wateched this live, and even as an amateur eye, no other duo came even close to this performance. They blew everybody out of the water. There were also accusations of score fixing amongst the judges. Again, it does not matter, the performance speaks for itself. Simply beautiful!
I'm not even a big ice dancing fan but I STILL remember seeing this on TV. I just looked it up because I saw the ice dancing in this Olympics and it's not even on the same level as this 12 years later.
@ttouran The CBS lady here (Tracy Wilson) is actually Canadian, not American. I think the score fixing accusations were actually for the Compulsary Dance (Grishuk and Platov made a slight error but still beat a number of teams who skated clean), not the Free Dance. Nobody could deny this particular performance rates amongst the very best, and was probably the highlight of their career, IMO.
@ttouran The woman is Tracy Wilson of Canada. She won an ice dancing bronze medal in the 1988 Olympics with Rob McCall. Normally I really like her commentary, but here she was very biased--don't know if that was because CBS wanted her play up the judging controversy or if she really wanted to promote Bourne and Kraatz.
I cried too.......OMG!!!! Thanks a lot for this video. And Tarasova is genious!!!! o love her very much, I'm proud to be russian because of people like her, so strong but at the same time so emotional and deep.
@lturbina I am British but I think most fans of figure skating love and respect Ms Tarasova as being the greatest coach/trainer of all time. She is an amazing woman, no doubt about it. Greetings love and peace from London UK
AllI can say is thay Mike Nyman is a GREAT composer and they really managed to convey this fantastic music. The winners are never judged - thsi is a Roman saying So, do not judge them: they really deserved this vixcory and they will remain the ONLY two times Olympic Champions in Ice dancing
they are... so perfect... this music.. it comes into you heart... when you look at it and you cannot take you eyes from this perfomance... do you feel the same?
fantastic, awsome, gorgeous, beautiful. there are no words for this amazing team and the music. could somebody tell me please the name of this song??? thanks
Like a famous song: Nothing compares to you. Absolutly the best Ice dance I saw in all my life. Great program. The y have ahat is missing in a lot of pairs: CARISM
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excellent ice dancers..second only to the masters Torvill and Dean who managed perfection (straight 6.0 across the board) during Bolero and Barnum..it was never done before and never done since
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you are kidding...they are brilliant ice dancers, I grant them that, but original? See Bolero - continuous haunting music, purple costumes, great choreography. Torvill and Dean did it 14 years before. G&P were the T&D of the 90s.
be as biased as you want; be as xenophobic as you want. for me, ten years later, this performance still elicits the chills and tears it did that night. brilliant and timeless--second only to torvill and dean's "bolero."
You should not punish the reinstated pros because you dont like them coming back. It is the ISU's fault for letting that happen if you find it unfair (which I sort of did too but that is aside the point). Rightly or wrongly the pros were given the right and option to come back. Those who decided worked their butts of with the understanding they were granted this opportunity, and deserve fair treatment from judges and officials just like everyone else.
You can't judge someone based on the fact that they've been allowed back! You have to judge based on the skating that you see. If you don't like the fact that they were able to come back, take it up with the ISU - don't blame the skaters. The ISU just wanted more TV ratings are more money. The skaters came back because they wanted to compete again.
You can't mark someone down just because you don't like the fact that they are there. Your unfair bias shows all that's wrong with figure skating.
It appears many judges of those Olympics felt like I did. For example take Boitano and Petrenko's deductions in the short. Their marks would still be pretty low and much lower then Stojko and Urmanov. Witt didnt deserve a medal with her lack of jump content but was scored on the stingy side. You already mentioned Torvill/Dean. In the pairs the 2 russians pros were so much better then others they had no choice. Other then that I think alot of the judges were against the pros just like I was.
We are so Glad that Oksana and Evgeny was recognized by the World best professional judges and was placed FIRST at the Olympic Games twice. The are marvelous skaters and beautiful people. BRAVO !!!
the best ice dance pair, the best free dance ever. they deserved it this gold medal and the 94 gold medal, and all the gold medal they win. i love this pair.
As much as a loved Bourne & Kraatz, I feel that B & K's OD and FD were nowhere near the same league as the Gold, Silver, and Bronze medal winners. G & P won this performance hands-down, and I'm sorry that Pascha and Evgeny had to defend themselves just because the Canadians complained.
They were amazing in 97 and 98, but before that I found them dull and not the best. But I take my hat off to them for listening to their critics and improving to the amazing standard they showed us here.
I am so happy I found this video today. I do remember it in TV... 10 years ago. I felt frisson that time. I feel frisson now. I have never seen better performance. Amazing!!! I honestly adore them.
