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Who do you think is the most decorated single figure skater of all time?
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But at the same time they have a much shorter career than back in time. Back in time the toll on someone health was not so high, so they could compete for many years. I think most of them had also a real job beside skating.
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This is true, the technical demands on the body are far different to those of say 100 years ago, or even 10 years ago before the introduction of the IJS
. The bonus side to the 6.0 system was that we had skaters who could win more than 1 world title in a row (even if we agree or not with the win!) The IJS has taken that away with all it's technical demands, skaters have a higher chance of becoming injured trying to achieve things that maybe their body was not meant to do. So I'm not sure we will ever have anyone who will win 10 world titles, to rival the skating greats from the olden days.
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Yagudin competed in 7 years. In 1996 he was at his first ECh. and his last complet season was 2001/2002.
1995/1996 was the first year for a "final" or "series", they were right. The name did change like you state from Champion Series to Grand Prix, but that was only 2 years after it began. Some of the competitions we know like Skate America, NHK, Skate Canada date back farther (late 70's, early 80's?) but they were not a series with a final you qualified for.
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True, and the bronze medalist from that games Ethel Muckelt was 38. Ethel competed four years later aged 42 in the pairs event!
Sonia Henie was only at these Olympics because her daddy paid for her and him to go, the power of money
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Keep in mind my list is just about their career, medals, titles, overall considered. I already said I consider Michelle Kwan a much better skater than Yu Na Kim or Katarina Witt for instance. Now even on that you do have a point but I basically ask myself which set of achievements woudl I like the most and that is the order I come up with. I dont think the lack of an Olympic Gold takes away from the quality of skater Michelle is, but does it take significantly away from whose career I would most like when compared to other multiple World Champs who dominated, but have better success at the Olympics (including atleast 1 gold). Yes in a huge way. Winning the grand prix final only once in an era that is the 3rd biggest event, isnt a great help either.
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Witt was amazing...no, she didn't have the technical content but she had/has that it factor in spades...if you can't remember her "Where have all the flowers gone" program then you weren't likely paying attention. If you don't think Witt deserved her Olympic gold medals then you probably didn't watch...Debi or Ros, two of my favorites, just didn't bring it those nights...
One thing I actually like about figure skating is all of the controversy...Gold medals don't necessarily mean you were the best but you were certainly one of the best...in the end it's a subjective sport and that is one of the things that make it so wonderful...there is always someone for everyone.
One thing I actually like about figure skating is all of the controversy...Gold medals don't necessarily mean you were the best but you were certainly one of the best...in the end it's a subjective sport and that is one of the things that make it so wonderful...there is always someone for everyone.
The Grand Prix Final? Really? That is just a B+ competition in my opinion. But if it's that important, why isn't Irina on the list?
Not according to Google....Mao Asada is one of the most decorated figure skater in the world, also Michelle Kwan is on the
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Witt is in a league of her own.....you have to realize that she was the best at that time....no triple triples then, same with Henie no double doubles then.
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If Kwan had won the Olympics the Grand Prix final would be meaningless, but given that she both failed to win the Olympics and didnt do that well (relatively speaking) at the biggest event after Olympics and Worlds, it becomes more significant.
As for Irina even with her impressive slate of Grand Prix final and Europeans wins obviously her career is behind Michelle. Worlds wins she is way behind Michelle, and like Michelle and others being discussed failed to win the Olympics even with easier opportunities at it than Michelle. Notice the ones I put around Michelle are all still multiple World Champions who won the Olympics as well.
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who cares ? sure different Era
but neither achieved so much, Witt is just known as the skater from East Germany, nobody would say she is one of the greatest FS
same for Henie thanks to her daddy and media's press from Hollywood, it was all just spotlights for her, Colladge was much much better than Henie
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But the question isn't who was the best skater or whose daddy was the meanest. The question is which skater is the "most decorated." Henie was more decorated than Colledge (or anyone else).
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Irina Rodnina had a pretty impressive career.
3 OGM
10 Worlds gold medals
11 Euros gold medals
3 Gold medals at Prize of Moscow News (predecessor of the Cup or Russia) + 1 silver
3 OGM
10 Worlds gold medals
11 Euros gold medals
3 Gold medals at Prize of Moscow News (predecessor of the Cup or Russia) + 1 silver
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Good grief! Just goes to show: the more things change, the more they stay the same.
hwell:Seeing how consistent she was throughout her entire career, if she hasn't had those serious back issues back in 2006-2008 Yuna could have had a lot more gold medals in her resume. According to her early day's documentary, Yuna almost guit skating due to serious back issue. She and her team had to make conscious decision to do away with some maneuvers that cause her problem because of this issue. Namely triple loop and Bielmann. Some think that this decision eventually hurt her chance at Gold medal in Sochi but without their decision to drop those two maneuvers we might not be able to see her skate at this Olympics at all. Who knows?
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