So let me get this straight: She collided with some other skater on warm up, then crashed into the cameras, got wood chips into her foot/hurt her foot so bad she couldn't walk afterwards, but continued her program like nothing happened, and helped clean up and apologised? I don't have a hat, but I take it off anyways.

Midori had true grace and manners!! Incredible she helped clear up the boards - and check the camera and the camera man was ok. True grace... talent and her smile was gorgeous. She is a legend!!

I LOVE that she went and made sure the cameraman was okay. Just a wonderful person, and so gracious. That's why she was such a fan favorite.

i absolutely LOVE this girl. her attitude is unparalleled. I can't believe how she could still smile through all of that. to me it doesn't really matter what anyone says, she's a wonderful person and i hope she realizes that ^^

This is the extra element that makes for a truly exceptional athlete - sportsmanship and heart. It's separate from all the grueling physical work and not all competitors have it. She's spectacular.

She must've been in so much pain... She's incredible...

I remember watching this when it happened. I am still in awe of Midori. What an amazingly talented skater she was. And such a good sport. And a kind person. I miss athletes like her. I hope your life has been happy, Miss Ito. Thank you for the pleasure your skatimg has brought to us!

You asked what Ito is doing now. Well, after going on to win the silver medal at the 92 Olympics (and landing the first triple axle by a woman in Olympic history), she skated professionally, beating Yamaguchi several times, did sports commentation for Japan, and was given the honor of lighting the Olympic flame during the opening ceremony in Nagano (1998). She was also inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2007. She's a legend.

Midori was such a badass. One of the most talented jumpers the sport has ever seen. Amazing. Her LP in Albertville is still one of my all-time favorites--she fell on the 3A in the beginning, then had the guts to throw it again at the end, and landed it! Just incredible.

Will never forget watching this live. Probably the world’s loudest gasp! What always amazed me was how not one other skater bothered to help her when the collision occurred. Surya skated by her like she didn’t exist.

I can see midori's legs were shaking after the performance so I can tell how her injured was bad. However, she cared the cameramen and tried to smile not to worry other people. Even though she fell, she went back to the program immediately. I was impressed. I respect midori.

I watch this video every few months. It inspires me and restores my hope when I feel I've lost it. When I do something and figuratively fall flat on my face and feel like giving up all together I watch this video.

Midori, such a brave girl...I wouldn't have thought I would lough during a figure skating program, but her combination ending out of the rink was hilarious. What a great skater!

みどりさんが ここまで 転んだりケガしたり してた事って日本では あまり話題にならなかった。女性スケーターが 当時、伊東みどりしか いなく、小さい身体で 日本のメダルを期待された彼女のプレッシャーは ほんとに大変だったと思います。海外のが大きく扱っていたのに驚きました。 彼女は偉大です。

OMG! she got back in the ice rink like nothing happened lol! epic moment in figure skating right there! shes amazing : )

これは非情に不幸なアクシデントでしたが、 同時に伊藤みどりさんの強い精神力と競技に臨む姿勢、 3ルッツを決める技術力や優しさ、愛嬌など 魅力にあふれた動画ですね。

Jenny Kirk said that Laeticia Hubert was the scariest skater to share the ice with. Apparently Hubert was known for being very oblivious to other skaters (i.e. dangerous) around her and would just skate full speed around without looking where she was going. Even in this video, you see Midori always checking behind her as she's doing her backward crossovers while Hubert is just going extremely fast backwards without looking or checking to see if she was clear.

She was one of my favorite skaters. Tough cookie. People think "training" means only training in skating per se. But it's the same for every athlete: it means training mentally as well as physically. She has been trained from a young age to gather herself quickly when such things happen, as they do all the time in practice, but especially during performance, & they have to learn how to deal with other competitors trying to psych them out as well. To have that ability to remain focused is part of what defines an internationally ranked athlete. I think people who are horribly worried about Midori or any athlete in a situation like this don't understand what it means to be an elite competitor. No idea what it takes, what their day is like, the kind of strength you have to have, how much you have to want it. They think these competitors are like you & me. They couldn't be more wrong.

根性すげえ。

Power, strength, fearlessness but with humility. What a truly noble person. I can imagine every one in Japan saying with heartfelt pride that, "..yes, she's one of ours and a shimmering embodiment of the character and values we believe in".

Midori is amazing and gutsy! Still love her!

shes smiling..what a pure athlete..she is so small and pretty..

I remember seeing this live. Midori Ito is a true champion! Not to mention really sweet!

Her layback spin is one of the best.