I don't think they were necessarily hated-perhaps disliked for beating out both Torvill & Dean and Grishuk's hated rival Maia Usova and her ex-husband Zhulin. I think Grishuk's behaviour with him off the ice did not help towards popularity points-but I believe with their performances in the late '90's they showed they were deserving champions. I love this routine-it's my favorite of theirs-and I also lie their "Feeling Begins" number though I like Oksana Baiul's interpretation best.
I still don't understand why they were so hated, especially Grishuk. Tracy Nelson never had anything good to say about them. I think that the were more hated in the skating community than Tonya Harding, and that's saying a lot.
Tracy Nelson's problem was partly that the Canadian Pair could not get onto the Olympic podium with these two in the House-and also she probably dislikes Grishuk in a personal level due to her 'homewrecker' reputation. Jmo
this performance is as brilliant and devastating today as it was 10 years ago. such a shame the inane commentary detracts fom this video (as it did that night).
I agree with the person who posted this that it was a bit laughable to say that this performance was beatable ,however, these two the greatest of all time?? In 97 and 98 they were indeed great but prior to that very forgettable. Thanks for posting this though, a great memory, but it was better at the euros in Milano.
The passion that went into this one is undeniable. Pasha is so strong yet so dramatic. The athleticism is never too much and is an integral part of the story they are telling. I'm riveted by it, the costumes and the score (music.) I don't think we'll see anything that emotional again.
Does anyone know where one can get THIS piece of music? It sounds different than the original Michael Nyman "Memorial" piece. I like this version so much beter - I am asuming this is a newer version.
This version was remixed by the musicians who were friends of the trainer (Tatiana Tarasova). She mentioned she had to remix the melody and shorten it for the performance... I don't think it is available anywhere.
so...Zhulin-Usova, Awerbukh-Lobaczeva Anissina-Peizerat ...they was, they are a great dancers...but Grishuk-Platov are the best figure dancers in ice history.and this permormance is perfect on every kind -emotional, artistic and technical...Brilliant memorial
From 1988 till the end of eligible carrier 1998, Pasha never lost any of competition, received a record number in history of the highest marks - 6.0 in the period from 1994 to 1998 and setting new standards for artistic beauty and technical in ice dancing. Pasha has won a record of Gold Medals (total 26), become the only Lady in sport history to receive Olympic Gold Medals Two Times one after other in 1994 and the other in 1998! She is in the Guinness Book with that success. And I love her :)
Does anyone remember that fluff piece on Oksana/Pasha Grishuk on that Cutting Edge show on TBS during the Nagano Olympics? She was acting sooooo strange because she made some kind of comment like, "Who Oksana??***rolls eyes side to side*** and then whispers,"I don't know...." and then she walked off. So odd that one, but she was a damn good ice dancer.
Scott Hamilton said:"...Tracy, this is the best dance team in the world". Tracy replied:"Technically they are excellent, I can't question their speed, the use of the running edge. I don't think they have shown up here polish, I've seen their unision better, I believe they are beatable" The reason she said so because eversince winning the Olympic Gold in 1994, Grishuk & Platov have been winning every major competitions, including 4 World Championships back to back.
This is what ice dancing is meant to be! Not the crap that the new judging system has been fostering with all of its ugliness and awkwardness. Grishuk and Platov are the epitome of ice dancing (just like Gordeeva and Grinkov were the epitome of Pairs). Honestly, skating is just not what it used to be. I miss seeing innovativeness like this!
And I kept thinking the commentator was saying "they are unbeatable", just didn't pronounce it clear enough. Because unbeatable is the more realistic word. Remember they had been put at the top before the free dance despite they had some error in the CD. It's hard to think they'd fail at last with such powerful performance.
One of the greatest Olympic performances. Most skaters get the nerves and don't perform as good as they can do in other competitions, but here Grishuk and Platov still gave their top performance at the Olympics.
When Tracy Wilson says they are beatable she was keeping in mind the strong performances of French Duo Anissina and Peizerat (who should have won silver, not bronze) and Russian Duo Krylova & Ovsyannikov. I dont think it was jealousy more so being fair and realistic. If you dont think so take a look at Anissina & Peizerat's 2000 World Championship Performance in Nice, France and their 2002 Olympic Performance in Salt Lake City.
I beg to differ! I'm NOT a wilson fan, but I've seen them skate 'Memorial' better and even with a fall on Platovs part earlier in the season, but I definitely don't think they were ever beatable after 1995...just not as clean as they can be. The Olympics can surface anyones nerves, even the greats. We should however keep in mind that for a few years Platov has had really bad knees.
