本当に素晴らしい！ 何度観ても感動するし、飽きません。

なんて素敵なんでしょう💓最後の高速スピン何度見ても感動します😍😍😍

何度見ても素晴らしい。感動で涙が出そうだ。

観客に花束をもらい、親切にしてもらって、うれし涙を流す。素晴らしい感性だ。

みどりさん、カッコイイ!今だに、あのジャンプ…高さ半端ないって 点数見た時涙出てきました。技術点では勿論の事、満点すごいけど 芸術点でも5.9、5.8は凄すぎる。

This is the best all time free skate ever. It brings you to tears watching her reaction and the huge ovation at Bercy-Omnisport arena. She is such a kind tender hearted girl here you cannot help feel her emotions leaving the ice. The most incredible performance by any lady ever 34 years later

素晴らしい‼️🤩 神❗️ 降臨‼️🇯🇵🎇

It really is unbelievable to watch this performance. It is SO ahead of its time... And it wasnt just what she landed, but also how she landed them.. I watch skating today and i cant tell a lutz from a flip.. its so sad... Ito was like a walking textbook on how to do jumps perfectly... Plus she's the nicest person you'll ever meet.

Simply AMAZING! Doing 3-3 combo in second part of the program before it was cool!

Absolutely amazing, even 25 years later. There will never be another skater like this gal.

midori ito lands jumps with such ease, it's just amazing! jumps come to her as naturally as walking comes to us. spectacular!

This is true. I'm U.S. , discovered her in1988. The rest of the Olys competition was ridiculous after what she did. Everyone skating fan I know knows her and loves her.

Still not bettered by anyone else 21 years later. THE best female skater of all time.

That 3loop was so high in the air. That is an edge jump so there is nothing vaulting her up in the air. Midori is a fantastic athlete and brilliant technician.

She was just so awesome, so exciting to watch. Also so gracious on her achievements, what a lady.

she is the best .she show up to whole wolrd .thanks to midori ito san

She was not only one of the best in women´s competition in history, she was THE BEST, ever! Such ease in the jumps, incredible rotation, she was incredible! Which girl was able to show such jumps with such ease? Nobody! If figures hadn´t existed in the past, no ice-skater would have had any chance to beat her, I think she would have won nearly all competitions! Midori was a gift for us and for the ISU. No wonder that she had the nickname: Tsunami girl! One word: Legend!

This may very well be THE performance that changed the sport forever for both women and men....or maybe was it her 1988 FS in Calgary...

"The highest art is being natural." That's a keeper! Beautiful!!!!!!!!

she would probably have won the men's event!

I love her triple axels! And she looks so happy as she lands them :)

Amazing. she is just amazing !

UNBELIEVABLE!

height AND distance...nobody has jumps like these even now...

Still the greatest ...even 20 years later and nobody can question that!

That was a sensational performance - elegantly athletic.

Even now,more awesome jump than now ladies's!

still most fantastic!!!

To me, the greatest female skater of all times.

この伊藤みどりを現在の採点方式で採点すると何点になるのか気になる。

When I want to be inspired. I think of Midori Ito!

This is soo true!!!

You are right, there have been VERY very few 6.0s given for technical merit in international competitions. Midori had received 6.0s in several international cometitions, such as NHK, Ennia, etc.--and, of course, we recently saw Arakawa get one at Worlds. In other discuplines, I saw a 6.0 for technical merit for Moiseeva/Minenkov's FD at 1980 Worlds, but that's about it. All other 6.0s have been for artistic impression.

she seems to be able to change her rotation speed depending on how much height she gets ... sometimes her 3 lutzes can be SO high and she seems to be able to easily delay the rotation and land perfectly.

Amazing that her only world title came DURING the era of figures. People assumed she'd add several more, but she underperformed in the next several Worlds and Olympics.

The whole compulsory figures thing reminds me of the piano exams we had to take in college....we played our 3 planned pieces but first we had to demonstrate that we could play certain scales and such. I always played the pieces well but the scales were so terrible that I had a hard time making a good grade on my exam.

but she only has ONE 6.0, Midori has FIVE.

While several men got them, only a few female skaters got 6.0s in the teachnical merit: Denise Biellmann, Midori Ito, Tonya Harding and Shizuka Arakawa. Only these 4, if I am not wrong. OH, Schuba got extremely high scores for the school figures, but that's another story.

How many skaters other than Midori Ito received 6.0s in TECHNICAL MERIT? I'm not aware of anyone else. I've adored her since I saw her Olympic debut in 1988. Skating today just doesn't compare.

I agree. I started skating quite late and figures always held me back whereas had I been allowed to just concentrate on my free skating things might have been a lot different. There was always the cost element too in terms of ice time and tuition

I agree too. Take Kat Witt's 1988 Olys Carmen for instance, which some people still foolishly praise to the death as "The" most artistic program ever. D'uh. It's just laughable. Is it "art" when a pretty girl in gaudy costume stops skating altogether, frails her arms and gives the audience that "sexy seducing look"? Midori's artistry comes from her superb skating, not her pseudo playing/dancing. Now that's art in its real sense.

Irina Slutskaya received in 2000 GPF on technical merit as well

Its nonsence to say she had poor artistry. Artistry is'nt just about playing to the crowd and doing pseudo artistic movements, its also about skating style, flow over the ice, nice landing positions etc. Midori had all that. Plus, her layback is gorgeous. Any skater can just go around, play to the audience and prance around and it can be interpreted as "artistry" (look at Candeloro - a showman for sure, but awful, ugly style), not all skaters have style and flow, Midori did.

uh, I thought she won world's?? in 1989, as a matter of fact, in this very video she won world's.

1:08

yes, so did the japanese media

The only skater I can think of who choked more than Sasha was Nicole Bobek, whom I adored artistically, but who had trouble with jumps. I think her spiral is still one of the best I've ever seen. WHen I compared Sasha to Midori, it was purely on artistic terms. I think Midori was a great athlete, but I didn't care for her artistically. On the other hand, at least she could skate across the ice, unlike a certain French skater who shall remain nameless (Surya Bonaly).

@indiatree yea, the judges were so biased back then, just like rhythmic gymnastics.

@RedbeardNC good god that makes me the Jill Trenary of piano AHHHHH!!!!! the shame the shame

You are amazing, beckerbombs, because you obviously don't think Midori would dominate lady's field today. Who could beat this performance? Slow and boring Mao? Miki, Miss Inconsistency Personified? Or Yu-na, who's middle name is Frailty? No way. Midori would beat them every time pretty much. Maybe Irina at her peak could've been a good adversary, but she's no more. All the top ladies today would complain "It's so unfair that we have to compete against this out-of-the-world monster!" lol

I always read that Ito struggled with figures because she had vision issues, and the photos I saw of her doing them, she was wearing really thick glasses. If this is true, I think it's really unfair that vision would be a factor in a competition.

what is the music called?

she could have beaten kurt browning haha

@kev7978 they still are...!

hmm... do did surya's back flip pressurized Midori during practice?

Didn't Surya do the back flip in practice? I always thought it was practice. At any rate, Midori shouldn't blame anything on that back flip.

here's the perfect example of someone who really benefitted from the old scoring system. Under the new system, she could never win, because she had little artistry. I will say this, though... she was a much better skater than Surya Bonaly, who could barely glide across the ice between jumps.