She just had the „certain something“. This program was a tribute from Katarina to Sarajevo, where she had won her first Olympic Gold medal 10 years before. During the war in the 90s the skating rink where the Olympic competition took place had been completely destroyed, like most of Sarajevo. Katarina was so sad about this that she decided to make this program as a tribute to the people there. The song „where have all the flowers gone“ is actually a sad song about the war. She had this music arranged for her. The steps from 2.58 for example resemble the marching of soldiers. Katarina wanted to go to the Olympics one more time not to win a medal, just for herself as a free person without the pressure of having to win. She wanted to enjoy the Olympic experience, she said in an interview some years ago.
Zetra Rink is now rebuilt if anyone is in Sarajevo. It's a walk or a bus ride far outside the old city but you can walk easily if you know the city. They have public skating and if you are nice, will let you look around the locker rooms and things. It's very special.
Katarina Witt ist wahrlich die Göttin des weiblichen Eiskunstlaufs. Ihr Stil ist bis heute wirklich unübertroffen und sie machte ihr Land stolz. Vielen Dank, Katarina, für alles, was Sie getan haben
For me she won gold with this performance.Ex Yugoslavia was my homeland(now Croatia)and i remember Sarajevo Olympics like it was yesterday!We were so proud for having it in Sarajevo.She made this beautiful tribute for this beautiful town under siege for almost 4 years.Thank you again Katarina!We will never forget you💐🌹🌺🌼🌻
she changed my life forever with this performance when I realized what art could do. She was just in another category from all the other lovely skaters. So incredible- we are still re watching years later
I remember watching this and being so moved. I'm sure she had some hopes of getting a medal when she went in to compete (I mean, who wouldn't?) but by this time it would have been clear to her that it wasn't going to happen. But you know what? All the others were trying to outdo each other with jumps and leaps and showing off their technique, and Witt went out there doing a sincere, heartfelt routine. Sure, it may be low-key, it may not be the greatest ever...but there's emotion and heart behind it, rather than just raw ambition, and that makes a huge difference.
Truer words have never been spoken. I didn't see this Olympics because I wasn't born yet, but I like watching videos of these performances because I'm interested in Olympic history. Watching this moves me to tears every time. Without a doubt the most heartfelt performance of the games, and it didn't have to be risky and daring for it to be so. If only we could see more of that feeling these days.
She did not have any hopes to medal. Yet, she was disappointed, look at her face. Her performance at her German Nationals 94 was the closest the she would want to get it to be. But still: She made her point . She was beautiful out there. @@unleashedgeek7295
I'm not a great lip-reader, but it looks like, after she brings her hands down and has that disappointed look, she says, "I'm sorry." Like she had hoped to do better, not for a medal, but for whomever she was honoring with her skate.
glazgogirl she said in an interview that she was honoring the people of Sarajevo with this program! She had won her first Olympic gold there 10 years before, an in 1994 there was a bad war, and most of Sarajevo got destroyed, including the Olympic ice rink. Katarina was very sad 😔
I watched these Olympics as a kid was always oddly moved by Witt. I didn't know her history well, TH-cam wasn't invented yet, but I remember my mom asking "Why are you so obsessed with her?" Lied about the boobs. Girl knew what she was doing, delivering a banging program, full of flaws and all.
I remember watching this performance to the tune of Where have all the flowers gone? and wishing a gold medal for such an emotional tribute to the people of Sarajevo, and not being able to stop the tears while watching Katarina. To me she is the best.
Such a beautiful woman, such a great, talented skater, such an emotional program! Like to watch again and again. A great moment of figure skating. Katarina forever!
wow.. it's been 27 years. But every time when I hear "Where Have all the Flowers gone", her magical interpretation of this song surface right away. It's so powerful and emotional. Despite the technical glitches, it only mattered for the competition, but at the end, after 27 years, it is the only performance in that year's Olympics that sticks to my heart.
It felt like she was so gallant and determined at first, then felt like she was a soul mourning for those around her, dancing through ruins and bodies, and then finally looked as if she glided into a meadow where she relived memories of a youth gliding through flowers whilst the breeze surrounds her
@August Marx, What a beautiful, poetic interpretation of Katharina's skating program!⛸🥀⛸ Now, I like this performance of K.Witt even more! Thank you for sharing!👍🤗
Classic elegance, a great, great lady. The judges were very unkind to humiliate her as they did, but she took it with dignity and true sportsmanship. I remember the moment very clearly,: the BBC commentator said “That’s no way to treat a great skater.”
