Nagano 1998 Dance FD | Unbeatable Grishuk-Platov take Gold, make history [extended/Aus.]
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Australian coverage (commentators: Sandy Roberts, Belinda Trussell (Noonan))
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長野1998 Nagano Winter Games ice dance, free dance (FD) performances of the following teams, marked with (^) below (some mid to lower teams not shown):
Rank Name Nation CD1 CD2 OD FD^ TFP (appearance order no.)
1 Pasha Grishuk / Evgeni Platov Russia 1 1 1 1^ 2.0 (18) (including Australian TV interview)
2 Anjelika Krylova / Oleg Ovsyannikov Russia 2 2 2 2^ 4.0 (19)
3 Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat France 3 3 3 4^ 7.0 (16)
4 Shae-Lynn Bourne / Victor Kraatz Canada 5 4 4 3^ 7.2 (17)
5 Irina Lobacheva / Ilia Averbukh Russia 4 5 5 5^ 9.8 (20)
6 Barbara Fusar-Poli / Maurizio Margaglio Italy 6 6 6 6^ 12.0 (13)
7 Elizabeth Punsalan / Jerod Swallow United States 7 7 7 7^ 14.0 (15)
8 Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas Lithuania 8 9 8 8^ 16.2 (12)
9 Irina Romanova / Igor Yaroshenko Ukraine 9 8 10 9^ 18.4 (11)
10 Kati Winkler / René Lohse Germany 11 11 9 10^ 19.8 (14)
11 Sophie Moniotte / Pascal Lavanchy France 10 10 12 11^ 22.2 (10)
12 Sylwia Nowak / Sebastian Kolasiński Poland 12 12 11 12^ 23.4 (8)
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14 Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovski Israel 17 14 14 14^ 28.6 (9)
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17 Diane Gerencser / Pasquale Camerlengo Italy 16 17 16 17^ 33.2 (7)
18 Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviski Bulgaria 18 18 18 18^ 36.0 (6)
19 Chantal Lefebvre / Michel Brunet Canada 19 19 19 19^ 38.0 (5)
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21 Jessica Joseph / Charles Butler United States 22 20 20 21^ 41.4 (4)
22 Elizaveta Stekolnikova / Dmitri Kazarlyga Kazakhstan 23 22 22 22^ 44.2 (3)
23 Aya Kawai 河合 彩 / Hiroshi Tanaka 田中 衆史 Japan 21 23 23 23^ 45.6 (1)
24 Ksenia Smetanenko / Samuel Gezalian Armenia 24 24 24 24^ 48.0 (2)
Оксана (Паша) Грищук, Евгений Платов, Анжелика Крылова, Олег Овсянников, Ирина Лобачёва, Илья Авербух
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Unbeatable Russians take gold in ice dance
Published: Feb 16, 1998, 12:00 a.m. MST
By Associated Press
Pasha Grishuk and Yevgeny Platov soared above the storm of judging complaints and conspiracy claims, becoming the first couple ever to repeat as Winter Games ice dance champions.
Naturally for this contentious, highly subjective sport, there were cries of injustice, particularly by the Canadians after Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz wound up fourth tonight."I always thought Torvill and Dean, they did so much for our sport," said Natalia Dubova, the Russian who coaches the Canadian couple. "I always ask myself what Grishuk and Platov have done. For me, they don't bring the sport up."
But they must do something right to have won 22 straight events, unimaginable even in ice dancing. They did so much right in the free dance, worth 50 percent of the total score, that the French and Italian judges awarded them 6.0s for presentation.
"It was our dream to win this gold and, of course, to make history, so we made it and it is fabulous," Grishuk said. "I don't know what could be better."
The winning pair's marks were deserved. Performing to "Memorial Requiem," their speed and power was unmatchable. Grishuk, wearing a huge silver cross on the front of her blue dress - along with purple skates and blue fingernails - covered her face at the end and cried as the couple took their bows.
In winning all three phases of the competition, Grishuk and Platov edged countrymen Anjelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsyannikov, who settled for the silver medal. Third place went to France's Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat.
"I don't know what to say," Krylova said. "Oksana and Yevgeny were skating and we did not see them in action. The public liked us better. I think we had a better program overall."
The 1-2 finish for Russia gave that nation all three golds awarded at Nagano so far in figure skating, and five medals overall in the sport. Russia did the same thing in '94, with the most controversial decision placing Grishuk and Platov ahead of 1984 champions Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, the only non-Russians to win a Winter Games ice dance.
Five-time American champions Elizabeth Punsalan and Jerod Swallow were seventh, as they were throughout the compulsories and original dance. It was the United States' best Games showing in ice dancing since 1988.
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"Of course, it was my dream to make history. We were confident when we came here and were working really hard," Grishuk, 26, said. "It was very hard, pressure was high, but we did it. I'm so happy. So many skaters and people will remember us," Platov, 30, said.
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"I'm very happy for Evgeny and Oksana — they are legends in our sport," Ovsiannikov said. "While there was some politics involved, we're on the ice to do our job and this is what we do, we just skate. We don't really care about anything outside of the rink."