One of the best and sweetest competitors of all time. Love Midori

Wow! I saw footage of the collision with Hubert before and from the crazy camera pit fall, but I never knew they happened on the same day! Tough day is an understatement!

Legend she is. One of the all time greatest.

Rough day at the rink for Midori. Always loved her skating

It's pretty sad that she's caring enough to check and see if the camera man was okay, but nobody gave her the same courtesy earlier on when she collided with the other girl to see if she was okay as she's on her knees on the ice.

One of the all time greats and one of my beyond all times favorites.

Midori Ito is so cute. She seems like a nice person. Haha I like how she goes back to say sorry to the cameraman/woman.

I love how Sandra Bezic says 'Watch her fly' just before she does the triple lutz/double toe and landing in the camera pit.

当事者以外の誰も駆け寄らない。おそろしい世界だ。

ぶつかった時に相手のブレード刺さって怪我してたんだね。すごい武士道魂感じる！

Really amazing come back.

みどりさん、カメラマンとカメラに謝りに行ってて、めちゃくちゃ良い人！

She jumped so high and so far that she fell OUT of the rink

I love how she was caring about the camera. I'm proud of her.

She is so nice... Look at her sincere movement and human being! I love her. Look at her shine

I’ve always loved her.

This is amazing, i love her strength and determination! Not even the slightest bit frazzled by TWO accidents. She's awesome. :)

I remember seeing this infamous fall at 3:18 on TV! But she just went right back out there and finished her program.

これ記憶残ってるー 衝撃的すぎて...

Poor kid! I feel so bad that these things happened to her on world television. What a trooper. She really has the attitude of a champion.

She is legendary for going through the wall and getting back up and finishing the performance.

i like how she just jumped back into the ice after flying out of the rink in like 3 seconds, without bothering to take a little breather for the embarassment!

Now you know why I always skated forward so I could see where I was going.

midori is the bomb gracious hard working and kind very very underrated

Hubert could've been a great defenseman in the NHL. Watch how she squares up Ito at 0:50 before delivering that solid check into the boards! Great technique! (My apologies for the flippant remark; I couldn't resist. Ito showed great courage and resilience!)

that other girl in the blue just kept on skating

国や裏の事情抜きにすればスケート関係者はみどり選手の技術の素晴らしさと進化に熱狂したと思う。(当時のIOC会長やスケート関係者もみどり選手褒めていたし) ただ活動時期が冷戦〜冷戦終了〜ソ連崩壊の中だったので　闇の中でしかわからない国事情に翻弄された時代でもあったと思います。 だんだんマスメディアに虐められ表情が曇っていくみどり選手を見るのがとても辛かったです。

She has spirit she was smiling even after falling out. I laughed when I didn't land my double axel at a competition

Admire her so much, shes so brave. I would have lost it after the second fall

When I saw this competition and Midori does her tp db toe right into the camera guys. I thought she got hurt. Then she got up and went right on skating. I liked her when she just smiles and skates her whole program. Then she goes to the camera guys to see if it was okay. Wow! What a beautiful spirit and spunk she had. That wasn't a good day for her. I did not like the fact the Hubert didn't even stop to see if she was okay. Not very nice for Hubert.

豪快なジャンプも魅力。 豪快な激突も魅力。 場外から元気に復帰する彼女も魅力。 カメラを気遣ってさすり、そしてゴミを拾う彼女も魅力。

So that's how it went - I saw that event too and I was always under the impression the injury that she got when colliding with the French skater was what impaired her during the long program (she did skate that, and Germany television presented that as her skating "with a broken rib"). But from what they are show here it actually seemed to have been the injury to her foot wheich she sustained when landing in the camera bay. I love this girl's attitude - and no wonder everybody cheered when she was the first woman ever to land a triple axle in competition. Of course Tonya did the same a few months or years later, and people did not cheer so much then, and not only because Tonya was the second to do it. I think Midori would never have directly approached the judges and challenged them about the scores he gave her, and used the words Tonya used (if what the film states is true).She was always very polite - which is not what you could say of this other lady. And compare this incident with when that Ukrainian Skating's Little Orphan Awesome collided with a German skater a few years later after this at the Olynpics (I think it was in 1994) and there was a lot of publicising about how many stitches she had gotten and how she had to check with the powers that be that the medication she had to take wouldn't be on the backlist of substances, and there was a lot of drama around this incident overall, and a lot of demonstrative tears in the "kiss and cry"area and her being late for the award ceremony afterward because she had to refresh her makeup after so much crying. The point is that both of these other ladies publicised themselves ina certain way to get sympathy or at least reluctant recognition, and for Midori it was always about the sport. She's still skating competitively, by the way - I've seeb footage of her skating at an event as late as 2019 (when she was 50!) and though she is not doing the triple axel any more, it's still quite impressive. Interesting through that the older she gets, the more cutesy the music gets that she skates to.