This ice dance is perfection. To this day I still hold this up as an example of what ice-skating should look like. So few ice-skaters can ever hold a candle to these two. The thing that makes this routine work apart from their skating in unison, is the fact that you can see the emotion in their movement....they literally skate what the music is emoting. So beautiful! *sigh*
Непревзойденная техника Грищук,мастерство Платова и гений Тарасовой! Это - шедевр ! Бесконечно можно смотреть и восхищаться талантом этих людей.!
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Aside from the most amazing dance ever seen on ice, it is dubious why Pasha and Evgenyi supproted the obvious plagiarism of Nyman (cold song in Purcell's King Arthur opera 1691). That said... Purcell's music is amazing and Grishuk/Platov's dance is the best ever. I really wonder how they'd do in the current format of the ice dancing.
zhreca 3 months ago
Какая скорость... какое владение коньком..
Люди, кто у нас сейчас так может??
CarolL492 3 months ago
Самое гениальное творение Тарасовой!!!!!!!!!!!
Rafaela4586 4 months ago
Мурашки по коже
mari260558 6 months ago
Даааа! Это уже даже не спорт. Это демонстрирует высшие возможности и достижения человека. В данном случае физические в самом талантливом художественном воплощении. Такое на льду увидишь пару раз жизни. Браво, Татьяна Анатольевна, Браво Оксана и Женя!
denkrig 8 months ago
I love Tracy Wilson - the announcer - (though even a decade later she didn't seem to learn the lesson) but she was so wrong here. They weren't polished? Seriousy? This is the very definition of polished - a staggeringly intense performance that to this day is one of ice dancing's masterpieces. You don't want to take a breath because you think it might shatter the mood.
Proustable 8 months ago 2
@Proustable Oh yes, she called it wrong here for sure... a great program, even if (don't hate me for saying this) it reminds me of Torvill and Dean's Bolero (the music, costume colour, single theme etc).
muscleboi4use 2 months ago
КОГДА ТАК МНОГО ТАЛАНТОВ ВСТРЕЧАЮТСЯ
-ГРИЩУК+ПЛАТОВ+ТАРАСОВА+НАЙМАН- РОЖДАЕТСЯ ГАРМОНИЯ
GreekGhostCountry 8 months ago
Просто нет слов...Танец не отпускает ни на секунду, даже дышать во время проката невозможно. Смотреть можно бесконечно, каждый раз потрясает. Невероятной силы произведение!
Mssomebody100 9 months ago 2
Господи!!!! КАКАЯ ТЕХНИКА!!!!!
Helen70100 11 months ago 2
Для меня не было пары, которой могла бы приблизиться к этой...
Удивительное катние, поворотная техника партнерши, эмоции...
MrVlakar 1 year ago 3
I love them
They staying for me the BEST
(My Ideal !)
xanglat 1 year ago
Intense I love it (:!!!
TheErickafemat 1 year ago
Love them so, soooooo much. It always gives me goosebumps!
ilenarey 1 year ago
素晴らしい表現力ですね！とても感動しました。
派手なリフトがなくてもこんなに人を惹きつける演出があるのだととても驚きました。
タチアナさんの振付をもっと見たいと思いました。
本当に素晴らしい！！！
peso323 1 year ago
Что то невероятное!
mari260558 1 year ago 2
Their speed is phenomenal
malikasafina 1 year ago 2
Pasha Grishuk and Platov perfomance in 1998 is THE best in the history of Olympics (In my opinion)
I am fascinated by the edge work and emotional connection they established with the audience. They say skaters like these are one out of a hundred thousand
malyshbrat 1 year ago 6
tks a lot
coopercop 1 year ago
Это лучшее, что я видела, по-моему круче никто не выступал ни до ни после.
Nushastik 1 year ago 2
please i need the name of this song, anybody???????, i need it
coopercop 1 year ago
@coopercop
Michael Nyman - Memorial
Nushastik 1 year ago
The best ice dancing team in the history of ice dancing!
Trully masterpiece!
2010watchmenow 1 year ago
It is a beautiful pinnacle of a very impressive career!
coastalkostya 1 year ago 2
LOL - This was not beatable in anyway whatsoever!!!! Possibly the second best ever after Bolero!!!!
nivbri 1 year ago
i can watch this over and over again. it is such an inspiration, and Oksana is just queen of the ice.
zarminashkin 1 year ago 2
UNBEATABLE team forever! Oksana Grishuk is the best ice dancer on the planet.
Evgeny is very lucky to have her as a skating partner for that many years.
