Giving her the silver medal here was one of the most sad things in the history of figure skating: she DESERVED the gold, she was just INCREDIBLE, I don't have words to describe her jumps, her spins, her ARTISTRY: who cares if her choreography was not as the other girls'? Who cares if she didn't move like a ballet dancer? She had the speed, the energy, the joy of performing, you could really see that she loved skating and this is the most important thing! Every figure skater should know Midori
@@Carlos-hi1uc Sorry, Harding landed some, but they were way inferior. Lower height and often out of axis with a shaky landing...but of course still much more impressive than all the super-thin-superfast-rotating kids today.
I don't get why people keep saying that Midori lacked artistry. I heard people rave about her jumping ability before actually watching her performance, so I assumed that she was just a power jumper. I was wrong. She was full of artistry in my opinion. Artistry doesn't have to be flirty sultry like Yuna. Midori is artistic for being original and natural. She also has beautiful footwork, great flow, powerful spin and flexible lyaback.
There is more than one way to be artistic. She was lovely, exciting and had charisma to rival Kwan and Janet Lynn. She was also extremely musical and had a sense of drama. To reduce artistry to pointed toes is having a tiny little mind. When you watched Midori you were riveted with excitement. That is artistry.
It is absolutely amazing how graceful she pulled off that triple axel. It really requires strenght so I'm astounded she was able to make it look like nothing. And not only that, but the jump was high and far! Amazing!
My fave Midori free skate. I think she was just such a powerful skater and Scheherazade is such epic music and I know skating is more than jumps but the technical content here is just so impressive like that moment when she lands the triple axel right on the music is just such an iconic moment for me like why do I have such goosebumbs watching this in 2021?
She is my all time favorite. Even though there are more skaters could skate more smoothly and beautifully, Midori is one of a kind. She is revolutionary. She is a pioneer. She is Midori Ito.
CEK cooking - Midori was a power skater. There is true beauty in her skating. She just doesn't come off "dainty" like a Kristi or a Nancy. Christopher Dean, of Torvill and Dean, was doing the commentary for Australian TV of the ladies long program at the Calgary olympics. I read he said of Midori's electrifying long program when she was downgraded with the artistic marks that her skating was the artistry. Dorothy Hamill the 76 gold medallist and a very artistic skater said when comparing Kristi and Midori at the albertville olympics, "Kristi is musical and graceful, but Ito is something special. When Midori skates, I am on the edge of my seat."
@@lsrasr158 Thank you so much for your informative responses. In fact, I also enjoy Kristi Yamaguchi's Olympic performance a lot. Beside her artistry in skating, Kristi's will and strength was spectacular. However, after 10 20 years, only MIdori would be the one hauntingly remembered........ I agreed with what Christopher Dean had said about Midori. I think her skating itself is already an art in figure skating history.
@@CEKCooking excellent choice of words in describing Midori "hauntingly remembered". Those words aptly describe the last minute of her Albertville olympics LP when she completes the 1st triple axel by a woman in olympic history at 3 minutes and 10 seconds of her LP. I also like your use of the word "revolutionary" in describing Midori. If you watch the 1991 Lalique tourney LP of Midori, Scott Hamilton says during her technical marks presentation "It is hard to compare any skater to Midori, she has revolutionized ladies free skating". If you have not already watched it, the olympic channel honored Midori's triple axel at albertville. if you search "midori impossible" in youtube search you can view it.
She was THE BEST in women´s competition, ever! Such ease in the jumps, incredible rotation, she was incredible! Which girl was able to show such jumps with such ease? Nobody! If figures hadn´t existed in the past, no skater would have had any chance to beat her, because she was UNBEATABLE, I think she would have won nearly all competitions! Midori was a gift for us and for the ISU. Unbelievable, brilliant, breathtaking ice-skater. No wonder, she had the nickname: Tsunami girl! One word:LEGEND
I love this girl. Even though the judges were extremely corrupt, I miss the old scoring system. The new system is so boring! Too bad they couldn't clean the old system up. Back to Midori. Even though she was never the greatest artist, she made huge improvements from her fantastic performance at the 88 Olympics. Great music choice and just so adorable and humble and just electrified the audience. DYNAMITE!
