I mean, it's difficult to say that she would have won easily. most skaters were not doing as many triple jumps as she was because they were spending most of their practice time on figures. if you eliminate figures from competition earlier you would have seen the sport progress much faster like it did in the 90's. remember that it only took a few years for there to be skaters with enough technical content to beat Midori by 1992, and that was only two years after figures were eliminated. She certainly would have been a favorite at each competition she was in, but I wouldn't say she would have easily won. It'd certainly would be nice to have seen that though

ホントだ。あんなにフワッとしててよく軸がブレないですね。 みどりさんは、ジャンプのあの幅と高さとスピードでもブレない軸が大きなポイントかもしれませんね。

she really was full of crap, not all of the jumps were jammed in the corners and what a stupid comment. a jump well executed is a jump well executed no matter where it is landed.

Not to mention how high you have to jump to keep your free leg higher when it crosses the landing leg. Skaters are taught to keep their legs tight on triples because it's a necessity to complete the rotation. Not for Midori. Ito delays and slows down her rotation speed because she jumps so high, skates so fast, and covers so much ice while she is in the air. She was unique. Only Boitano had that kind of hang time in the air.

@@jondavwal13 which is why I dont understand why the rules penalize high cross leg positions.

True but Midori would have still outscored Tara with this program because Tara’s double axels and every she does look so juvenile, it looks like a midget trying but failing to dance like an adult

@@quiddy Should have but not neccessarily would have. If the judges cared about Tara's smallish jumps and juvenile look she wouldn't have won all the events she did and the Olympics over a clean MIchele Kwan who had far superior artistry and did 7 triples herself.

@@grantgoffin4774 well the times when Tara won was also when Michelle fell on her jumps and in the Olympics Michelle was visibly hesitant and quite slow with no triple triple combination so it was no stretch of the imagination that Tara won but I think with Midori in the same competition as Tara, Tara’s smallish and juvenile jumps would even be more obvious as it is compared again Midori. so especially if Tara were to go after Midori here ugly double Axel would look like a real mess.

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LOL she didn't even compete in 8 worlds (she competed in 7 exactly). And bombed badly at the 91 worlds mainly due to injuries where there were no figures. Still I see your point.

Except the greatest one of them all...Tonya Harding.

baritonebynight um no...Tonya was nothing compared to Midori. Tonya only landed her triple Axel in 3 competitions, all in 1991, landing them successfully a total of 4 separate occasions. Compare that to Midori who landed her triple Axel from 1989 - 1996.

Of course Scott Hamilton had a triple lutz! It was his best jump.

They meant Triple Loop (3L). People use 3Z to abbreviate Triple Lutz.