That was the most graceful ice skate performer I have ever seen. So delicate, beautifully aligned. A beautiful swan.

@jcaylalove8713

4 жыл бұрын

That's why she won gold 😁🤩❤️ 🤘

@joycemckennon

4 жыл бұрын

Rhonda Nelson watch Yuzuru Hungary of Japan !, so beautiful too!

@user-bl8fb1im4j

2 жыл бұрын

Yu Na Kim too.

I wasn’t a big fan of Oksana until she showed poise, grace and class at the medal ceremony. Nancy’s icy glare as Oksana received her gold medal just stunned me. Then Oksana actually and literally danced on the ice for her exhibition skate to The Swan. I was in tears. She WAS THE Swan. Thanks for that unforgettable performance, Oksana. ♥️

@sairabanu335

9 ай бұрын

Same here. How could anyone Won't feel amazed by Her skating.

@michaelcoletta4547

8 ай бұрын

I love Nancy but after the Harding/Gilooly incident and all the ensuing coverage I feel like she had a somewhat entitled attitude. I was disappointed with her by the end of the contest... she was definetly being a little petty. Good for Oksana, that girl deserved to take the gold medal.

@mariskelley8831

3 ай бұрын

I get why Nancy wasn't happy, but being a graceful "loser" (even though second in the entire world is still hella impressive) is an important skill for athletes. And OMG, when you know you're on camera, conduct yourself accordingly. That snipe that "she's just gonna cry it off anyway" is an EXTREMELY bad look & she should have known better

As a ballet dancer, I’m so impressed that she showed so amazingly the exact key points of ’Dying Swan’! Amazing turns, spirals! I mean how could she perform this variation on the ice! Her turnout is absolutely amazing🩰👍!!

@nachtegaelw5389

3 жыл бұрын

Right? She must have had ballet training as supplemental training for skating.

@user-tb2wc8rc2e

3 жыл бұрын

@@nachtegaelw5389 all ice skaters take ballet. most of them in Eurasia do at least. gymnasts too.

@nachtegaelw5389

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-tb2wc8rc2e that makes sense, I know a lot of skaters take some ballet as cross training. At least in my ballet classes growing up there were a few students taking it as cross training for Irish dancing or figure skating. It’s just that Baiul has such obviously good ballet technique and her use of epaulement is exquisite (in all the videos I’ve seen of her). Her ballet training is just more obvious to me than with other skaters.

@christianealshut1123

3 жыл бұрын

As far as I know, she originally wanted to train as a ballet dancer, but they did not accept her because allegedly she was too fat... I consider that laughable, but the Russian ballet schools have very strict criteria about the body characteristics of the girls they train, not just in terms of weight.

@nachtegaelw5389

3 жыл бұрын

@@christianealshut1123 they so do have such strict body type standards! Most classical ballet companies do, but I heard of one company (years ago) firing a dancer because her weight exceeded 115 lbs 🤦‍♀️

Her mother loved ballet, it's a hommage to her

@lynncai587

5 жыл бұрын

Hubert Drzymala Oskana initially wanted to become a ballerina, but she was told that she wasn't "thin enough", so she was encouraged to pursue figure skating instead. She still trained in ballet afterwards, though, as a supplement to her skating. She's an excellent figure skater for sure, it I think that she would've made a fine ballerina as well. Those who told her she wasn't thin enough for ballet were crazy.

@jonathanm.9801

5 жыл бұрын

Lynn Cai Professional ballet companies are very particular about the body type they want. Even if you have the best technique, your body might not be the one they want. The ballet world is very harsh.

@MD-722

4 жыл бұрын

@@lynncai587 What Jonathan M. said! That is difference between the art and sports worlds. One is totally subjective, whilst the other although subjective in areas is ultimately objective.

@calisongbird

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanm.9801 true, and yet... look at muscular and curvy Misty Copeland, superstar prima ballerina breaking all stereotypes. She’s stunning and as graceful as can be.

@AllTheCloudsArePink

3 жыл бұрын

😭😭😭

No one could compete with this beautiful young lady!! Truly the best at these Olympics Games in 1994!!

Quads, quads, quads blah blah blah, however accomplished skaters are these days with their quads I have yet to see a performance like this one - Oksana BECOMES the swan. All eyes are on her. Not a peep in that entire stadium. She is exquisite. Absolutely wonderful

@gentian7033

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree.

Wow. If you've ever seen the great ballerinas perform this, you know how amazing Oksana's performance really is.

I watch this as Ukraine is being invaded, cry and think of how beautiful the people and the country is. May this terrible war end quickly. Thank you Oksana for such beauty!