Ito was a once in 50 year skater. She revolutionized the sport. SHE is the greatest skater never to win a gold medal at the Olympics, not Kwan. That triple axel looks like science fiction.
Two Olympic medalists, Scott Hamilton and Toller Cranston both used the same comparison for Midori. Both stated it will be 50 years before we see anyone like her again.
@@DAREALAndyRampage Surely if she didn't fall in the SP and had hit both 3Axls in the LP, she would have won in 1992. And she probably should have at least won the LP in 1988 over Manley. Something I've never seen discussed much is was her 14th place in figures in 1988 OG the correct placement?
Midori was way ahead of her time. And to think this class including Yamaguchi, Harding and Bonaly completely revolutionizing the sport. Make way for the athletes, lol!
seeying one of the most greatest 3 axels i love the reaction of the people when she was making the 3-3 because she was so close to the barrier, they should pass this again at tv like this the new skaters(men/woman)could learn something about someone who always have that chemistry with the audience
Yup, she's the one that finally put Japan on the FS map!!! Her influence on that sport was similar to Ichiro crossing over to MLB. Simply one-of-a-kind. There will NEVER be another like her in my lifetime (probably, but I hope I'm wrong-lol). ;-)
plus her triple toe-triple toe was at the end of the program. Really just fantastic skating - i don't think any woman will ever skate like that again. Surely none has skated like her since - and it has been almost 20 years!
You must check out this same program that she skated earlier at the NHK Trophy - it was literally PERFECTION!!! She received a perfect 6.0 for BOTH technical and artistic presentation - with 1 skater left, to boot! She landed every single one of her planned 7 triples [2 in combination] with absolute sheer perfection. It is sublime and seminal! I don’t believe a skater can skate any more brilliantly! I still give the VERY SLIGHTEST!! edge to her 1989 World LP - and ONLY because I believe the musical presentation was better suited to her fierce athleticism and skating presentation. I feel this music was chosen only in response to the community’s unfair and unwarranted criticism to her “lack” of artistry. But her BRILLIANT 1988 Olympic short and long programs are still to this day [02/29/2016] second only to her 1989 World winning performance, given the respective venues!
I watched the NHK Trophy skate. It was perfection. I did love this skate and music. As far as rating her skates as you did above, i go with 1989 World winning performance, then this performance then Calgary long program. All 3 are shear brilliance. As Toller Cranston said in the Canadian version of this skate, no one is her league. Her triple axel in this skate and the NHK Trophy skate are incredible. But my favorite triple axel of Midori's and I think her greatest and possibly the greatest ever landed was the one at Albertville, given the venue and the fact she did it at 3 minutes and 10 seconds into the Long Program. The Olympic Channel has honored that triple axel as one of its 30 impossible moments from all the Winter Olympic Games held (up to 2018). Number 11. Check it out.
