Your favorite figure skating performances.

Tonya Harding at the Olympics.

Also, there was one (before she got more famous) where Nancy Kerrigan spent more time on her ass than on her feet.

Janet Lynn may not have known how a ballerina holds her arms, but she seemed to be naturally graceful.

love JL!

Rudy Galindo's '96 National long program.

Torvill and Dean

OMG I forgot Rudy won over Todd. Todd's face was priceless.

Eisler and Brasseur 1993

If you're not going to give me a masterpiece then please fall so I can laugh at it.

Canadians Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini skating to UNCHAINED MELODY, circa 1990. I thought these two had much more chemistry than Torvill and Dean even though they were not involved in real life. Sorry I'm too stupid to post a link, but this performance kicks ASS.

Oooo definitely the evil Suraya Bonaly or however you spell it. Remember when she refused her bronze medal.....good stuff.

Michelle Kwan's first world championship long program. She put in an extra jump at the last minute and clinched the gold.

Too bad that sort of spontaneity died with the new scoring system

Daisuke Takahashi - Blues for Klook

I know Michelle Kwan is hated here, but her Salome program is perfection

Laurence Owen, 1961 nationals...

Oksana Bauil during the Nancy v Tonya face off.

How in the fuck can people not figure out how to post links?

I love the Bolero routine, but am partial to their paso doble, where he's the matador and she's his cape.

Brian Boitano everytime he was on the ice.

I'm glad Oksana Bauil won over these two cunts but I really hated her performance.

Ice dance is my least favorite discipline, but this was incredible.

Yuzuru Hanyu SP, GPF 2014.

Sorry, that Bauil performance is far from iconic.

Alexander Abt never got the credit he deserved in the Yagudin/Plushenko era (partly because he was battling injuries a lot of the time). But I loved his skating, more than Yagudin's in fact, and mostly importantly, he was HOT.

Love this cunt!

When she was good, she was very very good.

HIS ass was PERFECTION!!!!!!

They were perfect, married, just had a daughter. Stunning in Lillehammer. He was so handsome, and then he got a heart attack when he was warming up and died then and there. Very tragic.

R27

I was just going to mention them.

They were so gorgeously in synch as pairs skaters.

It was such a shock when he died so young. He must have had a cardiac anomaly because he was young and in top physical condition.

Look everyone it's Liz Manley!!!!!

Paul Wylie skating to "Henry V" at the 1992 Albertville Games...

Don't remember names but the Russian couple that was second to Torville and Dean in ice dancing during the Olympics were FAR more dramatic. I

loved watching them over snooze fest Torville and Dean.

R30 many have fucked his downlow ass

R25 I had completely forgotten she existed!

Who was the champion female who was missing a toe?

R13 Is Michelle Kwan really hated here? she was the last of the golden era of skaters and among its best.

Too bad she never won the Olympic Gold.

Unfortunately Tonya Harding had the reputation of looking like a bull. In person she's actually petite

Do you mean these two FUGS, R31?

They were hideous in every way!

I think this pro performance of Kristi Yamaguchi is better than the performance that won her the Olympic gold.

For me, nothing beats Michelle Kwan's long program at the 2003 US National Championships in Dallas. Watching her skate with such emotion and focus following yet another Olympic disappointment the year prior made me laugh through tears. As a fan, I was so proud of her for continuing her career. Now, I always think of her when I hear Aranjuez.

Janet Lynn was fantastic. She never got the medals she deserved because of the school figures.

The first time Denise Biellmann did her Biellmann pirouette in a competition, people went crazy. Really took your breath away.

R34, are you thinking of Elaine Zayak?

r34 that's her!

R37 love their performance! The scenery chewing! The drama!

Always have a special place in my heart for Linda Fratianne. She was robbed at the Olympics!!

R21, that entry into the triple axel was breathtaking.

By far my favorite.