@@vegasgirl3538 She actually only competed there so her parents could finally be there to watch her perform at the Olympics, because both times she won her parents weren't allowed to travel outside of the DDR
@@vegasgirl3538 She knew herself that she wasn't going to medal, the technical score was fair, but the artistic impression was too low imo. There were many programs that were so much more boring that had higher AIs
Ich habe mir in den letzten zwei Wochen viele Küren von Katarina Witt und ihren Konkurrentinnen angeschaut. Ich bin der totale Laie, aber ich kann feststellen: Sie war künstlerisch immer eine Nase vorn. Da steckt eine enorme Detailversessenheit drin, in einer Kür die Musik so gut umzusetzen. Das sieht man schon bei der Carmen-Kür und wenn man sieht, was Debbi Thomas daraus gemacht hat. Die Juroren sahen es ja ähnlich in all den Jahren. In den 80ern war sie ja technisch topp. Hier in Lillehammer hat sie aufgrund zweier Fehler schlechtere technische Bewertungen bekommen. Sicherlich ist es schwieriger für eine 28-jährige mit etwas mehr Speck auf den Hüften als die Teenager-Konkurrenz, alle Sprünge perfekt hinzukriegen. Das war abzusehen und unter den Umständen ist der siebte Platz grandios. Schon die Titelverteidigung 1988 war ja eine enorme Leistung. Und da sieht man, was für eine Ausnahmeerscheinung Katarina Witt war.
Катарина Витт прощалась со своими болельщиками!ей не надо ничего доказывать, ОНА самая титулованная в мире,просто катается в своё удовольствие!С ней УШЛА ЭПОХА !
Она самая лучшая, самая красивая, самая женственная, в ней все гармонично! Самая лучшая фигуристка за всю историю фигурного катания! Как Майкл Джордан в баскетболе, Пеле в футболе и т.д.
Unforgetible! Schindler's list! My friend Branko Lustig Auschwits survivor from Croatia got Oscar for this moovie. Amazing skating - she bow to all Holocaust survivors. Thank you Katarina, nobody did it . 🙏🏻🙏🏻 I am crying.
Ich verbeuge mich auch vor den Überlebenden von Schindlers Liste und trauere um die Nichtübetlebenden. War grausam und macht mich heute noch traurig über die Grausamkeiten von Deutschland begangen. Ich kann mich nur dafür entschuldigen und um Vergebung bitten, obwohl der Onkel Hitler nicht mit mir verwandt war. Gott sein Dank, ich wäre wahrscheinlich, vielleicht auch ein Opfer geworden.
Where have the flowers gone long time passing is a wondeful tribute she did and the song has a lot of meaning also. My significant other passed away last Feb on the 6th and he loved gardens and planting vegetables and the such!! I will miss him again this summer and spring!! I have planted 3 Clematis vines in his honor 1 was donated the other 2 I bought 1 full price the other half off. they did great last year and hopefully again this year. He loved to be outdoors but he developed cancer Kidney but he did what he could do in the sun chemo doesn't let your body sweat so he had to be very careful and I had to tell him when enough was enough or he would listen to his body. This song means so much to katerina Witt and me also. Where have all the flowers Gone??? I will see my flower/angel in heaven and he knows this and we will be buried together he was only 73 he died on Feb 6th 1 month after his birthday on Jan 6th 2018. He lived a very active life even before I met him and he loved the outdoors and so do I!! I help a friend with her horse and they both love me!! See you in heaven my Richard till the end and forever we will be together my one and only love!!
I know the whole ~classic~ figure skating crowd loves to debate all of these performances, who should have won, how unfair the judging system was, etc. But as someone who only really started watching figure skating in the past few years (and doesn't have any childhood nostalgia and biases clouding my opinions) I gotta say, SO many of these women's performances from the 80s and 90s seem so similar and simple with just the bare minimum of arm flailing passing for choreography. THIS program, however, has true artistry. I could watch this again and again.
victreebel She in my opinion, and I remember watching this performance, was more powerful to me with her grace and the way she skated. She was powerful and her jumps seemed so effortless to me. I think her and Tonya, in my opinion, were both strong athletic and Nancy was more cautious and safe? They all were beautiful and each mastered their place in skating history.
Exactly. She still passed off in 1994 by showing up trying to say something. Her contribution to the sport was the creation of programs that wanted more than just a few triples. It demanded acknowledgment of the music. A character to identify with. Not just a Lutz with a smile.