2010watchmenow 1 year ago 2
If only Tracy could shut up sometimes... Beautiful program. And Tatiana... Tatiana is the best.
everyoneissleeping 1 year ago
eltarm, I have to totally agree with you on moron Tracy Wilson. The first time I saw this performance, I said, who is this idiot announcer. She absolutely ruins the end. Fortunately the wonderful music partially drowns her inane comments out. I wish there was a way to edit this video and erase all her comments. Sadly, they keep using her in subsequent Olympics. There has got to be someone else out there than this third-rate skater for commentary. Someone who has actually accomplished more
texaseyeofthetiger 1 year ago 4
Somehow Oksana Grishuk reminds me of Oksana Baiul. Same first name, same blonde hair and the same passion and technical prowess that belies the same slight and slender frame.
ViVi80 1 year ago
Beautiful music, as I love ice skating!
JPPT1974 1 year ago
Вот это скорость, аж в глазах рябит! При нынешних правилах об обязательных элементах в танцах так быстро не катаются даже акробаты-шорттрэковцы Дэвис и Уайт! А танец, конечно, шедевр, классика, его можно смотреть бесконечно! Низкий поклон Тарасовой!
alishavalath 1 year ago 4
ФАНТАСТИКА! Ничего подобного не видела!
mari260558 1 year ago 2
this is ART and not just a sport....
elenipvl 1 year ago
talked to Pasha last night-no lie
Guevaristas 1 year ago
An internaute takes to me all my informations !
Thank you : all is "OK" !
And... tnak you for this beautiful spectacle vécu ! Que d'émotions et d'intensité.
xanglat 1 year ago
Do you remember what the title exact of this beautiful music of Michael Nyman ?
It's some requiem or memorial ?
Do you remember on what title of Madonna's song Lady Grischuk and E. Platov dancing too ?
Thank you very much for your help !
xanglat 1 year ago
this music is "Memorial Requiem" by Michael Nyman.
they skated to Maddona's "You'll see"
at the 1997 European Championships Galla program
fgr8sktrfn 1 year ago
The Best ! I love them !
Tellement sublimes s/ce mémorial ou requiem de Michael Nyman que c'en est ineffable.
Thank you for posting !
xanglat 1 year ago
They are the BEST ice dance couple in history.
ilovemusic5861 2 years ago 3
fantastic wonderful! bravo
malmailbggb 2 years ago 3
They were absolutely superb... Just flowing on ice. An unique pair...
irinamunteanu 2 years ago 4
To me this is right up there with T&D's Olympic skate in '84, and B&B, U&Z's FD in '92. A masterpiece.
faeryquene 2 years ago
This is one of the greatest performances of all time. I love America, but the CBS lady announcer is total loser. Sometimes, we americans can not be gracious losers. I wateched this live, and even as an amateur eye, no other duo came even close to this performance. They blew everybody out of the water. There were also accusations of score fixing amongst the judges. Again, it does not matter, the performance speaks for itself. Simply beautiful!
ttouran 2 years ago 51
@ttouran I agree completely.
I'm not even a big ice dancing fan but I STILL remember seeing this on TV. I just looked it up because I saw the ice dancing in this Olympics and it's not even on the same level as this 12 years later.
These two are amazing.
seanomoly 2 years ago
that lady announcer was tracy wilson. she's canadian.:-(
quafer 2 years ago
@ttouran The CBS lady here (Tracy Wilson) is actually Canadian, not American. I think the score fixing accusations were actually for the Compulsary Dance (Grishuk and Platov made a slight error but still beat a number of teams who skated clean), not the Free Dance. Nobody could deny this particular performance rates amongst the very best, and was probably the highlight of their career, IMO.
saskiaburgermeister 1 year ago
@ttouran Tracy Wilson is a total moron. Your comments are dead-on.
texaseyeofthetiger 1 year ago 3
@ttouran The woman is Tracy Wilson of Canada. She won an ice dancing bronze medal in the 1988 Olympics with Rob McCall. Normally I really like her commentary, but here she was very biased--don't know if that was because CBS wanted her play up the judging controversy or if she really wanted to promote Bourne and Kraatz.
jillyanne108 1 year ago
@jillyanne108 Both, I'd wager.
Proustable 8 months ago
uta...¿cómo olvidarlo?...es lo mejor que he visto en patinaje sobre hielo...
me acuerdo que veíamos las olimpiadas con mi mamá y cuando vimos esta interpretación nadie se atrevió ni si quiera a parpadear...
ciuahteotl 2 years ago 2
Ледовая феерия! Они лучшие!
melissa52ru 2 years ago 8
I remember watching this on TV! They are amazing! I couldn't imagine anyone else winning the gold!
belle19822000 2 years ago 9
Absolutly The Best
no more words.....
