Best Olympic Gold Dance Performance

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icenut84

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Well, we're doing this with most of the events/medals, so I'll just carry it on! My vote goes to Torvill & Dean, Bolero in 1984. Three 6.0s for technical merit and all nine 6.0s for artistic impression. Most famous skating routine ever. Amazing

 

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Without a doubt, Bolero.

 

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T&D's Bolero, by far!

 

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1994 - Grishuk & Platov. "Rock Around the Clock"

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It has got to be Bolero from the great Torvil and Dean.

 

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Bolero all the way.

 

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Jayne and Chris

forever and ALWAYS the picture of perfection!

 

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I loved K&Ps program. It kind of hurt to vote against A&P, as thye are my favourite skaters, but I just couldn't get into Liberta.

 

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Almost 20 years later, and most of us still remember the magic on the ice that night - Bolero, I think, is definitely the best.

 

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Boléro is the worst program I ever seen!!!
Really, I liked very much the L/K's olympic perfomance ( but the Hungarians were better: S/R) and the P/K's ... T/D are really nothing compare to them.

 

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I think a row of 6.0s tells the story. T&D for sure. No one else has ever come close.

 

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I voted for "Other" because I thought Torville and Dean's 1994 performance was brilliant, inspired, and totally deserving of the Gold that night.........42

 

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I agree that Bolero is overrated. Innovative with great lifts and spirals, yes. Footwork? What footowork? They did the same thing that so many teams now get criticized for, only they were given a string of 6.0s. I'm a little confused. I think T&D are great skaters, I just couldn't get into Bolero.

 

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Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean's "Bolero". It's the thing I remember most clearly from the Sarejevo Olympics, and I can give them the credit for getting me interested in figure skating itself.

 

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No contest--Bolero. Unlike so many ice dancers Torvill and Dean just skate! No dramatics or posing on the ice. They are and always will be the best of the best.

 

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Antilles said:

I agree that Bolero is overrated. Innovative with great lifts and spirals, yes. Footwork? What footowork? They did the same thing that so many teams now get criticized for, only they were given a string of 6.0s. I'm a little confused. I think T&D are great skaters, I just couldn't get into Bolero.

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I agree. I mean I think Bolero has great moments, but it seems like there isn't any footwork.

 

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"Footwork" wasn't the focus of Bolero. Many people believe that to have high difficulty you have to ram in as many steps as possible, done as quickly as possible. This is the norm nowadays, but Bolero had a lot of subtleties and elements that were a lot more difficult than they were made to look. The steps and moves that they did do were difficult, the lifts were difficult, the choreography was intricate and complete - everything flowed into everything else. The overall complexity of the programme was illustrated by the marks - they got straight sixes for artistic impression, but they also got sixes for technical merit (3 at the Olympics and 4 at Worlds) and 5.9s from all the other judges (for tech).