Oksana Baiul (UKR) - 1994 Lillehammer, Figure Skating, Ladies' Free Skate
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- Hamar, NORWAY - 1994 Lillehammer, Figure Skating, Ladies' Free Skate - Oksana Baiul of Ukraine skated well despite the injuries suffered from the collision with Tanja Szewczenko of Germany the day before. She would manage to complete her program with the help of anti-pain injections, but nerves have made some of her landings a bit shaky. Nevertheless, she would win the Free Skate, edging out Nancy Kerrigan of the United States. By winning the Free Skate, she would move up from 2nd to win the Gold Medal here.
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she moves like a classically trained dancer and she has heart. she was way more connected to her routine than Nancy was to hers and it shows. she deserved the gold.
She is a ballerina on ice
Russian skaters and gymnasts take ballet as part of their training. No less a person that the great Olga Korbut told me that via Twitter.
She also added two triple jumps on the fly so there's that. She deserved gold for sure
@@fizzao1342Oksana is from Ukraine, NOT Russia.
Nancy Kerrigan Doesn't even Deserve the Silver 🥈.
😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝
We all wanted Oksana to win! She was beautiful and skated from her soul.
The way she cries getting off the ice. Sweet child coming undone after all that. What a beautiful performance
I read a long time ago that when she got off the ice was just about the time the pain killers wore off.
She's graceful, effortless, and smooth. She thought on the fly too. Smart skater.
I will never forget this performance. She wowed me with her artistry...after I was sure Nancy was going to win the gold. Wow !
Nancy might have hit all the Jumps... But you know what.. Oksana preformed with her soul and compassion. Nancy preformed like it was choreographed, and like she was just going through the movements.
Nancy’s performance was one of the most inspiring and triumphant in history
Whoever choreographed this performance is a genius!
And Chen Lu's program too!
GOD BLESS Victor Petrenko for taking her in
u can tell it was the right decision
Loved seeing Oksana get her well deserved gold medal for this. She deserved it over snotty Kerrigan.
I was 12 when she competed in the Olympics.She was my favorite, although my family and friends said I should be rooting for the USA😂.I loved her💕, she was one of my heroes then.Watching her was pure magic!Knowing her story makes her even more amazing.I haven't watched this in forever until a few days ago. It made my inner 12 year old very happy!
Oksana such a skating angel 😇
This is the only (lady) skater I've seen that I continue to watch...just Lovely.
this is such a breath of fresh air after watching negative nancy 's free skate, Lillehammer was so dramatic for what
She was so enjoyable to watch!
I love her attitude . So sassy and confident !
Оксана Баюл была очень артистичной фигуристкой. А на 5.48 Катерина Гордеева и еще живой Сергей Гриньков, они легендарная пара GG. Для меня самая лучшая пара в ФК!
She was the best!
Это самые красивые слёзы которые я увидела в моем жизни.... Она заслуживает всё, сердечная человека!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Оксана неперевершена. Красива і ніжна, артистична і тендітна
The only other skater who could match Oksana in terms of natural artistry at that Olympics was Tonya Harding, but all the controversy caused her to be completely off her game.
Tonya Harding, natural artistry? Lol wut. Raw athleticism yes.
Harding had no grace and artistry whatsoever. She was an athlete.
probably kerrigan thought that his scandal with harding was going to play in her favor before the judges and then kerrigan always says "they stole the gold" the truth was that oksana had a better routine, Baiul was amazing ,and she was hurt, the reaction of nancy with silver it was very unsportsmanlike and selfish
"Stole" the gold implies that Nancy thought she owned it. How absurdly arrogant. Nobody "owns" a medal - it belongs to the best competitor. In this case, that was Oksana.
Tan pequeña y con ese talento 👏💐
I have never seen such a beautiful blend of athleticism and artistry!
Nancy Kerrigan was the Ice queen = beautiful, elegant, well trained, well dressed and well tressed. Oksana was injured. Oksana skated from her heart. So hard to choose between the two. Oksana's jumps when on were huge.