He is Prince Norihito, current Emperor's cousin, who was well known for his passion and support for sports. One of the best loved member of the imperial family, he passed away from massive coronary falure in 2002 at the age of 47. That's another reason I feel sad whenever I see this video... the first reason is, of course, that no female skater has ever surpassed what Midori did here even after 18 years!! :)
当時の女子フィギュアスケートの概念や在り方を1人で変えた偉大な選手
2022年も見ています！
素晴らしいものは色褪せないですね
(＊´ ω｀＊)excellent♡
2020年に見ています。未だに伊藤みどりを越える選手は出ていないというのが実感です。
スピードと技術です。
御本人は規定演技が苦手とおっしゃってましたけど、普通に確かなスケーティング技術をベースにしてるなぁと素人目にも感じられますね。めちゃくちゃスピードが速いし、ジャンプに関しても、現代のジャッジならほぼ全てに高得点の出来映え点がつくと思われる。
お遊びで、伊藤さんの演技を現在のジャッジに当ててみたら、て動画がありましたが(ジャンプの回数とか規制が異なるので大分大まかで乱暴ではあるようですが)、技術点は男子と上位争い出来そうな位でした(てか、伊藤さんなら４回転もいけたのでは?…)
ジャンプだけの女王ってなぜかいわれれるけど、スピンもステップもすごいんだよ！もちろん、トリプルアクセルも、今でもすごいんだよ！！
この人の時代によく見ていたから、今の人が少し物足りないって思っていた理由が分かった。
3Aだけじゃなくて、3-3とか、イーグルからの3Loとか、30年前の演技とは思えない。
間違いなく伊藤みどりという選手が、フィギュアスケートそのもののあり方を変えたと言っていい。
彼女史上でも最高の3回転アクセルではないかと思います。
今の大会でこんな演技したら男子でも勝てない。当時も、世界でこの人だけズバ抜けてたことを証明している。
観客が総立ちになり、会場がどよめく。天才スケーター伊藤みどり、素晴らしい演技だ。
すごい。猛スピードでジャンプ飛んでるのに、フェンスぎりぎりまで使ってる。
マジで世界が熱狂してるわ
全ての理屈をぶっ飛ばす結果を問答無用で魅せてくれる
それが真のカリスマですよね！
2011年夏の時点において、男女、ペア、アイスダンス全ての中で、世界最高のシェヘラザードであるということに世界中が納得するだろう。
再生速度を速めてしまったのでは？と途中何度も確認しました。
スピードと展開の迫力が桁違い。会場の方々は本当にラッキーでしたね。
コンパル10位、オリジナル1位、フリー１位、総合２位という伝説の演技
ジャンプにおいては、今後も伊藤みどり以上の選手は現れないんだろうね。
４回転をする選手が現れても、伊藤みどりよりも美しいジャンプ（やはり高さ）をする選手を見た事が無い。
伊藤みどりは、空前絶後のスケート界No.1のジャンパー！
見るとスカッとしますね
Giving her the silver medal here was one of the most sad things in the history of figure skating: she DESERVED the gold, she was just INCREDIBLE, I don't have words to describe her jumps, her spins, her ARTISTRY: who cares if her choreography was not as the other girls'? Who cares if she didn't move like a ballet dancer? She had the speed, the energy, the joy of performing, you could really see that she loved skating and this is the most important thing! Every figure skater should know Midori
ジャンプの高さが、す、す、すごい・・
スピードも・・
こんなにすごい人だったのか。
Amazing triple axel. Incredible height and perfect landing. 25 years later, no other ladies skater has come close.
Harding si lo ha hecho
@@Carlos-hi1uc Sorry, Harding landed some, but they were way inferior. Lower height and often out of axis with a shaky landing...but of course still much more impressive than all the super-thin-superfast-rotating kids today.
この人の走り出しすごく好き
日本人として誇りに思います。
Spectacle to watch! Such a joyful and the best skater she has been even today 2023!
こんな大歓声、聞いたことないよ～。(^-^)
伊藤みどりは本当に楽しそうに滑って、スケートに対する想いが伝わってきます。その事が観ている人を感動させると思います。佐藤信夫コーチが『笑顔、笑顔』と指導していた意味が分かるような気がします。
どれも凄いけどこの世界選手権が最高のパフォーマンス！ マツコさんも言ってました
Best triple axel ever performed male or female
Easily. She got like 3 feet off the ice and covered about 12 to 15 feet in distance with such an easy looking landing.
