Any interest for past Olympic rewatches?

[yfan1]

Another quad has slipped through our fingers, and we have yet another rule change. I think now is as good a time as any to watch some of the past Olympics skating, to see how much skating has changed.

These are the Olympic videos I found:

women 2002 LP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLC8k54zdHc

women 2006
SP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHrR_FzDLeo
LP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsOktQ5QqXs

women 2010
SP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yc6k9oCI9c
LP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5gXuc8y6SQ

men 2006
SP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzSY9Lahlz0
LP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBcLt0_wCos

There are of course more. Would this forum be interested in rewatching together, discussing who skated best, how different it is from now? Since all apart from 2002 are CoP olympics, it even becomes easier to compare.

And there will be a lot of wuzrobbing which we all love, no doubt

 

[yfan1]

As a separate post, for me, the most interesting would be 2006 men and women. It's interesting to revisit seeing how we had an Italian Olympics 20 years later, and the quality of skating in 2006 was so much better in comparison.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

I think that the 2014 Men were such an exceptional "bunch", alas it was a "splat fest".
Here's the Free Skating:

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Here's the Short Program:

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[yfan1]

I do not know why you would WANT to see a splat fest...

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Here's the Women's Short Program, to revive the fight:

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Strangely, I don't find their Free?

Are Pairs and Ice Dance included in the thread?

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

I do not know why you would WANT to see a spalt fest...

Because it's still beautiful skating!

 

[yfan1]

I strongly disagree with 2014 men displaying 'beautiful skating'.

 

[TallyT]

For me (and yes, I saved quite a bit of the 2014 men) it's more than that... yes, there were a lot of splats but some of them, knowing they had started badly, still fought back and kept doing their absolute best even when their dream seemed to have died. It's always good - for me at least - to see someone do that.

Hey, I'm an Aussie, and we have a thing about battlers...

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

For me (and yes, I saved quite a bit of the 2014 men) it's more than that... yes, there were a lot of splats but some of them, knowing they had started badly, still fought back and kept doing their absolute best even when their dream seemed to have died. It's always good = for me at least - to see someone do that.

Hey, I'm an Aussie, and we have a thing about battlers...

Well, I'm a Frenchie, and we don't scorn those who lose after a beautiful fight...
I'd like also the 1988 Men and Ladies because in my foggy memory the few Skaters I saw on French TV were "worth a sight".

 

[yfan1]

I'm not French or Aussie, so...

If someone can find 1998, then by all means, please do and post them. My vote goes to 2006.