I'm not gonna respond to the trolls since that would just be feeding... lol.
But answer me this, all fans, and all naysayers. Name me one, that's right just ONE, medal-contending female figure skater from the 1996 to 2006 era that did a triple lutz CONSISTENTLY in almost EVERY exhibition program she ever performed.
Answer, you won't. Technical mastery is technical mastery. Say what you will, Michelle has landed more triple lutz's on performance and exhibition ice than ANY other skater.
Beautiful. Poetry in motion. One of the best skaters ever - all heart and soul ! Knowing the back story makes this such an incredibly emotional video/performance. (Yes, I'm a girly-man, I teared up the night I watched this live). Michelle Kwan makes skating look so easy and natural and she exudes artistic beauty and pure joy as she skates. It is so obvious she loves skating and looks like she belongs on the ice. Incredible. Love it.
@Themindiscurious Loves skating? Not so much imo. She seemed ready to show up when the money was a given and as far as competition... she just expects the gold to be handed to her just for showing up... Skating to fields of Gold? Come on. Should have been grateful and relieved to stand on another Olympic podium (bronze belonged to Sasha) but instead spouts this sappy number to play on public sympathy and looked quite angry and shocked on that podium.
No Gold...boohoo...she didn't even deserve bronze...she turns on the waterworks and everyone just wets their pants over her. Couldn't stand up herself so everyone does it for her.
Oh Kwan wanted the gold. She wanted it REAL bad. Thinking that it was a foregone conclusion that it was going to be handed to her. Wearing the gold...the games were supposed to be about ME-ME-ME-chelle flaunting that coveted medal. So selfish, so spoiled, so arrogant...thinking same, old, and coachless didn't matter. Oh the justice of it all! Sarah saved the sport and proved it's all about the competition, and not the name, that matters!
The best performance by any of the ladies skaters at this Olympics--competitive performances included. Michelle has the "it" factor. It can't be taught.
Judges did all they could to give Shelly the OGM but Kwan still manages to screw it up again (with a rehashed and simple routines to boot!). And of course, she vomits this sappy routine to show how much the Games were supposed to be about ME-ME-ME-chelle taking home the Gold.
Bronzie Kwansie looks like she is wearing saran wrap and her cheeks...the ones that bit the ice are really showing in the final exhibition skate.....of course USA is prominently displayed.....oh my oh my she was so sure she would be gifted Olympic Gold..
And Kwan knows this better than anyone. "Tothe public," she tells you, "the Olympics is the supreme of the supreme, and I don't believe you can ever truly be a legend without winning it."
Source: Mark Starr, Newsweek, February 18, 2002, p. 50.
"I dreamed of being a legend." … But legends are not made by points alone, in the rink or on the basketball court. For figure skaters, the door to that mythic realm of eight-figure endorsement deals, of celebrity that transcends sports itself, opens only once every four years
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@getrealandsee And Kwan HAS BECOME A LEGEND, a hard and bitter slap on the face of the UGLY, CAREER-LESS HAS-BEEN Tara Lipinski, otherwise known on Youtube as getrealandsee, allengslandlawns, cleareyed, ithinkformyself, kwansansog, and her other TROLL identities. And Kwan became one even without having to win the medal that was GIFTED to the UGLY, CAREER-LESS HAS BEEN Lipinski. Look who has the last laugh now? Ha ha ha ha ha!
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Pardon me for asking, but if Olympic medals are bunk, why bother competing for them? Michelle Kwan certainly didn't go to Torino for the pasta; she wanted a gold medal, man! She wanted it so badly, she was literally ready to bust a gut to get it!
Michelle had nothing to do with the adoption of COP. It was created as a result of the judging scandal in the pairs competition at this Olympics. COP does value artistry--or is supposed to--in the PCS. The second mark still holds up artistic skaters like Yu Na, even when she falters, as she did at 2010 Worlds.
@anubethc45 Actually, Michelle Kwan was a very big part of the reason that COP came into play. No longer can 'artistry' camoflage lack of any courage or true competitive desire. Michelle Kwan is the only skater quilty of this. She assumed that no matter how she skated her so called artistry would give her the gold medal. She sucked off the 6.0 system her entire career. Tonya Harding was a true athlete and she did more for the sport than Kwan. And she was Kwan's idol and role model. How fitting.
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Namely, that judging results are predetermined by reputation and that only major spills can alter the outcome. That if Kwan fell down three times, she would still get at least a bronze medal because of her stature in the sport.
My grandfather does and AMAZING cover of this song so it kind of means something to me... And she really really explains it well.... She has me crying. I mean that was so beautiful... she must feel so beautiful...
I've always believed that everything happens for a reason. If Michelle won the gold back in 1998, she may have retired and have been forgotten, just like Tara Lipinski. She won the silver and also the hearts of MILLIONS, urging her to continue. She had 10 times more applause than any other skater out there in the 2002 Olympics. If she went pro early, she wouldn't be "The most decorated skater of all-time." She wouldn't have so many titles. She wouldn't be THE Michelle Kwan.