@mie9774

2 жыл бұрын

今でも彼女は私の最高のスケーターです。戦争が直ぐに終ります様に祈ります。そして彼女が幸せでありますよう祈ります。

@monichat

2 жыл бұрын

Ukraine is not to be trusted by its neighbour Russia. In 1941 when the nazis attacked the USSR - Ukraine wanted to join the german armies. Hitler wanted nothing to do with them. Now Ukraine wants to join NATO, at Russia's doorstep. No wonder Russia reacted. But this is going too far now, time to negotiate. I don't want a nuclear war because of Ukraine.

@iulianbelu8413

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Oksana, may god stop the war!

@SharonNewman-dd6gq

8 ай бұрын

its a deepstate stronghold Putin is rescuing trafficked kids and blowing up biolabs there !you people wont look at the truth because you are too distracted and busy with your heads buried in the sand watching the fake media and their LIES The Biden admin are so damned corrupt got their evil dirty hands on all of it

@oiseau_libre

5 ай бұрын

@@mie9774 ❤🇯🇵 arigatoooooo gozaimasu!💛💙

She was everything that Nancy was not. Greatness and elegance combined into one.

@KarmicOmen

7 жыл бұрын

Céhad Dunebuggy And she was humble and gracious.

@ce3464

7 жыл бұрын

In the first minute of this program she showed exactly why artistry is important in figure skating.

@wandaborowy9400

5 жыл бұрын

Nancy was whiny bitch , sucky baby and still is .

@chanel58style70

4 жыл бұрын

Céhad Dunebuggy Thank you for pointing this out. Also, she never did the tougher jumps as the other female skaters did.

@sahpire75

4 жыл бұрын

Nancy wore beautiful designer costumes and always looked polished, but was extremely limited as far as actual talent. In almost all Nancy's programs she has same choreography in most all of them , and no flexibility whatsoever. She was just a much different skater. Oksana was great here

Качество тв-картинки для 1994 года просто потрясающее.

@variasedniv4870

5 ай бұрын

Японія

Usually I feel like figure skaters can never embody the true grace of a ballerina simply because it's just a different art however, coming from professional training as a ballet dancer and now ice skating, this gave me goose bumps. Absolutely blown away! She truly embodied the role and it was gorgeous.

@elizabethalberto268

6 жыл бұрын

Harriet Royle have you ever seen Alina Zagitova's gold medal performance or her short program in PyeongChang Olympics? They're really beatiful, i mean artistry not as god as this one but this two performances give me goosebumps too, it's just a recomendation, and it's okay if you don't like them, everyone have their opinions

@nicolejarel5953

4 жыл бұрын

Purple Gum you should check out Alena Kostornaia! She is bringing artistry back to this beautiful sport!

@colins1358

4 жыл бұрын

Same with women's gymnastics.

@MTknitter22

4 жыл бұрын

Harriet Royle Agree Harriet - rare is it when an ice skater can really incorporate excellent ballet as she does

@MTknitter22

4 жыл бұрын

Purple Gum yup and that is why the sport is losing audience

This is a really hard dance to perform regular flooring. Could only imagine what it must be like incorporating the choreography on ice. No wonder she won the gold 🤙

Ви - прекрасна,Оксаночко! Нехай у вас складається все як найкраще! Українці вас люблять і пам'ятають!!

My mother absolutely adored this woman. I remember watching this with her. I feel like figure skating and ice dancing were a bigger deal back then.

I remember this like it was yesterday. Such emotions can’t be faked like Kerrigan tried to do. This girl skated for her mom like her life depended on it. Only to find out it did. She had lost her mom early in life and she needed this to earn a living on her own. BEAUTIFUL

@christianealshut1123

4 жыл бұрын

Plus at the time she was skating this, she was in great pain - see the bandage on her leg? She had collided with another skater during a warmup or training session.

@46foryounger

4 жыл бұрын

Harriet P she went through a lot after she became famous she struggled a lot in her career due to her emotional problems. It was sad to see but I’m glad she was able to win the medal she certainly deserved it

@RioMuc

3 жыл бұрын

@@46foryounger I think her problems got even bigger after winning the medal, which I very much regret. I don't know what she's doing now, but I hope she's healthy and happy.

@lauragwillim1055

3 жыл бұрын

I remember it too. I loved watching skating with my mom. She was my favorite women’s skater. Her artistry was second to none.

@thelambsauce1701

2 жыл бұрын

@@RioMuc yes they did, which is heartbreaking. She was arrested for crashing a car due to drunk driving. She had a lot of problems with alcohol because she started drinking on a trip to a competition and everyone else was drinking because they were adults whereas she was just a teen. I think she's a few years sober now though and I'm really proud of her!

