Oksana’s strength might not be technical but it sure is artistry. She is a very lovely skater, she floats on the ice and is so beautiful to watch her dance on the ice. Loved her! Good for you Oksana not everything have to be technical but artistry counts as well. Loved this girl, she was magnifiqué!!!! 😍😍😍😍🌹🌹🌹🌹💐💐💐💐💥💥💥🌟🌟🌟🌟

Don't care if she crashes into a wall or falls down...she is one if the most brilliant performing artists of ANY genre. She dances with all her heart and touches all of our hearts and souls.

To me she is the greatest of all. I'm amazed at the beauty,grace, delicacy & the sheer complexity of what she was able to produce on the ice. Despite all of the glaring disadvantages she had to endure against all of the overwhelming obstacles she overcame. I don't think any other skater could be stripped to bare bones & toil under all of the disadvantages & obstacles she faced yet still produce at such a high level. 4 me this is why she's the greatest ever.

Undeniably one of the very best skaters ever. If not THE best. Her strength is not technique : it is art. This is where she got her winning points. Deservedly so!

Це справжнэ чудо. Молодець,Оксана!!!! Ми тебе любимо !!!!

she is so far the best i have ever seen...

Супер!!!!Какой талант!Какое мастерство!!!!Браво!Прошло столько лет и невозможно насмотреться на эту красоту!!!!

This is one of my favorite performances, so beyond her years

Oksana..thank you for being beautiful you..amazing..wish u were still competing..u still remain the champ in my eyes!

Something ethereal about her skating. Like an angel on ice.

Oksana battled her demons off the ice, so why are you thinking that she's battling them on the ice? Since the death of her mom at such a young age, she never knew the love of her mom and the skating that comes from within- is her balletic grace that is her strength. She is everything she wanted to be- a graceful ballerina on the ice as opposed to one on stage. She may look delicate, but really, she's a very tough gal!

Это балет на льду, браво, Оксана!

She sure did deserve the gold in 1994 over Kerrigan and her stiff program!!

Вот талант! Вот уж грандиозно!

Bravo, bravo, aunque tuviste que poner pausa por el inconveniente, patinaste sin nerviosismo 😇💖

رائعة جدا جدا انا معجبة بها

Baiul was so far ahead of her time vav artistry and musicalty which were flawless. Artistically she changed her sport in just a couple of years;until her world collapsed into a black hole of grief at the death of Sergei Grinkov. A series of very destructive choices followed which detoured her career downward. Some people try to diminish Baiul's standing by emphasizing her technical inconsistency esp vav jumping. I say: technic sans passion in art = technic in love-making-OK but not thrilling.

hooray Oksana!

greatest!

You really get it!

Well said!

This is the first time I've seen this & I don't understand why she was allowed to start from the beginning - especially since she had done two more elements (spiral step and layback spin) before she went to the referee. She is very lucky she was allowed to start from the beginning and landed the combination.

Золото чемпионата мира Праге, 1993.Золото Олимпиаде Лиллехаммере, 1994.Тренер Г.Змиевская

Watching the replay of the jump combo something seems to go wrong in the lutz-her arms come loose. It's likely the lace was coming undone at that point and it threw her off big time.

I agree-except like Baiul, Yagudin and also Viktor Petrenko were arrested at least once for drunk driving. Yagudin in August 2003, and Petrenko in January 2004 on suspician of driving under the infuence-both arrests occurred in Conneticut. Oksana made mistakes but she has never been arrested again.

At first look at her she is not good looking , but stare at her long time, little by little you will see the the natural beautiful face of Oksana Baiul ♥️

Why bring Tonya into this? She's not in this video and she didn't skate at this competition.

It was Referee Wilhelm's call. I guess he felt that perhaps the jump combo hampered by the lace coming undone (and Baiul just hadn't noticed it yet) who knows?

Great Oksana, GREAT UKRAINA 💙💛 🌈

Гордость Украины.

Oksana/Pasha Gritshuk the Olympic champion Ice Dancer-I remember they even did a funny 'fluffy' on it-I think on NBC. It may even be here on youtube. It was during the '98 Olympics I believe. Oksana/Pasha denied that she was 'copying' Baiul, and she even called the 'other' Oksana 'a criminal'. Of course one thing Baiul has never been accused of is being an adulteress-like Gritchuk. ;)

They NEVER should have let her start from the beginning. I would have been pissed if I were another competitor

Аксанв Баул как чемодан без руски

that is an empty arena...

Hmm, today stopping like this, she would place so low. She would not be allowed a do over. Her 2-2 combo would not count at all and there would be -5 points for the interruption. How the rules changed.

А где зрители ?

Ahead of her time? I hardly think so. For someone who was truly ahead of her time, look at Janet Lynn - decades before Baiul.

Какая красота. Сейчас Украина в спорте на нуле.Так стыдно за собственную страну. До чего докатились.

@faeryquene - could you or someone else help me out here - wasn't there another Eastern European figure skater at the height of Baiul's career who sort of imitated her, very obviously? I don't remember the girl's name. She was blond and wore heavy eye makeup and had a similar nickname or something. I can't remember much more.

🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👏✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I royal Soprano, Alamater.

Galindo & Bobek weren't arrested in Connecticut. Bobek for drug racketeering very serious. Lipinsky & Eldridge caught speeding. Figure skating is NOT a pristine sport mixing minors,big money with greedy adults hanging around manipulating, living off or compitng against kids for a living makes for a negative corrupting environment for a minor- no?

None of your concern. Prove me I am wrong ... Anycase this music is from the cd "Nouveau Flamenco", by Ottmar Liebert ...

@lilmisstoepix17 Sometimes the truth IS bitter ...

I don't think so! She started her deviant behavior while she started to make some money. She left Galina Czismeskaia and begin to struggle with everything. After that her jumping ability disappeared (even if I doubt she ever had some) and her private life turned in a disaster. Yagudin, Witt, kulik, Grinkova... They all moved to US and they didn't act like she does.

are you living in some kind of skating rage

Oksana was not a great technician by any stretch. Part of presentation is the exhibition of GREAT technique. Michelle Kwan was an artist with excellent technique, deep edges, straight back positions, centered spins and the correct entry into jumps.

I don't know if that's true, she got lower marks because she was a new skater on the scene and the judges tend to hold back on the marks until the skater has been around longer. However, Oksana didn't have to pay her dues for very long because she was scored generously at Worlds just a few months later. Actually, even in the long program here at Europeans she was scored generously.

1:40 song name?

LOL you guys hilarious, hahaha~

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33 несчастья. Вечно что то случается. Привлекает к себе внимание.

yes.... It's a pity that not long after the 1994 olympics she fell in alcohol abuse and general bad behaviours that leftn her in a persistent state of emotional instability....A real inspiration.........

too low for presentation!!

I wish the announcer would shut up!

Once she turned professional her skating went to pot. Now all she does is smile a lot (huge cheesy grin) and demands an extortionate fee.

@melovessinging123 Bla, bla, bla, bla ...

Yeah, telegraphing jumps is slightly unattractive. Carolina Kostner of Italy is a huge telegrapher and so was Irina Slutskya. Skaters who take a second during the lutz are more acceptable because you have to hit that outside edge, but for those who just take five seconds for every jump...it's just annoying.

"Let's do the Twist...like we did last winter," so much posing-A LOT OF POSING-and standing still. Horrible technique.but hey: great, overdone dramatics and 2 footed landings.Those are her signatures.