@MusicLuver093 You are right about her hanging on and on and on, sleazing into Torino only to leave like a whipped pup after sufficient media coverage..of course she would have retired if she had been handed the gold in Nagano as she expected. She is decorated with other skater's medals and will never have the only one that matters anyway. The reason she didn't win is because she isn't good enough.
@getrealandsee But that doesn't excuse her from having won more titles than any other skater out there with an exception to a few decades earlier, as well as almost 5 times more pefect 6.0's than any other skater in history. To say she isn't good enough is ignorant. She's widely known as the greatest skater of all time. Not saying I completely agree but people draw these titles for her from performances, not thin air.
@MusicLuver093 Oh how very true. You can bet that had Michelle been handed 'her' Olympic Gold medal (omg...I didn't WIN...but but but I am Michelle Kwan, how can that be?) she would have beat it off the competiton circuit in a flash. THE michelle kwan never won nor will she ever wear the ONLY medal that means diddly Olympic Gold. As far as titles and being known...so is Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Charlie Manson, among others. She didn't earn all of her titles up to and including this Bronze
@kwansansog I'm not really sure where you were going with that comment... It seemed inconclusive. Please elaborate. Are you saying she isn't considered one of the greats because of her talent? Or are you saying she is a legend because of her never giving up?
@MusicLuver093 She is actually a media creation who believed all the hype. Michelle Kwan never thought that she had to do anything but step on the ice and she would be handed the gold medal simply because she is well THE Michelle Kwan. There is a big difference between never giving up and demolishing someone else's dream. Michelle was handed Sasha's bronze in SLC.Tanya Harding is ALSO a figure skating legend. There is a Legend and then there is a Legend. Kwan really used Figure Skating!!
@MusicLuver093 Never giving up and NEVER upping the ante. Always counting on her 'artistry' Tara's program was artistic and athletic as was Kim Yuna's. Sarah really worked hard, changes were made to her program, the first woman in history to do two triple triples in competiton. Kwan DID quit trying years and years ago and again just counted on name value and face time. She is arrogant and conceited enough to consider HERSELF one of the greats. She isn't. She just hung on forever.
@kwansansog "Kwan DID quit trying years and years ago..." Those are some big words from someone who never knew her. Did you really compare her to Tonya Harding? I'm done here lol. However I will say that All those athletes you listed were exceptional. Yuna Kim is phenomenal, as well as Sasha. Sasha just wasn't good enough. The argument that the judges were biased is a never ending debate. It's like debating religion. There's no correct answer in both figures eyes. You just seem to have
@MusicLuver093 You are a banana boat! First off, I don't think she took Sasha's bronze, I think that the judges pitied her and besides there was no way in Hell that Kwan was going home empty handed. This was predicted, actually. Sasha earned the bronze medla but as with so many other skaters the favortism and propping of Kwan played in and she was just another victim.
John Arenberg is Emory sports information director
Namely, that judging results are predetermined by reputation and that only major spills can alter the outcome. That if Kwan fell down three times, she would still get at least a bronze medal because of her stature in the sport.
This is an article written by an expert. Kwan's reputation? Well, she stayed around forever trying to wint he only medal that matters and didn't!
@kwansansog Hmm so you don't consider 9 olympic figure skating judges experts? lol The fact that you still care about this nearly a decade later is pathetic. GET OVER IT. MICHELLE KWAN WON BRONZE. NO ONE ELSE DID!
@MusicLuver093 The Olympic judges pitied Kwan. Just as she 'won' so many medals and titles by being propped up, favored, and pitied so she was given the bronze that Sasha earned. Michelle Kwan is not the best skater in the world, nor is she even a particularly great skater. She just wanted money and fame which she has. She didn't love skating, she used it. Just as she used 2006 as a way of garnering face time and money. She had one jim dandy pity party. She is truly pathetic and needy. I am not.
@kwansansog NEWS FLASH SASHA DIDN'T MEDAL. MICHELLE DID. There will ALWAYS be debate that judges acted biased with ANYONE. There will always be one other "kwansanog" that will bash another skater for winning a medal that they believe someone else deserved. This debate is pointless. MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIFE DUDE. IT'S A DONE DEAL.
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@MusicLuver093 And Michelle Kwan should have moved on with her life after two Olympic losses. Before she destroyed someone else's dream and made the 2006 Olympics all about poor little 'I want the Gold, I want the Gold, I am entitled to it, I have hung on and on crapping on others, I want the Gold' Kwan. She totally disgraced figure skating, made a mockery of the Olympic Creed, and spewed out so much sappy syrup that pancakes could have been served to the entire state of Texas with it.
I'm truly unbiased as I know nothing of the skating circles when I say that your comments belong somewhere else than on this video. This is absolutely remarkable performance and when it comes to musicality she's one of the better ones I've seen.
Tonya Harding was just an overrated jump queen who can only excel on her triple axel at a slanted angle. She is not as graceful nor as beautiful as Michelle Kwan is. I can't see Tonya Harding as a proper role model for a budding skate queen. As eccentric as Tonya Harding appeared to be, she hardly represents a great role model for athletes and fans as Michelle Kwan and Sasha have both proven to be.
