Memorable Commentator Reactions
- Thread starter BillNeal
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oh yes, when I get back to Lucinda Ruh's videos to remind myself about this spin excellence, I am always taken with this commentary!
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I don't know the commentator (kinda sounds like Uncle Dickie) but he's hilarious during Laëtitia Hubert's complete meltdown FS in Albertville 1992: "[after countless falls] ...and Laëtitia Hubert ...oops." So much shade.
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I still find Dick Button's observation when a skater made a mistake "And that was just unnecessary" both bizarre and funny. It's not like they meant to mess up!
Oh and "Point your toe!" Uncle Dick hates it when you don't point your toe!
Oh and "Point your toe!" Uncle Dick hates it when you don't point your toe!
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^ His commentary regarding Krylova's Carmen interpretation: ...as one newspaper said, her expressiveness will reach to the 70th row of the arena. Unfortunately there's only 30 rows in it."
Definitely bezic and Hamilton and sale Pelletier which causes ijs! Their extreme total love of them and their total extreme apoplectic outrage over them losing eliminated 6.0!!!! I mean what compares to reactions that would mean second gold medal and new judging system and elimination of fs popularity in North America eventually?!?!?
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Any memorable Asian commentary that posters want to share?
This poetic quote in the CCTV commentary on Yuzuru's valiant FS in Pyeongchang. At that time his condition of having jump practices for only three weeks and relying on painkillers wasn't yet known, but the quote for him was so apt:
Fate whispers to the warrior, "You can never defeat the storm."
The warrior whispers back, "I am the storm."
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I actually felt a little betrayed when I saw the BESP uncles say the same thing about Shoma in one of his senior year debut season competition. It might have been the GPF. It's okay uncles, you're still my favorite.
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Actually, I credit that NBC 2015 GPF broadcast of Seimei as the reason I became a Yuzu-fan. I had that performance saved on my DVR and would rewatch it multiple times. I had seen him in Sochi of course, but I was a 4 year (Olympic) fan. Yuzuru and that magical program changed it all.
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I love that he couldn't help himself, it was just such a gorgeous 3F-3Lo ahhh I still get chills thinking about that because Ted's never done that before or since
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One my favourites is when one of the British commentators accidentally called Yu Xiaoyu, Shen Xue during a program.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RzmPcFdmboI → 1:31
It was during Yu/Jin ’s 2015 NHL LP and she fell on the throw quad salchow.
'That's huge! Shen she went down. Think she made the rotation. That was the throw quadruple salchow'
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RzmPcFdmboI → 1:31
It was during Yu/Jin ’s 2015 NHL LP and she fell on the throw quad salchow.
'That's huge! Shen she went down. Think she made the rotation. That was the throw quadruple salchow'
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BBC after Yulia Lipnitskaya's team free in Sochi: "Plushenko brought her house to its feet out of respect and Yulia Lipnitskaya of sheer admiration."
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Most memorable for me was Irina Slutskaya’s free skate in 2005. Female commentator (Sandra Besiz?) was saying she will be starting out with a triple lutz double loop.....TRIPLE LOOP!!!
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topic: I have been under a rock from skating during the off season and now just absorbing the devastating news of Denis Ten, I needed to read a ‘light’ thread like this. (Thank you).Back OT: I also love Rod’s end-of-competition (often rhyming) synopsis. Having said that, I am happy he has given up his questioning prediction after a good skate “Is this the NEXT ONE?” I think it was ancient peas who described Rod as [sic] an excited puppy (my apologies if it was someone else to credit or my aged cranium cells have gone sideways and am totally wrong in the phrasing); a suitable assessment but I do find his enthusiasm charming for a network commentator who wasn’t involved in the sport himself.
I see I should have been paying attention this off season...as much going on (or maybe more) than the past Olympic season. Not enough time now, but I'll try to catch up...
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Scott Hamilton's reactions to Kurt Browning's disasters at the Olympics... in 1992 during the LP when Verne Lundquist asks as Kurt pops one of many jumps: "Is it over?" Scott, totally gutted: "I think it is." sticks out most in my mind, though.
