Nancy Kerrigan (USA) - 1992 Albertville, Ladies' Free Skate

[stanuris]

She always throws in a little crazy into her performances. That second second .... Wtf

[CamilleNadia]

"The disappointment is obvious".

And to think, a year later, it would be even worse.

[CamilleNadia]

This wasn't as bad as I remember, but she's lucky she had such a beautiful short program to save a medal for her.

[acuison1]

Did she think she could actually win with that type of music? Really? How many skaters do you know who have won with music that's not classical? Probably less than a handful. Your choice of music plays as much role in to your overall performance as much as your jumps.

[3Axel1996]

@acuison1 Since the late 1970s, many skaters have resorted to using music scores from movies as well as modern music. Brian Boitano won the 1988 Olympic Gold skating to music from the motion picture, "Napoleon." Chen Lu won her World Title in 1995 skating to music from "The Last Emperor." Elvis Stojko won his World Titles in 1994, 1995 and 1997 skating to music from movie soundtracks, as did Todd Eldredge in 1996, Aleksei Yagudin in 2002. Etc, etc, etc...

[demisDINOS]

Again she was given marks that were undeserving. This performance just wasn't good enough and she knows it. So lucky she got a medal here.

[victoriaindigo]

I'm confused about the wording. They skate the free skate and the original program? Not the short and the long program?

[3Axel1996]

@victoriaindigo It's a silly thing, but the ISU issues out rule changes at their annual council meetings in May. Sometimes, it includes changing the name of the Short Program and Long Program, which in this case was done after the 1988 season. I think after this season, it was voted back as the Short Program, but the Long Program remained the Free Skate or Free Program.

[victoriaindigo]

@3Axel1996 Thank you for clearing this up. To me, Original Program and Free Skate (or Free Program) just sound like the same thing. Whereas Long Program and Short Program are obviously 2 different things.

Thanks again!

[The123musicals]

same routine like in 91....boring and lazy

[The123musicals]

overrated..like always

[ADEAL416]

I wish we could have seen this program in '94 when she was at the top of her game. I liked her '94 free skate to the Neil Diamond orchestral medley (and definitely still believe she should have won that one) but this was artistically her most captivating program, and performed to the top of her ability as she did in '94, this would have been out of this world.

[TheCopper05]

@ADEAL416 She should have won in 1994. Oksana Bauil's program was cute, but she had some mistakes in her program. Nancy Kerrigan made none. Bauil won the judges with her tears, but she should have come in second place. How I would have placed the women. Gold--Nancy Kerrigan, Silver --Chen Lu, Bronze--Oksana Bauil.

[ADEAL416]

Well it depends whether you consider a doubled triple flip to be a "mistake"--I guess it is if you know it was supposed to be a triple, but it doesn't blemish the program at all--it just means the program didn't include a completed triple flip. But Baiul's didn't either, because she two-footed hers, which means she does not get credit for having completed it. So Nancy had her in completed triples 5 to 3 and in triples in combination 3 to 0 even if you gave Baiul an edge on the second mark

[TheCopper05]

@ADEAL416 Thanks for reminding me of the fact, that Baiul did two foot her triple flip.  Either, the judges seen it, or just overlooked it. Maybe, these judges thought Kerrigan got to much press when she was hit in the knee, or

they just felt sorry for Bauil. Who knows? I still think Kerrigan should have won the gold, Chen Lu the silver, and

Baiul the Bronze. I just remembered, that the Ukrainian judge, knew Bauil's grandfather. How ironic with that.

[ADEAL416]

Actually (though he may have also known Baiul's grandfather, but I've never heard that part) the controversy had to do with the fact that Ukrainian judge Alfred Korytek was the father of Stanislav Korytek, Baiul's former coach, and the coach who had taken Baiul in for a time after her mother died. But in all honesty, you concede the first place ordinal from every contender's home country judge in this case. I focus more on the Czech judge who ridiculously gave Baiul a 5.9 on the first mark

[ADEAL416]

@TheCopper05 The marks I would have given here would be as follows:

1. Kerrigan, 5.8, 5.9 (11.7)

2. Baiul, 5.6, 5.9 (11.5)

3. Chen, 5.7, 5.8 (11.5) tie for second broken by Baiul's artistic score

[ADEAL416]

@ADEAL416 in '94, that is, not '92. My original point was that if this program had been skated to the top of Kerrigan's ability as she did in '94, it would have beaten her '94 program in the overall quality of the program and captivation of the artistry.

[TheCopper05]

@TheCopper05 I just wasn't a big Baiul fan. I think she got very luck with that peformance in 1994. I still would have given the silver to Chen Lu of China.

[wilsonpreston84]

Two Olympic medals is nothing to sneeze at. I think Nancy's problems were 'stage fright' issues. She could obviously do the jumps and the other hard elements but she seemed to have problems doing it when it mattered under pressure. She should have worked more with a sports physiologist to overcome that. I also do not think that she was not ready for the limelight after Kristi Yamaguchi's retirement.

[claudineretard]

she reminds me a lot of Sarah Meier

[pjc31784]

thank you for posting these videos, this was the first olympics I ever watched as a kid, and I am glad you have put all this effort into putting all these videos of past olympics up

[wilsonpreston84]

I second that!!

[dylanvalente]

Scott really called it when he said "gutsy". That's what this was. It's too bad about that solo toe loop toward the end. She still managed to land four clean triples. Thanks for posting.