Klimova & Ponomarenko 1992 Olympic FD

[lopillasotravez]

Espectacular pareja

[markpolonius]

Klimova and Ponomarenko are the last great ice-dancing pair. Since then, ice-dancing has been littered with bizarre moves that are devoid of grace and musicality. K & P are the best ice-dancers I have ever seen. Nobody can touch Klimova's grace and ability to interpret music into dance.

[goingon12345]

I hope Russians come revival in figure skating. I love their way of performance, very artistic and noble. Absolutely beautiful!

And this ice dance performance is the best, really.

[artkie76]

Cieszę się że mogłem ponownie zobaczyć legendarną parę. Pamiętam jak dziś ten taniec z Mistrzostw Olimpijskich. A byłem wtedy nastolatkiem. Przepiękny taniec i muzyka.

[b2367]

Great Music and choreography

Klimova still the best female ice-dancer!

[coolangelalex]

This is my favorite ice dancing team and performance of all time. They were pure beauty.

[33winterbirds]

In my opinion, the best dance team ever!

[ulloi08]

I never did like KP. I preferred other russian pairs,

but now looking at that -

oh, my God, how degradated figure skating

due to new rules.

Great pairs have to break their plastic, their artistic potential - everything. Klimova/Ponomarenko are among that who are magic great. Not sport enough, more art and magic.

[ILoveS07]

@ulloi08 and isn't the artistic part of figure skating what makes it so magical?

[samglogan]

This performance is still the best ever, I think. I too was mesmerized and still am, after seing it again for the first time in years

[Jamessemaj12]

oops I forgot to say THANK YOU A million times for posting this and also about the Duchesnay's they were great but the only ones that came close to K&P were USOVA & ZHULIN and should have won SILVER !

As I recall the FRENCH judge was later in a lot of trouble cause she couldn't justify her demeaning score !

[muscleboi4use]

THANK you for posting.

I'm British, obviously a HUGE T&D fan, but I've always LOVED K&P. Their clean edges, line, beauty, positions, emotions, evenly matched quality. And they're the ONLY ice dance team to win Bronze (Sarajevo '84), Silver (Calgary '88), Gold (here '92) in consecutive Olympics. WOW!

I agree about the CoP system. But I think Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir are incredible "dancers" not in the flashy "MTV-style" but v classical.

[faeryquene]

This is a tie for me along with U&Z's FD at this Games! Legendary performances! And to me K&P are among the sports greatest!

[nafaziram]

My most favourite performance in ice-skating EVER!!! Thanks for uploading!

[adrianesherazade]

Não me canso de ficar impressionada com essa apresentação. Não consigo entender por que eles não conseguiram nenhum 6,0. Não dá para entender.

[JonnyTainment]

Excellent. I remember when I saw this live. It was a very spellbinding performance and you could easily see why they won gold.

One thing I have to say is that watching the figure skating at the 1992 Olympics got me interested in classical music for the first time. In fact thanks to this performance, I consider Bach's Air one of the most erotic pieces ever written.

[0zmarie99]

art

[pleyajuls]

Amazing! thanks for posting.

[Ezrateach]

The only word that does this program justice is mesmerizing, simply mesmerizing; they did not get the response from the French audience that they deserved because most of them were rooting for the Duschenays, who were clever but heartless. In fact Usova and Zhulin were also better than the French team.

[MelanieAF]

Just beautiful, beats the daylights out of all the MTV-style "ice dancing" out there now. We just don't see the elegance, maturity, and classicism of ice dancers like this anymore, or like Gordeeva and Grinkov in pairs.

[dyingemberlowe]

I know little about the technicalities of ice dancing, but I found this dead sexy. There may be other skaters more technical, but you've got to give it to these two on style. Bravo.

[gk891]

These two were phenomenal technicians. I remember Betty Calloway (the coach of Torvill & Dean) once said while commentating that Marina & Sergei were "technically perfect skaters." The problem that some had with them back when they did more traditional ballroom-style dances was that their skating was almost too good. In other words, the style was rather clinical. I don't agree but you get my drift about their skating technique.

[kerstenfanatic]

This team combines incredible difficult and flawless technical dancing with stunning artistry because of tons of passion, great style, and outstanding interpretation. They are amazing.

[alcoholicglitterati]

LOL 5.5?!

[mishkite2u]

One of the best .. if not the best programs and executions in the history of ice dancing.

Bravo Marina, Sergey and Tatiana.

[shinobu1980]

本当に素晴らしい。幼い頃に見て忘れられませんでした。今見れて­本当に幸せです。

[Ezrateach]

Today's ice dancing routines can't hold a candle to this. And I don't mean the ice dancers themselves, who are very talented; it is just that all the originality has been sucked out of the programs by the new rules of the Code of Points. You never see anything as mesmerizing as this program anymore. I thought the top three teams in 92 all had brilliantly choreographed routines. But the best team did win.

[Jude74]

I loved the Duchesnays but they should have been fourth. Isabelle was sick and their skate was so so, G&P were amazing and are probably the greatest technical ice dancing pair of all time.

[steps1]

that would only be somewhere near the truth if Torvill and Dean hadn't existed

[Jude74]

I didn't say G&P were the best all around ice dancers of all time, I said they were the best technical skaters and that is fact not opinion. Nobody could match the speed and edge control of Pasha Gritchuk, not even T&D in their prime. T&D were artistic pioneers and took the sport to a new artistic level but don't over blow their actual technical skills.