#figureskating #フィギュアスケート #eiskunstlauf #фигурноекатание #피겨스케이팅 #pattinaggioartistico #patinageartistique #icedance
special thanks to Kim!
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Nagano 1998 Dance FD | Unbeatable Grishuk-Platov take Gold, make history [extended/Aus.]
SydFigSka Figure Skating Archive
2,573 views
Australian coverage (commentators: Sandy Roberts, Belinda Trussell (Noonan))
revised, extended edition of previous upload. noisy source image.
長野1998 Nagano Winter Games ice dance, free dance (FD) performances of the following teams, marked with (^) below (some mid to lower teams not shown):
Rank Name Nation CD1 CD2 OD FD^ TFP (appearance order no.)
1 Pasha Grishuk / Evgeni Platov Russia 1 1 1 1^ 2.0 (18) (including Australian TV interview)
2 Anjelika Krylova / Oleg Ovsyannikov Russia 2 2 2 2^ 4.0 (19)
3 Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat France 3 3 3 4^ 7.0 (16)
4 Shae-Lynn Bourne / Victor Kraatz Canada 5 4 4 3^ 7.2 (17)
5 Irina Lobacheva / Ilia Averbukh Russia 4 5 5 5^ 9.8 (20)
6 Barbara Fusar-Poli / Maurizio Margaglio Italy 6 6 6 6^ 12.0 (13)
7 Elizabeth Punsalan / Jerod Swallow United States 7 7 7 7^ 14.0 (15)
8 Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas Lithuania 8 9 8 8^ 16.2 (12)
9 Irina Romanova / Igor Yaroshenko Ukraine 9 8 10 9^ 18.4 (11)
10 Kati Winkler / René Lohse Germany 11 11 9 10^ 19.8 (14)
11 Sophie Moniotte / Pascal Lavanchy France 10 10 12 11^ 22.2 (10)
12 Sylwia Nowak / Sebastian Kolasiński Poland 12 12 11 12^ 23.4 (8)
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14 Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovski Israel 17 14 14 14^ 28.6 (9)
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17 Diane Gerencser / Pasquale Camerlengo Italy 16 17 16 17^ 33.2 (7)
18 Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviski Bulgaria 18 18 18 18^ 36.0 (6)
19 Chantal Lefebvre / Michel Brunet Canada 19 19 19 19^ 38.0 (5)
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21 Jessica Joseph / Charles Butler United States 22 20 20 21^ 41.4 (4)
22 Elizaveta Stekolnikova / Dmitri Kazarlyga Kazakhstan 23 22 22 22^ 44.2 (3)
23 Aya Kawai 河合 彩 / Hiroshi Tanaka 田中 衆史 Japan 21 23 23 23^ 45.6 (1)
24 Ksenia Smetanenko / Samuel Gezalian Armenia 24 24 24 24^ 48.0 (2)
Оксана (Паша) Грищук, Евгений Платов, Анжелика Крылова, Олег Овсянников, Ирина Лобачёва, Илья Авербух
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Unbeatable Russians take gold in ice dance
Published: Feb 16, 1998, 12:00 a.m. MST
By Associated Press
Pasha Grishuk and Yevgeny Platov soared above the storm of judging complaints and conspiracy claims, becoming the first couple ever to repeat as Winter Games ice dance champions.
Naturally for this contentious, highly subjective sport, there were cries of injustice, particularly by the Canadians after Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz wound up fourth tonight."I always thought Torvill and Dean, they did so much for our sport," said Natalia Dubova, the Russian who coaches the Canadian couple. "I always ask myself what Grishuk and Platov have done. For me, they don't bring the sport up."
But they must do something right to have won 22 straight events, unimaginable even in ice dancing. They did so much right in the free dance, worth 50 percent of the total score, that the French and Italian judges awarded them 6.0s for presentation.
"It was our dream to win this gold and, of course, to make history, so we made it and it is fabulous," Grishuk said. "I don't know what could be better."
The winning pair's marks were deserved. Performing to "Memorial Requiem," their speed and power was unmatchable. Grishuk, wearing a huge silver cross on the front of her blue dress - along with purple skates and blue fingernails - covered her face at the end and cried as the couple took their bows.
In winning all three phases of the competition, Grishuk and Platov edged countrymen Anjelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsyannikov, who settled for the silver medal. Third place went to France's Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat.
"I don't know what to say," Krylova said. "Oksana and Yevgeny were skating and we did not see them in action. The public liked us better. I think we had a better program overall."
The 1-2 finish for Russia gave that nation all three golds awarded at Nagano so far in figure skating, and five medals overall in the sport. Russia did the same thing in '94, with the most controversial decision placing Grishuk and Platov ahead of 1984 champions Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, the only non-Russians to win a Winter Games ice dance.
Five-time American champions Elizabeth Punsalan and Jerod Swallow were seventh, as they were throughout the compulsories and original dance. It was the United States' best Games showing in ice dancing since 1988.
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"Of course, it was my dream to make history. We were confident when we came here and were working really hard," Grishuk, 26, said. "It was very hard, pressure was high, but we did it. I'm so happy. So many skaters and people will remember us," Platov, 30, said.