No one can hold a flaming candle to Michelle Kwan, not even by a mile. Especially when getrealandsee can't get to the level of credibility she completely lacks. When all eyes focuses on Michelle, she is a star of the show, not getrealandsee. who tries to outshine Michelle Kwan. Getrealandsee is not a classified figure skater, nor is she fully qualified to go around and post nasty insults about Michelle Kwan. It is enough to make me want to defend Michelle Kwan as much as Mao Asada.
This is probably one of her most emotional performances!! The music and lyrics are totally on point with the emotion of having just lost olympic gold.. It's about how we'll remember her years down the road.. When the west wind moves in our minds to figure skating, we'll remember Michelle as one of, if not THE greatest female skater of all time.
This is my favorite performance of hers, which is a little strange since it's an exo and she had so many amazing performances, but this one is the most personal and beautiful to me.
Michelle Kwan marked the world of Figure Skating for ever. Everyone loved her for who she was, not for how many gold medals she had. I know she's the reason i started skating and I never regret it.
Thank you Michelle for being such an inspiration to all of us!
amazing, perfect, wonderful,great,excellent,exquisite It didn't matter that she won the bronze. I would have paid just to see her exhibition,even over Sarah Hughes exhibition(my opinion).
I think this is her most personal skate. Almost a farewell skate in my opinion, showcase all the things that makes us love michelle. I actually fell in love with Eva Cassidy's music after seeing this performance
One of my favorite all time programs to watch. She shows her heart, love, and integrity. This moment will forever be iconic immortalize this true champion. She skates with her heart and has the gift to translate music into movement. Few skaters have this gift. It is music in motion. It brings tears each time I watch it. Whoever makes negative comments on Michelle does not truly understand what she did for this sport... A true champion. Success is not always measure in gold medals.
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Success isn't always measured by a gold medal but it sure doesn't hurt!!!! LOL..
And then this skater sleazed into Torino to not win the Gold that it isn't about since I can't win it...SOUR GRAPES and downright pathetic. Spin Spin Spin...too bad this skater couldn't do a sit spin let alone an Olympic worthy program...she proved it 3 times!!!
Wow! She is so amazing. I am just amazed with the way that her skates glade on the ice. It is so beautiful. I am going to start taking Ice Skating lessons, but, I doubt that I will be as good as her. I mean, LOOK at her! She is AMAZING!
hey does anybody know where to find like michelles last exhibiton skate? shes wearing a white dress, and its very beautiful and unique? like mia micheals style (dance person if you dont know search her up , shes amazing)
Everything about this is electric. Aside from the context, and the tears at the end (which show you just how much she loves this sport), I was struck by: The perfection of the edges, the perfect jumps, the stunning last spin combo, with the beautiful lay back middle, and of course the ease of her spirals. This shows why she is revered by so many skaters; we all know how difficult everything she did in this is, and we want to do it like that!
beautiful song. beautiful performance. beautiful skater. she is the living embodiment that you don't have to be a gold medalist to be a legend. no one will ever touch the standard she set.
I never begrudged Sarah Hughes the gold. All things considered, she deserved it. I couldn't tell you anything about her performance, though. After watching Michelle's exhibition, it was like no one had ever skated before. This was the only thing I remembered. That's the triumph. The trancendency.
At the end, you just want to grab her and let her know that she is so respected, and so loved, and I just wish there was a way that she could know how much she has meant to so many people. RAW EMOTION!
They talk about how graceful she is, but that her technique is simple.
But, when she hydroplanes, comes out of that into a kneeling fourth (sitting on one knee) while propelling backwards and then stands and goes into a turn, that technique and strentgth are remarkable and perfect.
@liveforlife2494: Wow, you've never seen Kwan skating! You're lucky, because you can now go and watch all of her flawless programs that brought all of the audiences to their feet, and to tears of joy. There's a reason why she's an icon, and why 300 plus people comment on almost all of her clips.
it breaks my heart to see her cry at the end of her performance, but none-the-less she is one of the greatest skaters in the world no doubt about that
@tampopoliquor: What the hell are you people talking about? Go do this on a forum, instead of having conversations that don't make sense on youtube. I hate having to scroll through all this crap to read the legit comments. I mean, we should be talking about the CLIP!
I'm not gonna respond to the trolls since that would just be feeding... lol.
But answer me this, all fans, and all naysayers. Name me one, that's right just ONE, medal-contending female figure skater from the 1996 to 2006 era that did a triple lutz CONSISTENTLY in almost EVERY exhibition program she ever performed.
Answer, you won't. Technical mastery is technical mastery. Say what you will, Michelle has landed more triple lutz's on performance and exhibition ice than ANY other skater.
DarrenInCA 2 weeks ago
Beautiful. Poetry in motion. One of the best skaters ever - all heart and soul ! Knowing the back story makes this such an incredibly emotional video/performance. (Yes, I'm a girly-man, I teared up the night I watched this live). Michelle Kwan makes skating look so easy and natural and she exudes artistic beauty and pure joy as she skates. It is so obvious she loves skating and looks like she belongs on the ice. Incredible. Love it.