Awesome...she's the best!!!
Nancy had the superior short program had she had the passion in the LP like she did in the TP, there's a chance that the placements would've reversed. But Oksana won fair and square in terms of difficulty and drawing the crowd in
Lets not get carried away. She won on artistry, not technical merit. She was out skated by Nancy, technically. The judges preferred the artistry.
@@ferdyspearsnot exactly. It can only be said that Oksana won on artistry because the second mark was the tiebreaker on the score card of the 9th judge-the German judge, Jan Hoffmann. But the truth is, their overall scores were equal in artistry: six 5.9’s and three 5.8’s, just from different combinations of judges. And that was fair. Their artistry was both breathtaking. In different ways and for different reasons-their styles are different, but both can give you the chills. The problem was that Nancy was undermarked technically and Oksana was DRASTICALLY over marked. Nancy should have gotten no lower than 5.8’s on the first mark-three judges gave her 5.7, and Oksana should have had no higher than 5.6 on the first mark. She got five 5.8’s and a truly laughable 5.9 from the Czech judge on the first mark. Three of the five judges who put her over Nancy (Czech, Ukrainian, and Chinese) actually had them tied on the artistic mark but had Oksana winning on the technical mark. That’s ridiculous. Nancy was both more clean AND more difficult technically. Only two of Oksana’s first place ordinals were based on a perceived artistic edge-Germany and Poland. (The Canadian judge also had her ahead on the artistic mark but properly gave Nancy a bigger edge on the technical mark to counteract this.) Personally I’d have them tied artistically but with Nancy at a .2 or .3 edge technically, as the Canadian judge did. The break down was like this:
British judge: Nancy wins both marks
Polish judge: tied technically, Oksana wins on artistry
Czech, Ukrainian, and Chinese judges: tied artistically, Oksana wins on technical merit
U.S. and Japanese judges: tied on technical, Nancy wins on artistry
Canadian judge: Nancy wins on technical, Oksana wins on artistry, but by a smaller edge than Nancy’s technical edge
German judge: Nancy wins on technical, Oksana wins on artistry, second mark breaks the tie.
unbelievable allways nice and joyfoul to luke - she was15!! then
all the best 4 her and her lovely family 🎉❤
what an inspired program.
Шикарная Оксана. Очень её люблю.
Meravigliosa
I remember watching this live. Oksana was amazing! Yes, she had a little mistake, but so did Nancy. I remember Nancy the next day being interviewed and saying she was flawless and most people thought she should have won. Nancy was such a poor sport.
Nancy also was making fun of her at the awards ceremony and remember her moaning at the Disney parade? Mean girl
Слезы безмерного счастья, на грани.
The moment Baiul started moving, I knew that she had it in the bag for the gold unless she tripped, stumbled or fell. Kerrigan was a technical skater but lacked the artistry and her artistic scores were too generous.
Yes, much better than Tara Lipinski. 😎
Tara Lipinski skated safe because she never tried to be an artist on ice like Oksana Baiul. 😆😆😆
Tara Lipinski had no artistry more than Peter Pan. 😆
This was a show stealer that was next level across the board. While fans of the movie I, Tonya will cry about her "hardships", (many of which she brought on herself,) Oksana was literally HOMELESS in the years heading into these games. She went through a living hell just to GET to Norway and stole the damn show. Tonya Harding got away with putting out a LITERAL HIT ON HER RIVAL and shit the bed. What's her excuse?
Best skater of all time.
💝
No Politics but then Russia and Ukraine were together (In the audience cheering to Oksana - Grinkov and Gordeeva)
Росія і Україна не були разом. Але до 2014 року не булу претензій Росії до територій України. В 2014 році Росія напала на Україну, захопила Крим і розв'язала війну на Донбасі . В 2022 році Росія вирішила захопити більше територій України
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Honestly i watched as a young man then and even now at 43 i still think if ever was a tie this should have between her and Nancy... My opinion
(Question!)
