Brian Boitano (USA) - 1988 Calgary, Men's Long Program

Calgary, Alberta, CANADA - 1988 Winter Games, Men's Long Program - Brian Boitano of the United States edged out Brian Orser to win the Long Program, and therefore, win the Gold Medal.

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• 1988
• figure
• skating
• Calgary
• Brian
• Boitano

[will74lsn]

great. What an explosive finish!!! 10x better than Orser who was slow at the end. Should have been a clear 9-0 for Boitano with 6.0s!!!! I never understood how 4 judges could go for ORser (except for the fact that he was the reigning world champion skating in Canada :-O) I would have given 6.0 for technical merit despite the second foot on the second 3A...boys the quality of all elements was exceptional!

[3Axel1996]

@will74lsn It was actually a 6-3 finish. This was the last season where the first tiebreaker for the Long Program/Free Skate was the Technical Merit score. After this season, the ISU voted to modify the scoring a bit and made the Artistic Impression marks the 1st tiebreaker instead -- mainly because of arguments as to what constitutes a well-rounded program that wasn't just focused on jumps.

[pedigreeY2J]

What would Brian Boitano do?

[carolinemitsuko]

I totally agree with kcdshg. To have this available is a gift. I watch it at least once every day!

[darknaruto604123]

micheal jackson on ice :)

[metsdudenj]

@indiatree it isnt a two foot landing, just a burst of ice on the landing, button later on clarified in an interview he had called it wrong, the judes credited him with 8 clean triples

[metsdudenj]

@EricLensher Boitano had a better overall line and extension, orser couldnt do a spiral or even a spread eagle becuase of his poor line, there is no comparison

[EricLensher]

Boitano was an excellent jumper, but Orson was a better dancer, he was more expressive and artistic skater. I prefer Orson.

[SuperSparks55]

What would Brian Boitano do???

He'd probably kick an ass or two cause that's what Brian Boitano do!!!

i came to this from a south park clip of bigger longer and uncut i laughed my ass off at the Brian Boitano video while i was laughing i was also asking myself:Who the hell is Brian Boitano a superhero?!??!! lol

[skatebride9205]

@Tha4thLetterr Sorry, I'm Swedish! My english isn't always the best:p so thanks for the correction:)

[Tha4thLetterr]

@skatebride9205 they're not marks, they're lines!! lolll.

[buchananbji]

Right on. The days of when watching figure skating was fun. Battle of the Bs', Battle of the Carmens. Off to Ito vs. Yama. Kwan vs. Slutskya, Lipinski, etc. I miss the days of being a couch judge yelling, 5.8 / 5.9!! Thanks to the judge that messed everything up and made it progress to new scoring system. It's not fun. May she never judge again!

[Hallonjuden]

@pedigreeY2J He'd probably kick an ass or two, cause that's what Brian Boitano would do.

[skatebride9205]

I must say, having hockey marks on Olympic figure skating ice... Not cool!!!