Although she is a wonderful and great skater, in my mind, artisticaly the best of all time. Only Katia Gordeeva has moved me has much artisticaly when she skated solo.
I think that some of her world championships win were pure luck but mainly it was because of her doing.
I always thought that she was a great long program skater. She did a good job in the short program but she never had big jump, what I mean is that she was just like Yamaguchi, was doing her triple by turning very fast but not very high jumps. But like I said, she did her job by doing all she needed in the technical point but her artistic side was to me much better. If she goes to the next olympics and hope to win gold, she will need to work on more difficulty and more technical hard moves. I do hope that she wins gold if she goes again to the olympics because she really deserves it, she has proven that she is one of the best of all times. I just can compare her to Kurt Borwning who never won the gold at olympics and he so deserves it, but just could not get it and he is one of the best of all times too. Strange how things can turn sometime. The last two olympics, in the ladies, two US ladies have won gold, Lipinski in Nagano in 98 and Hughes in 2002.
Lipinski we saw after has a professional for a while and Hughes we saw just a bit and to never see again. So to compare what Michelle and Kurt are to the skating world, they do deserves to be Gold medalists at the olympics, but you skate only one day to decide who wins it, so not on their long carreer, but just hope for Michelle next time.
I love figure skating and love all the skaters I mentioned in this opinion of mine.
I think that some of her world championships win were pure luck but mainly it was because of her doing.
I always thought that she was a great long program skater. She did a good job in the short program but she never had big jump, what I mean is that she was just like Yamaguchi, was doing her triple by turning very fast but not very high jumps. But like I said, she did her job by doing all she needed in the technical point but her artistic side was to me much better. If she goes to the next olympics and hope to win gold, she will need to work on more difficulty and more technical hard moves. I do hope that she wins gold if she goes again to the olympics because she really deserves it, she has proven that she is one of the best of all times. I just can compare her to Kurt Borwning who never won the gold at olympics and he so deserves it, but just could not get it and he is one of the best of all times too. Strange how things can turn sometime. The last two olympics, in the ladies, two US ladies have won gold, Lipinski in Nagano in 98 and Hughes in 2002.
Lipinski we saw after has a professional for a while and Hughes we saw just a bit and to never see again. So to compare what Michelle and Kurt are to the skating world, they do deserves to be Gold medalists at the olympics, but you skate only one day to decide who wins it, so not on their long carreer, but just hope for Michelle next time.
I love figure skating and love all the skaters I mentioned in this opinion of mine.