People don't like her for besting Michelle Kwan, but Sarah Hughes' performance in the 2002 Salt Lake City games was pretty breathtaking. Doing triple loops as the second jump in a combination is difficult!

The greatest ice dance performance EVER!!!!!!

Paul Duchesnay was so fucking cute!

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[quote] For me I could give a crap about jumping and tricks for "points." I'm looking for the shear beauty of it all.

We know, Johnny Weir. Too bad the judges didn't feel the same way.

That's the late Christopher Bowman in post 50. He was a US champion and World medalist, and could have been more successful had it not been for drugs.

R1 you must be talking about her World Championships performance in 1993... the tragic skate to Beauty and the Beast, which was basically the reason she got clubbed in 94.

R27 yes, but she was a major cunt. If I remember correctly, she threatened him constantly to keep him in line, even so far as manipulating him by saying she was going to abort their baby.

[quote]Michelle Kwan's first world championship long program. She put in an extra jump at the last minute and clinched the gold.

Michelle Kwan should not have won that first World Title of hers. They basically handed it to her to reward her for "growing up" in one year. Chen Lu had the better skate and should have repeated as Champion.

This is my mother's favorite, they dance stunningly.

I think my all time favorite skate is Midori's Freeskate in Albertville. I love how you can tell she's stressed and nervous the first half of the program, especially after falling on the Triple Axel, and then like 3 minutes later decides she has no more fucks to give and throws another Triple Axel and lands it. That right there has always exemplified true grit and guts. And after she lands it, she skates with so much joy which, along with her amazing jumps, was something she was known for. I've actually not ever seen another skater that ever skated like they actually loved it. You could tell Midori actually loved skating.

Sorry, this is my mother's favorite. I'm not Russian, finding the right one is difficult.

I had hots for French hottie Gwendal Peizerat.

Alexander Smirnov's ass deserves its own zip code, although this hairstyle doesn't flatter him.

Let's not forget this old queen with balls of steel, one of our own. A little older, not in the best shape, but wrote his own song, his own message to the world, and skated to it in front of strangers!

Twenty-three years earlier...

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This has always been one of my favorite programs. His bulge doesn't hurt either.

Also really enjoyed their programs from 94. They were robbed of the Gold by the sentimental favorites.

Dmietriev and his bulge should have been a three-time Olympic Champion.

Forget his bulge... look at that ass!

Peggy Fleming's best. But the big hair is so distracting.

I don't know how good it was but Jason Brown's Riverdance really had the crowd in a frenzy

R61 that may have been the gayest thing I've ever seen... and this is coming from someone who has spent time with Rudi Galindo!

Dmietriev is a fug drama queen.

And yet still hotter than you R71!

I'll take Robin Szolkowy's ass (and face) over Dmitriev's any day.

Robin Szolkowy lacks thigh meat and a bulge.

I've never been a fan of Ice Dancing but I've always loved this program:

it's be interesting to know how many times Brian Boitano has pretended not to know Scott Driscoll....

Katarina Witt, opera on ice

Explain R76?

I fucked Brian Boitano back in the early 80s before anyone knew who he was

All of Gordeeva and Grinkov's programs from 1993-1995. They were really hitting their artistic stride when he died.

Klimova & Ponomarenko just copied Duchesnay's the second half of their career. They knew they could win that way. K & P won the battle but the D's won the war because they are remembered.

" And yet still hotter than you [R71]! "

Ouch that hurt.

Fucking amateur.

Virtue and Moir. Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

Watch this woman's spins!

Kurt Browning doing "Singing In The Rain"....and skating to it in the rain.

Also, his "Casablanca" routine.

Apparently it bothered you enough, bitch at R82. Now STFU you pathetic, piece of shit.

haha I love you R86. I'm imagining you're Tonya.

That's not a compliment r87.

A lot of people think today's athletes are so much stronger, but here is 13 year old Janet Lynn in her first senior competition doing a triple toe loop.

In the vein of R89...

Midori landing a triple Axel at 14.

