First woman who landed quad is Miki Ando🇯🇵 First woman who landed 3 triple axcels is Mao Asada🇯🇵 First woman who landed triple axcel triple toe combo is Rika Kihira🇯🇵 Midori retired, but Japanese ladies inherit her legacy⛸️⭐️ We adore Midori so much!

That layback spin is beautiful! Look at the leg position and speed!

Agreed. I find it weird that some of her contemporaries like Jill Trenary were considered artistic and she wasn't. I think Midori was a much more artistic skater than Jill.

Ito isn’t and never underrated.

常に侮辱され続けられたスケーター。日本中からブス、スタイルが悪いと貶され、カタリーナ.ビットなんか「ゴムボールが飛んでるだけで、あんなものはフィギアスケートではないわ」と堂々と発言していたのだから。 現在でも本人はインタビューされると「私はブスでスタイルも悪いかったから飛ぶしかなかった」と答えていますよね。 酷い時代だったわ。

It was the German and Czech judges who had Midori second.

If she only worked on that wrap, quads wouldve been no issue for her

Ito is like watching a great crane taking to flight. Harding is like watching a fearsome bird of prey going in for the kill. Ito was more consistent with her Axel. Harding was more exciting.

+baritonebynight Harding tilted at an odd angle in the air during her axels which made them ugly.

@@user-gf3wn1ne9n I think that it was that (tilting in the air) what made them so good looking

@@user-gf3wn1ne9n she tilted cause of her straight back edge

The tilting in the air was what made them so impressive

Midori had the high leg wrap, not sure that's "textbook".

Wrap is ugly, but yes she’s an amazing jumper

had she come back not at worlds in 97 but on the grand prix circuit or even better during pre-season events, she could have been the 1998 Olympic champion. Never make a come back at a big event such as world's and Olympics. You need to time to shake off nerves and get used to being under the microscope of ISU judges again.

Actually she was practicing the 3A + 3T in warm-ups so she actually would have had 3 triple combos, and 2 triple lutzes altogether.

本当に。 シーズン頭の東日本選手権が一番無難にジャンプがまとまっていて、五輪に向かって次第にジャンプの調子を崩していきましたね。ラリック杯は確かシーズン2戦目だったかな。

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Sergio Flores Only Tonya Harding, in her prime, could do that.

baritonebynight Not really. The triple axel by itself was hard for her.

Hanting Chen So could Tonya.

+Hanting Chen Actually she can't. Mao's landings are shaky at best plus she doesn't get the speed, height, distance and ice coverage that Midori has. Midori FLEW across the ice and has great presence which electrified the audience. Mao never had that and still doesn't.

baritonebynight Umm not really.

SP can make you win or lose gold, it’s always been that way, before and after Kristi won gold at the OG. Lady Luck was on Kristi’s side at that time. Or you can see it as it’s just another competition.

She had been practicing the 3A-3T combination at Albertville and have landed it successfully. It was a shame that the distractions from the incident with Surya Bonaly and the Japanese media, that she lost her composure let the pressure get to her on the day of the short program.

What was the Bonaly drama? I don't recal about that. Please explain. thanks.

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maybe for awhile.. Mao Asada's 2010 worlds program had 2 3A and her 2014 Olympics program had 1 3A but included two difficult jump combinations - 3F-3L and 2A3T.

@@psylockheart Yeah, but Mao's technique was nowhere near Midori's and she constantly underrotated her jumps. I'd say it was the most difficult program until Kostornaia, Shcherbakova and Trusova- which is insane to think her skating was basically 30 year's ahead of its time

And what's the worst about 1992 Olympics, Midori didnt have to be perfect. A clean skate without falls would guarantee her gold :/

Kristi planned on coming in second and winning in '94.

​@@jondavwal13Kristi was smart to leave the sport while she was on top. If she waited another Olympics, it might have been her to get whacked instead of Nancy

He had every right to ask! More than just jumps were being judged and Midori was never known as an artistic skater. So, he had every right to ask, seeing if the judges would give her the 2nd mark. And a 5.8/5.9 for this program is laughable. Midori is the best jumper, but this program artistically lacked very much. Also, you may be "annoyed" but not everyone can be Midori Ito or Tonya Harding. Kristi Yamaguchi was fine with her placement because she knew she could do nothing about what the others were doing. She couldn't do a triple axel, and just focused on what she could do. I'd prefer a clean skate over one trying and bombing on a triple axel because someone is "annoyed". And doing a 3/3 is far different from doing a triple axel. If you skated, you'd know that.

+Will R And Scott Hamilton became so biased in his comments around the time Yamaguchi (a fellow American) started to become a gold medal contender. Scott Hamilton is also supposed to be a champion and knowledgeable about figure skating, but he started to say silly things such as "I think the Italian judge thought Midori meant to do a single";. Please! Midori got 5.9s and a 6.0 because of all her content and QUALITY overall, especially that triple axel combo. In other words, she didn't really need a triple loop with what she already did. Hamilton started to be silly, biased and annoying as a commentator, after 1991.

It was almost 20 years since Ito and Yamaguchi went for 3Lz-3T to this combo become a regular thing in figure skating. I truly wish she had a longer career.

@@hannibaljustincase9985 It's one of the reasons you have to admire Yamaguchi. She pushed herself to keep up and technically I still think she was second best in her day. Harding had had the 3A for about 5 minutes but Kristi's combinations and consistency were always more difficult. There were rumours of a Tonya quad and 3loop/3loop. The first was never seen and the second there is a video of her missing it in practice.

You are beyond annoying.

We get it.. You don't like her. Just don't give us your crap.

You're absolutely correct, Jonathan

@@buffyslays5260 you don’t have to like her but he’s right. tonya’s 3A wasn’t good

always

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The USA judge maybe bias here; however, they haven't been recently and definitely not in the 2002 Olympics for the ladies. If the US judge would have put Kwan in 2nd over Slutskaya, then Kwan would have won the 2002 Olympics. Check out the scoring as the old system would have given Kwan 2nd place with 6 2nd places and Slutskaya 5 2nd places. This would have given Kwan 2nd or 2 points and her total score would have been 2.5 overall and Sarah Hughes would have had 3.0 overall. Therefore, Kwan would have won gold. I don't think Kwan would have wanted to win this way with a fall, but she would have won. I asked an expert and the expert confirmed my understanding of the old rules. If you want to say someone is bias, then look at the Russians and when they are technical specialists and dictate the results. Kolyada is constantly overscored with only 2 completed quads in both programs and the final results he's acheived. The russians have cheated before at the 2002 olympics and they have cheated again with doping and will continue to cheat in the future too.

+Figure Skating Whataboutism. That doesn't mean the bias from the USA judge for Midori was okay.

shihlin1 she had a back injury

If you type tonya midori in the you tube search for videos, a video comes up of tonya being interviewed by US TV watching this event and talking about Midori's skating and why she chose not to come and compete in this event.

U.S.A, that's why. This was their period of guiding Yamaguchi.