How many spins are supposed to be done at that time?
Seems like she doesn’t have CCoSp there,which is okay?
@3Axel1996, I responded to a comment on one of your other videos about how Tanja Szewczenko's performance was cut out by CBS, but I wanted to address it again here because I wondered about something related to this clip. So CBS edited the broadcast, but do you know if Verne and Scott did some, or all, of the commentary afterward? Some of it does feel like genuine reactions, but at the end of this clip, right after we learn Oksana's marks, Verne only mentions Surya and Katarina as being left to skate. I believe that in actuality Tanja was next, so Verne must have known that she wasn't she going to be shown.
the quote was "how much can one girl eat?"
In the old rules. How was she allowed to only have one dbl dbl jump combo and still win? She was Michelle kwan and Nancy was Tara. They went for the artistic skater in 94 and the technical one in 98
Costume cracks me up
Красивий костюм.
My gawd cry much...Nancy was better, but Oksana was alright....
I can’t stand her costume but I’m glad she won gold.
Technically I think Tonya's was the best with those huge jumps.
Artistically Oksana danced around every other skater
why the hell does this sound like 7 rings
Cuz seven rings has the same music as favorite things which is from the sound of music. The sound of music was made in the 1960s (I think) and so it would’ve been around in 1994
Гриньков с Гордеевой очень радуются за Оксану
Why is she crying?
Cuz she was a sixteen year old orphan winning an Olympic gold medal? I’d be more shocked if she didn’t cry
5.9 for two footed landings no way!
She was trained by her mom?
No....bottom line is that she started training at 5 years old. Her father abandoned her and her mother when Oksana was very young. Her mother passed away 3 years before this to cancer, she soon lost the grandparents she had been living with, and her original coach defected to Canada. She met Vikor P. who introduced her to his coach and mother in law...Galinia who took Oksana into her home when Oksana had been sleeping at her home rink. She was her surrogate mother
And Nancy was so angry at her.
Nancy Kerrigan was being an Envious B*tch.
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Oksana won my heart, and I was not happier when she won. American or not, I know a champion when I see one.
I think Oksana won fair and square. I've watched both performances several times and I've made my decision...Oksana WON!
What about technical merit: Tripple Axel??Non of that, Noooo she simply has weaknesses equal to a zero!Certainly a gifted talent here,on the same token it was a unforseen time in this craft ,Nancy Kerrigan, then , not to mention Tonya Harding's shortcomings .Luck has a lot to do with it. We all do crazy things ,or make no sense whatsoever @times.
This is much more fun to watch than Nancy at least and she had more speed too, what a charming skater. Though Nancys performance was beautiful too but without being an expert imo dindn't feel like an olympic gold medal program.
She absolutely deserved the gold. No question who was better, I think it shouldn't have been that close at all. Oksana had beautiful artistry, elegance and flexibility, and the choreo itself is really fun to watch too. You can tell she enjoyed every moment of it. Her jumps were high, her speed very fast, compared to Kerrigan (however the quality of the jumps technically was the only thing in which the American was better).
Oksana is like a balerina on the ice - the ballet movements and elements are obvious. So beautiful.
Frankly, I preferred Oksana's jumps which were superior if based upon nothing more than their sheer power; use of the correct edges & more difficult entries. Nancy's jumps barely came off the ice. Wish you'd seen it for yourself. Oksana was "the complete package." Jumps, artistry, technique, persona & confidence. Agree with the rest of your post. But if you think Kerrigan was great technically you weren't there in real time. If you love Kerrigan's jump technique you'll love Michelle Kwan's too.
i disagree. Though Oksana's a better skater on this day she made enough faults to lose; and Nancy skated to an almost perfect program. Oksana chose the more difficult technical program and missed! If you look at the judges who scored Oksana #1 It explains exactly whats going on. Check the scoring on both Nancy and Oksana and you will find what is the obvious.