伊藤みどりさんは日本の至宝。
涙出るほど素晴らしいジャンプ.｡.:*･'(*°∇°*)'･*:.｡.当時も子供ながら凄いと思ってたけど、今改めて見ると全てのスケーターと比べてもずば抜けてる
I don't get why people keep saying that Midori lacked artistry. I heard people rave about her jumping ability before actually watching her performance, so I assumed that she was just a power jumper. I was wrong. She was full of artistry in my opinion. Artistry doesn't have to be flirty sultry like Yuna. Midori is artistic for being original and natural. She also has beautiful footwork, great flow, powerful spin and flexible lyaback.
she had a poor line and didn't point her toe which is a peeve of mine.
@@koolaidnhemlock well Yuna can't point her toes or do a proper arabesque spiral either.. so it's all subjective..
There is more than one way to be artistic. She was lovely, exciting and had charisma to rival Kwan and Janet Lynn. She was also extremely musical and had a sense of drama. To reduce artistry to pointed toes is having a tiny little mind. When you watched Midori you were riveted with excitement. That is artistry.
Because she broke all the rules and was ahead of her time. People wanted their female skaters like ballerinas
It is absolutely amazing how graceful she pulled off that triple axel. It really requires strenght so I'm astounded she was able to make it look like nothing. And not only that, but the jump was high and far! Amazing!
My fave Midori free skate. I think she was just such a powerful skater and Scheherazade is such epic music and I know skating is more than jumps but the technical content here is just so impressive like that moment when she lands the triple axel right on the music is just such an iconic moment for me like why do I have such goosebumbs watching this in 2021?
GREATEST JUMPER EVER!
天才！魅力的！大好き❤
みどり大好き！！
The best woman skater ever.
Midori's synchronicity with music is wonderful and artistic.
She is my all time favorite. Even though there are more skaters could skate more smoothly and beautifully, Midori is one of a kind. She is revolutionary. She is a pioneer. She is Midori Ito.
CEK cooking - Midori was a power skater. There is true beauty in her skating. She just doesn't come off "dainty" like a Kristi or a Nancy. Christopher Dean, of Torvill and Dean, was doing the commentary for Australian TV of the ladies long program at the Calgary olympics. I read he said of Midori's electrifying long program when she was downgraded with the artistic marks that her skating was the artistry. Dorothy Hamill the 76 gold medallist and a very artistic skater said when comparing Kristi and Midori at the albertville olympics, "Kristi is musical and graceful, but Ito is something special. When Midori skates, I am on the edge of my seat."
@@lsrasr158 Thank you so much for your informative responses. In fact, I also enjoy Kristi Yamaguchi's Olympic performance a lot. Beside her artistry in skating, Kristi's will and strength was spectacular. However, after 10 20 years, only MIdori would be the one hauntingly remembered........
I agreed with what Christopher Dean had said about Midori. I think her skating itself is already an art in figure skating history.
@@CEKCooking excellent choice of words in describing Midori "hauntingly remembered". Those words aptly describe the last minute of her Albertville olympics LP when she completes the 1st triple axel by a woman in olympic history at 3 minutes and 10 seconds of her LP. I also like your use of the word "revolutionary" in describing Midori. If you watch the 1991 Lalique tourney LP of Midori, Scott Hamilton says during her technical marks presentation "It is hard to compare any skater to Midori, she has revolutionized ladies free skating".
If you have not already watched it, the olympic channel honored Midori's triple axel at albertville. if you search "midori impossible" in youtube search you can view it.
Yes, Midori is the best jumper ever. It is amazing her energy. Triple axel at the begining and triple triple combination at the end. It is great!!!
She is amazing, at this stage getting better and better ! I just adore her and her style! ❤👍
Fantastic skate. Her technical ability is unmatched, even today. And her triple axel is better than most men's 3As.
That triple axel was sublime.