Themindiscurious 4 months ago
@Themindiscurious Loves skating? Not so much imo. She seemed ready to show up when the money was a given and as far as competition... she just expects the gold to be handed to her just for showing up... Skating to fields of Gold? Come on. Should have been grateful and relieved to stand on another Olympic podium (bronze belonged to Sasha) but instead spouts this sappy number to play on public sympathy and looked quite angry and shocked on that podium.
allenglandlawns 4 months ago
No Gold...boohoo...she didn't even deserve bronze...she turns on the waterworks and everyone just wets their pants over her. Couldn't stand up herself so everyone does it for her.
allenglandlawns 6 months ago
Oh Kwan wanted the gold. She wanted it REAL bad. Thinking that it was a foregone conclusion that it was going to be handed to her. Wearing the gold...the games were supposed to be about ME-ME-ME-chelle flaunting that coveted medal. So selfish, so spoiled, so arrogant...thinking same, old, and coachless didn't matter. Oh the justice of it all! Sarah saved the sport and proved it's all about the competition, and not the name, that matters!
allenglandlawns 6 months ago
The best performance by any of the ladies skaters at this Olympics--competitive performances included. Michelle has the "it" factor. It can't be taught.
idolfan9495 8 months ago
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Judges did all they could to give Shelly the OGM but Kwan still manages to screw it up again (with a rehashed and simple routines to boot!). And of course, she vomits this sappy routine to show how much the Games were supposed to be about ME-ME-ME-chelle taking home the Gold.
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Bronzie Kwansie looks like she is wearing saran wrap and her cheeks...the ones that bit the ice are really showing in the final exhibition skate.....of course USA is prominently displayed.....oh my oh my she was so sure she would be gifted Olympic Gold..
getrealandsee 8 months ago
Just beautiful!
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And Kwan knows this better than anyone. "Tothe public," she tells you, "the Olympics is the supreme of the supreme, and I don't believe you can ever truly be a legend without winning it."
Source: Mark Starr, Newsweek, February 18, 2002, p. 50.
getrealandsee 8 months ago
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"I dreamed of being a legend." … But legends are not made by points alone, in the rink or on the basketball court. For figure skaters, the door to that mythic realm of eight-figure endorsement deals, of celebrity that transcends sports itself, opens only once every four years
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getrealandsee 8 months ago
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@getrealandsee And Kwan HAS BECOME A LEGEND, a hard and bitter slap on the face of the UGLY, CAREER-LESS HAS-BEEN Tara Lipinski, otherwise known on Youtube as getrealandsee, allengslandlawns, cleareyed, ithinkformyself, kwansansog, and her other TROLL identities. And Kwan became one even without having to win the medal that was GIFTED to the UGLY, CAREER-LESS HAS BEEN Lipinski. Look who has the last laugh now? Ha ha ha ha ha!
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Pardon me for asking, but if Olympic medals are bunk, why bother competing for them? Michelle Kwan certainly didn't go to Torino for the pasta; she wanted a gold medal, man! She wanted it so badly, she was literally ready to bust a gut to get it!
getrealandsee 8 months ago
Michelle had nothing to do with the adoption of COP. It was created as a result of the judging scandal in the pairs competition at this Olympics. COP does value artistry--or is supposed to--in the PCS. The second mark still holds up artistic skaters like Yu Na, even when she falters, as she did at 2010 Worlds.
idolfan9495 10 months ago
@anubethc45 Actually, Michelle Kwan was a very big part of the reason that COP came into play. No longer can 'artistry' camoflage lack of any courage or true competitive desire. Michelle Kwan is the only skater quilty of this. She assumed that no matter how she skated her so called artistry would give her the gold medal. She sucked off the 6.0 system her entire career. Tonya Harding was a true athlete and she did more for the sport than Kwan. And she was Kwan's idol and role model. How fitting.
kwansansog 10 months ago
April 22, 2002
PR diplomacy in Salt Lake
John Arenberg is Emory sports information director
Namely, that judging results are predetermined by reputation and that only major spills can alter the outcome. That if Kwan fell down three times, she would still get at least a bronze medal because of her stature in the sport.
kwansansog 11 months ago
My grandfather does and AMAZING cover of this song so it kind of means something to me... And she really really explains it well.... She has me crying. I mean that was so beautiful... she must feel so beautiful...
MiracleSoulFlyer 1 year ago
9 people aren't walking on feilds of Gold...
keactress16 1 year ago
michelle kwan is my favorite my idol /fans and i love her gracefulness touch my heart the best skater of all times,so amazing
Briheeds 1 year ago
@Briheeds she deserve everything
Briheeds 1 year ago
I've always believed that everything happens for a reason. If Michelle won the gold back in 1998, she may have retired and have been forgotten, just like Tara Lipinski. She won the silver and also the hearts of MILLIONS, urging her to continue. She had 10 times more applause than any other skater out there in the 2002 Olympics. If she went pro early, she wouldn't be "The most decorated skater of all-time." She wouldn't have so many titles. She wouldn't be THE Michelle Kwan.