Yes. There is more to it than technical ability.
lilic1 I totally agree. It’s sooooo easy to forget that this was a mere 16 yr old girl.....with no parents to help guide, direct, and support her passion and endeavor. She was marvelous. And I loooooved seeing both Victor Petrenko and G & G cheering her on there at the end....awesome!! What a MOMENT for this little girl...💞
lilic1 Agreed completely. And I’ve still never seen someone so young be so naturally expressive on the ice... It seems to’ve been totally natural.
She absolutely deserved the gold medal. Thrilling exciting program. Nancy Kerrigan was elegant but her choreography was a little too safe.
elegant?
how?
she spread her leg back and skated like that for 5 min
she had no talent, she had no personality
Watching Oksana skate it is as if a fairie came to life for a magical performance. Stunning.
Definitely the right choice for the gold. Nancy skated very well but she was disconnected from her music. Oksana was great in artistry and skill. I remember watching this as a young adult skater and I still think it was the correct choice!!
Oksana's performance had much that Nancy Kerrigan's didn't. She had passion in hers. That is who Oksana is, and it transferred effortlessly to her skating. I'm not a skating expert, but even I could see the difference. Nancy's performance was cold compared to Oksana's. Oksana's a sweetheart, and as a gal from the United States, I'm GLAD she got it. She has a heart of gold despite all she went through.
She was the current World Champion going into the games. She earned the GOLD. She is Olympic Champion forever. She continue to blossom into an wonderful artistic skater. This mark was the tie breaker.
For a long time I thought Nancy was cheated but that's just because I'm American. Watching her I see more and more she outskated Nancy in this routine. The speed, the spins, the more expressive choreography (especially with the upper body). Yes she had a mistake, but this routine was much more difficult and deserving. The German judge was right to rank her 5.9 to Nancy's 5.8.
Okasana has the grace of a ballet dancer on ice. I love every time she gets on the ice because it’s always so well done. Even when she makes a mistake she’s still one of the best because of her beautiful dance and elegant choreography on the ice.
She deserved the Gold . It went the way it was supposed too .
She connected with her audience better than Nancy. Oksana was the complete package, very entertaining, more complex program and amazing energy. She deserved to win!
Very touching her emotion, mainly considering she was almost a child, and considering the preassure that girls suffer at a very young age...
Performers put a lot of blood sweat and tears into what they do, no one understands the work thats put into the background to get where you are. It's incredibly emotional when you get acknowledged for your hard work and win. Or when you're defeated. I totally get what she was feeling, I've felt it many times as well. It's so incredibly overwhelming and its hard to control after everything you've been through.
MsTinyTeaPot oh I sooo agree with you! It’s the release....FINALLY....after all that hard work for sooooo many years.....as well as after those 4-5 minutes of pure Olympic pressure cooking. The tears are so entirely understandable. And especially for how well she performed! Anyone who makes fun of those tears (Nancy Kerrigan) is a cold, heartless b**** with little to no class. You can put a $50,000 Versace skating dress on her, but you just can’t change her true character - it comes out anyway. Smh.
Bravo, Oksana. Job WELL done!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
...and she must be thinking of her mom...
A judge said right after the competition that, yes, Oksana 2-footed a few jumps, but made up for those deductions by skating faster, more difficult spirals, having higher jumps, more difficult spins and steps than Nancy. It's quite simple to understand - if you're not bitter and/or biased.
I only see a two foot on the flip which in today's COPs would give her full base marks compared to Nancy's double which would be almost worthless.
ENIGMA -POP- Well said. True!!
Such a talent! Love the music she chooses and how beautifully she blends her skating moves into it.
