She two footed her triple toe. Not technically harder than Linda's.

No! Look again!!

Yanks doing what they do, bellyaching and whining for themselves 🥱🥱🥱

Anett Pötzsch 👍👍👍

She was the class of the field in figures and that is where her wins came from. Back in the days of figures there were many skaters who weren't the class of the field technically or artistically, but in figures. Poetzsch, Nepela, Schwarz, Danzer, Schuba, DeLeeuw, Dijkstra, Seyfert, Kovalev, Hoffmann. It only seems uncommon compared to skaters since figures were removed, it was totally common back when figures were around.

Anett was held up by the easter bloc judges after her short program which should have effectively took her out of contention for a medal. She should have been 8th ...not 4th.

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It's not about "hating." That's ridiculous. I found her totally uninspiring and completely lacking in natural style. That's not hating; it's commenting in the commentary section of youtube!

@@Person-mh6xq no one will stop you

Dennis Jacks My thoughts exactly. Her SP was horrendous and should've dropped her down the standings.

Watanabe was 8th in the short and had a way bigger mistake than her. She would have had to literally be 20th in the short to drop out of the medals with her figures lead on the field and her 3rd place in the long (which was the correct result there). Someone did a calculation and even if she were 6th in the short which probably is right, Watanabe who had a way bigger mistake was 8th like I just said, found she still wins overall over Fratianne even in that case. The only way for Biellmann to medal after her 12th in figures is to catch Lurz and Lurz was only 6th in both the short and long, Biellmann was 2nd to Linda in the short and won the long, and she still didn't catch her so I don't know if that were possible. Maybe if Biellmann's short and long programs scores were raised even higher, but not sure if that is enough.

Typical American Bias 🥱🥱🥱

LOL she did a double loop double toe combo in the short and was 6th she should have been 9th or 10th she was awful

Like Frank Carroll isnt famous for being insanely biased in favor of his own skaters. He is the same one who called Lysacek the most passionate and artistic skater in the world ahead of skaters like Takahashi and Lambiel, LMAO!

Go change your tampon

"said this was a clean program",,,,,,,no it was not.

GDR Gold medal 🥇 Own It 😅

metsedudenj No, 1972!

Agreed!

It was definitely 1994 when Nancy Kerrigan was ripped off by the five Communist "judges" deliberately still fighting the cold war. There is no way in hell five of the former and still Communist countries should have been on the panel.

agree 94 98 2002 and 2014 as well :)

Garland English Oksana beat Nancy fair and square. She was miles ahead both technically and artistically.

Dawn Heft My feelings exactly.

It was since it was a super weak era and field. Everyone except Biellmann was forgettable and she was horrendous in figures. The whole podium that year does not even medal in most Olympics.

She managed to stay on her feet and not fall apart.

+Vallard Forsythe Linda was a boring and mediocre skater. I agree how on earth did she get silver but as high as silver. Biellmann's free skating was so vastly superior to Linda Fratianezzzzz that she should have passed her, and Annette being vastly superior in figures and competent enough in free skating deserved to beat her too. Bronze at best for Linda if the judging were fair, but Linda Fratianezzzz was a notoriously overscored skater with a whiny crybaby of a coach.

Umm figures

+Matt G. 2 clean triples. Toe loop early and salchow late. Watch the program again. I agree her style was meh, but so was Linda's. What a boring, uninspired, and snooze inducing interpretation of Carmen. It is pretty bad Linda even manages to make Slutskaya's Carmen of 2000 look very artistic by comparision.

roger leblond triple toe was badly two footed, one clean triple

So bitter 😅