Rachmaniyokonov 2 years ago 9
Super!!!
gusarw 2 years ago 9
I cried too.......OMG!!!! Thanks a lot for this video. And Tarasova is genious!!!! o love her very much, I'm proud to be russian because of people like her, so strong but at the same time so emotional and deep.
lturbina 2 years ago 26
sorry for mistakes, I'm so deeply touched by this performance
lturbina 2 years ago 2
@lturbina I am British but I think most fans of figure skating love and respect Ms Tarasova as being the greatest coach/trainer of all time. She is an amazing woman, no doubt about it. Greetings love and peace from London UK
muscleboi4use 2 months ago
Gracias por compartir tan hermoso momento.
chocolatl12 2 years ago
Муражки по коже!!! Для меня - это самый сильный танец за всю историю фк!!!
Просто БРАВО!!!
ZvezdaSevera 2 years ago 12
wow i remember watching this and just being BLOWN AWAY. love Pasha!
marion1fan 2 years ago 5
Outstanding performance. Masterpeice!!!
111smartypants 2 years ago 11
Soooooooo perfect!!
How can they skate that fast, unbelievable...
So fierce, so strong, so perfect!!
TaikogeMan 2 years ago 8
Dear Mother of God... Their speed is just incredible...
kirkenes 2 years ago 6
観ている方としても一息つくようなところが一瞬もない・・・夢中で観てしまう。終わった瞬間熱いため息が出た。
ありがとう。
1982wtmnk1002 2 years ago 10
I cried,too.
No word...
changelegend 2 years ago 10
И стали они Олимпийскими Чемпионами во второй раз...
ТАТ (Татьяна Анатольевна Тарасова) чуть не плачет...
Оксана плачет
А через 11 лет эту музыку взяли Рита Дробязко и Дима Миллер для финала в шоу Ледниковый Период... ТАТ сказала что они это сделали зря...
LarisaChayka 2 years ago 7
AllI can say is thay Mike Nyman is a GREAT composer and they really managed to convey this fantastic music. The winners are never judged - thsi is a Roman saying So, do not judge them: they really deserved this vixcory and they will remain the ONLY two times Olympic Champions in Ice dancing
Francesca13674 2 years ago 9
they are... so perfect... this music.. it comes into you heart... when you look at it and you cannot take you eyes from this perfomance... do you feel the same?
Kostikalos 2 years ago 10
...omg...I cried..
absolutly the best..
chokennaitei 2 years ago 9
...beatable...?! Lady -are you crazy? Why don't you try?
platrima 2 years ago 7
I also love this comment. To be so blind not to recognise greatness and admit it publically
mcpushkin 2 years ago
fantastic, awsome, gorgeous, beautiful. there are no words for this amazing team and the music. could somebody tell me please the name of this song??? thanks
gioiaparigi 2 years ago
this is one of my favorite performances from the 1998 Nagano Olympics.
as great as Ilia Kulik's flawless performance I watch this performance at least once a week.
I just love this music!
the music is "Memorial Requiem" by Michael Nyman.
Thank you Oksana Grishuk/Evgeny Platov
for this captivating performance and special thanks to coach Tatiana Tarasova for this wonderful Choreography.
shame on Tracy Wilson for this foolish comment.
fgr8sktrfn 2 years ago 3
i watch it at least once a day, but this version is better, i think. thanks
gioiaparigi 2 years ago
I tremble when see it. Cheve d'oevre!
LavenKate 2 years ago
Every great team made history making their own trade marks. SPEED and PASSION are two that could well describe Grishuk Platov.
expressice17 2 years ago 2
Like a famous song: Nothing compares to you. Absolutly the best Ice dance I saw in all my life. Great program. The y have ahat is missing in a lot of pairs: CARISM
francertei 2 years ago 5
Absolutely UNBEATABLE !!! Deserves standing ovation!!!
Mostpowerfulgirl 3 years ago 9
They are beatable? Why don't you Tracy go out there and beat them...
Russie77 3 years ago 4
AWSOME!!!!!!!!!
Mostpowerfulgirl 3 years ago
Outstanding, unforgetable, amazing performance by TWICE olympic GOLD medalists Oksana and Evgeny. BRAVO!!!!!!!!!
Mostpowerfulgirl 3 years ago 2
Oksana and Evgeny Fantastico!!!
Mostpowerfulgirl 3 years ago 3
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excellent ice dancers..second only to the masters Torvill and Dean who managed perfection (straight 6.0 across the board) during Bolero and Barnum..it was never done before and never done since
steps1 3 years ago
Absolutely BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!
The BEST in the planet ice dancing team.
