Past program x current figure skaters

Ok, this is my way to cope with S/H new LP, that I suppose is a tribute to S/Z masterpiece gone While I light candles to the skating gods in the hope that Lori Nichol will change the music cuts and redo a choreography that suits skaters of their caliber, I ask you all...imagine that current figure skaters can do a tribute to past athletes (or even present competitors), which programs would you like to see and done by who?

I want to see someone skate to Kwan's "The Miraculous Mandarin". It could have been a good fit for Yuna Kim or Ashley Wagner. Anna Pogorilaya or Elena Radionova can maybe take it on.

Yuzuru doing Yagudin's Gladiator 2002 FS.

Do you mean Sui/Han's Turandot? Why don't you like it? (I haven't watched it properly yet.)

pearly said:

Yuzuru doing Yagudin's Gladiator 2002 FS.

Do you mean Sui/Han's Turandot? Why don't you like it? (I haven't watched it properly yet.)

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Ok, seems we have the same idea because Gladiator is my favourite Yags program and Yuzuru could be the one to do it justice, currently.
The thing that I like less in S/H program are the music cuts, they really do have to adjust them to be smoother IMO, and the use of lyrics...Turandot is already a superpowerful music and it doesn't need Pavarotti's voice to be enhanced, it's quite distracting from the skating (as an Italian I never thought there would be a day I would have advocate for the removal of one of our finest singer from an Olympic moment, but I really don't like it). The program is in its early stages so I'm fully convinced that they will be able to produce a masterpiece, in true S/H style. But sincerely, as much as I understand the tribute and I wouldn't have minded it in an "ordinary" year, I wish that they had chosen a totally different music, so that they could have an epic Olympic moment without being compared to S/Z (which is inevitable, IMO).
As for the Kween "Miraculous Mandarin" it would be great to see it again, since it was truly a beautiful piece of skating and completely misunderstood at the time.

I'd like to see Anna Pogorilaya skate Maria Butyrskaya's 1999 LP "Otonal" Anna has always reminded of Maria and with a few updates to make it fit the new scoring system, I think it would still be a winner.

Polina T. Yagudin The man in the iron mask

Dmitry Aliev Plushenko's Nijinsky

I think Patrick Chan could do a great job with Kurt Browning's Casablanca LP.

lappo said:

The program is in its early stages so I'm fully convinced that they will be able to produce a masterpiece, in true S/H style.

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Who are S/Z and what year is this? Sorry, I kind of got back into figure skating in 2014 and don't watch pairs that much.

I'm guessing Shen/Zhao, early 2000's?

mrrice said:

I think Patrick Chan could do a great job with Kurt Browning's Casablanca LP.

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funny i came to post that same thing ....

Nothing to apologize, hope you enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kql3sf_crA