Maria Butyrskaya - 2002 Olympics (SP)

5th after SP, 6th place overall..

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• figure
• skating
• 2002
• winter
• olympics
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[EmDash07]

Slightly slow... but quite good overall. Classical music seems to suit her style best. She looks very tall, with long lines.

[grafgirl27]

This program was pretty clean but for her usual short program standards it was garbage. It was so slow and tenative and her elements were shaky and weak compared to her usual. That is why she finished 5th when she is often 1st or 2nd in the short. I agree maybe she still should have been over Hughes though, and if she was Hughes would not have won the gold medal overall.

[dc19921000]

This short program was extremely difficult to judge. While she fully rotated her jumps, used the right technique, and was sophisticated and elegant, there were problems. Her jumps were shaky, and her spiral sequence and layback, her weaker elements, were unusually weak today. I would also place her 5th - with Suguri in 4th instead of Hughes. Sebestyen is 6th, Hughes 7th.

[Jontor11]

I think the problem with this program is that it was one of Maria's weakest composed/choreographed shorts. This piece of music probably had suited better for a long program. She needed a more bouncier short like 'Fever' from the '98 Olympics that really showed off her musicality. The judges were clearly a bit confused and were all over the place. Still...5th was too low.

[WarrenBeattySplendor]

Sophisticated, sensuous and harmonious. Bravo Maria! Scott Hamilton is an imbecile for saying "nothing was truly special". A comment more fitting for his skating which I was never enthralled by.

[sezwho747]

Commentators and judges were always highly critical of her. She was mature, sophisticated, and lyrical. Granted her nerves sometimes made her stiff, overall this was a good performance

[tontoguy]

@JeremiVW I agree!  Scott's comments about her being nothing special were ASSinine

[JeremiVW]

i'm sorry but Scott's commentary was annoying and wrongful...this is a mature program with beautiful choreography well suited to the music..

[jprush]

@Zuranthium If you go back and look at her double axel, now that was beautiful.