[steps1]

No, i'm afraid that is not fact..it is your opinion..my opinion is that Torvill and Dean were technically and artistically superior

[Jude74]

That's fine but you just proved to me that you don't understand the concept of basic skating skills. There is a divide between artistic and technical, while T&D where artistic pioneers and were very good in terms of technique they were not as good as Pasha. Pasha is considered one of the most talented technical skaters in history, her skills were astonishing.

[sharpie205]

I couldn't agree with you more. They surely did "suck" out all the originality.

[Chocolatesonnet]

This program along with Torvill & Dean's Bolero are my two favorite programs ever. A pure joy to behold.

[beckerbombs]

Marks way too low. This was one of the greatest performances in the history of dance by far. For me it even rivals Torvil and Dean's Bolero. Their technical marks should have been littered with 5.9s and their artistic with 6.0s. Who cares if the Duchensays left. They were out of the running for gold after the other dances anyway, and their boring West Side story which the judges must have seen many times in practice could never come close to this no matter how well they skated it.

[IVANNONO]

seems soooo easy....:)))) i love

[GinaCary]

This performance was perhaps the greatest four minutes in sports. She absolutely conveyed the emotion of the music. Bach has NEVER looked so good. I cry every time I see it. Thank you both!!!!Actually this performance rips my heart out.....

[audie83]

This is my co-favorite routine and couple from the 1992 Olympics. I just can't decide if K & P's Bach routine was the best-or U & Z's 'Four Seasons'. These two FD's from '92 were gilded with gold. :)

[gk891]

U/Z's Four Seasons was beautiful but it was considerably less difficult than this performance and G/P's. I thought U/Z's bronze medal was fine but I would've switch the placement of the Duchesnays with Grishuk/Platov.

[audie83]

That is true-between the top Russian pairs K & P had the toughest stuff out there athletically-they're gold was richly deserved. I liked the Duchesnays but their 'West Side Story' routine should not have placed them on the podium over the Russians.

[grafgirl27]

the Duchesnays being upset with silver in Albertville was hilarious. They were frankly lucky to even win that.

[achtonado123]

Великая Тарасова

[b2367]

On this video i can see:

1.My favorite female ice-dancer

2.My favorite ice-dance programme

3.My favorite ice-dance couple

4.My favorite part of the most dramatic ice-dance competition i have ever seen!!

So,gk891-thank you very much for posting!!!

[skaterlz]

This couple were great and we all miss you not the stupid Duschenneys

[koollatter]

This may be blasphemus to some...THIS is the greatest Olympic Ice Dance Free Dance ever!!!!

[DianaDeLuna]

Absolutely! I'm basically just a casual fan, and I saw this at a very impressionable time of my life and never, EVER forgot it. I waited for 2 years for the '94 Olympics only to be disappointed: Nothing ever approached the sublime joy of 1992. Bravo for posting it!

[Jamessemaj12]

How can it be blasphemous when it is 100% TRUE ?

I remember seeing this LIVE and I was already a huge fan of K&P from the 88 games but from the start to end I was mesmerized, I don't think I moved a muscle the whole time.

This performance is the personification of Strength meeting Beauty. Their technique is flawless and artistry is passionately moving.

This is the best DANCE team of all & I think the only ones to have won all medals in 3 games & this is the BEST FREE SKATE in ICE DANCE

[koollatter]

@Jamessemaj12 They are the only figures skaters from any discipline to win all three medals (Gold, Silver, & Bronze) in the Olympics. There was so much passion and beauty in there skating. Just mesmerizing.

[koollatter]

@Jamessemaj12 There are the only skaters to win all three medals (Gold, Silver, & Bronze) in the Olympics. There was so much passion, beauty, and difficulty in their skating. Just mesmerizing.

[chinaskicoen]

I can't find enything in the web,

even a picture!

Did you have a web link about her?

I would like to know more!

thanks

[gk891]

I can't find much about her either. I believe she also did Grishuk & Platov's 1993 FD which was also magnificent.

[chinaskicoen]

who's Shanti Rushpaul???

[chinaskicoen]

Somebody know who choregraph

that free dance?????

[gk891]

Shanti Rushpaul

[chinaskicoen]

Who is Shanti Rushpaul??,

[gk891]

She's a magnificent choreographer who also did work with Anissina & Peizerat (their 1998 free dance).

[bzach71]

ENCHANTINGLY MESMERISING.....thats the only description.

[b2367]

I like your definition very much!

[bzach71]

Thank you very much.....glad u agree..:)

Those the only words i see fit.

[wlvdy]

The music is by J S Bach from various cantatas and toccatas.

[cskor]

thank you. love it. can watch it again and again forever

[fatalbeauty]

I love Klimova! She definitively got something of a star!!

[CamilleNadia]

Can anyone tell me what music is playing during this program?

I love it.

[AnnaPavlovaFan]

Johann Sebastian Bach - Air on a G string (first half) and Fugue from Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BDW 565 (second half)

[nolfan2001]

j'aimais bp les duchesnay et surtout missing. mais au Jo p et K avait un bien plus jolie programme que celui des duchesnay

et c'était assez évident qu'ils devaient gagner la médaille d'or. Par contre si le programme missing tombait au même moment que ce air. quelle casse tête ce serait

je choisis missing

[journalistgirl07]

moving*cries of emotion*

[feemeister]

That's my favorite ice dance ever. When I went to see them, it was unreal.  When the music got quiet, the whole arena was just silent. They were mesmerizing. Wasn't like that with any other skaters that were there. They are superb artists!

[molly2222]

And again, I love the commentators here! Conservative but well said!!

[molly2222]

Thank you, so much!! This is a legendary performance to the air!!

[baadpuddytat]

utterly exquisite and elegant--what line and flow

[griffinm7]

It's nice to hear that even Christopher Dean could recognise that this was the Gold medal performance.