I remember watching this back in 1996. I watched it and said what a ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL performance. Although not her most technical performance her ability to bring so much feeling and emotion with warmth, passion , and beauty, this may have been one of her very best. You can have brilliant performances without a million jumps and triples. Thank god for TH-cam to bring back memories we can see today. PEACE
Здесь она после некоторой паузы опять вернулась в большой спорт.Возраст тоже чувствуется. Но Катарина есть Катарина! Ее помнит лед, ее помнит зритель, ее помнят соперники. Легендарная спортсменка! Ничего не скажешь!
In the TP, the American judge gave the lowest scores. This time, it was the Ukranian judge. I would've given her no less than a 5.1 in technical merit and 5.8 for artistic impression. 5.1 for AI is such a joke
@@mht4908 Sorry, but we usually grade her very highly. We foolishly are among the highest to countries that have been found to have been in corruption and trade offs with the Soviets against us. Thats so like us and so like them.
Art in the best way we can imagine. Katarina Witt is and will be the best single skater (men and women) in the world in the kind how she captivated every event the whole audience. Breathtaking.....
I recorded this on my VHS in 1994 and watched it over and over again. Thanks for sharing this video. This was one of the best programs in figure skating history, so moving and so touching. As figure skating is one of Olympic "sports", most skater concentrate on their technical skills even now and back then. However this presentation by Katarina showed us that figure skating is really an "art" itself. Numerical values cannot show the value of her artistic expression except if we could count the number of hearts that she stole from the crowd. I think her decision to participate in the 1994 Olympics was what made her a true legend.
I was a child in the 80s and remember watching her at the Olympics when she was winning. She was so beautiful to me. Lucky lady. Not only talented but also pretty!
This is her legacy to the world. Made me so sad especially the slow piano part. Last time 4 us see her on the ice last run in Competition. How sad she feel About that i dont know. Her Face at the end of her program speaks a sad Person to me too. Sad of falling sad of this is it. Her preformance made me weet eyes. Because it is so touching.
Makes the hairs in the back of my neck stand up. On her farewell tour in Berlin this performance was played on a huge video screen at one end of the rink and at the slow section she came out onto the ice and skated it live.
First time to watch in 2021. I was born in 1997and never knew that she returned the Olympic after the Carmen. What a queen on the Olympic Ice. I wish I had watched the legend on TV
Katarina should have just done a special exhibition performance at these Olympics with this program. While being brave to compete, she just wasn't bringing the technical content. Her layback was stunning here.
Ich erinnere mich an das Zeichen, was die gesetzt hat, gen den Jugoslavien-Krieg. Und die Welt auf die Grausamkeiten aufmerksam gemacht hat Tolle Kür, " Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind die geblieben??."
The year men decided to watch figure skating BECAUSE OF HER 😃💥🤩 and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” is a PERFECT song for Remembrance Day Ceremonies.
She did the right thing. To express her pain about the war and also her own pain of losing her identity war more important for her instead of winning with an easier topic. She is still the queen, a role model for everyone and unforgetable.
and here I thought Katarina skated the 94 Olympics for her parents, the wall came down in 91 and her parents could finally leave the country see her skate at the Olympics.
Приятно смотреть на Катарину! Ее стиль, всегда целомудренные костюмы! А сейчас что мы видим в женском одиночном, особенно у нас, полу-голые нимфетки, которые становятся как бы звёздами в 11-13 лет, а в 17 лет уже уходят на пенсию.
Я конечно, все понимаю, что Катарина - легенда, но….. именно она в моду голые платья в ФК внедрила и именно из-за нее правила меняли… Вы либо слишком молоды и не знаете, либо ничего не знаете о женском фигурном катании. В прошлом Россия не имела сильной сборной в женском одиночном, а в других странах полно было девочек, которые также как сейчас наши участвовали только на одной Олимпиаде, становились призерами и о них благополучно забывали…
Незнаю где вы там красоту увидели по сравнению с нынешними фигуристками пархающими как бабочки на льду она похожа на дракона размахывающего своими огромными крыльями.
@@НадеждаИльина-е4э Ноги очень короткие. Если коньки снять совсем катастрофа. Жопастая, сисястая, на мордаху красивая... вообщем для старпера Хонекера the best. Устойчивая тётя и на льду, и в прочих делах:-D
![[HD] Oksana Baiul - 1994 Lillehammer Olympic - Free Skating](/img/n.gif)
She just had the „certain something“.
