Let's face it , Kerrigan could not stand a chance. Twenty years later Oksana performance can still move to tears. Grace , beauty, balance, confidence, not one move was out of place. It was just perfect.
Oksana's performance of "The Swan" was breathtakingly beautiful, stunning and the number that she did with Viktor was great. She looked like she was having so much fun.
Oksana was SO incredibly musical. She just fell into place with the music without even trying. You can see this in the second piece with Viktor. She was truly incredible.
Extraordinary, all that more amazing considering how her early years were easily tragic enough to beat down even a tough individual. There will never be another one like her.
Interesting that another great skater in Men's category, the wonderful Yuzuru Hanyu, also skated to this theme at the Pyeong Chang 2018 Olympics' exhibiton performance after winning his 2nd Olympic Gold medal and writing history. Baiul and Hanyu will be remembered by showing the world what great ice skating actually is: not just jumps and points, but grace and poetry on ice
As a ballerina herself the absolute awe I was in when she started to dance on her toes almost like pointe shoes is... that was incredible and I can only imagine how hard it was in blades instead of proper shoes. The talent in this girl is amazing.
Who can’t forget this performance? Breath taking so artistic .. she knew how to execute each musical note so precisely gracefully at the same time make look so effortless and divine !!! Aww they don’t come like her anymore!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
No one has her range, going from executing the most balletic and artistic programme to jiving with such joy and making the audience have genuine fun. Oksana Baiul is truly THE skater
She's exquisite and magical....she captures the imagery in the music and the original ballet so well. The delicacy of the port de bras at the end work so well with the delicacy of the music.
And the open donut spin is such an interesting and original spin position, and has an angular quality that works so well with the deep emotion and vulnerability of the music.
I was happy in 1994 when she won the gold medal at the Olympics, and I am still happy about it today. However, after watching this, I think I prefer her exhibition skating over her competition skating.
This was the performance that stuck in my mind from back then. I was mesmerized by this performance because for once I COULD NOT DISTINGUISH WHETHER SHE WAS SKATING OR DOING BALLET because her interpretation of the Swan was PERFECTLY DONE AND WELL DELIVERED. It's like watching a ballerina dance on ice WITHOUT SKATES. THAT'S HOW GOOD IT WAS! And the world fell in love with Oksana that night!
Nothing less than perfect. The Swan is amazing And with Petrenko is nice!!!! I remember I loved her since the first time I saw her on ice. Great artist even so young
1994....the drama, the emotions, the tears, the beauty, the sublime..... an E P I C year in the women's ice figure skating Olympics..... a year for those who watched it all, will be just.... unforgettable.....
What a magnificent display of artistry and athleticism! Figure skating has always been my favorite Olympic sport, even though I can hardly crawl/walk on ice myself---it is a wondrous thing thing to see, as so many other wonderful accomplishments like it. I hadn't watched this performance since the original broadcast long ago---MANY THANKS FOR PROVIDING THE PUBLIC WITH THESE WONDERFUL MOMENTS OF OLYMPIC(and other events) EXCELLENCE!
I just realized that she's wearing the same dress in both routines--the second one includes a colorful little bolero top to cover the feathers! Very frugal.
I almost was thinking she was in fact performing to swan lake, because she was very balletic and that the Carnival of the Animals, happened to be a series of movements representing the animals. But when Oksana skates, I do not see her as a swan in the Carnival of the Animal just as well as I intensely see her as a swan with Tchaikovsky’s extremely powerful and gorgeous masterpiece with the opening of Swan Lake, completely engaging with her beauty. So every time I see her skating with the sound off, the first thing that comes to my mind, is I’m hearing the opening of Swan Lake orchestration of Swan Lake being conducted by Eugene Ormandy with the Philadelphia Orchestra. I’m not really kidding.
That s why OB won gold because if she wasnt best in technic (and it s not sure) she was by far best REAL artist !!.... NK was skating like a cheerleader souless.. OB was skating like a real ballerina with something more and it was a beautiful gift for all of us : Her soul when unfortunately (sorry for her fan) NK offered nothing at all
Ukrainians, revolutionary then as now! Breaking new musical ground for an exhibition in the rarified atmosphere of the Olympic ice rink by performing in a duet to a big-band-rock-n-doo-wop track!
