The Carruthers are definitely not an Olympic Gold medal calibre pair. This team even not at their absolute best is better. Remember the Carruthers barely even won the silver, many judges had them 3rd or 4th. And had all the teams skated their best at these Games they would have been something like 5th, they only won silver since the favorites like Baess & Theirbach and Underhill & Martini underperformed.

@@tumicduguar2583 Unfortunately it is true, had B-T and U-M skated cleanly in both programs - the Carruthers would have been 4th at best. The judges were never inspired to put them on the podium. Heck even a subpar and second rate Selezneva-Makarov were rated higher by some judges because they were Soviets and the Soviets wanted 2 podium spots this year. The Carruthers' issue was a lack of sbs jump difficulty - their program included 2 Sal, 2 F, 2 TL, and 1 A - the lowest of any of the top pairs - Coach Ludington should have insisted on at least a 2 Lz and 2 Lo somewhere in their program as well and a two jump combo.

It's back in the days of scoring by reputation and from which country you represent. Soviet Union had been a powerhouse in Pairs since 1964, winning every gold, so when V&V enter 1984 as the reigning World Champions, they already had 2 advantages in their favor: being from the Soviet Union and being World Champions.

I’d say he just called it wrong! Plain and simple.

Conservative in that there was just enough effort, height and distance in the throw to land the 2A. I'm sure he wanted to see more power, height, speed and distance in the throw.

Get back. Libera Orchestra Sinfonica. Rock Classics.

@@excalibur1812 tnx;))

@@MrSubidu I used Shazam app on my phone.

+Elaine Snow это было тридцать лет назад -- вам такие программы тогда и не снились .О, да балет изобрели не советы, но это русская балетная культурная традиция, уходящая корнями во французскую культуру. ROTFL!

+Elaine Snow At that time foreign couples didn't even dream about that. Russian ballet tradition gois back to French culture - (Transfer to the ignorant)

+Татьяна Мокиенко thank you for the brilliant translation! Russian is an incredibly beautiful language (and the culture itself is gorgeous) so thank you for providing your brilliance to this rather ignorance westerner.

You have to understand, this was 36 years ago. This is how a sport evolves. Watch the 1980 Olympics, when pairs only did six elements, no twists or throws, in the technical program, and you’ll understand why the 1984 Olympic medalists blew them away, and the 1988 Olympic medalists blew the 1984 winners away, etc. etc. etc.