スピード感すごい
She was THE BEST in women´s competition, ever! Such ease in the jumps, incredible rotation, she was incredible! Which girl was able to show such jumps with such ease? Nobody! If figures hadn´t existed in the past, no skater would have had any chance to beat her, because she was UNBEATABLE, I think she would have won nearly all competitions! Midori was a gift for us and for the ISU. Unbelievable, brilliant, breathtaking ice-skater. No wonder, she had the nickname: Tsunami girl! One word:LEGEND
金メダル‼️
if she was in this era she would be Olympics champion. She was before her time
I love this girl. Even though the judges were extremely corrupt, I miss the old scoring system. The new system is so boring! Too bad they couldn't clean the old system up. Back to Midori. Even though she was never the greatest artist, she made huge improvements from her fantastic performance at the 88 Olympics. Great music choice and just so adorable and humble and just electrified the audience. DYNAMITE!
Even though she never won this competition, this was an awesome performance. Still brings chills down the spine, the triple axle was breathtaking.
Absolutely gorgeous!
That height on that triple axel is the most freaking amazing thing i've ever seen. its not human!!
ジャンプの高さは誰も彼女を超えられないんじゃないかな。
伊藤みどりさんの演技を一度も見たことが無いので、見ることが出来て良かったです😆
ジャンプも高く、素晴らしい演技にもうただ驚くだけで、声も出ません‼️(ﾟoﾟ)/😨
憬れてしまいます😂
Midori Ito is Japan's pride. We will never forget her. We are very proud of her.
Her positions and transitions are one of the best during her era. that can't be disputed.
2020年です。紀平選手が４回転を成功させました！ 彼女の美しさは比類ないけれど、でもやっぱり伊藤みどり選手のジャンプの方が昂揚します。なぜだろう。
Великая Мидори !!!
Watching her is amazing.
took words right out of my mouth. bravo!
2019.2.27 まだ視てる。
このジャンプの高さ、何ですか？
2020.10.7まだ見てる
このジャンプの高さ化け物です。
スケーティングのスピードが凄い。ファンの歓声も絶叫レベルってのが凄い。
こんなダイナミックなトリプルアクセルを飛ぶ人は、時代を選ばず、他には見たことはないですね。今は計測システムがテレビにも表示されますが、当時はなかったので、あくまでも計算上ですが、高さは70㎝をゆうに超えています。男子並みではなく、男子以上です。スピードも凄くて、リンクが狭すぎるように感じてしまいます。
This is just amazing...
I love the way she waves at the camera at the end. She is humble and so graceful!
Thank you so much. I'm very grad for your reply.
AMAZING
Her triple axel is so high, it's almost super-human. She remains the gold standard in women's jumping.
Wow! Never seen this program before, and though she finished second, this was truly skated like a champion!
she was sooooo amazing *.*
Ito was a once in 50 year skater. She revolutionized the sport. SHE is the greatest skater never to win a gold medal at the Olympics, not Kwan. That triple axel looks like science fiction.
Two Olympic medalists, Scott Hamilton and Toller Cranston both used the same comparison for Midori. Both stated it will be 50 years before we see anyone like her again.
it is certainly WRONG that She didn't Win a GOLD in ONE Of those Olympics that She was in!!
@@DAREALAndyRampage Surely if she didn't fall in the SP and had hit both 3Axls in the LP, she would have won in 1992. And she probably should have at least won the LP in 1988 over Manley. Something I've never seen discussed much is was her 14th place in figures in 1988 OG the correct placement?
Midori was way ahead of her time. And to think this class including Yamaguchi, Harding and Bonaly completely revolutionizing the sport. Make way for the athletes, lol!
she's great!
Unbelievable girl!
Unbelievable rotations!
She was unbelievable and the best of all girls in the jumps, ever!
She is the best jumper ever for ladies... there will never be another one like her... she is so damn far ahead of her time.
seeying one of the most greatest 3 axels i love the reaction of the people when she was making the 3-3 because she was so close to the barrier, they should pass this again at tv like this the new skaters(men/woman)could learn something about someone who always have that chemistry with the audience
ジャンプの高さがおかしいwwwww凄すぎてむせたww
She really has more power and more speed when she skates, you can see it in her jumps. She was amazing
Disgusting that this did not win gold! Soooo good!
Midori Ito!
most perfect and most beautiful and most exciting..