Her performance was so beautiful. Ｉ could not forget her skating. Thank you.

She skates as if she were Pavlova incarnate. No one before or after has ever skated like this. She is in a class by herself.

@BytomGirl

4 жыл бұрын

She reminds me here of Ulanova.. I am sure she watched her dance it

@Iceis_Phoenix

3 жыл бұрын

She is just darling. I remember watching this live. We are almost same age us 2

@sweetpeach6583

3 жыл бұрын

Whatever happened to Oksana?

@lc6067

3 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. I saw her perform this in ‘94 (on TV) and I’ve never forgotten it. I was stunned then and am still to this day. None before or since like her.

@dreaarc1

2 жыл бұрын

Most beautiful performance ever

Очень красиво... слов нет

1994 ? wow look’s like it was taken yesterday, great HD for 1994..

@MistressGlowWorm

4 жыл бұрын

Kenneth Jake Liwanan The Japanese have that really clear HD tech. It’s awesome.

@mariann8271

4 жыл бұрын

It's always shocking to suddenly encounter a Japanese hd video while watching old performances lmao

@elizabethpease947

3 жыл бұрын

@@MistressGlowWorm ; These Olympics were in Norway.

@MistressGlowWorm

3 жыл бұрын

@@elizabethpease947 However, Japanese film crews were there recording too.

@elizabethpease947

3 жыл бұрын

@@MistressGlowWorm : OK, fine. Oksana wasn’t in the Japanese Winter Olympics, was she?

Oksana could move like no other . Incomparable grace elegance & fluidity

@susansnow7839

6 жыл бұрын

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@facelessman6865

2 жыл бұрын

Agree, My daughter gave me a poster of Oksana she knew I loved her skating so much. We used to watch her my daughter was a toddler, she fid dome skating and won a trophy at 12, she held her foot over her head with her hand, a wonderful moment.

めっちゃきれいだなあ..てか画質良すぎでビビる

Still one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. She looks like she belongs in a music box

Wow, so much control. I’ve never heard of her, but her artistry is impeccable. Better than most of what I see today.

@mnmb3640

4 жыл бұрын

M. H. She was a absolute joy to watch- most of us who saw this performed were def mesmerized and realized immediately she was the real deal- grace and beauty.❤️

@MyFictionalChaos

4 жыл бұрын

"Ive never heard of her" LMFAOOO

@O_P_N

3 жыл бұрын

You must be young if you don't ))) and she is Ukrainian. Who knows where is it? Do you this country? I'm from Ukraine too! 🤩

@ederlifortunato5681

3 жыл бұрын

Top much enphasis on jumps nowadays.

@ederlifortunato5681

3 жыл бұрын

If you like a sport, It is great to watch previous champions and best performers. You will be surprised as How much "novelty" of today was already being done years ago.

I loved the little twitch of her head in a few places like the swan. Such a lovely touch

@biff5856

4 жыл бұрын

I noticed a similar tic in one of Ulyana Lopatkina's performances of Swan Lake. It's the DVD version. Ulyana owns The "SWAN"

これはもうスケートではなく、バレエだ

@dyeu4

Жыл бұрын

いえ、これはスケートです スケートはスケート バレエはバレエ わかりますか？

One of my favorite Ice Skaters doing her signature spin while performing so smooth and graceful.

One of the best programs of all time. Oksanas a true and authentic artist on the ice. She glides and floats. She is the swan.

It's like watching smoke move. It's like her skates don't touch the ice, she just floats on it.

How well she imitates the swan. Super beautiful and elegant!

After all these years, this still reigns supreme as my fave performance of all time. Her arms, lines, the original elements of the dying swam choreography interspersed throughout the routine - amazing. She's the best.

What I think is lacking in Olympic figure skating today (Yuzuru Hanyu being the exception), is elegance and artistry.. I don't think most fans of figure skating only want to see skaters complete a certain number of rotations and landings cleanly. If a skater tells a story with their performance, if their artistry and interpretation of the music moves people emotionally, if they can combine that with athleticism, that is what makes a skating STAR vs. just an amazing athlete, and (sadly) those don't come along very often. The 1994 Winter Olympics was a once in a lifetime event because we had legends like Oksana Baiul and Gordeeva and Grinkov who had it all. Oksana Baiul's performances there were breathtaking and elevating , as good art is. I hope that Yuzuru Hanyu's attempt at performing a quad axel and not sticking the landing at this Olympics, (which cost him a place on the podium to 3 others who skated cleanly but fell short artistically), doesn't deter him from preparing for the next Olympics. We need true artists like Yuzuru in the modern figure skating world.

