Kitchener, Ontario, CANADA - 2001-2002 Season Grand Prix Final, Ladies' Free Skate, Round 3 - Irina Slutskaya of Russia won this Free Skate to win the Gold Medal here.
@zenitrulit2 Read carefully? It's not valid to state that those women flutzed ALL of the time... Sometimes it wasdifficult to tell with Michelle Kwan's takeoff.
Michelle Kwan SHOULD have won this title! Six triples and good artistry losing to a SLOPPY Irina performance with 4 triples? Irina's skate here was atrocious. Her spirals and "artistry" were a mess.
How was this better than Sarah or Michelle's program? The fact that Irina wasn't steady in this particular performance just makes it so that, to me, she didn't even come close to winning this. Yeah, her jumps were high, but the landings were so awkward on some of them. The spins were faster than Michelle's but they weren't as clean of a body line, in my opinion. And that's what figure skating is...a subjective sport.
@zenitrulit2 Irina's style is sloppy. Powerful but sloppy. In comparison to Michelle and Sarah, her spirals are horrific, crossovers are messy, choreography is messy and she didn't deserve to win.
@zenitrulit2 Read carefully? It's not valid to state that those women flutzed ALL of the time... Sometimes it wasdifficult to tell with Michelle Kwan's takeoff.
Karosanyo 4 months ago
@Karosanyo
Say it to Sarah, Sasha, Tara, Nicole, Kristy etc etc etc
Read carefully: ....all TOP american...
zenitrulit2 4 months ago
@zenitrulit2 It's not valid to state that most of the American girls flutzed ALL of the time...
Karosanyo 4 months ago
@Karosanyo
Apart from Nancy and Tonya all top american girls flutzed.
zenitrulit2 4 months ago
Look at Timmy and Michelle at 7:07. How cute. I agree with everything that Dick and Peggy said. An early Christmas gift was right on!
Karosanyo 4 months ago
Michelle Kwan SHOULD have won this title! Six triples and good artistry losing to a SLOPPY Irina performance with 4 triples? Irina's skate here was atrocious. Her spirals and "artistry" were a mess.
Karosanyo 4 months ago
@zenitrulit2 Irina should have leaned to do a spiral correctly and not have piss poor artistry... Michelle Kwan didn't flutz all of the time...
Karosanyo 4 months ago
How was this better than Sarah or Michelle's program? The fact that Irina wasn't steady in this particular performance just makes it so that, to me, she didn't even come close to winning this. Yeah, her jumps were high, but the landings were so awkward on some of them. The spins were faster than Michelle's but they weren't as clean of a body line, in my opinion. And that's what figure skating is...a subjective sport.
WickedProductions100 4 months ago
@bradyachin
Aha....dream on.
Sarah and Michelle should have learned how to make a lutz jump first of all.
Don't start it from here.
zenitrulit2 5 months ago
@zenitrulit2 Irina's style is sloppy. Powerful but sloppy. In comparison to Michelle and Sarah, her spirals are horrific, crossovers are messy, choreography is messy and she didn't deserve to win.
bradyachin 5 months ago