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merrywidow said:After watching "Olympic Ice" the other day when they showed Katarina Witt's 88 gold medal performance...that statement "sexy sells" is all too true. Since all she did was one triple jump and a bunch of posing..l...
How many women back in 1988 do you think were capable of landing triple jumps? ... (I tho't that Katerina landed a triple salchow & a triple toe but doubled her triple loop?)[/QUOTE]
If memory serves, Witt had five triples planned and did four (two toe-loops, two salchows, one of each had a double toe added on). She did double the loop.
Thomas had five triples also planned (same as Witts, but spaced differently she had a 3-3 planned, a very big deal then) but things didn't quite work out.
Manley did four different triples IIRC (no flip) but none in combination.
Ito did all five different triples being done then and did seven total in the lp which was pretty much unheard of at the time.
Don't ask me how I remember this, maybe because Calgary 88 was the first skating competition I taped.