Favorite skaters

[icenut84]

Nice thread! tdnuva - I love that pic under your name! Where's it from?

I like almost all skaters, including:

Torvill & Dean (GBR)
Bourne & Kraatz (CAN)
Anissina & Peizerat (FRA)
Lobacheva & Averbukh (RUS)
Rahkamo & Kokko (FIN)

Berezhnaya & Sikharulidze (RUS)
Shen & Zhao (CHN)
Abitbol & Bernadis (FRA)
Gordeeva & Grinkov (RUS)
Mishkutenok & Dmitriev (RUS)

Irina Slutskaya (RUS)
Michelle Kwan (USA)
Sasha Cohen (USA)
Elena Sokolova (RUS)
Carolina Kostner (ITA)
Fumie Suguri (JPN)
Tara Lipinski (USA)
Oksana Baiul (UKR)
Midori Ito (JPN)
Kristi Yamaguchi (USA)

Evgeny Plushenko (RUS)
Alexei Yagudin (RUS)
Alexander Abt (RUS)
Stephane Lambiel (SUI)
Kurt Browning (CAN)
Elvis Stojko (CAN)

I have lots more! lol. I like a lot of skaters.

[Jaana]

I like many skaters, new ones and from the past, but the biggest favourite of them all is Ilia Kulik.

Marjaana

[sk8ing_lady2001]

Michelle's still my #1 favorite. I could name countless other ones.

[TaraFanatic4eva]

Wow, there are so many, but let me name some of the tops...

Tara Lipinski
Ann Patrice McDonough
Jennifer Kirk
Sarah Hughes
Sasha Cohen

Tim Goebel
Alexei Yagudin

Jamie and David
Jenny and Todd
Kyoko and John
Elena and Anton

Tanith and Ben
Naomi and Peter

and so many others, that must be slipping my mind at the moment

[Joesitz]

Sonia Henie

Joe

[BeccaR]

My favs are:

Alexei Yagudin
Ilia Kulik

Katia Gordeeva
Michelle Kwan


B/S
S/P

Becca

[shine]

Yay! Another one of my favorite great topics!
Skaters who I enjoy the most are-
AmazingEmanuel
Alexei Yagudin
Stephannne Lambiel :D
Matt Savoie
Silivo Smalun
Stanick Jeannette
Takeshi Honda
Sasha Abt
Artur Dimitriev
Berezhnaya & Sikharulidze
Pang & Tong
Yukina Ota
Michelle Kwan
Julia Lautowa
Susanna Poykio
Ye Bin Mok
Fumie Suguri
Krylova & Ovsiannikov

Past favs:
Rudy Galindo
Kristina Czako
Alexei Urmanov
Oksana Baiul
Laetitia Hubert

Enjoy the summer!

[lil_icesk8er915]

I admire a lot of skaters! And here are a few, and they're not in any specific order!

Ladies
Michelle Kwan
Beatrisa Liang
Ann Patrice McDonough
Jenny Kirk
Sasha Cohen
Sarah Hughes
Tara Lipinski
Surya Bonaly
Dorothy Hamill
Shizuka Arakawa
Fumie Suguri
Yuka Sato
Nicole Bobek
Kristi Yamaguchi
and more...

Men
Alexei Yagudin
Elvis Stojko
Dan Hollander
Michael Weiss
Scott Hamilton
Todd Eldredge
Phillipe Candeloro (sp?)
Victor Petrenko
and more...

Pairs
Gordeeva and Gringkov (sp?)
Sale and Pelletier (sp?)
Shen and Zhou
Ina and Zimmerman
and more...

Dance
Bourne and Kraatz
Lang and Tcherneshev (sp?)
Belbin and Agosto
and more...

[R.D.]

Ah...

Like before, I don't (and didn't) really have a selected favorite, but I am starting to enjoy watching more people as I get familiar with this sport that's still relatively new to me. I still only follow ladies' skating but I have watched a couple of pairs performances (S/Z from World's 2003, B/S from World's 2001) and enjoyed them. However only the future knows how I will feel later...

[Panther2000]

My Favorite are

Ladies: Past & present
Michelle Kwan
Kristie Y
Debbie Thomas
Sasha C
Sarah H


Men: Past & Present
Alexei Y
Paul W
Todd E
Y. Plushenko
Brian B
Kurt B
Scott H


Pairs Past & Present
G &G
Tie & Randy
Ina & John
Elena & Anton
Underhill & Martini

Dance: Past & PResent
T & D
I forget their names: But, the russain dance team She was a redhead. They were very dramatic. A great pair.

[GoldElephant]

My one & only Favorite ~MK~

[Germanice]

Originally posted by Panther2000


Dance: Past & PResent
T & D
I forget their names: But, the russain dance team She was a redhead. They were very dramatic. A great pair.

Natalia Bestemianova & Andrej Bukhin? They skated at the same time as T/D, even 4 years longer, and became Olympic Champions in 1988?

Anke

[Panther2000]

Thanks,

I always loved them. they were great. But, towards the end of their competive careers they were getting to heavy in the dramatics. They were well suited for the professional stage. Perfect I would say

[purplecat]

As I always say on these favorite skaters threads...I have way too many to name, so here are my top top favorites:

Kristi Yamaguchi
Nicole Bobek
Naomi Nari Nam
Sasha Cohen
Brian Boitano
Christopher Bowman
Mishkutenok & Dmitriev
Bechke & Petrov
Meno & Sand
Usova & Zhulin
Punsalan & Swallow
Silverstein & Pekarek
Belbin & Agosto

I really want to list hundreds of more names, but I'll quit there.

[Antilles]

Quote: "I forget their names: But, the russain dance team She was a redhead. They were very dramatic. A great pair."

That could also describe Klimova and Ponomarenko. They weren't quite as dramatic as B&B, but dramatic nonetheless.