This program was a tribute from Katarina to Sarajevo, where she had won her first Olympic Gold medal 10 years before. During the war in the 90s the skating rink where the Olympic competition took place had been completely destroyed, like most of Sarajevo. Katarina was so sad about this that she decided to make this program as a tribute to the people there. The song „where have all the flowers gone“ is actually a sad song about the war. She had this music arranged for her. The steps from 2.58 for example resemble the marching of soldiers.
Katarina wanted to go to the Olympics one more time not to win a medal, just for herself as a free person without the pressure of having to win. She wanted to enjoy the Olympic experience, she said in an interview some years ago.
She also wanted her parents to attend the Olympics because they could not do so before
Yes, and she wanted to have her parents as audience for the first and last time, before she finshed...
Totally agreed.
Yeah that something was her tits. Fucking huge
Zetra Rink is now rebuilt if anyone is in Sarajevo. It's a walk or a bus ride far outside the old city but you can walk easily if you know the city. They have public skating and if you are nice, will let you look around the locker rooms and things. It's very special.
Hat alles immer gestimmt, mit Herz immer dabei, man kann Sie nicht vergessen! Einfach eine Legende auf dem Eis !!!!
Richtig und man vergisst sie nicht.
Klasse in Perfektion!❤
Katarina Witt ist wahrlich die Göttin des weiblichen Eiskunstlaufs. Ihr Stil ist bis heute wirklich unübertroffen und sie machte ihr Land stolz. Vielen Dank, Katarina, für alles, was Sie getan haben
One of the most unforgettable performance in Figure skating. Such a beautiful tribute she did to the people of Sarajevo.
true
For me she won gold with this performance.Ex Yugoslavia was my homeland(now Croatia)and i remember Sarajevo Olympics like it was yesterday!We were so proud for having it in Sarajevo.She made this beautiful tribute for this beautiful town under siege for almost 4 years.Thank you again Katarina!We will never forget you💐🌹🌺🌼🌻
she changed my life forever with this performance when I realized what art could do. She was just in another category from all the other lovely skaters. So incredible- we are still re watching years later
Das sehe ich auch so als ehemaliger DDR Bürger, sie war Weltklasse, hatte alles gestimmt. ❤
@@HeinzReusche DDR had some really great athletes!My favourite was gymnast Maxi Gnauck!❤️🤸♀️
Japanese film quality was superb even back then. Incredible.
No.
This was held in Norway.
@@dmitrijkuznetsov8053 What do you mean No!? Are you freaking blind!? What country you from? Japanese are always advanced in technology. Idiot!!
@@nassauguy48 But this was filmed for japanese television hence the japanese commentator.
Not film, analog HD (MUSE) tape.
Ein Idol meiner Jugend... Einzigartige Athletin und bis heute unübertroffen.
Sehe ich auch so, unübertroffen in Schönheit, Eleganz, Können und Darbietung in ihrem Outfit. ❤❤❤
I love Katharina
I remember watching this and being so moved. I'm sure she had some hopes of getting a medal when she went in to compete (I mean, who wouldn't?) but by this time it would have been clear to her that it wasn't going to happen. But you know what? All the others were trying to outdo each other with jumps and leaps and showing off their technique, and Witt went out there doing a sincere, heartfelt routine. Sure, it may be low-key, it may not be the greatest ever...but there's emotion and heart behind it, rather than just raw ambition, and that makes a huge difference.
Truer words have never been spoken. I didn't see this Olympics because I wasn't born yet, but I like watching videos of these performances because I'm interested in Olympic history. Watching this moves me to tears every time. Without a doubt the most heartfelt performance of the games, and it didn't have to be risky and daring for it to be so. If only we could see more of that feeling these days.
She did not have any hopes to medal. Yet, she was disappointed, look at her face. Her performance at her German Nationals 94 was the closest the she would want to get it to be. But still: She made her point
. She was beautiful out there. @@unleashedgeek7295
I'm not a great lip-reader, but it looks like, after she brings her hands down and has that disappointed look, she says, "I'm sorry." Like she had hoped to do better, not for a medal, but for whomever she was honoring with her skate.
glazgogirl she said in an interview that she was honoring the people of Sarajevo with this program! She had won her first Olympic gold there 10 years before, an in 1994 there was a bad war, and most of Sarajevo got destroyed, including the Olympic ice rink. Katarina was very sad 😔
I watched these Olympics as a kid was always oddly moved by Witt. I didn't know her history well, TH-cam wasn't invented yet, but I remember my mom asking "Why are you so obsessed with her?"
