Nagano 1998 Pairs FS [full] | Artur Dmitriev rediscovers golden touch with Oksana Kazakova

Australian coverage in full (commentators: Sandy Roberts, Belinda Trussell (Noonan)). SydFigSka edit. 長野1998 Winter Games (White Ring, Nagano, Japan), pairs free skate (FS). All competitors shown, (^) below: Final Rank Name Nation SP FS^ TFP 1 Oksana Kazakova / Artur Dmitriev Russia 1 1 1.5 2 Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze Russia 3 2 3.5 3 Mandy Wötzel / Ingo Steuer Germany 2 3 4.0 4 Kyoko Ina / Jason Dungjen United States 4 4 6.0 5 Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo China 8 5 9.0 6 Sarah Abitbol / Stéphane Bernadis France 7 6 9.5 7 Marina Eltsova / Andrei Bushkov Russia 5 7 9.5 8 Jenni Meno / Todd Sand United States 6 9 12.0 9 Peggy Schwarz / Mirko Müller Germany 9 8 12.5 10 Dorota Zagórska / Mariusz Siudek Poland 10 11 16.0 11 Evgenia Filonenko / Igor Marchenko Ukraine 13 10 16.5 12 Kristy Sargeant / Kris Wirtz Canada 11 12 17.5 13 Danielle McGrath / Stephen Carr Australia 15 13 20.5 (with interview) 14 Marina Khalturina / Andrei Krukov Kazakhstan 16 14 22.0 15 Kateřina Beránková / Otto Dlabola Czech Republic 14 15 22.0 16 Marie-Claude Savard-Gagnon / Luc Bradet Canada 12 16 22.0 17 Sabrina Lefrançois / Nicolas Osseland France 17 17 25.5 18 Inga Rodionova / Aleksandr Anichenko Azerbaijan 19 18 27.5 19 Maria Krasiltseva / Alexander Chestnikh Armenia 18 19 28.0 20 Marie Arai / Shin Amano Japan 20 20 30.0 previously uploaded as individual clips:    • Event: 1998 Nagano - Pairs' Free Skate [Au...   ------ Chapters 00:00 Warm-up Group 1 & Intro 03:16 Rodionova/Anichenko AZE 11:04 Lefrançois/Osseland FRA 17:55 Arai/Amano JPN 25:01 Krasiltseva/Chestnikh ARM 32:10 Warm-up Group 2 34:57 Beránková/Dlabola CZE 42:33 Khalturina/Krukov KAZ 49:40 Filonenko/Marchenko UKR 56:36 McGrath/Carr AUS 1:04:14 Interview McGrath/Carr AUS 1:06:17 Sargeant/Wirtz CAN/Group 3 1:13:43 Schwarz/Müller GER 1:20:57 Savard-Gagnon/Bradet CAN 1:29:27 Zagórska/Siudek POL 1:37:30 Warm-up Group 4 1:40:00 Shen/Zhao CHN 1:47:05 Meno/Sand USA 1:55:27 Eltsova/Bushkov RUS 2:02:57 Abitbol/Bernadis FRA 2:11:48 Wötzel/Steuer GER/Group 5 2:19:09 Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze RUS 2:26:51 Ina/Dungjen USA 2:34:14 Kazakova/Dmitriev RUS 2:42:31 Final Results --- [words by the Hartford Courant] SOME HAPPY ENDINGS PUBLISHED: February 11, 1998 This was a night to think about pairs skating in the future and to remember it as it was. There’s going to be plenty of room at the top. Russia’s Oksana Kazakova and Artur Dmitriev went home Tuesday with gold medals. Pairs partners only 18 months, they’ll turn pro. “Four more years to the next... is a long time,” said Dmitriev, Winter Games champion six years ago with another partner. “If the Games were next year, then maybe.” The Winter Games in Salt Lake City are four years away. Germany’s Mandy Wotzel and Ingo Steuer, bronze medalists behind Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze of Russia, will retire, too. “This is my first Games medal and my last Games medal,” Steuer said. “I can leave happy.” With a solid chance to medal, Americans Kyoko Ina and Jason Dungjen made two mistakes and finished fourth. Later, Dungjen said this is his last Games, too. “I’m 30 years old,” Dungjen said. “[At the Salt Lake Games], I’ll be 34. That’s a heck of a long way to go.” Jenni Meno and Todd Sand, who arguably have done more for American pairs skating than any who preceded them, performed poorly and finished ninth. Now, they, like Kazakova and Dmitriev, Wotzel and Steuer, and at least Dungjen if not Ina, are retiring, too. “We’re really disappointed,” Meno said. “We wanted to go out and skate our best. That didn’t happen.” “Part of it was lack of training because of the [ankle] injury [in nationals]. We weren’t able to prepare like we wanted.” It was a night with many story lines, not all of them on the ice. Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze are remembered in Connecticut for their skating and acting. Last fall, they played lead roles in the movie about Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, pairs champion four years ago. Grinkov has since died, and Gordeeva lives and trains in Simsbury with their daughter. Tuesday night, Gordeeva watched the competition in White Hat Arena from the CBS commentators’ booth. Sarah Abitol and Stephane Bernadis of France. In the pairs freeskate, they nearly landed a triple axel throw. Abitol held her landing for a second before falling. No pairs skaters have ever landed the jump in competition. --- #figureskating #フィギュアスケート #eiskunstlauf #фигурноекатание #pattinaggioartistico #patinageartistique