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"I'm very happy for Evgeny and Oksana — they are legends in our sport," Ovsiannikov said. "While there was some politics involved, we're on the ice to do our job and this is what we do, we just skate. We don't really care about anything outside of the rink."
#figureskating #フィギュアスケート #eiskunstlauf #фигурноекатание #피겨스케이팅 #pattinaggioartistico #patinageartistique #icedance
special thanks to Kim!
Grishuk & Platov's free dance was quite divisive it seems. Many people hated the music and their costumes (hers anyways). But personally for me, I love all of the interesting handholds and how they used their running edges to carve out huge patterns on the ice and do all sorts of interesting moves with little set-up time. A lot of those moves involved them getting into positions that were low to the ice but they still maintained incredible power and huge glide which just goes to show how strong their strength of stroke was from their edges. I thought it was a magnificent free dance and they easily won that gold medal. And deservedly so IMO. What is interesting though is that Evgeni Platov does not look back at that free dance fondly. IIRC, he said that the work that went into it was almost too much. It made for an extremely stressful season for them. Even more so since Grishuk apparently hated the music with a passion and refused to skate to it at first.
Krylova & Ovsiannikov's free dance should have worked amazingly well because Krylova was born to play the role of Carmen. It started off fairly well but the second and third acts were just awful with a lot of skating far apart and way too simple handholds that involved them skating hand to hand or side by side. Artistically, you get the impression of what they were trying to go for but it came across as silly and cheesy instead. This is often my problem with many of Linichuk & Karponosov's teams in that their programs are very good ideas on paper but they don't really get off the ground very well. And what has always bothered me about this team was how stiff and tense their handholds were. But then again, this is another issue with many of LInichuk & Karponosov's teams. Almost all of them have tense and stiff handholds. The only ones that didn't were ones that learned their basics elsewhere before being coached by them (e.g. Grishuk & Platov, Romanova & Yaroshenko, Grushina & Goncharov, Denkova & Staviski, Domnina & Shabalin). I honestly would have had K&O off the podium here but there was no way that was going to happen since they had the most powerful coaches in the world at that time.
Anissina & Peizerat had a glorious free dance that year with absolutely ambitious yet seamless choreography. But their performance here in Nagano was by far the worst performance of this program they skated that season. It was a very tight and nervous performance. Disappointing. I still had them ahead of K&O though.
Bourne & Kraatz. Wow, extremely disappointing for me. Skating to Riverdance was a great idea as it was bound to appeal to the audiences. But they skated that program almost entirely hand to hand or side by side. I know that Irish Riverdancing is supposed to be done that way but for an ice dance program that will not fly. It needs to be reimagined so that it's an actual ice dance program and not just a program taken verbatim and skated on top of an ice surface. I had them much lower than 4th.
Lobacheva & Averbukh had a good OD that year but I thought they were badly overmarked in the compulsories and free dance. Most of the time when they skate, all I see are their flat edges and tense handholds. They were lucky that they were Russian and were coached by Linichuk & Karponosov. Because I thought they should have been much lower in the rankings.
Fusar-Poli & Margaglio kept improving over the years. But 6th place was generous IMO. Like Krylova & Ovsiannikov, I thought they relied a little too much on expression and acting while skating really fast. Barbara was a good and sure-footed skater though. Him not so much.
Punsalan & Swallow's tango free dance was fantastic. I honestly would have placed them in 3rd in the free dance behind G&P and A&P. Possibly even second since A&P looked tight in their performance here. But realistically that was never going to happen. They finished outside of the top 5 at the previous worlds and they switched their programs partway through the Olympic season. I think this was the debut of this free dance. So they had little to no momentum going into these Olympics. It's not right of course but it is what it is. Still, going by just their skating alone, I honestly would have had them much higher. I like how they can demonstrate good content yet their upper bodies don't look so tense like some of the Russian teams ahead of them (e.g. K&O and L&A).
Drobiazko & Vanagas' free dance was pretty interesting. I like how they went for something a little bit different. Like the Italians, they kept improving year after year. And they finally became medalists in 2000. It's a shame for them that a poor 2000-2001 season tanked their status as medal contenders though. That and the fact that they skated for a small country with a skating federation that couldn't do much for them politically (even though their coach was famous).
Romanova & Yaroshenko. The switch to Tarasova came way too late. They regressed badly under Linichuk's coaching over the years. She seemed way more involved with her Russian teams. It's too bad that they didn't switch to Tarasova with G&P in the previous season. Perhaps she could have salvaged something of them if she had a bit more time with them.
Winkler & Lohse are perhaps one of the most appealing ice dance teams I ever laid eyes on. They are both gorgeous skaters. Kudos to them for placing in the top 10 here. I'm not sure if I would have had them ahead of Moniotte & Lavanchy though. Speaking of M&L, I really felt for them as they were absolute shadows of their former selves that season due to injuries. While I do understand a drop in the rankings, I think 11th here in Nagano was awfully harsh. It must have been a bitter way to have ended their careers.