Lied about the boobs. Girl knew what she was doing, delivering a banging program, full of flaws and all.
I remember watching this performance to the tune of Where have all the flowers gone? and wishing a gold medal for such an emotional tribute to the people of Sarajevo, and not being able to stop the tears while watching Katarina. To me she is the best.
Such a beautiful woman, such a great, talented skater, such an emotional program! Like to watch again and again. A great moment of figure skating. Katarina forever!
Katarina war zu ihrer Zeit unvergleichlich und ich habe immer mitgefiebert. 🤩
Eine der schönsten Eiskunstläuferinen aller Zeiten ... die Beste sowieso :-) Was für eine Frau !
wow.. it's been 27 years. But every time when I hear "Where Have all the Flowers gone", her magical interpretation of this song surface right away. It's so powerful and emotional. Despite the technical glitches, it only mattered for the competition, but at the end, after 27 years, it is the only performance in that year's Olympics that sticks to my heart.
Sie hat es absolut gut präsentiert. !!❤
It felt like she was so gallant and determined at first, then felt like she was a soul mourning for those around her, dancing through ruins and bodies, and then finally looked as if she glided into a meadow where she relived memories of a youth gliding through flowers whilst the breeze surrounds her
@August Marx, What a beautiful, poetic interpretation of Katharina's skating program!⛸🥀⛸ Now, I like this performance of K.Witt even more! Thank you for sharing!👍🤗
Vi el video nuevamente después de leer tu comentario y realmente transmitió mucho sentimiento en su rutina.. 👏👏👏bravo Katarina Witt.🌹.
Катарина Витт-выдающееся фигуристка!!! Она обогнала своё время!!!!
Ранее Габриэль Зейферт, Аннет Петч
2019...................she is still the QUEEN!!!!!!!!!!
Я люблю её
She is the Cousin of my grandma LOL
She IS THE QUEEN!
♥️QUEEN KATARINA✊QUEEN ALINA ZAGITOVA✊♥️
@@МайраАмренова-ю1н YEAHHH I love them both, but my heart belongs to Alina
Classic elegance, a great, great lady. The judges were very unkind to humiliate her as they did, but she took it with dignity and true sportsmanship. I remember the moment very clearly,: the BBC commentator said “That’s no way to treat a great skater.”
She finally got the low scores that she deserved.
Her routines had zero technical difficulty. She's beautiful to watch because everything she does is easy. She really didn't deserve to medal.
@@vegasgirl3538 She actually only competed there so her parents could finally be there to watch her perform at the Olympics, because both times she won her parents weren't allowed to travel outside of the DDR
@@vegasgirl3538 She knew herself that she wasn't going to medal, the technical score was fair, but the artistic impression was too low imo. There were many programs that were so much more boring that had higher AIs
@@toms9864 why make ugly unkind comments?
カタリーナビットの大ファンです
当時、この演技を見て感動と涙が出て止まりませんでした
自身が金メダルを取ったサラエボが戦場になり平和の象徴だった開会式のスタジアムが墓地になるなど、どうしてもこのメッセージを届けたかったんだと思います
今一度この演技を世界中の人に見て欲しいです
Fantastische Läuferin.....die ewige Eiskunstlauf- Königin !
Einfach berührend und wunderschön, auch ohne großartige Hebefiguren. Aber mit sooo viel Gefühl,was ich bei den meisten nicht gesehen habe 😍💞
Ich habe mir in den letzten zwei Wochen viele Küren von Katarina Witt und ihren Konkurrentinnen angeschaut. Ich bin der totale Laie, aber ich kann feststellen: Sie war künstlerisch immer eine Nase vorn. Da steckt eine enorme Detailversessenheit drin, in einer Kür die Musik so gut umzusetzen. Das sieht man schon bei der Carmen-Kür und wenn man sieht, was Debbi Thomas daraus gemacht hat. Die Juroren sahen es ja ähnlich in all den Jahren. In den 80ern war sie ja technisch topp.
Hier in Lillehammer hat sie aufgrund zweier Fehler schlechtere technische Bewertungen bekommen. Sicherlich ist es schwieriger für eine 28-jährige mit etwas mehr Speck auf den Hüften als die Teenager-Konkurrenz, alle Sprünge perfekt hinzukriegen. Das war abzusehen und unter den Umständen ist der siebte Platz grandios. Schon die Titelverteidigung 1988 war ja eine enorme Leistung. Und da sieht man, was für eine Ausnahmeerscheinung Katarina Witt war.
