it's 30 years...and STILL no one comes close to her and I think no one ever will..... even with these quads and triple triples with arms over the head.... blech.... The sheer power, technique, force, speed, the excitement...the DRAMA ...aaahhh .. there's nothing like it. Her and Tonya ... I miss this era....
I just love her! Even after watching 2014 Sochi ladies long programs. This is way more exciting! 24 years later, she is still the greatest! and the cutest also!
@asolaw15 жыл бұрын
Scott Hamilton's statement towards the end of the performance is still holding true 19 years later: "I think it will be 50 years before we see anyone like Midori Ito again." We probably will never see her likes again in our lifetime, she was and always is a joy to watch, and the greatest ladies competitor EVER.
@zakkan14 жыл бұрын
すごい・・・超感動
@jondavwal1310 жыл бұрын
There are many ways to be artistic. When you watched Midori skate you were on the edge of your seat. She was exciting and powerful and unique. That was her artistry. There's no requirement that she skate like a ballerina to get good artistic scores. I was a Kristi fan but there was no denying the power and amazingness of Midori. If she skated cleanly it didn't matter how "artistic" anybody else was. She deserved to win.
@jondavwal134 жыл бұрын
Every time I come back and watch this she just grows in my estimation. Her body line was not elegant but there is artistry in EVERYTHING she did. It's heartfelt and musical and the excitement she generated was completely unique. Your heart races when you watch her, and the jumps, I don't care if anybody is doing quads now, no woman has every done anything that compares to her triple axel. Despite her issues with the quad when she was young, she would have eventually mastered all of them if she had to. This is 100 years ahead of its time skating.
@lsrasr1582 жыл бұрын
well said. as Toller Cranston said in the Canadian version of this skate (available on youtube) as she was finishing, "this is beyond 6.0.......no one is in this league."
@RG69GILLES12 жыл бұрын
this is no only about winning the gold...the performance, the ovation, an accomplished athlete always ready for the challenge...awesome!
omg her jumps are amazing!!!! her axel was soooo high off the ice!
@user-fi1do4lm1r4 жыл бұрын
コンパル10位、ショート1位、フリー1位 総合2位という伝説の演技
@user-yf4ik4yt7k4 жыл бұрын
桁違いの選手でした。(^-^)
@lsrasr1582 жыл бұрын
The following excerpt is from sports illustrated article on the 1990 world figure skating championships. "The effervescent Ito did squeeze three perfect 6.0's from the judges for technical merit, landing the best triple Axel-men's or women's-that was performed all week, a monumental triple Lutz and a triple toe-triple toe combination that nearly gyrated her through the end-boards. The crowd, captivated and charmed by the sheer joy of skating that Ito transmits, was on its feet before she had stopped her final spin."
Normally I find Scott Hamilton a little irritating as a commentator but here his enthusiasm and hyberbole is totally justified. 20 years later I still love watching Midori Ito's joyous performances, her sportsmanship & great manners (in '91 when she jumped into a camerman, she checked after to see if he was ok). And, of course, unlike many of the women today, there was never ANY question as to whether she underrotated her jumps!!
@mlc200515 жыл бұрын
The best ever!!!! Truly amazing.
@troyaturner19794 жыл бұрын
She's THE best female jumper. The height, speed, distance and power in her jumps is unparalleled. And she has THE best triple axel.
@chrslao3 жыл бұрын
You never get nervous when watching her! You just enjoy! Pure pleasure! She’s LEGENDARY!
@Curtis451008 жыл бұрын
Midori had a way of making all those amazing jumps look easy....How Jill Trenary won this is still a shocker to this day? Like Scott said, it'll be 50 plus years before we see anything like Midori Ito again.....That triple axel was HUGE and the triple triple at the end was kind of crazy too..Wow! My favorite skater of all time, although I do like Michelle Kwan's style as well.
@watchdapawz4 жыл бұрын
School figures were still a part of competitions back then, and they were not Midori's strength. I believe she was in 10th place after that phase, making it virtually impossible to win. Even though Midori was able to win both the SP and LP phases, the best she could place was 2nd overall. Jill won the school figures phase and placed high enough in the SP and LP phases to prevent Midori from winning. Starting in 1991, school figures were no longer part of competitions which helped some other skaters achieve better results. Most notably, Kristi Yamaguchi and Surya Bonaly for example, who both did not fare well in school figures...
