Final Group's 6-Minute Warm-Up - 1994 Lillehammer, Figure Skating, Ladies' Free Skate

[purplegirl353]

ew tonya harding. spit your damn gum out. she is so awkward

[yngtxtopbear]

As much as I DETEST Kerrigans poor sportmanship and her attitude during and after these games, I still feel that she should have won gold at these games. Oksana got a blind eye and had a lovely, but simple jump, pose, step program. Kerrigan had more technical content, more difficult spin combinations, more difficult step sequences and more jump combinations. Bayul did not...

[Karosanyo]

@yngtxtopbear Agreed. I disliked Kerrigan's attitude as well, but she was the clear winner at the 1994 Olympics. Baiul winning with only three clean triples and ZERO combos was truly a disgrace. Kerrigan landed 5 with a triple-triple. Her artistry was superior as well.

[JNagarya]

@Karosanyo The difference was that Oksana was a living, breathing human being, whereas Kerrigan was a cadaver.

[Karosanyo]

@JNagarya So who do you think should have won in 1994 in the LP? Kerrigan was the clear winner...

[faeryquene]

@Karosanyo Apparently not to the judges.

[Karosanyo]

@faeryquene Because they gifted the gold to Oksana....

[cleverkittn]

I recall watching this live and at the time, it seemed Nancy had it...until Oksana skated her exquisite and courageous program. It seemed then so obvious that as fine as Nancy had been, Oksana clearly poured her entire soul into her performance, and that (plus the unplanned triple added at the end of her program, very gutsy) made all the difference. For all Nancy's perfection, she always left me cold, much as I wanted to root for her as an American.

[iceroby72]

@cleverkittn Exquisite and courageous program???? It was a crappy mix of bad jumping technique and winky poses without any real artistic content.... Hers sad story won the gold medal for her.

[kwansansog]

This is the first time I have seen this and I didn't know that Nancy was in 1st after the short? How did she not win the Gold Medal with that going for her. I have often wondered if the publicity surrounding her might have caused the judges to think that if she won people would think it was because of that publicity. I thought Nancy's skate was beautiful and that she should have won and now seeing this I am really wondering. Can someone explain and this is not a hostile comment, it's a question.

[RaymondHng]

@kwansansog The difference was just a hair. Kerrigan got 1st place ordinals from GBR, USA, JPN, and CAN judges. Baiul got 1st from the former Iron Curtain countries of POL, CZE, and UKR along with CHN. The GER judge was from the former GDR and gave Baiul 5.7 and Kerrigan 5.8 for Tech and Baiul 5.9 and Kerrigan 5.8 for Artistic, so both are tied with 11.6 totals. The tie breaker in the Free Skate is the higher Artistic score, so Baiul won by just 0.1. See watch?v=iFv_tPbTQ2s for an explanation.

[RaymondHng]

@kwansansog (continuation) So 5 judges placed Baiul at 1 while 4 judges placed Kerrigan at 1. Since the Free Skate is two-thirds of the score and the Short Program is one-third of the score, Kerrigan's placements of 1 in the SP and 2 in the FS gives her a Total Factored Placement of 2.5 (1 * 0.5 + 2 = 2.5) and Baiul's placements of 2 in the SPand 1 in the FS gives her TFP of 2.0 (2 * 0.5 + 1 = 2.0). The lowest TFP wins the entire competition.

[kwansansog]

@RaymondHng Thank you so much:) That explains a lot. Your information is detailed and very well written. I suspect that the website you referenced would be WAY over my head so thanks again! It really WAS a squeaker..wow.

[jekiffetanja]

too bad !... they didn't show us tanja's writing...Probably they thought she couldn't go up on the podium. She was nearly unknown, in those days.

[barkingtree88]

I wonder who the spinning silhouette is in the beginning.... is it Kristi Yamaguchi?

[scootie12]

@barkingtree88 yes