Technically she DID complete the combination so there should be only a small deduction (the Lutz by the way was gigantic). Anyways - this whole performance is epic given how much of bad luck she faced that day.

That girl is a ninja . An adorable one

This was a crazy year for Midori Ito at worlds!!!!!! OMG this was crazy

誰も助けに来ないの❔ 酷いもんだね😣💧

Midori Ito = Total CLASS!!!

I too has seen the incident where she flew out of the rink but not the collision. Midori Ito's athleticism, temperament and good manners are an inspiration. Randomly, its just occurred to me she was skating in the same era as Harding, Bonaly etc. not always known for their good temparament.

She was a cutie - I think the only English she knew was "very happy, good skate."

the person who touched her should at least help her up!

I've been LOVING MIDORI ♥︎ for over twenty-something years! Her jumps and spins are amazing. People are fighting overscored are collision..? Both got hurt, and Huber? checked if Midori was OK, but she had to go back to practice, because it's a limited time practice, she couldn't waste the time. Don't blame her plz. But what about the other people? Thousands of people weve there.

the extention in the triple lutz is amazing!

"A little shakey on the landing" My girl, literally got body slammed, had a hole put through her foot, jumped out the rink and also fell... YEAH THE LANDING KIND OF SHAKEY!!! ☠☠☠

love how she went back to check on the cameramen ^-^

Gosh, how many great things can you say about Midori Ito after watching that? Tough, resilient, positive and she had a sense of humor about the whole thing. How considerate of her to see if she'd broken any equipment. Funny that we were so used to looking at Midori as this really strong and muscular athlete, yet that doctor scooped her up like it was nothing. We forget that the girl only weighed 95 pounds. :D

Awwww what a gentleman he picked her up 😍😘

Thanks! :)

And holy crap she's amazing!!! I don't think any other skater could have literally bounced back the way she did!

Who else thought of cup of China when they watched this

Ito Midori was nicer to that camera than the woman who rammed into her was to her

Wow, I remember this. I was 20 yrs old when I saw her crash into the cameras. She's one tough chick

みどりさんは鉄人

Heart of a lion.

She is very brave with her falls

man, that was a tough competition for her. i remember seeing her jump off the ice, but i'd never seen that collision before. that was awful. ito was always one tough cookie so i'm glad she fought back...

Looks like a deliberate crash by the French skater

I love that she went to go check on the camera afterwards. How cute was that? And I always remember Midori being so strong and muscular but that doctor scooped her right up like it was nothing. Even though she was such a great , strong athlete, she was maybe 95 pounds, if that. Wow. Tough, tough kid.

Asian people are taught not to show pain and keep going they are amazing

Poor Midori! She was such a good sport here, and skated very well. What a great girl. The other skater in the collision should have waited to see if she was okay before darting off. >.> And the big ISU dude carrying tiny little Ito to the locker room...adorable!

Мидори Ито - звучное имя, запомнилось! Успехов в жизни! ) Таким девчонкам большие катки надо делать, чтоб ничто не сковывало их! ))) 😊🌹🌹🌹 Мидори Ито!

What's interesting is that she actually isn't that close to the boards but her triple lutz traveled so well in the air that she was much closer than probably intended when she came down for the double toe. And what a thoughtful and caring person to make sure the cameramen were okay!

They are taught to keep on performing and act graceous regardless how they mess up there performance.

The skater in green was skating recklessly. I had to put it in slow motion. She was skating backwards super fast with no regard for anyone else in the rink. Midori actually saw her coming like a freight train and tried to stop from colliding. The girl in green skated away after like nothing happened? I would have got up and whooped her ass.

Man! Talk about bad luck!

Over the years, certain skaters were known for 'accidentally ' crashing into others on the ice.

At 3:20 The narrator was about to burst in laughter.

わざとぶつかったのか？ みんな伊藤みどりの才能に嫉妬してたんだね

仏のﾙﾃｼｱ･ﾕｰﾍﾞﾙですね。

takes it like a champ!! luv midori

no matter what happen the show must go on... :)

true athleticism. male soccer players should learn from this

that is a true performer.

Damn....Ito is tough as nails.

This was an unfortunate forerunner to a collision between figure skaters Bell and Lim in practice. Remember this chilling comparison?

HOLY CRAP!! I just finished the rest of the vid and she couldn't have been dealt a worse card. Poor thing, she did wonderfully for what she was working with, lol.

Plot twist: Falling out of the rink was part of the routine.