Mostpowerfulgirl 3 years ago 3
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you are kidding...they are brilliant ice dancers, I grant them that, but original? See Bolero - continuous haunting music, purple costumes, great choreography. Torvill and Dean did it 14 years before. G&P were the T&D of the 90s.
nickyvangalis 3 years ago
Here here
mk146hw 2 years ago
For me, this was the Moment. I don't think I even took a breath during the entire performance!
The costume,haunting music, speed,power,emotion,all those gymnastic moves & one of the best choreography!
I truly understood why coach Tarasova was overwhelmed with emotion and broke down.
It was the most Captivating performance!!!
Mostpowerfulgirl 3 years ago 6
Oksana Grishuk is the best ice dancer ever. Absolutely magical woman.
miadieter 3 years ago 2
F A N T A S T I C!!!!
kous7kous 3 years ago
Absolutely magical performance.
Mostpowerfulgirl 3 years ago
Magnificent, in my opinion nobody skates this wonderfully anymore.
Tiskovka 3 years ago 3
Especially the turnings of Pasha are extremely difficult! My respect for their skating skills!
L11ourdes 3 years ago
Absolutely magnificent! Marvelous performance timeless. Still brings tears to my eyes. BRAVO Oksana and Evgeny YOU are Genius.
Mostpowerfulgirl 3 years ago
be as biased as you want; be as xenophobic as you want. for me, ten years later, this performance still elicits the chills and tears it did that night. brilliant and timeless--second only to torvill and dean's "bolero."
baadpuddytat 3 years ago
Marvelous!!!
Mostpowerfulgirl 3 years ago
nowatorstwo i technika w jednym. coś niesamowitego!!! Beautiful!!
Ulva1111 3 years ago
still gives me chills!
MizzNasBri 3 years ago
Magnificent performance!!! The true Champions and the only in the planet Two times Olympic gold medal winners.
Mostpowerfulgirl 3 years ago
You should not punish the reinstated pros because you dont like them coming back. It is the ISU's fault for letting that happen if you find it unfair (which I sort of did too but that is aside the point). Rightly or wrongly the pros were given the right and option to come back. Those who decided worked their butts of with the understanding they were granted this opportunity, and deserve fair treatment from judges and officials just like everyone else.
russianskatingfan 3 years ago
You can't judge someone based on the fact that they've been allowed back! You have to judge based on the skating that you see. If you don't like the fact that they were able to come back, take it up with the ISU - don't blame the skaters. The ISU just wanted more TV ratings are more money. The skaters came back because they wanted to compete again.
You can't mark someone down just because you don't like the fact that they are there. Your unfair bias shows all that's wrong with figure skating.
buschmann1 3 years ago
It appears many judges of those Olympics felt like I did. For example take Boitano and Petrenko's deductions in the short. Their marks would still be pretty low and much lower then Stojko and Urmanov. Witt didnt deserve a medal with her lack of jump content but was scored on the stingy side. You already mentioned Torvill/Dean. In the pairs the 2 russians pros were so much better then others they had no choice. Other then that I think alot of the judges were against the pros just like I was.
grafgirl27 3 years ago
We are so Glad that Oksana and Evgeny was recognized by the World best professional judges and was placed FIRST at the Olympic Games twice. The are marvelous skaters and beautiful people. BRAVO !!!
happyfaceskater 3 years ago
Anyone can tell me the name of the background music? I'm searching for it... Thx a lot!
sealoving 3 years ago
Memorial by Michael Nyman
LordCirque 3 years ago
the best ice dance pair, the best free dance ever. they deserved it this gold medal and the 94 gold medal, and all the gold medal they win. i love this pair.
Aislinn177 3 years ago
Oksana and Evgeny GENIUS!!!!!!!!!
happyfaceskater 3 years ago
Magnificent Performance!!! Oksana and Evgeny unbeatable! The only team in the history of ice dancing to win Two Olympic Gold medals.
happyfaceskater 3 years ago
As much as a loved Bourne & Kraatz, I feel that B & K's OD and FD were nowhere near the same league as the Gold, Silver, and Bronze medal winners. G & P won this performance hands-down, and I'm sorry that Pascha and Evgeny had to defend themselves just because the Canadians complained.
ferency98 3 years ago
I love this. Thanks for posting it! They were the best! I acquired a kitten shortly after this and named her Pasha. lol
Praxilla 3 years ago
The best from Russia!
achtonado123 3 years ago
Forgot to add-Scott Hamilton's drippy-drama queen commentary setting up Tracy's is even MORE annoying if that's possible. It's embarassing.
audie83 3 years ago
Tracy's commentary truly IS annoying. How lame-anyone can see this performance is one for the books.
audie83 3 years ago 3
This is my favorite Grischuk and Platov routine!