My all time favorite. She´s a complete artist.

@franciscatherine8756

6 жыл бұрын

NekoPetrovsky I

冒頭で一気に鳥肌が立ちました。 美しい。見事にバレエとフィギュアスケートを融合してますね。

She was something else. What a beautiful skater.

Hard to believe I first saw this 25 years ago. Man time flies

She makes a great swan and it's one of her best roles. Truly amazing.

Still one of the most beautiful ice skating exhibitions I've ever seen.

I haven’t seen this much artistry in skating in long a while. I feel like skating now has become so much more about jumps and technique that the artistry is lost in the sport. So mesmerizing...

A breathtakingly exquisite routine , one that still moves me to tears almost 30 years after it was first performed. ❤❤

Does anyone else cry when they see her skating? Or is it just me?

I am from the same city. Odessa. We have one of the most beautiful Opera House in the world. We all grew up watching ballet.

Her Artistry will live on FOREVER!! SHE WAS TOTALLY MESMERIZING!

She casts a spell... what beautiful, exquisite performance! Loved it. I had not seen this one, surely her best.

That's what happens when you mix two amazing forms of art together. That's the best performance I've ever seen.

Exquisite. She is the standard of grace and artistry in women’s figure skating.

Isso é arte... que interpretação, leveza, elegância

Breathtakingly beautiful and timeless.

Perfect example of why she will always be my favorite.

To this day, I cry when I watch this orphan girl of 15...so much feeling, so athletic, so exquisitely beautiful.

Восхитительно! 👏👏👏

This performance still gives me the chills after so many years. It's like watching for the first time all over again!!! What a great talent!

Will never forget you! Praying for your country.🙏

I was about 10 when this was going on. I heard of her and knew she was a champion but am just now seeing how good she was. I've never seen showmanship on an ice skater like this.

Okasana Baiul, what a delicate, sweet and elegant flower she is. She stole the hearts of hundreds of millions all over the world.

I shed tears for the first time while watching figure skating during this performance. Beautiful.

Most beautiful performances I’ve seen

Still one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen in this world and we are in the 2022.

I can watch this a million times over & it never gets old. I'm watching it again now & thinking of what's happening in Ukraine & am so sad to see what's happening in Oksana's home country. Prayers for Ukraine & all Ukrainians 💛💙

@oiseau_libre

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for your compassion and support!❤🤗

I love this performance. Oksana herself was injured, so it adds to the parallels with the 'dying swan' routine (which shouldn't be confused with the white swan of the 'Swan Lake'. This is from 'The carnival of animals', in which a swan appears after getting wounded, sort of like having a last flight before death) I wish she would have stayed longer around skating. She's so graceful, and you can see raw passion behind her performances, which I prefer above the 'mechanical doll' that does everything perfectly and lacks emotion.

@heatherstephens8921

6 жыл бұрын

Lu! w

@rzcification

6 жыл бұрын

Lu! This is from Swan Lake...

@rzcification

6 жыл бұрын

Lu! This is from Swan Lake...

@jonathanm.9801

5 жыл бұрын

rzcification this is not from swan lake. It’s from saint saens carnival of the animals.

@L.Spencer

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think I realized this is from Swan Lake, thanks!

There is something archetypical about this performance. I really don't even care about figure skating, but the beauty, femininity, and grace of this performance is undeniable. It's universally beautiful. Her performance almost defines the word itself.

"One Moment Of Perfect Beauty"

Oksana is poetry in motion. So much death and sadness in her young life and still radiates happiness.

this was for her mama

The most beautiful performance on ice I've ever seen.

@janglass8219

2 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@ladypamela2

2 жыл бұрын

@@janglass8219 me three!!

The beginning was so intricate - breathtaking!

@nathanboecker9318

6 жыл бұрын

That part was an almost exact recreation of a famous ballet solo to the same music. She really nailed the technique and artistry like a ballerina.

@dinh5532

5 жыл бұрын

That part was amazing. She didn't even started skating yet got an applause for that movement.

Her childlike imagination of swan. Exquisite performance on the ice.

Нет равных!!!!

To this day... June 22, 2021... this is the loveliest... most graceful... most beautiful performance I have EVER seen on ice. 🙏❤🇺🇲✌

Breath-taking. Well done, Oksana!

Вот это и есть БАЛЕТ НА ЛЬДУ! Восхитительно! That's called BALLET ON ICE! Perfect!