Nearly 20 years after and the performance still looks so impressive....that triple axel is just incredible...thanks for the video!
まさに一人で２１世紀の女子フィギュアを変えた選手でした。こんなに高いジャンプは、今でも誰もとべない！！金字塔を打ち立てたレジェンドスケーター
もう彼女のようなスケーターは現れないだろう
I couldn't agree with you more! Well said!
Etheric Midori Ito is really legend.
Clearly proved itself to be the best of all. How could she do it? How could she proved it?
Yup, she's the one that finally put Japan on the FS map!!! Her influence on that sport was similar to Ichiro crossing over to MLB. Simply one-of-a-kind. There will NEVER be another like her in my lifetime (probably, but I hope I'm wrong-lol).
;-)
plus her triple toe-triple toe was at the end of the program. Really just fantastic skating - i don't think any woman will ever skate like that again. Surely none has skated like her since - and it has been almost 20 years!
AMAZING PROGRAM...
後半もグイグイくるね、うーん素晴らしい
You must check out this same program that she skated earlier at the NHK Trophy - it was literally PERFECTION!!! She received a perfect 6.0 for BOTH technical and artistic presentation - with 1 skater left, to boot! She landed every single one of her planned 7 triples [2 in combination] with absolute sheer perfection. It is sublime and seminal! I don’t believe a skater can skate any more brilliantly! I still give the VERY SLIGHTEST!! edge to her 1989 World LP - and ONLY because I believe the musical presentation was better suited to her fierce athleticism and skating presentation. I feel this music was chosen only in response to the community’s unfair and unwarranted criticism to her “lack” of artistry. But her BRILLIANT 1988 Olympic short and long programs are still to this day [02/29/2016] second only to her 1989 World winning performance, given the respective venues!
I watched the NHK Trophy skate. It was perfection. I did love this skate and music. As far as rating her skates as you did above, i go with 1989 World winning performance, then this performance then Calgary long program. All 3 are shear brilliance. As Toller Cranston said in the Canadian version of this skate, no one is her league. Her triple axel in this skate and the NHK Trophy skate are incredible. But my favorite triple axel of Midori's and I think her greatest and possibly the greatest ever landed was the one at Albertville, given the venue and the fact she did it at 3 minutes and 10 seconds into the Long Program. The Olympic Channel has honored that triple axel as one of its 30 impossible moments from all the Winter Olympic Games held (up to 2018). Number 11. Check it out.
ジャンプが高い!!
midori is the best!!
He is Prince Norihito, current Emperor's cousin, who was well known for his passion and support for sports. One of the best loved member of the imperial family, he passed away from massive coronary falure in 2002 at the age of 47. That's another reason I feel sad whenever I see this video... the first reason is, of course, that no female skater has ever surpassed what Midori did here even after 18 years!! :)
勝手な憶測だけど、規定というのはフィギュア界においては基本と言われるものであって、元来その基本ができてない者は、OPやLPで高得点（高順位）は望めないと考えられていたんだと思う。
しかし、伊藤みどりという選手が、大袈裟に言えば、その基礎ができてない（得点・順位が低い）にも関わらず、技術では他の選手を圧倒してトップに君臨し続けた。
「規定廃止」というのは、まさに伊藤みどりがフィギュア界の常識を覆した証だと思う。
I love how the announcer simply says "unbeatable" at the end.
ジャンプの前のスピードが速すぎて早送りしとんかと思うぐらいやった。
このあとで他の選手のやつ見たらあかんやつ。
どのジャンプも低く見えてしまう
I was speechless after her 3ple axel!!!
Ｇｒｅａｔ！
Ｓｈｅ is super girl!!
yes. now he is commenting on eurosport... great guy!!!
Amazing. What an athlete. If she'd made that triple salchow--of all things to miss--she probably would have had 6.0's across the board. Incredible.
№1 in the world!!!
I am amazed by how high she can get whenever she jumps
3A.