Ah, January, when a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of -- what else? -- ice skating! If yours doesn’t, better get with the program, ducky!
I’m thinking now of one of the most famous moments in all of ice skating history. I mean besides that time in 1994 when Tonya Harding’s bodyguard whacked Nancy Kerrigan across the knee with
a metal pipe.
No, I’m thinking of the time ten years earlier (has it been 26 years already?) when Jane Torvall and Christopher Dean of Nottingham, England, became the highest scoring figure skaters of all time (for a single program) when they received twelve perfect 6.0 scores, including artistic impression scores of 6.0 from all nine judges, for doing this:
Well, actually, they did a bit more than that. Specifically, on January 6, 1984, at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Torvill and Dean did this, accompanied by Ravel’s Bolero.
Okay, I admit that the world of figure skating has also had a bad moment or two. Here’s one we’d rather all forget (and by we I don’t mean to imply that I am a part of the world of figure skating, just a representative of the general populace at large):
Yay! Thanks for that link. It's been so long since I've seen that performance.
ReplyDeleteThough the second image... well, erm ... I'm glad I didn't see that one. *laugh*
I have never been a fan of figure skating, but I remember watching that as it happened, and even I knew that it was a performance for the ages. Thanks for the post!
ReplyDeleteI remember both of those pictures and performances...does that make me old?!? And if it does, then what does that say about my father, the blogger???
ReplyDeleteP-K, You're welcome! The second one was Tonya Harding herself.
ReplyDeleteSam, you are welcome too!
Angela, that would make your father even older, extremely old, almost older than dirt. But I don't think being able to remember 1984 makes you old.
Torville and Dean were brilliant.
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