The first person I tho't of was Toller Cranston but he's not on the list & there are others just as deserving so I voted for Wilson & McCall. I loved their free dance in 1988. One of my all time favorites.
I voted for Chen Lu. Her 1998 Butterfly Lovers Concerto was just so emotional. It wasn't perfect (that stepout on the Flip), but she was just so expressive throughout the programme. Her tears at the end gave me chills.
Phillipe Candeloro -- not 94, tho (which I still have yet to see) but 98; yeah, it was a little hammy, yeah it was over the top but still one of the finest "in-character" performances I've ever seen. And IMO the highlight of what was not an especially great night.
Actually I have to revise my opinion (fortunately I voted for "other" anyway so it doesn't affect the stats, ).
Somehow or other, I totally managed to forget Anissina & Peizerat's absolutely fantastic "Romeo & Juliet" from Nagano, which is one of my all time favorite free dances. I always thought it was too bad that the implication of the whole "bloc voting" controversy was that A & P got their medal at the expense of Bourne & Kraatz; personally, if any of the medal-winning free dances should have been "under suspicion", it should have been Krylova & Ovsiannakov's "Carmen"; not a lot of movement going on and so unbeleivably weird that I thought that someone had slipped LSD into my drink.... :sheesh:
I almost voted for Chen, but decided to vote for Wilson & McCall. Their Joplin medley was my favorite dance routine at 88 Olympics. I could watch over & over.
Oddly enough, I didn't go for my fav, Janet, but chose Phillipe, but not his 94 Oly skate but his superb 98 skate in which he portrayed a Musketeer.......his sword fighting footwork was wonderful...........42