The world champion Lu chen was still to skate so giving 5.9/5.9 is impossible. It would either have to be 5.8/5.9 or 5.9/5.8 max.

@@grantgoffin4774 Not only Michelle kwan but also Lu Chen deserved to win the 1996 World championship. They are so different style and both so well deserved the gold. Michelle's performance was dramatic, epic and passion. Lu Chen's performance was elegant, graceful and beautiful.

Jorge Bonilla the one at the 2001 worlds was better.

​@@jjh2456 No it wasn't. Her 1999 Skate America long program 3toe/3toe was her best one ever imo. 2001 Worlds one was slightly underrated in the long. She did it better in the qualifying on that messed up skating boot!

It is over 20 years ago. Still no one compares to her.

Trish Johnson yes, you call her triple Lutz-triple toe sloppy? What about her layback spin? It’s better than Kwan could ever do in her lifetime.

Trish Johnson besides if there were a triple jump that I didn’t have in my arsenal, I’d rather it be the salchow which is the triple with the lowest credit. Pick another Olympic gold medalist before or after her who had as much technical content or choreography as hers. Besides who are you to say that her choreo is amateur or at a junior level. The judges don’t seem to think so and neither did the judges in the pro level where Kristi racked up wins year after year.

Tina Pham she didn’t switch it. It was her natural laziness. If Frank Caroll could not correct her lay back, then it really is just her natural laziness or lack of attention to it.

quiddy it worked for her. Don’t be mad.

Jose Hill not really. Dick button would always call her out on it, saying it was a bad position on a layback. In fact it was if not the only criticism he had of Michelle Kwan. when you see the proper way of doing a layback with the free leg higher up and parallel to the ice (as Kristi does), the lazy layback spin of Michelle is a visual cacophony

At that time you could do as many solo doubles as you wanted, but only 8 total triples (if you also had the 3Axel). Now it's a limit on total jumping passes.

uwoeric yes kwan is nowhere near the caliber of Yamaguchi. Kwan may be slightly consistent but in what? Doing the same mediocre and predictable program/choreography of less technical jumps ? She maybe able to consistently do triple Salchows but so what? That’s the easiest of all the jumps. Can she do a Triple Lutz-Triple Toe combination like Yamaguchi? She can barely do a triple toe triple toe combo , again the easiest of all the combinations, and she never did it at the Worlds or Olympic stage. And can you compare her lazily positioned layback spin to Kristi’s picture perfect one? And Kwan’s slow tentative speed to Kristi’s? If Kwan also did pairs like Kristi did in 88-1990, would she be as consistent as Kristi? Yes she Kwan is consistent - consistently tentative skater at clutch time - that’s why she doe not have an Olympic Gold medal to show for it. Kwan never had Ito and Harding to contend with. Kristi did and prevailed over both with her technical and artistic prowess, AND DOING IT WHEN IT COUNTED, unlike Kwan who always led after the Short Program- despite a lack of technical content-but could never do a triple triple in the free skate and skated with cautious speed.

quiddy wow. Tell us how you really feel. Lol. I agree that Kristy was levels above buy Kwan held her own and was a beautiful skater and technical beast in her prime

Trish Johnson omg you’re such a troll. Let’s put it this way, Kwan doesn’t have an Olympic Gold medal. She doesn’t have Kristi’s triple Lutz- triple toe combination. What else can kwan do better than kristi? Speed ? nope. Layback spin ? Nope. Kristi has done programs with 7 or 8 triples like 92 nationals , or 91 worlds

Trish Johnson um no, Kwan did not land the triple toe triple toe More times than Kristi at the world or Olympic stage. When did Kwan hit any triple triple at the Olympic or worlds? Please pray do tell.

quiddy she landed plenty of 3-3s at worlds but of course not at the Olympics.