She will always be the most artistic skater I have ever seen over anyone. I just wish she wouldn't have gotten into drinking and all that that ruined her career because she was the best. I watch these old videos all the time and my daughter and I just loved her.!!
It's hard to be around alcoholics. You never know if they are honest or lying because they are always trying to seek out the next drink. I was on a three week touring holiday with another couple and it was a disaster trying to arrange even one day tours because the husband's alcoholism was so profound. We didnt know how bad at the time, but I suspected it. He wouldn't go places if there was no alcohol to be found, and he was very clever at how he blamed other people for his every misstep along the way. He created nicknames for people or made fun of you if you were "on to him" or if you wanted to go on certain tours, ie it wasn't "cool to go" here or there. We had a six pack of beer and a bottle of wine in our hotel room for a planned social event at someone's villa. But he visited our room and he stole it all! He drank ALL that booze before dinner. I kid you not, I was looking for the beer and wine before our picnic... but it was gone. I was utterly shocked. I will never travel with an alcoholic again, they are too sneaky. Much later he had knee surgery and that was when his doctor figured out he was a liar about being so addicted to alcohol. He was in full withdrawal in the recovery room and had even begged my husband to smuggle whiskey into the hospital to "celebrate a successful surgery". His new wife was bewildered at how he was "acting goofy", and his doctors were angry that he lied on his pre-surgical forms. He was just such a smooth liar, very good looking and fun, so he always fooled people. I was the only one that saw through him so he had a habit of calling me terrible names. Like "oh here comes mother goose". Oh here comes "miss party pooper" but it was to throw people off. He eventually went into rehab but do you think it worked? I'll let you guess... he's still out there charming everyone and backstabbing ... and drinking. Even HR is on his side. One day he'll kill someone on the road and charm his way out of any culpability. He knows hes a liar, he knows he's an alcoholic but he uses people. Alcoholism is a chronic disease and is never, ever cured, it must be dealt with daily with NO enablers. I myself, never help alcoholics anymore, nor do I believe anything an alcoholic or a "recovering alcoholic" ever says. There's no such thing. It's very hard, very sad, but that is the disgusting truth about alcoholics. I'm so blessed that one cold beer is all I need, I have no desire to keep drinking. Its awful when you need to lock your alcohol cabinet when certain visitors come to your home. I had precious gifts of Polish vodkas, even a wonderful bottle of scotch as a holiday gift from a semi-famous actor whom I wont name, but only to discover they were all gone by morning with this one alcoholic guy spending the night at our home! He cleaned us out!
С балетом рядом не стояла... А с сегодняшним фигурным катанием тоже не сравнить с Трусовой, Валиевой или Липницкой. В целом отлично, но сейчас совсем другой уровень катания
I wish they would bring back the Exibition performances after the Olympics. Better than the actual competition in some cases.Now everyone grabs their medals and runs home to capitalize on their newfound fame $$. 😒
As years go by there is always someone that takes on even more technical skills and better presentation skills. They move up and get better and better. My favorite will always be Michelle Quan. She was breathtakingly and so ever graceful. Her music was always grand.
![[HD] Oksana Baiul - 2000 World Pro - Technical Program](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/jT-xknP8TK8/mqdefault.jpg)
![[HD] Oksana Baiul - 2000 World Pro - Technical Program](/img/tr.png)
![[HD] Oksana Baiul - 1994 Lillehammer Olympic - Technical Program - The Swan Lake](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/lS3kBxPAjv8/mqdefault.jpg)
![[HD] Oksana Baiul and Viktor Petrenko - 1994 Lillehammer Olympic - Exhibition](/img/n.gif)
Let's face it , Kerrigan could not stand a chance. Twenty years later Oksana performance can still move to tears. Grace , beauty, balance, confidence, not one move was out of place. It was just perfect.
Edi Gabrieli Kerrigan and other skaters are like cheerleaders on ice, grinning, jumping, and twirling without artistry and expression.
ITA.
well true although not because Kerrigan did a poor job. but what a gift. she oozes musicality.
Kerrigan did a lot more jumps which gave her a higher difficulty level so more points.
Edi Gabrieli ● SOOOOOOOOO TRUE !!!!!
Oksana's performance of "The Swan" was breathtakingly beautiful, stunning and the number that she did with Viktor was great. She looked like she was having so much fun.