What an elegant ice angel she was back then, the perfect little snowflake! Sonja Henie would've approved of Oksana and this skating performance. Lillehammer looked like a fairytale and Oksana was perfectly cast as its leading princess & rightful heir to be crowned queen. This performance is beautiful and it still has a magic about it 20 years later. The right skater won. Oksana's skating just touches the heart and moves the soul. Nancy did a valiant job & turned in the performance of her life. But Oksana Baiul just did everything a little bit better than everyone else. She's so polished and so refined with all the details. Seamless, polished performance deserved 6.0's. Oksana Baiul was just magical and other-worldy. What a majestic child woman! This performance transports me to a better place. Exquisite, just beautiful like an ice angel. Oksana was just perfect here. No one can ever top her--unforgettably unique. This performance has eternal beauty. Baiul gave the world these unforgettable moments on the ice that were captured on film, tape and now CZcams to be enjoyed for generations. Thank you Lord God for giving us this exquisite & majestic skating performance from this rare comet of talent kissed and blessed by You as only You can do.
Oksana actually had a very difficult life before Olympic Games, she had no Mom no Dad and her grandmother died before these games. No support! And btw she was the 1st one who represented Ukraine (a new country on the map after Soviet Union's collapse) in the sport. And as they mentioned in the video, she was injured right before the day of the performance. That's crazy!
Oksana showed up at the ball as a girl who turned into the swan. Kerrigan showed up at the ball thinking she was already the swan but instead faded into the shadows.
her program was more difficult than Nancy's and she showed more grace/emotion/artistic flare. Baiul deserved that gold. Nancy is not gold material. Nancy's break was that Tonya was so emotionally messed up and had slacked off at that point. as well as some other skaters not living up to their potential. if they had Nancy wouldn't have even won second place let alone even won a metal.
I sooooo agree
she was there cause Tonya couldnt make it
USA had no one else to send there
so we had to put up with the horse-teeth brat who had no artistry talent and no personality
she absolutly deserved that gold medal. Her skating was amazing and lovely even though she was on pain medicine because of several injuries. Also she had no parents anymore at that time :(
Kerrigans skating was weak all over & live she was slower than molasses. She was lucky to get silver. You all are bitter trolls coming out of the woodwork hating greatness. Oksana is one tough cookie & one hell of a skater Nancy had no chance. Oksana was the show period.
soooooooooooo agreed
nancy was there because her family had money and she was put the top in the USA
horse-teeth brat
You can see her passion
Nancy Kerrigan was a sore loser and I was shocked when she made fun of Oksana breaking down in tears at the end of this routine. Miss Baiul deserved the gold!!!!!
I completely agree...Oksana didn't have an easy life and she had lost her mom a few years earlier..I can understand she would be extremely emotional.
Steve Rakes я согласна. Оксана - маленькая, прекрасная фигуристка! Когда я смотрю ее выступление, всегда становится легче, веселее.
actually she lives in america if that brightens your day so much, fatty
Catherine H. Stop trashing on others and focus on your face, smh go to the plastic surgeon and fix that ugly thing LMAO
I would rather have natural emotion than artificial snootiness.
Man..she is flying
I'm an American and I was pulling for Nancy but face it, Oksana is by far a more beautiful skater.
same!!
oksana is an orphan that here lost her mom 2 years ago, what do you think she is crying about here, how unsensitive and uncompassionate of you towards a child that has no familly left on the age of 16, fuck you
Catherine H. They were there to compete at figure skating not whose life harder.
Pham Cuong thank you!
@@phamcuong9183 Oksana wins At life too! Nancy is a spoiled rotten brat, sore loser, miserable person inside, that thinks it's okay to cheat w/ her married coach, break up his marriage & have him for her own! Not to mention the way she talks down to or about people & she's so dumb, she always seems to get caught, because she can't remember the cameras are on her or mic's hooked up!
I love how the choreography has Broadway moves and flair, magical!
I found Nancy Kerrigan boringgggg. This girl is amazing!
Oksana was more than just more feminine than Nancy. She was stronger, faster, jumped higher, was tougher skating badly injured something Nancy could do for a little bump on her knee at nationals. Oksana was more courageous, athletic, graceful, talented, charming, charismatic, more box office, more famous, more interesting, more celebrated, more admired, more animated, theatrical & elegant. Girl was majesty on ice and nobody could touch her she changed the sport & innovated the pro ranks.