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MusicLuver093 1 year ago
@MusicLuver093 You are right about her hanging on and on and on, sleazing into Torino only to leave like a whipped pup after sufficient media coverage..of course she would have retired if she had been handed the gold in Nagano as she expected. She is decorated with other skater's medals and will never have the only one that matters anyway. The reason she didn't win is because she isn't good enough.
getrealandsee 1 year ago
@getrealandsee But that doesn't excuse her from having won more titles than any other skater out there with an exception to a few decades earlier, as well as almost 5 times more pefect 6.0's than any other skater in history. To say she isn't good enough is ignorant. She's widely known as the greatest skater of all time. Not saying I completely agree but people draw these titles for her from performances, not thin air.
MusicLuver093 1 year ago
@MusicLuver093 Oh how very true. You can bet that had Michelle been handed 'her' Olympic Gold medal (omg...I didn't WIN...but but but I am Michelle Kwan, how can that be?) she would have beat it off the competiton circuit in a flash. THE michelle kwan never won nor will she ever wear the ONLY medal that means diddly Olympic Gold. As far as titles and being known...so is Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Charlie Manson, among others. She didn't earn all of her titles up to and including this Bronze
kwansansog 11 months ago
@kwansansog I'm not really sure where you were going with that comment... It seemed inconclusive. Please elaborate. Are you saying she isn't considered one of the greats because of her talent? Or are you saying she is a legend because of her never giving up?
MusicLuver093 11 months ago
@MusicLuver093 She is actually a media creation who believed all the hype. Michelle Kwan never thought that she had to do anything but step on the ice and she would be handed the gold medal simply because she is well THE Michelle Kwan. There is a big difference between never giving up and demolishing someone else's dream. Michelle was handed Sasha's bronze in SLC.Tanya Harding is ALSO a figure skating legend. There is a Legend and then there is a Legend. Kwan really used Figure Skating!!
kwansansog 11 months ago
@MusicLuver093 Never giving up and NEVER upping the ante. Always counting on her 'artistry' Tara's program was artistic and athletic as was Kim Yuna's. Sarah really worked hard, changes were made to her program, the first woman in history to do two triple triples in competiton. Kwan DID quit trying years and years ago and again just counted on name value and face time. She is arrogant and conceited enough to consider HERSELF one of the greats. She isn't. She just hung on forever.
kwansansog 11 months ago
@kwansansog "Kwan DID quit trying years and years ago..." Those are some big words from someone who never knew her. Did you really compare her to Tonya Harding? I'm done here lol. However I will say that All those athletes you listed were exceptional. Yuna Kim is phenomenal, as well as Sasha. Sasha just wasn't good enough. The argument that the judges were biased is a never ending debate. It's like debating religion. There's no correct answer in both figures eyes. You just seem to have
MusicLuver093 11 months ago
@kwansansog [CONT] unconditional hatred for Michelle Kwan because you feel that she took Sasha's medal. Grudges are unhealthy.
MusicLuver093 11 months ago
@MusicLuver093 You are a banana boat! First off, I don't think she took Sasha's bronze, I think that the judges pitied her and besides there was no way in Hell that Kwan was going home empty handed. This was predicted, actually. Sasha earned the bronze medla but as with so many other skaters the favortism and propping of Kwan played in and she was just another victim.
kwansansog 10 months ago
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@MusicLuver093 April 22, 2002
PR diplomacy in Salt Lake
John Arenberg is Emory sports information director
Namely, that judging results are predetermined by reputation and that only major spills can alter the outcome. That if Kwan fell down three times, she would still get at least a bronze medal because of her stature in the sport.
This is an article written by an expert. Kwan's reputation? Well, she stayed around forever trying to wint he only medal that matters and didn't!
kwansansog 10 months ago
@kwansansog Hmm so you don't consider 9 olympic figure skating judges experts? lol The fact that you still care about this nearly a decade later is pathetic. GET OVER IT. MICHELLE KWAN WON BRONZE. NO ONE ELSE DID!
MusicLuver093 10 months ago
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@MusicLuver093 The Olympic judges pitied Kwan. Just as she 'won' so many medals and titles by being propped up, favored, and pitied so she was given the bronze that Sasha earned. Michelle Kwan is not the best skater in the world, nor is she even a particularly great skater. She just wanted money and fame which she has. She didn't love skating, she used it. Just as she used 2006 as a way of garnering face time and money. She had one jim dandy pity party. She is truly pathetic and needy. I am not.
kwansansog 10 months ago
@kwansansog NEWS FLASH SASHA DIDN'T MEDAL. MICHELLE DID. There will ALWAYS be debate that judges acted biased with ANYONE. There will always be one other "kwansanog" that will bash another skater for winning a medal that they believe someone else deserved. This debate is pointless. MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIFE DUDE. IT'S A DONE DEAL.
MusicLuver093 10 months ago
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@MusicLuver093 And Michelle Kwan should have moved on with her life after two Olympic losses. Before she destroyed someone else's dream and made the 2006 Olympics all about poor little 'I want the Gold, I want the Gold, I am entitled to it, I have hung on and on crapping on others, I want the Gold' Kwan. She totally disgraced figure skating, made a mockery of the Olympic Creed, and spewed out so much sappy syrup that pancakes could have been served to the entire state of Texas with it.
kwansansog 10 months ago
@kwansansog YEP... But guess what? She already destroyed all those dreams :). All Hail Queen Kwan!