@hennagaijin1002 жыл бұрын
@@watchdapawz Scores did not matter in the 6.0 system....it was placement - the opposite of what it is today.
@watchdapawz2 жыл бұрын
@@hennagaijin100 Absolutely right! If you placed high enough after school figures you could set yourself up to win, but if you didn’t it was then a monumental task! Midori is the best example of this, sadly…
@mlc200515 жыл бұрын
This, in my opinion, is the best interpretation of Scheherazade ever skated.
@hennagaijin1002 жыл бұрын
Without a doubt. Still holds true today.
@jjh24565 жыл бұрын
To think the most difficult jump Jill Trenary ever did was the flip. Midori Ido moved ladies figure skating ahead by miles. Scott was correct. It will be 50 years before we ever see someone like Midori Ito again.
@jordanmasilanh55803 жыл бұрын
When everyone is just doing double, she’s doing triples.
@TheRockChalkJayhawk111 жыл бұрын
Scott said, "it will be fifty years until we see something like Midori Ito again..." and guess what? It has been 30 years, and so far he is correct. There has never been another Midori Ito. She just came around at the wrong time. (stupid compulsory figures)
@ft-je3rs2 жыл бұрын
Magnificent
@dsfddsgh14 жыл бұрын
That triple axel was huge. The ladies today can't come close to the height or space it covered.
@neoage9915 жыл бұрын
very nice 3 axel in spite of the under estimated judgement she was excellent skating
@hennagaijin1005 жыл бұрын
Still competing and doing very well.And next year she will be 50.
It was a great double sal and there was no deduction for doubling triples back then. It still didn't take away from the perfection of her jumps and overall skating qualities. Should've been 6.0 all the way.
@MacBaby713 жыл бұрын
Who got a Gold with this 1990 World Figure ?? I think she should've won this one!
@muscleboi4use13 жыл бұрын
Working the CoP system YEARS before it was even thought of!
@faeryquene11 жыл бұрын
+10 GOE levels. ;-)
@dsfddsgh14 жыл бұрын
Mao Asada's triple axel's don't even come close to the height and ice coverage of Ito's. Midori almost looks like she's launched out of a cannon when she jumps. LOL
@hennagaijin1005 жыл бұрын
Thunder thighs.
@gkundo10 жыл бұрын
i don't get how jill trenary's program was in any way comparable to midori's... midori did a triple axel, triple lutz, triple triples, and all other triples. Jill barely had a triple flip, and everything she did, Midori had AND MORE, Yet while Jill skated, commentators were comparing like the two programs were comparable. Must have been compulsories all the way.
@Curtis451008 жыл бұрын
+Grey L I agree....Midori won this hands down. What a joke!
@hennagaijin1005 жыл бұрын
Of course.It was CBS........Verne Lundquist and Scott Hamilton were paid Jill Trenary homers.
@sk8ingcoach113 жыл бұрын
Stupid compulsory figures..... She should have won this title
@Kevinsf8 жыл бұрын
She could have done a triple toe out of that triple axels if she wanted to. She had so much height.
@lsrasr1586 жыл бұрын
Kevin Nguyen she did them in practice. there is a video of her warming up before the long program at the lalique tournament at albertville a few months before the olympics held there. if you type in you tube "midori 3A 3" the video will be available. she does an incredible triple axel triple toe in her warm up.
@slytherinnyc3 жыл бұрын
how she got silver medal here is beyond me... f@ck the figures! her jumps are worth the edges and artistry of anyone combined!!!
@shihlin13 жыл бұрын
Compulsory school figures should've been done away with a long time ago. They add NOTHING to the sport ! One of its biggest victims was Midori. A TRIPLE AXEL and a clean long program and she still doesn't get another World title, all due to her bad compulsories. And may I add this is the best Midori's ever looked IMO---her makeup, hair, costume---perfect ! Even the music sounds appropriately dramatic. Then look at someone like Katarina Witt who's obviously been the beneficiary of the old school figures system. Unlike the other skaters Ito also had ALL the triple jumps. No and's, if's or but's. And No comparison.
