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rgirl181
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Re: Best Male Skater of the 90's
Jaana,
I defer to your knowledge about Ilia (and often refer to it ), but I have a tape of the Centennial and Ilia and Yags are on it, skating like gangbusters. Plus on "The Skating Blade" reference
www.theskateblade.com/ref...5-1996.htm
at the Centennial on Ice, St. Petersburg, Ilia is listed as finishing first, Yags second, Urmanov third, then Scott Davis, Candeloro, and Zagorudniuk. No mention of Paskevich. I remember seeing Ilia compete against Paskevich in '96, though. Maybe you're thinking Euros, where Paskevich and Ilia finished second and third, respectively.
But Centennial was Ilia's best performance of "Aladdin" to be sure--he hit everything perfectly whereas at Worlds he left out the 2t on a planned combination. I remember him saying afterwards when I reporter asked him something like "Did you learn anything from this experience?" Ilia said, "I learned not to leave out any combinations." I thought that was such a great line!
Rgirl
Jaana,
I defer to your knowledge about Ilia (and often refer to it ), but I have a tape of the Centennial and Ilia and Yags are on it, skating like gangbusters. Plus on "The Skating Blade" reference
www.theskateblade.com/ref...5-1996.htm
at the Centennial on Ice, St. Petersburg, Ilia is listed as finishing first, Yags second, Urmanov third, then Scott Davis, Candeloro, and Zagorudniuk. No mention of Paskevich. I remember seeing Ilia compete against Paskevich in '96, though. Maybe you're thinking Euros, where Paskevich and Ilia finished second and third, respectively.
But Centennial was Ilia's best performance of "Aladdin" to be sure--he hit everything perfectly whereas at Worlds he left out the 2t on a planned combination. I remember him saying afterwards when I reporter asked him something like "Did you learn anything from this experience?" Ilia said, "I learned not to leave out any combinations." I thought that was such a great line!
Rgirl