I remember watching this live. I was not a bit surprised by Oksana's win. Although she had some trouble, Oxsana's character and passion on the ice could be compared to no one. Nancy Kerrigan may have dotted all the i(s) and crossed the t(s), but her routine was safe and boring! Oksana landed 5 triples, all different. She was playful, passionate & fun, interacting with the audience and making them a part of her performance. Grace alone doesn't trump passion & heart in the arts.
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She won no questions about it..
Oksana is an absolutely phenomenal skater; her grace and artistry on and off the ice is amazing (even at such a young age). She deserved the scores and metals she received. Nancy, unfortunately showed her unsportsmanlike, ugly side for all to see. Personally, I’ll remember that more than her injury.
Oksana is absolutely beautiful!😍
Solid program for its time. Seems someone understood the rules of the freeskating program are about the 8 required artistic elements and not about technical requirements. At least Galina knew her stuff & the judges concurred the program was "difficult" whereas they described Nancy's as "front loaded" filled with technical elements to hide the weaknesses in the 8 required artistic elements. 1 of the judges was a sports scientist specializing in skating the other a skate maker. Well done judges
Poor Oksana. Nancy Kerrigan’s “tribe” was making fun of her pink outfit (while Nancy wore a $50,000 Versace..🙄🙄). I LOVED Oksana’s music here. Loved it! Her Mom in heaven was definitely looking down on her little girl that night😇💞🦋. I still believe Oksana deserved the Gold. Job well done👍
morningstar me too! Amen🙏💞
morningstar LOL😂😂
Actually Nancy Vera Wang, but I agree
I love her performances. Awesome skater.
I think the right person won the gold!
Brilliant!
Such a beautiful skater!
Oksana was electrifying. Nancy was boring. When you study ballet and do it right, it shows.
Nancy is 2nd ! She should to be so strong, no?
Oksana is insane....Nancy should of won....figure skating judges r fucked
Eddy yeah like tonya coming 8th? like no doubt she shouldn’t have gotten a medal but like she didn’t deserve 8th
@@kmanyguns 😂 Oksana was on fire here. Completely mesmerizing. And she was skating with an injured shoulder and lower back. Just incredible.
Joyce, 100% ..her ballet training prepared her for this..
no question in mind, after watching the three medal routines, who should have won gold: Oxana. disagree on the silver, it should have been Lu Chen. Kerrigan was good enough for the bronze.
not even bronze
Agree
Guys this was almost 20 yrs ago. Give it up, Oksana won.
Sergei and Ekaterina are in the audience!!!
AliSakurai I JUST saw that now!! So awesome to see them..❤️❤️
Was so happy to see them!
A part of me wishes she hadn't had so much success so quickly because maybe she would have kept competing in the amateur ranks and we could have seen more of her skating. I was disappointed she didn't change this long program this season as she did with her short program, which was just brilliant. She was a brilliant skater and I just wish we could have had a few more years of her competing. It's pretty mind boggling that she only skated two competitive seasons. One Olympics, one Worlds, two Europeans. And she was just 16! Just would have been nice to see her stick around for longer.
Oksana everytime over Kerrigan. She was "flawless" to the announcer but he wanted to cut down anyone besides Kerrigan. Stupid. Oksana was incredible. I feel sad the stress she felt / her fears of not being good enough. But she deserved the win!
that's exactly what happened
they kept saying ''nancy this'' ''nancy that''
well F/'^+@ nancy and her talentless, artless performance
she was so rigid and cold.....didndt even deserve silver
Her program was more difficult and more fan-friendly. Kerrigan could've performed better. She just didn't quite have enough to top this. Baiul was a little bit underscored on her technical marks, too, by the way.
i'd say she was underscored on her artistic performance
Ukraine is proud of you👍💞💞💞💛💙