MusicLuver093 10 months ago
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getrealandsee 8 months ago
@kwansansog
I'm truly unbiased as I know nothing of the skating circles when I say that your comments belong somewhere else than on this video. This is absolutely remarkable performance and when it comes to musicality she's one of the better ones I've seen.
AceyBlade 5 months ago
Oh, Michelle! You are forever the Ice Queen of our hearts!
veganWiccan 1 year ago
at 3:33 that has to be one of the best layback spins I have ever seen Michelle do.
jprush 1 year ago
Tonya Harding was just an overrated jump queen who can only excel on her triple axel at a slanted angle. She is not as graceful nor as beautiful as Michelle Kwan is. I can't see Tonya Harding as a proper role model for a budding skate queen. As eccentric as Tonya Harding appeared to be, she hardly represents a great role model for athletes and fans as Michelle Kwan and Sasha have both proven to be.
waddleduckie1 1 year ago
@waddleduckie1 Well, Tonya was Michelle's idol...and how very fitting.
getrealandsee 1 year ago
I am her BIGGEST fan she is everything i want to be!
mausic92 1 year ago
No one can hold a flaming candle to Michelle Kwan, not even by a mile. Especially when getrealandsee can't get to the level of credibility she completely lacks. When all eyes focuses on Michelle, she is a star of the show, not getrealandsee. who tries to outshine Michelle Kwan. Getrealandsee is not a classified figure skater, nor is she fully qualified to go around and post nasty insults about Michelle Kwan. It is enough to make me want to defend Michelle Kwan as much as Mao Asada.
waddleduckie1 1 year ago
@waddleduckie1 And completely lacking in "getrealandsee" is that which is central to credibility:
integrity.
Has absolutely none. It's no wonder he so hates Kwan, who has an extra supply of it.
JNagarya 1 year ago
omg i'm crying like a little boy.
thefnsk 1 year ago
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shit, even my husband cried and he's all man.
rmecrowe 1 year ago
shit, even my husband cried and he all man.
rmecrowe 1 year ago
@rmecrowe Oh God! He must be sucking cock on the side.
markbob120 1 year ago
The best ladies figure skating performance at this Olympics.
idolfan9495 1 year ago
This is probably one of her most emotional performances!! The music and lyrics are totally on point with the emotion of having just lost olympic gold.. It's about how we'll remember her years down the road.. When the west wind moves in our minds to figure skating, we'll remember Michelle as one of, if not THE greatest female skater of all time.
raycomb30294 1 year ago
This is my favorite performance of hers, which is a little strange since it's an exo and she had so many amazing performances, but this one is the most personal and beautiful to me.
epizetousi 1 year ago
>I think this is her most personal skate. Almost a farewell skate
ditto
tampopoliquor 1 year ago
>Everyone loved her for who she was, not for how many gold medals she had.
i agree
tampopoliquor 1 year ago
>it isn't about since I can't win it...SOUR GRAPES
contrary to Miki-chan･･･?
tampopoliquor 1 year ago
>I cried at the end...
me too
tampopoliquor 1 year ago
Amazing Figure Skater. A 'Diva' of the Ice.
- "Success isn't always measured by a Gold Medal".
Michelle skates like an angel.
MrGetson 1 year ago
u posted this on my birthday!!! and im a figure skater that lves michelle kwan!!!
bubbleybabe98 1 year ago
Michelle Kwan marked the world of Figure Skating for ever. Everyone loved her for who she was, not for how many gold medals she had. I know she's the reason i started skating and I never regret it.
Thank you Michelle for being such an inspiration to all of us!
elsidoodle 1 year ago
Wonderful, graceful, my role model
lizzyfaithchen 1 year ago
amazing, perfect, wonderful,great,excellent,exquisite It didn't matter that she won the bronze. I would have paid just to see her exhibition,even over Sarah Hughes exhibition(my opinion).
flaming188 1 year ago
I think this is her most personal skate. Almost a farewell skate in my opinion, showcase all the things that makes us love michelle. I actually fell in love with Eva Cassidy's music after seeing this performance
Aproxy2 1 year ago
this footage defines 'beauty'. classic!
bluebox0199 1 year ago
do you now if she will skate in yuna kim show this year?
whirlpool1988 1 year ago
@whirlpool1988 no she's not.
iimissdramaticii 1 year ago
1:37-1:38 Exquisite.
IaStwalkon 1 year ago 2
4:09 - 4:15 was such an amazing move!
I wish she continued to skate, she is so amazing at it!
HarryPotterFandom5 1 year ago 4
One of my favorite all time programs to watch. She shows her heart, love, and integrity. This moment will forever be iconic immortalize this true champion. She skates with her heart and has the gift to translate music into movement. Few skaters have this gift. It is music in motion. It brings tears each time I watch it. Whoever makes negative comments on Michelle does not truly understand what she did for this sport... A true champion. Success is not always measure in gold medals.
bellnor757 1 year ago 5
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Success isn't always measured by a gold medal but it sure doesn't hurt!!!! LOL..
