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Well Shizuka did a double loop only in her long program. Even when she chose to go conservative that definitely wasnt planned and cost her atleast 4-5 points, which could have cost her the gold had Cohen or Slutskaya skated cleanly.
To answer this thread it is pretty easy. Wolfgang Schwarz, Evan Lysacek, Sarah Hughes, and Annett Poetzsch. Nobody really comes close to those 4. Wolfgang Schwarz is probably the worst of all as he is now a pedophile and in prison, he only won since a judge wasnt allowed to change his mark to what he had meant for silver medalist Tim Wood, and watching his skating on video he doesnt even come close to the quality of Danzer, Wood, and Petkevitch, and it is not like he was a figures master or way ahead in figures at those Games either. In his Olympic winning program he did only 2 jumps harder than a double lutz, one triple toe, and a mere 1 double axel (in a time skaters were piling the double axels on) and his program was full of singled axels, what a joke.
On my second tier I would have Madge Julin, Jeanette Altwegg, Kazahkova & Dmitriev (he was amazing and an icon in the sport, and the pair was good when they were on, but looking at their overall amateur careers, not really a typical OGM winner), Linichuk & Karpanasov, Schwarz & Oppelt, and the Belgian pair that won in 48.
Everyone else in history is quite a good Olympic Champion to wildly varying degrees of course.
To answer this thread it is pretty easy. Wolfgang Schwarz, Evan Lysacek, Sarah Hughes, and Annett Poetzsch. Nobody really comes close to those 4. Wolfgang Schwarz is probably the worst of all as he is now a pedophile and in prison, he only won since a judge wasnt allowed to change his mark to what he had meant for silver medalist Tim Wood, and watching his skating on video he doesnt even come close to the quality of Danzer, Wood, and Petkevitch, and it is not like he was a figures master or way ahead in figures at those Games either. In his Olympic winning program he did only 2 jumps harder than a double lutz, one triple toe, and a mere 1 double axel (in a time skaters were piling the double axels on) and his program was full of singled axels, what a joke.
On my second tier I would have Madge Julin, Jeanette Altwegg, Kazahkova & Dmitriev (he was amazing and an icon in the sport, and the pair was good when they were on, but looking at their overall amateur careers, not really a typical OGM winner), Linichuk & Karpanasov, Schwarz & Oppelt, and the Belgian pair that won in 48.
Everyone else in history is quite a good Olympic Champion to wildly varying degrees of course.