Oksana was SO incredibly musical. She just fell into place with the music without even trying. You can see this in the second piece with Viktor. She was truly incredible.
Это правда Оксана тогда вообще никому шансов не оставила
Это правда Оксана тогда вообще никому шансов не оставила
She is the most beautiful skater I’ve ever seen and this the most gorgeous of all her performances. Such grace and beauty. ❤️
I watched this live in 94. She still exist in my mind in that cherished memory. She was the most beautiful creation on skates I've ever seen.
Just gorgeous and breath-taking. Don't care for jumps, just her artistry. Oksana, you were a legend at 16 years-old!
I'm still glad she's the one who got that gold medal. It was so well deserved.
Extraordinary, all that more amazing considering how her early years were easily tragic enough to beat down even a tough individual. There will never be another one like her.
Interesting that another great skater in Men's category, the wonderful Yuzuru Hanyu, also skated to this theme at the Pyeong Chang 2018 Olympics' exhibiton performance after winning his 2nd Olympic Gold medal and writing history. Baiul and Hanyu will be remembered by showing the world what great ice skating actually is: not just jumps and points, but grace and poetry on ice
Yuzu has also perfect jumps.)
Never seen such impeccable artistry. So fluid like water.
As a ballerina herself the absolute awe I was in when she started to dance on her toes almost like pointe shoes is... that was incredible and I can only imagine how hard it was in blades instead of proper shoes. The talent in this girl is amazing.
Isn't it one of the most beautiful exhibitions ever? yet today? Oh Oksana, if you kjnew how much inspiring you were to me in my skating years.
Who can’t forget this performance? Breath taking so artistic .. she knew how to execute each musical note so precisely gracefully at the same time make look so effortless and divine !!! Aww they don’t come like her anymore!!
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Oksana and Victor. My favorite skaters ever! Seeing them perform this fun number together…it doesn’t get any better!
Oh - Scott said it well. In all his years, he had never seen anyone like her - Oksana was perfection..
By this exhibition Oxana sealed the reassurance that there was no other gold medalist. Bravo!
28 years later and this is still a skate I have never forgotten.
Tears, goosebumps ! Ah ! There was no line between artist and performance. She became that role. Completely merged with it. 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
Вот он, балет на льду! Уже тогда!
That was beautiful every fluid motion done effortlessly her toes everything natural
No one has her range, going from executing the most balletic and artistic programme to jiving with such joy and making the audience have genuine fun. Oksana Baiul is truly THE skater
OMG, it was gorgeous 😍😍 Nancy skated like a North Korean soldier 😆
Just beautiful
She's exquisite and magical....she captures the imagery in the music and the original ballet so well. The delicacy of the port de bras at the end work so well with the delicacy of the music.
And the open donut spin is such an interesting and original spin position, and has an angular quality that works so well with the deep emotion and vulnerability of the music.
Ой молодцы оба бравр ребята
I was happy in 1994 when she won the gold medal at the Olympics, and I am still happy about it today. However, after watching this, I think I prefer her exhibition skating over her competition skating.
Wonderful! Bravo Oxana!
Равных Оксаны фигуристок ещё нет …
Есть и их очень много
thank you...she is exquisite
This was the performance that stuck in my mind from back then. I was mesmerized by this performance because for once I COULD NOT DISTINGUISH WHETHER SHE WAS SKATING OR DOING BALLET because her interpretation of the Swan was PERFECTLY DONE AND WELL DELIVERED. It's like watching a ballerina dance on ice WITHOUT SKATES. THAT'S HOW GOOD IT WAS! And the world fell in love with Oksana that night!
Her edge came from the ballet classes her coach encouraged. It is so obvious. Grace & beauty unlike the others.
Nothing less than perfect. The Swan is amazing
And with Petrenko is nice!!!!
I remember I loved her since the first time I saw her on ice. Great artist even so young
1994....the drama, the emotions, the tears, the beauty, the sublime..... an E P I C year in the women's ice figure skating Olympics..... a year for those who watched it all, will be just.... unforgettable.....
So beautiful! The last part was so much fun, to watch and they had tons of fun skating together! 😃😁
Such a beautiful artistic fusion of figure skate and classical dance elements.
