Best Comeback

nicole_l · Jan 21, 2005

Johnny Weir!

brad640 · Jan 22, 2005

Lu Chen !

guinevere · Jan 22, 2005

BronzeisGolden said:
Irina's comeback in the 99-00 season was great. It was even greater because she came back an improved and overall better skater.

This is what I had in mind when I voted "other". I think Irina is possibly in the middle of another, even greater, comeback, but it's too soon to tell.

Others of note:
Bereshnaya returning to skating, and achieving Oly gold, after her injury.

Todd Eldredge, after skipping the Grand Prix and US Nationals for 2 seasons, getting on the World team in 2001 (and winning a Bronze medal), and then winning the national title in 2002.

I'm a huge Kwan fan, but I agree with whoever said in reference to 2003 Worlds that going from 1st to 2nd to 1st again isn't really a comeback. I think that MK's 1997-98 season was something of a personal comeback because Michelle had serious problems with her skating the entire previous season, but I don't think even that is in the running for "best" comeback.

Of course, if you want to look at it another way, Michelle had the best comeback in the post-Oly interview with her & Tara, when the interviewer was trying to dig dirt about the rivalry between the two, and Michelle said "I didn't lose the gold, I won the silver."

Glacierskater · Feb 9, 2005

Rudy Galindo

Glacierskater · Feb 9, 2005

Koroleva said:
Elena had a meter of champagne fall on her head, she had to go to the hospital, and in the end she had a severe concussion. She still had to have (part of?) her head shaved. I think that is pretty serious myself. She was going to quit but her mother and good friend Elena Berezhnaya told her not to. Plus her federation and coach dropped her right after her accident.

Even when she skated at Worlds in 2003 she had an ankle injury. Plus all of the other things she has had to over come, her concussion, 2 injuries and a surgery last year, her car and skates being stolen this year, etc. She's a fighter and I think her come back was quite miraculous.

I have one other skater to add, Tatiana Totmianina. Get well soon!

I thought that they said at World's that something fell out of the overhead compartment on a plane and hit her in the head, and it was at that moment she realized that she could not live without skating....I was thinking that it was her skates that hit her...

alhuncc · Feb 14, 2005

Rudy Galindo...more than once..
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World Junior Pairs Champion with Kristi in '86, World Junior Men's Champion in '87, National Senior Pairs Champion in 1989 and 1990...

Then Mens Champion, 1996 Nationals and bronze medalist at the World Championships...

Then again in 2000 after being diagnosed HIV+...

Then again in 2004 after two total hip replacements...

Amanda

Frau Muller · Mar 2, 2005

Chen Lu had the most dramatic fall, then bounce back up...World Champ...then 24th or 25th place...then Olympic podium!

Paul Wylie's silver in 1992 was dramatic but her never had gone very high in the Senior Worlds scene, to begin.

Doggygirl · Mar 21, 2005

Don't know if it's the BEST comeback...

But I guess now we need to add Irina to the list.. :clap:

DG

33leprechaun · Apr 18, 2005

RealtorGal said:
Paul Wylie in '92. No one--absolutely no one--would have guessed he would win the silver medal (and in my opinion, it should have been gold). That was just the boost he needed to establish himself as a crowd favorite and a successful pro. I still miss him.

I miss him too! What a great performance and exciting competition! IMHO, it should've been gold also.

kayskate · Apr 30, 2005

Thought I would mention Liz Manley in 1988. I doubt she was expected to win Oly silver. I read her autobio a few yrs ago. She went through some difficult times and came back to win that medal.

Kay

Grgranny · May 1, 2005

It was always my opinion that Paul and Liz should both have the gold.

curious · May 1, 2005

Doggygirl said:
But I guess now we need to add Irina to the list..

DG

chen lu and irina :biggrin:

slutskayafan21 · May 1, 2005

I voted for Lu Chen at the 98 Olympics. She went from 25th to 3rd in one year, incredable! She perservered through all the turmoil and suffocating authority of her home country, and she did this all knowing it likely was only a comeback for one final year to do something, in a year that Kwan and Lipinski were always going to rule, and she had to motivate herself for that. She did and edged out skaters like Butyrskaya and Slutskaya for a medal, after tumbling to virtual obscurity.

ElvisStojkofan · May 3, 2005

Elvis!!

:rock:

I voted for "other"

I think Elvis has had a lot of comebacks.

A memorable comeback season was the 1994-1995 season
where he had to withdrew from Canadians and he was
really injured, but at worlds he managed to skate a great performance.

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sk8rgrl3 · May 6, 2005

I have to pick Elaine Zayak at the 1994 Nationals. She missed the Olympic team by one spot. If you knew the type of shape she was in before that competitive season, you'd never have believed that she would be doing triple loops a year later. It was amazing!! It gets overshadowed because that was the Nationals where Nancy Kerrigan got whacked in the knee.

attyfan · May 6, 2005

sk8rgrl3 said:
I have to pick Elaine Zayak at the 1994 Nationals. She missed the Olympic team by one spot ... .

I'm just curious how you think that Elaine Zayak missed the Oly team by just one spot. IIRC, we could only send two women to the Olys that year and Zayak came in fourth at Nats. (I agree it was a great comeback, but I think the best comeback is Irina's)

WeirsAngel · Jun 13, 2005

Irina slutskaya 05 worlds

BravesSkateFan · Jun 19, 2005

Why is Michelle on this list? What did she come back from? She finished 2nd at the previous Worlds, 1st at the Worlds before that. I adore Michelle, but I don't think that 2003 is a comeback year at all.

janetb · Jun 22, 2005

Okay why isn't Irena on this list, she has two great come backs 99-00 and 03-05.

So my vote is for Irena, she :rock:

Best Comeback

Who had the best comeback?

Paul Wylie - 1992 Olympics

Goordeyeva & Grinkov - 1994 Olympics

Mishketuneok & Dmitriev - 1994 Olympics

Torvill & Dean - 1994 Olympics

Tanja Szewczenko - 1998 Champion's Series Final

Nicole Bobek - 1998 U.S. Nationals

Chen Lu - 1998 Olympics

Todd Eldredge - 2001 Worlds

Michelle Kwan - 2003 Worlds

Other

nicole_l

brad640

guinevere

Glacierskater

Glacierskater

alhuncc

Frau Muller

Doggygirl

33leprechaun

kayskate

Grgranny

Da' Spellin' Homegirl

curious

slutskayafan21

Match Penalty

ElvisStojkofan

sk8rgrl3

attyfan

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WeirsAngel

BravesSkateFan

janetb

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