Sorry das war eigendlich der Kommentar für die Finalkür von Joey + Ramona in
,,dancing on ice,, gedacht 🤔
Bei den neuen,heutigen Hebefiguren kann ich nicht hinsehen.Mit viel Risiko verbunden .
До сих пор пересматриваю.Величайшая фигуристка❤🌹
Сейчас так не катаются
Катарина Витт прощалась со своими болельщиками!ей не надо ничего доказывать, ОНА самая титулованная в мире,просто катается в своё удовольствие!С ней УШЛА ЭПОХА !
Не,не самая.Было и побольше титулов.
@@Alexandr_Alexandrovich. у кого?
@@ТатьянаРысева-и9у Соня Хени
Она самая лучшая, самая красивая, самая женственная, в ней все гармонично! Самая лучшая фигуристка за всю историю фигурного катания! Как Майкл Джордан в баскетболе, Пеле в футболе и т.д.
Легенда Фигурного Катания ЛЮБИМИЦА БОЛЕЛЬЩИКОВ ВСЕГО МИРА!
Einfach toll!
Unforgetible! Schindler's list! My friend Branko Lustig Auschwits survivor from Croatia got Oscar for this moovie. Amazing skating - she bow to all Holocaust survivors. Thank you Katarina, nobody did it . 🙏🏻🙏🏻 I am crying.
Ich verbeuge mich auch vor den Überlebenden von Schindlers Liste und trauere um die Nichtübetlebenden.
War grausam und macht mich heute noch traurig über die Grausamkeiten von Deutschland begangen.
Ich kann mich nur dafür entschuldigen und um Vergebung bitten, obwohl der Onkel Hitler nicht mit mir verwandt war. Gott sein Dank, ich wäre wahrscheinlich, vielleicht auch ein Opfer geworden.
So proud of the GB judge for giving a 5.8 for artistic impression (but it should have been 6.0)
❤ GB ❤
Where have the flowers gone long time passing is a wondeful tribute she did and the song has a lot of meaning also. My significant other passed away last Feb on the 6th and he loved gardens and planting vegetables and the such!! I will miss him again this summer and spring!! I have planted 3 Clematis vines in his honor 1 was donated the other 2 I bought 1 full price the other half off. they did great last year and hopefully again this year. He loved to be outdoors but he developed cancer Kidney but he did what he could do in the sun chemo doesn't let your body sweat so he had to be very careful and I had to tell him when enough was enough or he would listen to his body. This song means so much to katerina Witt and me also. Where have all the flowers Gone??? I will see my flower/angel in heaven and he knows this and we will be buried together he was only 73 he died on Feb 6th 1 month after his birthday on Jan 6th 2018. He lived a very active life even before I met him and he loved the outdoors and so do I!! I help a friend with her horse and they both love me!! See you in heaven my Richard till the end and forever we will be together my one and only love!!
Катарина легенда фигурного катания!
Катарина ВЕЛИКАЯ ФИГУРИСТКА!!! СПАСИБО
Да, и кто сейчас катается в 29 лет? Жаль, утрачено искусство. Сейчас все, как машины. Медведева исключение более менее.
@@rosarosa8593 ... und Yuzuru Hanyu, Japan
I know the whole ~classic~ figure skating crowd loves to debate all of these performances, who should have won, how unfair the judging system was, etc. But as someone who only really started watching figure skating in the past few years (and doesn't have any childhood nostalgia and biases clouding my opinions) I gotta say, SO many of these women's performances from the 80s and 90s seem so similar and simple with just the bare minimum of arm flailing passing for choreography. THIS program, however, has true artistry. I could watch this again and again.
victreebel She in my opinion, and I remember watching this performance, was more powerful to me with her grace and the way she skated. She was powerful and her jumps seemed so effortless to me. I think her and Tonya, in my opinion, were both strong athletic and Nancy was more cautious and safe? They all were beautiful and each mastered their place in skating history.
Exactly. She still passed off in 1994 by showing up trying to say something. Her contribution to the sport was the creation of programs that wanted more than just a few triples. It demanded acknowledgment of the music. A character to identify with. Not just a Lutz with a smile.
Through out her stellar career, she was the ultimate show woman of artistic skating. Unmatched!
I remember watching this back in 1996. I watched it and said what a ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL
performance. Although not her most technical performance her ability to bring so much feeling
and emotion with warmth, passion , and beauty, this may have been one of her very best. You can have brilliant performances without a million jumps and triples.
