Elvis Stojko 1994 Olympic LP

Elvis Stojko skates his long program to selections from the soundtrack Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story at the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway. The judges, amusing as ever, placed him second overall.

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• Olympics

[wis7dom]

Amazing! I have this on VHS but no longer have a VCR so it's so neat to see this routine again. It was one of my favs EVER by Elvis. Thanks for sharing!! :)

[Arinozian]

I'd just like to be a total ass to all those who abandoned VHS and say that any one of my disorganized pile of tapes have invariably lasted waaaaaaay longer than any DVD I've ever obsessively protected in hard cases, dust jackets and hermetically sealed environments.

[Arinozian]

I apologize for completely removing a set of posts here, but I'm sick of seeing utter bullshit spewed on my videos. If someone is so pussy about having a fair conversation that they need to veto someone else's opinion w/ repeated thumbs downs, they don't get to have an opinion on my video at all. I apologize in particular to Kwadruple, who was actually able to maintain a degree of respect, logic and sanity in her/his posts. YouTube's comment ratings are brutally revealing of human idiocy...

[TheHaloTrickster]

Elvis was ahead of his time...his style paved the way for many of the creative men's programs we see today. He was a true original and has never really been given his due.

[faeryquene]

This is my favorite program of Elvis's. I was a huge Bruce Lee fan so naturally I was drawn to this. His jumps sometimes looked a bit muscled I think and occasional he really leaned out of it but otherwise one of the great jumpers by far. I  think his mistake probably seemed worse in the judges eyes than Urmanov's step out on the triple flip.

[canajaneh]

Does anyone remember - or want to remember - which competition it was that he and Kurt lost 1st and 2nd place to a Russian who got perfect scores even though he fell several times during the performance?

[HowDareThey1970]

@heyheyheylolita I don't know if he played hockey on a serious level... he was in martial arts and motorbike racing I think.

[Chachanine]

@lcowles I disagree! On the contrary.... He skates like he is one with ice... His mastery of the edge of the blade and movement is so perfect that there is no need for lace, drama and over the top performance. I found back then as now, that his more subdued skating went 20 feet over the judges head... Way ahead of his time! Personally, my favourite ever figure skater!

[Chachanine]

So ahead in his time! This is what perfection is! I cried then and I'll stick to my beliefs today.... This is figure skating at it's absolute best!!!

[awsome107]

Where and win did he do his first Quad qas it at the Hamilton Collassiam?

[Botanyhill]

Elvis should have win GOLD

[Parawhore5150]

@USAGymnast Even under the 6.0 system, there were jump limits. I've been competing for over ten years, which includes the old system. If there wasn't a limit on jump attempts, everyone would be doing jump after jump after jump.

[lcowles]

Elvis' big problem was always his sameness. Even at the 2002 games, he skated to Asian-inspired themed programs back to back. He never really took any risks as an artist and that always hurt him with the judges and honestly...made him kind of predictable with the fans of skating. I say that having a lot of respect for him, but it really wasn't the judges. Elvis was Elvis' biggest road block.

[HattieLovesCattie]

@beeharbour Blame the ISU.They took away figures and added more jumps.Why blame Evan?He was a kid when those rules were decided in the late '80's.