I wish one skater today would just skate for the love of skating. Yes, I know "what's the point" and it is very expensive but Janet Lynn was gorg!

I also wish today's skaters would bring back old moves of the past. I'd love to see a "hamill camel" again.

[quote]I wish one skater today would just skate for the love of skating.

That's what I love about Midori. You could tell she actually loved it and there was always joy in her skating. You know that she loves skating because she still competes in "Senior" competitions.

Completely agree, R65. Mishkutenok and Dmitriev were relegated to second due to the sentimental favorites Gordeeva and Grinkov, but M&D out-skated them in the short and long. The 1994 Olympics had the absolute worst results and were the beginning of when even casual fans started to notice that the judging didn't pass the smell test. Torvill and Dean losing to awful Grishuk and Platov, Alexei BOREmonov winning the Gold in the men's, Osksana "Two-Foot Landing" Baiul being handed the Gold in the ladies event--just terrible judging all around.

I lived in France back in the day and knew a European figure skating judge who had actually been on the judging panel for major European competitions. He said that it was well known that the Russian Mafia basically ran figure skating and that's why Grishuk and Platov won the Ice Dance. I think Oksana "Pasha" Grishuk was getting boned by a mafioso. She even thought he was going to make her a movie star, but he eventually tired of her and dumped her. He said Russian mob ties also helped Annasina and Peizerat, but it didn't really matter because they were the class of the field the year they won the Olympics anyway.

For me, my favorite skating performances are Michelle Kwan's short and long at the 1998 US Nationals. If she had skated like that in Nagano, she would have won the Gold over pipsqueak Lipinski. Also a shout-out for Chen Lu's 1996 Worlds long program. It was exquisite. Because of the Code of Points changes made after the disaster that was Salt Lake, you don't see programs like these anymore and figure skating has become unwatchable. It's sad how it's lost its luster. It used to be so fun to watch.

I know CW is that Kwan's 1998 Oylmpics LP was too cautious and slow, but it's still one of my all-time favorites. The spinning in both directions and that entry into the triple loop and then landing it right on the note was pure perfection.

My favorite is the one of Debi Thomas trying to explain her current situation: unemployed MD, trailer, bedbugs, etc. She put more spins into her response than she's ever done on ice.

Jamie Sale and DL fave David Pelletier skating to LOVE STORY.

R96 they divorced because he had a side piece!

Sasha Cohen changed the sport. A former gymnast. Compared to Kwan and everyone else, she used her hands to express herself. Limber like a contortionist. I could never like Kwan again after Cohen came on the scene.

[quote] I could never like Kwan again after Cohen came on the scene.

So you're saying you liked skaters that fell apart and could never win?

Cohen was stunning to watch. Too bad she was a mental lightweight. Still, she held it together to get Silver in Torino and relegated the dreadful Irina Slutskaya to Bronze. I'll always thank her for that.

Didn't she only get Silver because everyone else sucked too?

No, R101. Shizuka Arakawa won Gold with a beautiful, flawless skate. Sasha won Silver with only one mistake on a jump, and it was early in her program. Slutskaya did make a few mistakes and dropped to Bronze, but she was already trailing Cohen after the short.

[quote]OMG I forgot Rudy won over Todd. Todd's face was priceless.

Dang, it sure was.

R102, I grew to appreciate Shizuka Arakawa as the years went on. But I was a Sasha stan who was bitter at the time. But as the years went on and we had way worse winners, I came to accept that Arakawa deserved to win.

My favo was Yuna Kim "Adios Nonino" in 2014. I loved the Italian commentators who were FURIOUS with the judges.

ABSOFUCKINGLUTLY OP!!!! ONE OF THE GREATEST UNKNOWN SKATING PERFORMANCES EVER!!!!! GORGEOUS!!!!!

Savchenko and Massot's Free Skate at the Olympics. I actually found out about this performance through someone on here and thought it was rather captivating.

Definitely my favorite pairs skating performance that I've ever seen!

This.