No one deserves to have what was done to Pasha/Oksana recently. Get well soon-and I hope they catch whoever did it!
audie83 3 years ago
I like this very much too & just adore their performance. i like their coach too. she is really great & like a legend.
but what had happened to Oksana recently? can u reply pls
alti07zic 3 years ago
They were amazing in 97 and 98, but before that I found them dull and not the best. But I take my hat off to them for listening to their critics and improving to the amazing standard they showed us here.
skaterfan1 3 years ago 2
I am so happy I found this video today. I do remember it in TV... 10 years ago. I felt frisson that time. I feel frisson now. I have never seen better performance. Amazing!!! I honestly adore them.
Lucik71 3 years ago
jojo ja si to taky pamatuju dodneska z TV :)
kachlezbalkonu 3 years ago
It was 10 years ago... I have never seen better performance. AWESOME!!!
Lucik71 3 years ago
I think I know why they were so hated...they beat Torvill & Dean at the 1994 Winter Olympics. And Torvill & Dean are the most loved team in world.
koollatter 4 years ago 2
I don't think they were necessarily hated-perhaps disliked for beating out both Torvill & Dean and Grishuk's hated rival Maia Usova and her ex-husband Zhulin. I think Grishuk's behaviour with him off the ice did not help towards popularity points-but I believe with their performances in the late '90's they showed they were deserving champions. I love this routine-it's my favorite of theirs-and I also lie their "Feeling Begins" number though I like Oksana Baiul's interpretation best.
audie83 3 years ago
I still don't understand why they were so hated, especially Grishuk. Tracy Nelson never had anything good to say about them. I think that the were more hated in the skating community than Tonya Harding, and that's saying a lot.
koollatter 4 years ago
Tracy Nelson's problem was partly that the Canadian Pair could not get onto the Olympic podium with these two in the House-and also she probably dislikes Grishuk in a personal level due to her 'homewrecker' reputation. Jmo
audie83 3 years ago 2
i video taped this in 1998, and its just the best. well the aussie commentators think they were "unbeatable" :)
madmoomoo 4 years ago
love the music skating not bad either
rogleeds36 4 years ago
astonishing free dance btw I uploaded the same dance from the Europeans,Milan!
marmar1212 4 years ago
Thank you to all for GREAT comments!
OksanaGrishuk 4 years ago 3
Thank you all who gave GREAT comments!!!
OksanaGrishuk 4 years ago 3
wow and thanks!!
mdowhy 3 years ago
i don't interested about ice skating much but i remember it in TV i was i little boy it was magnificent!!!
kachlezbalkonu 4 years ago
this performance is as brilliant and devastating today as it was 10 years ago. such a shame the inane commentary detracts fom this video (as it did that night).
baadpuddytat 4 years ago 4
I agree with the person who posted this that it was a bit laughable to say that this performance was beatable ,however, these two the greatest of all time?? In 97 and 98 they were indeed great but prior to that very forgettable. Thanks for posting this though, a great memory, but it was better at the euros in Milano.
skaterfan1 4 years ago
Which story do they tell?
lalopez 4 years ago
I remember this performance from the first time I saw it - 10 years later! I know f all about ice skating, but this was brilliant
JeanieAU 4 years ago
This is what true man and woman are about, world!!
jjan2007 4 years ago
The passion that went into this one is undeniable. Pasha is so strong yet so dramatic. The athleticism is never too much and is an integral part of the story they are telling. I'm riveted by it, the costumes and the score (music.) I don't think we'll see anything that emotional again.
mdowhy 4 years ago 2
What are they calling this a memorial? I hope nothing happened to these wonderful ice skaters?
The precision here is unbelievable! Such grace and talent! They move as one SOUL!
joeocho88 4 years ago
The music is called "Memorial" :)
qwertybnm 4 years ago
Does anyone know where one can get THIS piece of music? It sounds different than the original Michael Nyman "Memorial" piece. I like this version so much beter - I am asuming this is a newer version.
gusboysf 4 years ago
This version was remixed by the musicians who were friends of the trainer (Tatiana Tarasova). She mentioned she had to remix the melody and shorten it for the performance... I don't think it is available anywhere.
eltarm 4 years ago
so...Zhulin-Usova, Awerbukh-Lobaczeva Anissina-Peizerat ...they was, they are a great dancers...but Grishuk-Platov are the best figure dancers in ice history.and this permormance is perfect on every kind -emotional, artistic and technical...Brilliant memorial
atteloiwanna 4 years ago 5
I just watched it again and it moved me like 9 years ago. Brilliant , unbeatable, soulful !
