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- Dec 28, 2003
To borrow a phrase from BronzeIsGolden, what are the Olympic performances that stick out in your minds (whether they won gold or not; I was going to ask for only winning performances--it would be interesting if you listed both, actually) in which the skaters skated with "that Olympic fire"? These are usually flawless skates performed with no sign of nerves, just flair, boundless energy and killer instinct, conviction, and a carpe-diem attitude; a good example would be Tara Lipinski's LP in Nagano. We usually see them in the LP, since it's the "home stretch", but I'd be interested in hearing about performances that displayed those qualities in the short (Sasha Cohen's SP comes to mind for me) I find it interesting that there are skaters who won and just scraped by, sometimes falling, usually skating defensively, whereas on other occasions, the winner went for broke and reaped the benefits of the gamble.