And then this skater sleazed into Torino to not win the Gold that it isn't about since I can't win it...SOUR GRAPES and downright pathetic. Spin Spin Spin...too bad this skater couldn't do a sit spin let alone an Olympic worthy program...she proved it 3 times!!!
getrealandsee 1 year ago
I cried at the end...
tenorsonator 1 year ago 4
She is a great person... She is a great artist, not only an athlete...I just simply love her best!
tenorsonator 1 year ago 4
3:22 - 3:30 is just remarkably too beautiful for words
pnaichi 1 year ago 3
she's a legend :D
boneassasin 1 year ago 9
aggghhhhhh her spirals are just spectacular.
sanduhra 1 year ago 5
WONDERFUL! I love Michelle Kwan and her skating. She'll always be a winner.
Angelann2u 2 years ago 7
Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold. Great choice of music
CafedLmR 2 years ago 2
Wow! She is so amazing. I am just amazed with the way that her skates glade on the ice. It is so beautiful. I am going to start taking Ice Skating lessons, but, I doubt that I will be as good as her. I mean, LOOK at her! She is AMAZING!
kaitlynsworld 2 years ago 6
hey does anybody know where to find like michelles last exhibiton skate? shes wearing a white dress, and its very beautiful and unique? like mia micheals style (dance person if you dont know search her up , shes amazing)
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amazing.. just amazing:)
MrsEdwardCullenx0 2 years ago
Everything about this is electric. Aside from the context, and the tears at the end (which show you just how much she loves this sport), I was struck by: The perfection of the edges, the perfect jumps, the stunning last spin combo, with the beautiful lay back middle, and of course the ease of her spirals. This shows why she is revered by so many skaters; we all know how difficult everything she did in this is, and we want to do it like that!
mlc2005 2 years ago
beautiful song. beautiful performance. beautiful skater. she is the living embodiment that you don't have to be a gold medalist to be a legend. no one will ever touch the standard she set.
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Sgarcia202 2 years ago
I remember watching this and crying along with her at the end of the performance. I still get teary eyed when I see this.
Sgarcia202 2 years ago
I never begrudged Sarah Hughes the gold. All things considered, she deserved it. I couldn't tell you anything about her performance, though. After watching Michelle's exhibition, it was like no one had ever skated before. This was the only thing I remembered. That's the triumph. The trancendency.
Tenebarum 2 years ago 9
What an inspiration for all aspiring figure skaters. You are so loved.You will remain in my memory always.
FaShioNISta13245 2 years ago 7
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That was so beautiful. Perfect really :)
Frenchiie33 2 years ago
TracyTerry, get lost, skank!
waddleduckie1 2 years ago 4
At the end, you just want to grab her and let her know that she is so respected, and so loved, and I just wish there was a way that she could know how much she has meant to so many people. RAW EMOTION!
mlc2005 2 years ago 9
How can you not cry with her... she even made Scott Hamilton choke up when trying to talk... an amazing, emotional performance by the legend!
mlc2005 2 years ago 29
tracy terrry u r a BITCH. go do something with ur life
44sk8forever 2 years ago 2
It's the best exhibition I have ever seen :) after watching her olympics programs I started to be interested in figure skating
Karolina917 2 years ago 5
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oh look! it's Michelle Crock! ugly bitch! i skate BETTER! and i'm pretty! she looks like a cockroach. yuck
tracyterry 2 years ago
hahahhaa you wish.
ellaumbrella1234 2 years ago 2
its perfect y_y
criiseth4 2 years ago
perfet, i am cry
vampiranegra 2 years ago
omw i wanna cry that was beautiful. did she win gold?
CJluvsdance 2 years ago
i LOVED this, so so breathtaking <33
kherbear12 2 years ago 2
Simplemente Bellisimo!!!
Mina636 2 years ago 2
No no, shes outstanding for that grace peculiar to her adding to perfect tecnique as shes called "Miss perfect on ice"
That pause also twinkles done by her.
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
They talk about how graceful she is, but that her technique is simple.
But, when she hydroplanes, comes out of that into a kneeling fourth (sitting on one knee) while propelling backwards and then stands and goes into a turn, that technique and strentgth are remarkable and perfect.
No one else skates like that.
No one.
AureliaJulia 2 years ago 5
Without a doubt, the best figure skater.
jeac2274 2 years ago 6
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One thing,she had always princess aside in her history somehow.
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
precisely,top flower aside.
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mitsubaclover 2 years ago
She was totally not confident about her appearance（dark and heavy）and talking ability,so it was good method!!
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mitsubaclover 2 years ago
>'99 good condition.
She had just learned how to skate with mens skaters a little then!
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mitsubaclover 2 years ago
By the way
this tune is by Sting?
I always think its like womans voice.
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
Its not sting. There are several version of fields of gold
vellure 2 years ago
Whos singing?
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
Eva Cassidy
vellure 2 years ago
Oh i didnt know that Thank you
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
Great;
Subsequently, other figure skaters such as Kristi Yamaguchi,Sarah HughesandKimmie Meissnerhave used Cassidy's music in their routines.
（from Wikipidia）
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
It's written by Sting, but Eva Cassidy really made it her own with this recording.
