Tonia Kwiatkowski - 1996 U.S. Nationals Long Program

Tonia Kwiatkowski finishes with the silver medal behind Michelle Kwan at the 1996 United States Figure Skating Championships in San Jose, California after this long program.

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[lambielkwanfan]

I dont know if I agree there, but she certainly impressed the judges still. If you notice her scores were very close to Michelle's and way ahead of all the others. She skated almost this well at Worlds and was so robbed, she should have won the bronze medal at Worlds.

[diskplaying]

This was as good as a gold medal for her.

[markbob120]

@getrealandsee You are an idiot. Tonia Kwiatkowski stunk on ice and was a major choke artist! She was a lousy skater and a dirty polock whore!

[getrealandsee]

@russianskatingfan a triple...a triple triple...Kwan did that?

[getrealandsee]

Now SHE is a LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 24....no groin owie.........no excuse after excuse......no breaks....earned marks......no propping up......no favortism so blatant it reeks and totally insults skating fans.........and then off to Worlds...24 years old....incredible and a true champion and again a true geniune legend. I wonder if she skated back in the day when amatuers couldn't rake in the bucks and were purists!!

[Evancho08]

i skated to this music, loved it

[psbfan01]

This was a very nice performance. What comes to mind: I miss Dick & Peggy's commentating, and I miss the 6.0 system, despite its faults. The skaters of today are just not as interesting either.

[russianskatingfan]

I am stunned some of you think Kwiatkowski deserved to beat Kwan. Kwan probably skated an even better performance than she did to win Worlds considering she did the triple toe-triple toe. Tonia skated well but has no triple-triple, no triple salchow, and a few of her landings were off or two footed. The only time Tonia didnt beat Kwan when she deserved to was the 95 Nationals the year before.  I agree she deserved to place way higher than 8th at Worlds though.

[dtw1958]

@skaterdude1962 I agree and skated faster than Michelle

[skaterdude1962]

Should have been National Champion and World Medalist that year!

[slamballmanlita]

@lambielkwanfan I agree that Tonia was totally robbed when it came to the 1996 Worlds but if you look at the placesments a lot of people was robbed. I kind of disagree with your placements at worlds that year. I would have Tonia in 4th overall. I would have had her 5th in the Short Program and 4th in the Long. So my top 12 placements would have been overall Kwan, Chen, Butyskaya, Kwiatkowski, Slutskaya, Szewczenko, Bonaley, Yokoya, Vorobieva, Ito, Czakó, Lipinski,.