The best, most beautiful performance of these whole games!!!! She is the queen!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Saw this performance live also the pressure was off n she skated for her mother stunning!! Also all her skating at this Olympics was a tender thank you to a compassionate coach who took her in to her home n not only coached Oksanas talent to winning the gold but gave love n stability to a little girl who had lost everything God Bless You Madame Pechenko (please excuse spelling) 👏🏻⛸️

Beautiful finale! Oh Oksana ... I remember you ! I knew you’d win the Gold ! I hope your life has been wonderful and good.

Mein Gott, wie schön das ist!

На нее можно смотреть и смотреть... бесконечно...

Да! Одна из самых - самых лучших коротких программ! Сейчас, имея возможность оценивать по прошествии времени, видно, что это действительно так!

@user-iv4lf6xm2x

4 жыл бұрын

Но один прыжок она сделала, второй сорвала, сейчас бы этот прокат даже с технической точки зрения бы и не оценили....

@Tutsi95

4 жыл бұрын

Это показательные выступления)в короткой она черный лебедь)

@user-pi5et3dv6u

4 жыл бұрын

А что главное прыжки? Она танцует сердцем, а не попрыгунчик какой-то.

@user-iv4lf6xm2x

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-pi5et3dv6u, таки фигурное катание это спорт! А не дискотека в колхозе!

@user-pi5et3dv6u

4 жыл бұрын

Это красивый спорт, и ставят танцы хореографы. А дискотека в колхозе - это современное фигурное скакание.

So good she allows the viewer to forget how strenuous it all is . Artistry on skates.

This makes me cry even now, decades later. It's so, so, very beautiful and elegant. It's perfect. Perfect things make me cry. I had never heard of any tragedy she had experienced. I cried because it was so perfect that it expressed something of the best in humankind. Loveliness. A human putting her entire heart into something. I think it's one of the most ideal performances of any kind in human history. I wish I had a magic music box, like a little ice rink that you could open and the girl would magically do this whole routine with the perfect hands and the delicate yet bold swan head shake. The whole performance was a dream. 🦢 And the amazing thing is that I start crying within the first few seconds.

@noyb6200

Жыл бұрын

I cry too, so moving & just innocent. Perfection.

@davidinkpen4688

Жыл бұрын

si exactly how o feel this performance.

Absolutely the most beautiful thing I have ever seen on ice.

On the ice she is the definition of Graceful art.

Ballet con patinaje, es lo mas celestial que he visto❤️❤️

Skaters were so artistic back then .skaters today may be more skilled like theyr doing quads but no skaters have artistic side nowadays. :(

I just saw the winner of the 2018 women's figure skating....amazing skater! But this here....make me cry...it is SO TOUCHING!!!

She didn’t piece together elements like most skaters. The choreography was beautiful. She is my all time favorite skater.

@bornonthesideofahill

4 жыл бұрын

Me too!

She and Gordeeva were like exquisite ballerinas on ice - absolutely incomparable.

@agnes15101968

4 жыл бұрын

So you remember Gordeeva too...... Unforgettable for me.

@MTknitter22

4 жыл бұрын

agnes15101968 oh yes.

@biff5856

4 жыл бұрын

I agree wholeheartedly. Ekaterina and Oksana, I don't think we'll see the likes of them again. BTW. An absolutely fabulous, sensuous program check Ekaterina's "Reflejo de Luna" by Alacran. It's a tango number on KZread. My favorite.

I remember this performance - so perfect! She did a marvelous job combining ballet with ice skating to capture the mood and moves of the music.

Ballet on ice. Absolutely a true ice princess 👸🏻😍

she is a legend!! thats the real art on ice

Oksana danced incredibly beautifully! It was very spectacular, clean, gentle, just a real high-class ballerina! The dance is admirable! Sumptuously! Bravo! Above all praise!

So incredibly beautifully talented she was.

Stunning artist....her story moved and excited me ❤

This is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. So graceful. So wonderful.

Великолепно! Какие руки восхитительные! Не каждая балерина такие руки может показать))

I was 10 when I watched this and thought she looked exactly like a swan on a frozen pond. So captivating, graceful, and beautiful.

Beautiful....

OMG, Pavlova on ice. Breathtaking. Thank you.

My God. It was absolutely mesmerizing. I know Oksana had some tech problems (especially her landings) but the level of artistry it's incredible. Delicate, soft and yet passionate. So in character.

Wow! She actually BECAME the Swan!

Прекрасно! Летала ! Настоящая Мая Плисецкая на льду! Браво!

Still the most breathtaking performance I’ve ever seen 💖