Thank god for TH-cam to bring back memories we can see today.
PEACE
Здесь она после некоторой паузы опять вернулась в большой спорт.Возраст тоже чувствуется. Но Катарина есть Катарина! Ее помнит лед, ее помнит зритель, ее помнят соперники. Легендарная спортсменка! Ничего не скажешь!
Действительно возраст под 30.Итоге 7 место, переживала Ютта Мюллер.Не получился тройной аксель программе
Here in the USA we fell in love with this amazing young lady...and never let her go. Glad to use the American judges stood by her. God bless her!
In the TP, the American judge gave the lowest scores. This time, it was the Ukranian judge. I would've given her no less than a 5.1 in technical merit and 5.8 for artistic impression. 5.1 for AI is such a joke
@@mht4908 Sorry, but we usually grade her very highly. We foolishly are among the highest to countries that have been found to have been in corruption and trade offs with the Soviets against us. Thats so like us and so like them.
that straight line sequence to the military drums gives me chills to this day
私は 当時、この演技をライブで観ていました。感動で涙が溢れ、彼女はこれを伝えたくて戻ったのだと思いました。
未だにこのような感動を、覚えた演技に逢えません。何度もこの配信を観に来ていますが、やはり涙が溢れます。
世界の不安な情勢に際し、改めて、彼女の想いを感じます。
She had class !
Like the gymnast Svetlana Bouginskaya; class, grace, & elegance in their art.
That camera quality though . ... 1994???? Astounding
91clarie 1994 good old days.
That’s what I was thinking too.
Guess it was filmed using one of these:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_HDVS
KH (HST) technology..
Да, кстати. Мы выходим из соглашения о непротиводействии национальным средствам технических разведок.
Her performance is extraordinarily!
Katarina will forever be a Queen on the ice...
I think her performance was gold.
A true Queen of the Ice - always breathtaking, always regal.
Du bist die Beste..unvergessen die Momente wo ich atemlos vor dem TV saß
She is so great. Love to wach Katarina Witt and You have in HD version. That is fantastisch. Thank You.
東ドイツの人だったと記憶している。今日のように観客を喜ばせるウルトラジャンプや衣裳の華麗さはないけれども、何かいぶし銀を思わせる演技ではないかと思う。女性らしいしなやかさ、それに裏打ちされた情感ゆたかな表現力はみごととしか云いようがない。表情は、悲しげでさえある。UPに感謝。
Art in the best way we can imagine. Katarina Witt is and will be the best single skater (men and women) in the world in the kind how she captivated every event the whole audience. Breathtaking.....
Stilvoll und elegant 🌹
The quality! I can't believe this is from the 90's
What a tribute to the people of Sarajevo Katarina Witt made that night. I remember watching this on television and was just moved by this performance.
UGH! The video quality! Outstanding! And refreshing to see the program from different camera angles than the US Olympic coverage.
Yes love the different camera angles too
One of my favorite performances by her, always will remember this.
I recorded this on my VHS in 1994 and watched it over and over again. Thanks for sharing this video. This was one of the best programs in figure skating history, so moving and so touching. As figure skating is one of Olympic "sports", most skater concentrate on their technical skills even now and back then. However this presentation by Katarina showed us that figure skating is really an "art" itself. Numerical values cannot show the value of her artistic expression except if we could count the number of hearts that she stole from the crowd. I think her decision to participate in the 1994 Olympics was what made her a true legend.
She just looks so effortless and everything she does looks like it’s done with grace and ease.
I was a child in the 80s and remember watching her at the Olympics when she was winning. She was so beautiful to me. Lucky lady. Not only talented but also pretty!
Just beautiful!
This is her legacy to the world. Made me so sad especially the slow piano part. Last time 4 us see her on the ice last run in Competition. How sad she feel About that i dont know. Her Face at the end of her program speaks a sad Person to me too. Sad of falling sad of this is it. Her preformance made me weet eyes. Because it is so touching.
Makes the hairs in the back of my neck stand up. On her farewell tour in Berlin this performance was played on a huge video screen at one end of the rink and at the slow section she came out onto the ice and skated it live.
Просто прекрасно. Слов нет. Апладисиенты, браво, бис🌹 ❄⛄☃️🌨☔💪👑
First time to watch in 2021. I was born in 1997and never knew that she returned the Olympic after the Carmen. What a queen on the Olympic Ice. I wish I had watched the legend on TV
Katarina is the best!