What a magnificent display of artistry and athleticism! Figure skating has always been my favorite Olympic sport, even though I can hardly crawl/walk on ice myself---it is a wondrous thing thing to see, as so many other wonderful accomplishments like it. I hadn't watched this performance since the original broadcast long ago---MANY THANKS FOR PROVIDING THE PUBLIC WITH THESE WONDERFUL MOMENTS OF OLYMPIC(and other events) EXCELLENCE!
The best performance I've ever seen! She's so graceful and just stunning to watch. The ballet was wonderful
Once in a lifetime angel on ice
This wss my favorite from Oksana. Nobody was as god. And I always watched how she moved her arms. Just watch them. The graceful way she moves.
No American was as good as Oksana. Sorry😊
Oksana so perfect! Beautiful and lovely to watch. Thank you.
A truly beautiful performance - perfect interpretation ❤️
I actually enjoyed her performance. Truly.. she is not doing boring arm routine as Nancy.
Kerrigan, by comparison, looks like a stiff store mannequin on the ice.
I saw her perform after the Olympics. Breathtaking. She’s absolutely beautiful!
Изумительно красивые выступления, мини спектакли на льду. Оксаночка лучшая фигуристка одиночница. Браво
Ну это тебе она лучшая, а мне Елена Соколова.
Волшебство какое то
Оксанапревзошла соколову
Чьто творила жта девочька
Anna pavlova on ice. Enchanting and breathtakingly beautiful.she Sasha Cohen and Peggy Fleming will always be my favorites
One of my favorites.
I could watch her skate all day.
Бомбезно!!!!!!
She looked so tender and fragile. I remember this Olympic skating tournament very well.
I remember really being in love with figure skating. Somehow it seemed more beautiful before it shifted to the whose is bigger (jumps) emphasis.
This was breathtaking.
Oksana reminds me of a young Ginger Rogers. 🙏🏻💕🥀💛
🙏💪💖Браво,обожнюю Оксану як людину і як спортцменку.Ти наша гордість Україна пишається тобою🥰
Ваш язык нужен, чтобы поржать.
Силы и терпения тебе девочка
I just realized that she's wearing the same dress in both routines--the second one includes a colorful little bolero top to cover the feathers! Very frugal.
A very graceful and elegant performance. ❤
Beautiful, very well done.
What a beautiful performance.
She is the most beautiful artist ever on ice!
A true gem!
That was amazing
I almost was thinking she was in fact performing to swan lake, because she was very balletic and that the Carnival of the Animals, happened to be a series of movements representing the animals. But when Oksana skates, I do not see her as a swan in the Carnival of the Animal just as well as I intensely see her as a swan with Tchaikovsky’s extremely powerful and gorgeous masterpiece with the opening of Swan Lake, completely engaging with her beauty. So every time I see her skating with the sound off, the first thing that comes to my mind, is I’m hearing the opening of Swan Lake orchestration of Swan Lake being conducted by Eugene Ormandy with the Philadelphia Orchestra. I’m not really kidding.
I just love Oksana s vivacious swagger.
A real angel.
На уровне Каролины Костнер . Такая лёгкость и мягкость.
Lovely and I love her swan costume.
Angel of the Ice.
Magnificent!
Simply exquisite. 🤍
"Once had aspirations to be a ballerina". She was and is.
Phenomenal
0:24 Досконалість! Пройшло 30 років, але її танці можна дивитись вічно!
I don’t know much but I know this…..You cannot do this routine like this unless you know you are the best!
Praying and standing with her beautiful Ukraine 🇺🇦 against Pootie the war criminal
Oksana bauiul one of the best 💕💕⛸⛸⛸⛸of her time …………..kim🇬🇧
Классный танец в дуэте!👏👏👏👏👏
That s why OB won gold because if she wasnt best in technic (and it s not sure) she was by far best REAL artist !!.... NK was skating like a cheerleader souless.. OB was skating like a real ballerina with something more and it was a beautiful gift for all of us : Her soul when unfortunately (sorry for her fan) NK offered nothing at all
Ukrainians, revolutionary then as now! Breaking new musical ground for an exhibition in the rarified atmosphere of the Olympic ice rink by performing in a duet to a big-band-rock-n-doo-wop track!