Raduisya 4 years ago
Worlds best performance.
timucin73 4 years ago
I love you Oksana I love you Evgeny.You are the worlds best,and always will.
timucin73 4 years ago
I wish I can meet them somewhere,someday.
timucin73 4 years ago
This is the worlds best performance.They are the worlds best skaters.I have watched this show more than 500 times.I am their fanatic fan.
timucin73 4 years ago
From 1988 till the end of eligible carrier 1998, Pasha never lost any of competition, received a record number in history of the highest marks - 6.0 in the period from 1994 to 1998 and setting new standards for artistic beauty and technical in ice dancing. Pasha has won a record of Gold Medals (total 26), become the only Lady in sport history to receive Olympic Gold Medals Two Times one after other in 1994 and the other in 1998! She is in the Guinness Book with that success. And I love her :)
timucin73 4 years ago
'I've don't think they;ve shonwn up here polish. I've seen their unison better. I believe they are beatable'
Come on guys, don't tell me that's not what you hear.
They deserved 1998 Gold, but definately not in 1994; T&D were much better.
buschmann1 4 years ago
Does anyone remember that fluff piece on Oksana/Pasha Grishuk on that Cutting Edge show on TBS during the Nagano Olympics? She was acting sooooo strange because she made some kind of comment like, "Who Oksana??***rolls eyes side to side*** and then whispers,"I don't know...." and then she walked off. So odd that one, but she was a damn good ice dancer.
verlucker 4 years ago
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lalopez 4 years ago
please, listen to the video again. it's not beautiful for sure...
eltarm 4 years ago
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0Immortelle0 2 years ago
Scott Hamilton said:"...Tracy, this is the best dance team in the world". Tracy replied:"Technically they are excellent, I can't question their speed, the use of the running edge. I don't think they have shown up here polish, I've seen their unision better, I believe they are beatable" The reason she said so because eversince winning the Olympic Gold in 1994, Grishuk & Platov have been winning every major competitions, including 4 World Championships back to back.
leoninsf 4 years ago
i have always adored their style ,but the brits kept them form the top .These are my numbers 2 fav afteer t and d!
skaterlz 4 years ago
This is what ice dancing is meant to be! Not the crap that the new judging system has been fostering with all of its ugliness and awkwardness. Grishuk and Platov are the epitome of ice dancing (just like Gordeeva and Grinkov were the epitome of Pairs). Honestly, skating is just not what it used to be. I miss seeing innovativeness like this!
sweetie3988 4 years ago 8
wow, really good. What is the theme of this freedance? it reminds be a lot of torvill and dean's bolero.
tinymavy 4 years ago 3
Michael Nyman - Memorial Requiem
pagurenu 4 years ago
And I kept thinking the commentator was saying "they are unbeatable", just didn't pronounce it clear enough. Because unbeatable is the more realistic word. Remember they had been put at the top before the free dance despite they had some error in the CD. It's hard to think they'd fail at last with such powerful performance.
yajunwindbell 4 years ago 3
One of the greatest Olympic performances. Most skaters get the nerves and don't perform as good as they can do in other competitions, but here Grishuk and Platov still gave their top performance at the Olympics.
yajunwindbell 4 years ago 3
When Tracy Wilson says they are beatable she was keeping in mind the strong performances of French Duo Anissina and Peizerat (who should have won silver, not bronze) and Russian Duo Krylova & Ovsyannikov. I dont think it was jealousy more so being fair and realistic. If you dont think so take a look at Anissina & Peizerat's 2000 World Championship Performance in Nice, France and their 2002 Olympic Performance in Salt Lake City.
randymodels24 4 years ago
I beg to differ! I'm NOT a wilson fan, but I've seen them skate 'Memorial' better and even with a fall on Platovs part earlier in the season, but I definitely don't think they were ever beatable after 1995...just not as clean as they can be. The Olympics can surface anyones nerves, even the greats. We should however keep in mind that for a few years Platov has had really bad knees.
Nevelstraum 4 years ago 3
Thank you!!! I could not say it better!!!
eltarm 4 years ago
one of the greatest ice dance i've ever seen!!!!!they are champions!!!!
michikosciuk 4 years ago 3
This ice dance is perfection. To this day I still hold this up as an example of what ice-skating should look like. So few ice-skaters can ever hold a candle to these two. The thing that makes this routine work apart from their skating in unison, is the fact that you can see the emotion in their movement....they literally skate what the music is emoting. So beautiful! *sigh*
netstuff80 4 years ago 3
how i wish this could be played without the inane network commentary
baadpuddytat 4 years ago 3
I am so with you! Tracy Wilson trashing the performance is particularly annoying!
eltarm 4 years ago
who is this tracy wilson person? we wish she could be edited out.
baadpuddytat 4 years ago 2