ADEAL416 2 years ago 3
She needed to be surrounded by satisfied people.
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
that was her big weakpoint, outside C.
zunopan 2 years ago
No mark（it was quite difficult as long as her previous carrier was known.too high place you know） and calm･･･
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
She was just trying to take back '99 good condition.
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
I've never actually seen Michelle Kwan skating. Just amazing, very dynamic and powerful!
liveforlife2494 2 years ago 2
Me neither
She cut the show where i could see Irina, Cande,A&P･･･
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
And Maria
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
@liveforlife2494: Wow, you've never seen Kwan skating! You're lucky, because you can now go and watch all of her flawless programs that brought all of the audiences to their feet, and to tears of joy. There's a reason why she's an icon, and why 300 plus people comment on almost all of her clips.
mlc2005 2 years ago
Coach should be one person as it deprives her power to pay attention to both when their ability is same.
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
One more thing,
She had two same ability coach and they are rival,so she had hard time between them.
（that happened often after that）
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
Its funny remembering thexy say"its strange"
"its strange"
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
>She did not have right for saying as term is short（so did everyone before either,so no change!）.
Everyone KNOWS its too hard and strange,
none-the-less, stayed same so long lol
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
Actually,girls'ability was much superior.
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
Mens skaters are not needed such a thing
Only girls were in harsh situation.
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
Judge said,something "twinkling" needed. Vague･･･
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
Harshly enough,to the results of 92-93,she was said, not only skating ability is enough to win in the world.
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
Up on the contrary?
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
of 1992-93
zunopan 2 years ago
The result of competition did not harm her popularity.
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
I dont know
if she cried after competition or not,
this is exhibition,so
this crying means relief.
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
No,this Crying shows greatness of her skating life.
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
it breaks my heart to see her cry at the end of her performance, but none-the-less she is one of the greatest skaters in the world no doubt about that
showhey 2 years ago
Every girl had been like that,he had been disappointed.
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
She just wanted to skate.
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
>most（artificially） complicated work
Its really（x2）tough of course,but that became guard from gm,good in a way.
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
and also necessary step as newcomer maybe･･･
zunopan 2 years ago
She lost original"self".
"Who am I?"
Nothing to cling!!
tampopoliquid 2 years ago
She recognized having "what you can do stably" is really center and basis of her.
tampopoliquor 2 years ago
>how horrible and unstable feeling when you are in front of completeley new（and heavy）task?
But you go ahead, as long as the Way exists in front of you,
no matter how its unpredictable･･･
tampopoliquid 2 years ago
That was just soon after she got a little "clue".
tampopoliquid 2 years ago
"No Mark" calm condition.
tampopoliquid 2 years ago
She was in"ready"mood with a little practice done.
tampopoliquid 2 years ago
She was in good mood&condition in 99 as "she" thinks.
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Sudden"10 times"leap up
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tampopoliquid 2 years ago
Wow she（Miki）won 3rd in the World!?
Great･･･like Cande･･
tampopoliquid 2 years ago
i see her（Miki）mental weakness as she makes big failure in beginning part of program, her whole program tends to be destroyed.
tampopoliquid 2 years ago
>mental weakness
Maybe that derives from her youth（said genious and could quite easily achieve difficult jump）
Plus coming up of younger ones.
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
To me, Mao or Kim seems real genious as figureskater as a whole.
Miki or M.Ito was genious in "phisical ability".
But i prefer recent Miki's performance, seems grown up mentally.
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
Of course Michelle was greater,
She,had Grace and Charm peculiar to her.
mitsubaclover 2 years ago 2
Which,was also comment of her coach.
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
Michell must have wanted Gold Medal.
But i can understand Miki Ando （Idont know now）focused on if she could accomplished what she had in mind, not winning, after she decended from top.
tampopoliquid 2 years ago
Ending it not mastering（understanding）is most horrible thing you know.
tampopoliquid 2 years ago
Both for herself and her boss.
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
You know how horrible and unstable feeling when you are in front of completeley new（and heavy）task?
tampopoliquid 2 years ago
when she entered there for the first time, she thought she came sanatrium as many were coghing and pale.
the season was also bad（hardest through the year）
mitsubaclover 2 years ago
one more thing, it was so hard for her to wait for final decision.
so long vague situation
Sudden dicision should have been better.
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tampopoliquid 2 years ago
I prefer artistic ones!!
zunopan 2 years ago
I ♥ her and tara lipinski!!!
XxAlexa15 2 years ago
all girls actually crying.
Sports world
Both Body and Brain
tampopoliquid 2 years ago
she felt phisical strength is really important factor for career then.
tampopoliquor 2 years ago
everyone there likes
Till 5 AM.
tampopoliquor 2 years ago
first lesson･･till 5AM.
tampopoliquor 2 years ago
fist feeling vs.men
tampopoliquor 2 years ago
@tampopoliquor: What the hell are you people talking about? Go do this on a forum, instead of having conversations that don't make sense on youtube. I hate having to scroll through all this crap to read the legit comments. I mean, we should be talking about the CLIP!
mlc2005 2 years ago