Amelie Lacoste. Canadian champion in 2012.
I agree and Witt played it safe. I'm sure Witt could have done more. She very likely knew that only a clean Debi Thomas was a threat to her winning gold. Ito will always be my sentimental favourite of that era. And the audience booed when Ito's artistic impression marks came up. As they should have.
I believe being transformative, in Yuna's case, is more about the quality, not the quantity. Of course it's amazing if you can do all these things but it's another to do elements so extraordinarily well with unmatched quality and grace. Even at this point, no one can jump like Yuna Kim. Sure Evgenia is like a jumping bean and Elena can add 3T to any jump but all these ladies still have things to improve like posture, flow in and out, grace, and so on. As for Yuna's, there's very little to criticize if there is even any. That's why Yuna's technique has been the standard for so long in ladies fs. It has been said time and time again that she has textbook technique and that's something. That's why there's so many skaters who look up to her, who she has inspired and if that's not transformative and influential, I don't know what is.
ITA to much of what you have shared - I had to look up stuff but I agree 2010 for the quality of skates and in particular the sure brilliance of Yuna, the 3A of Mao of Joannie's grit and determination (I honestly don't think there was ever any issue or should have been doubt she deserved at least the bronze. Sorry,Mirai skated cleanly and well but not the same level of execution (amplitude) or skating skills of Joannie. I also add 1988 because of battle of the Carmen's and Manley's Cinderella skate - which I suggest could have won gold - Ito should have been ahead in of Witt in the long or Witt could have been a spot lower in the short - all arguably could have realistically and maybe properly should have happened and would have led to Manley gold. Finall I add 1994 for wonderful skates from Chen,Kerrigan and Baiul. The sure and pure drama of the Kerrigan coming back from a brutal clubbing, the accused Tonya Harding who added to the drama of the freeskate with her shoe lace incident which had huge consequences for Chouinard and the often unheard sory of the orphan waif Baiul who not only beat Kerrigan and her 13000 US dress but did so as an orphan and who had been the victim of an unfortunate accident t he day before the freeskate with Sawchenko I believe from German which caused her to get injured and almost withdraw. Pure humanism and drama.2010... cause well, i was therebut didn't get the chance to attend the FS... tickets were impossible to get.... We all expected Kim and she did deliver.... We were hoping as Canadians that Joannie would do well... she was coming from a great showing at the previous WC (silver right?) and over the last couple years, her skating skills had improved tremendously. But then, hearing the news put everything in perspective.... it brought me back a long long time ago when synchronized swimmer Sylvie Fréchette's boyfriend committed suicide before the Olympics games.... and she went on to swim... a judge made a computing mistake which prevented her from winning, and she was awarded her gold medal later on..... but yeah... I am mentioning this side-story as this is what the Olympics are for me.... we do have the favourites, but there are the tragedies, the cinderella stories... etc.... Joannie was a top contender, she suffered incredible pressure at home, had just lost her mother who had traveled to the games, and became the darling of the games.... because of her composure, her emotional and brilliant performance. She delivered.... Some people even thought she deserved silver... We were all ecstatic, Chanadians
I guess the other one for me would be 1988.... the Carmen battle... which ended up being the Liz Manley show