Katarina should have just done a special exhibition performance at these Olympics with this program. While being brave to compete, she just wasn't bringing the technical content. Her layback was stunning here.
Meine Mum und ich haben ihr immer die Daumen gedrückt und mitgefiebert. Sie ist eine mega gute Eiskunstläuferin. 😍❤️
SHE IS THE BEST !!!!!!!
Здорово ,молодчинка большая.
Everytime I watch this exquisite performance I cry
Катает уверенно и легко !!!
Beautiful. It is so moving to see this.
Plus, thanks for uploading it in such good quality.
Simply the best.💖💗❤
Thank-you for all the high definition videos
Респект и почтение неотразимой Катерине Витт! ❤
30年も経った現代でも悲惨な戦争が繰り返されている中、スケートを通して反戦争の表現力を重視したスケートを観て感動しました。
thank you for sharing this with such quality !
Where have all the flowers gone... what a woman!
Ich erinnere mich an das Zeichen, was die gesetzt hat, gen den
Jugoslavien-Krieg.
Und die Welt auf die Grausamkeiten aufmerksam gemacht hat
Tolle Kür, " Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind die geblieben??."
Meravigliosa! Sempre!
Бесподобна!!!
Галина Н а дорожка шагов очень впечатляет, все элементы качественно выполнила
ГДР, СФРЮ, Катарина. Я аплодирую и плачу, плачу
Катарина,умничка!!!
The year men decided to watch figure skating BECAUSE OF HER 😃💥🤩 and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” is a PERFECT song for Remembrance Day Ceremonies.
No lutz, no flip, no toe, no salchow. Only 2 triples = 4.8! Yes !
She did the right thing. To express her pain about the war and also her own pain of losing her identity war more important for her instead of winning with an easier topic. She is still the queen, a role model for everyone and unforgetable.
Одна из самых лучших👏🌷.
what a Quality!!!!
The quality of your videos is amazing! Great job :)
I was never a fan of Katarina but this LP was exceptionally good artistically. A very moving program.
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind 🤩
PERFECTION ITSELF IN THET TIME IN THET MOMENT
I was watching the replay on the couch with my parents ❤
i love her :)
and here I thought Katarina skated the 94 Olympics for her parents, the wall came down in 91 and her parents could finally leave the country see her skate at the Olympics.
Jenn Coers the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the German Reunification was in 1990. Not 1991 :)
КАТАРИНА 💚🕊💙
la más hermosa rutina memorable y katarina witt la gran reina del hielo
Приятно смотреть на Катарину! Ее стиль, всегда целомудренные костюмы! А сейчас что мы видим в женском одиночном, особенно у нас, полу-голые нимфетки, которые становятся как бы звёздами в 11-13 лет, а в 17 лет уже уходят на пенсию.
Я конечно, все понимаю, что Катарина - легенда, но….. именно она в моду голые платья в ФК внедрила и именно из-за нее правила меняли… Вы либо слишком молоды и не знаете, либо ничего не знаете о женском фигурном катании. В прошлом Россия не имела сильной сборной в женском одиночном, а в других странах полно было девочек, которые также как сейчас наши участвовали только на одной Олимпиаде, становились призерами и о них благополучно забывали…
I always though Katarina was a beautiful skater.
♥️QUEEN KATARINA♥️🌷🌷🌷♥️QUEEN ALINA♥️🌷🌷🌷
Schön wie immer
Самая талантливая и красивая фигуристка в мире
Незнаю где вы там красоту увидели по сравнению с нынешними фигуристками пархающими как бабочки на льду она похожа на дракона размахывающего своими огромными крыльями.
@@НадеждаИльина-е4э Ноги очень короткие. Если коньки снять совсем катастрофа. Жопастая, сисястая, на мордаху красивая... вообщем для старпера Хонекера the best. Устойчивая тётя и на льду, и в прочих делах:-D
А. Л. Идиот
Да ты не заморачивайся, тебе всё равно не дано понять
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Katarina the Great! ❤️
die Beste aller Zeiten
演劇フィギュアスケート。この路線を目指す人はその後も出てきたけど、この人の表現力は段違いだから無理。小さいころはこの人のスケートが大好きで、その後大人になったら「美しいだけじゃない」と批判したけど、今は「美しさと表現力がここまできたらこういう分野もありだろ」と思えるようになりました。
Wunder schöne
its great!
A all time BEST. Skater !
今、争っている国の人々に見ていただきたい。美しさに包まれてほしい。