Oksana soy tu fan #1
Sheer beauty
She will always be the most artistic skater I have ever seen over anyone. I just wish she wouldn't have gotten into drinking and all that that ruined her career because she was the best. I watch these old videos all the time and my daughter and I just loved her.!!
Большая актриса на льду.
Oksana the best and unforgettable
She is so beautiful, so delicate, some what like a dove. :)
I can't forget the two foot landing on the technical program...
Eu amo amo amo patinar são
She had not lived long enough to be able to skate like that!
❤❤❤
Її запам'ятали надовго!
Таких артистичних і граційних більше не було!
Советская Одесская школа фигурного катания.
💜💜❤❤💚💚
Russian ballerinas and skaters are so good, this year they are beyond human .......
It's hard to be around alcoholics. You never know if they are honest or lying because they are always trying to seek out the next drink. I was on a three week touring holiday with another couple and it was a disaster trying to arrange even one day tours because the husband's alcoholism was so profound. We didnt know how bad at the time, but I suspected it. He wouldn't go places if there was no alcohol to be found, and he was very clever at how he blamed other people for his every misstep along the way. He created nicknames for people or made fun of you if you were "on to him" or if you wanted to go on certain tours, ie it wasn't "cool to go" here or there. We had a six pack of beer and a bottle of wine in our hotel room for a planned social event at someone's villa. But he visited our room and he stole it all! He drank ALL that booze before dinner. I kid you not, I was looking for the beer and wine before our picnic... but it was gone. I was utterly shocked. I will never travel with an alcoholic again, they are too sneaky. Much later he had knee surgery and that was when his doctor figured out he was a liar about being so addicted to alcohol. He was in full withdrawal in the recovery room and had even begged my husband to smuggle whiskey into the hospital to "celebrate a successful surgery". His new wife was bewildered at how he was "acting goofy", and his doctors were angry that he lied on his pre-surgical forms. He was just such a smooth liar, very good looking and fun, so he always fooled people. I was the only one that saw through him so he had a habit of calling me terrible names. Like "oh here comes mother goose". Oh here comes "miss party pooper" but it was to throw people off. He eventually went into rehab but do you think it worked? I'll let you guess... he's still out there charming everyone and backstabbing ... and drinking. Even HR is on his side. One day he'll kill someone on the road and charm his way out of any culpability. He knows hes a liar, he knows he's an alcoholic but he uses people. Alcoholism is a chronic disease and is never, ever cured, it must be dealt with daily with NO enablers. I myself, never help alcoholics anymore, nor do I believe anything an alcoholic or a "recovering alcoholic" ever says. There's no such thing. It's very hard, very sad, but that is the disgusting truth about alcoholics. I'm so blessed that one cold beer is all I need, I have no desire to keep drinking. Its awful when you need to lock your alcohol cabinet when certain visitors come to your home. I had precious gifts of Polish vodkas, even a wonderful bottle of scotch as a holiday gift from a semi-famous actor whom I wont name, but only to discover they were all gone by morning with this one alcoholic guy spending the night at our home! He cleaned us out!
she skates like a ballerina
Красота ! Слава Оксане Баюл! Слава Украіне !
💙💛
Куда ей до наших девочек:Камилы Валиевой, Ани Щербаковой, Саши Трусовой. Наши девочки- лучшие фигуристки мира
Наши - это Елена Соколова, а не каряги: Трусова, Валиева...
По этому высступлению видно насколько сейчас одиночное женское катание в России сделало мощный скачок вперёд. Даже в показательных номерах!
Особенно Щербакова, упавшая на показательном номере. И Загитова как показательный, так лёд полирует.
@@user-of2vl9pz8m что ж ты такая злыдня. Смотри тогда рэмслинг, искусство не для тебя, не дано.
💪🙏💞🤩
С балетом рядом не стояла... А с сегодняшним фигурным катанием тоже не сравнить с Трусовой, Валиевой или Липницкой. В целом отлично, но сейчас совсем другой уровень катания
Ah, the great Soviet dancing tradition!
I wish they would bring back the Exibition performances after the Olympics. Better than the actual competition in some cases.Now everyone grabs their medals and runs home to capitalize on their newfound fame $$. 😒
As years go by there is always someone that takes on even more technical skills and better presentation skills. They move up and get better and better. My favorite will always be Michelle Quan. She was breathtakingly and so ever graceful. Her music was always grand.