@victoriagill33373 жыл бұрын
Weirdly Witt had to scale back on jumps to devote enough time to get better at compulsory figures as she was much the same in 1982 and 83. She was 9th in the figures back in 82 but won the SP with a 2F 3T combination , second to Zayak overall and was off the podium in 83 due to her figures placing.
@sysjkb Жыл бұрын
People tend to forget that Witt was either the first or second lady to land a triple flip (IIRC there were two at the same competition; I can't recall whether Witt or the other skated first.).
@faeryquene11 жыл бұрын
Trenary didn't just place well, she won the compulsory figures while Midori ended up in 10th place. It was just too much of a deficit for Ito to overcome for the gold.
@cosmogirlsophie4 жыл бұрын
How did Jill manage to top this?
@sysjkb Жыл бұрын
She didn't. The issue was Midori Ito did so dismally in the figures (someone in the comments says she fell) that she couldn't make up the placements in the short and long programs. Remember, this was during a "relative position" era, so if Ito had gone out there and quadrupled all of those jumps, it wouldn't have changed the results -- she was still first in both the short and long program, and you can't be better than first. Trenary won figures, had trouble in the short, and came back to outskate everyone besides Ito to come in second in the long program, and this was enough to win the overall competition.
@kev797814 жыл бұрын
@mlc2005 me too! this made yuna's one looked like a junk.
@nyanzkt0075 жыл бұрын
Shi was God!
@officeaddict3313 жыл бұрын
@MacBaby7 - Jill Trenary won overall gold. Trenary placed well in figures and did a good long. Her placements were consistently high enough through figures, short & long to compensate for Midori's bomb in the figures. Midori probably would've won if she placed well in figures.
@hennagaijin1004 жыл бұрын
I was there that cold Wednesday morning at 6am for figures. Midori was one of the first to skate and did ok on the first set.( I think she was 6th.)The second set of figures were skated in reverse order so she was next to last.While most girls left between figures,she remained in the building and sat in the stands chatting with fans,doing interviews,signing autographs and eating.I saw her have two chili dogs,chips and large soda.Three hours later her heart wasn't in it. She two footed the figure TWICE,which put her in 10th overall. Coaching staff argued with her but Midori was going to do it her way. If she had finished 9th instead of 10th the gold was hers. OR - someone out of the top 3 had to beat Jill.That would be Kristi .....who was a much better skater. But to protect her team mate,Kristi tanked it.In long program she fell TWICE........only time in her career.All to give Jill the gold.I lost all respect for Yamaguchi that day.
@liemdang2984 жыл бұрын
@@hennagaijin100 wow.. you got any fact to support that? Kristi throw her LP for a rival so her rival can win??? if anything I would think she want to skate well to medal because if she had beaten Jill she would have medal.. no one throw a medal chance so a rival can win.... talk about conspiracy theory.. LOL
@kev797814 жыл бұрын
@pieldeoliva81 Even Lysacek's triple axel sucks.
@mlc200515 жыл бұрын
The fact that they were not all 6.0's is absurd. like they was anyone else that would be able to even get close to that. It's almost like the scoring wasn't prepared for her.
@DAREALAndyRampage4 жыл бұрын
..i sooo "Agree" with this statement.. still think that something was "amiss" here.. why she didn't walk away with The Win.. Or even a GOLD medal!!
@russianskatingfan14 жыл бұрын
@mlc2005 I agree on technical but artistically Ito is not worth a 6.0.
@lambielkwanfan10 жыл бұрын
You couldnt give Midori any 6.0s for artistic impression. Her artistry was far from perfect. 5.9s for artistry I would be fine with. As for technical I would give her a 6.0 but there are reasons to not give one too. Her spins and footwork, and other technical elements besides jumps are good but they are not perfection like the jumps.
@hennagaijin1005 жыл бұрын
Yeah......Jill Trenary was the greatest skater ever.
@alazjaw.8968 Жыл бұрын
@@hennagaijin100 no she was not
@Kim-fv5bn3 жыл бұрын
Just only her arm and backbone movement was not artistic.... But the others was beautiful.... If she may learn a ballet, it could be even better....