Midori Ito 🇯🇵🥈earns 3 perfect 6.0s | 1990 World free skate | Scheherazade [U.S. version]

HDp60fps format, American coverage (commentator: Scott Hamilton, Verne Lindquist) running sheet: Midori Ito (伊藤みどり) (JPN) Free Skate. Music: Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade excerpt from the Washington Post: "TRENARY UNSEATS ITO FOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP By Associated Press March 10, 1990 at 7:00 p.m. EST HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, MARCH 10 -- Jill Trenary came for the gold and got it. Holly Cook came for the experience and got a bonus -- a bronze medal at the World Figure Skating Championships. The two Americans weren't the stars in today's free skate. Midori Ito of Japan, the 1989 champion, won the program as expected, earning three 6.0s for technical merit. Few women earn perfect scores in that category, though Ito had five of them last year when she was the first woman to land a triple axel in competition. But the numbers actually were not in Ito's favor because she was 10th in compulsories, which Trenary won. Ito, who hit six triple jumps including the axel, needed to beat Trenary, 21, of Colorado Springs, by two places in the long program. She couldn't. Trenary skated well enough for second place in the long program, earning her first world crown. ... Ito's hopes rested with American Kristi Yamaguchi, the only other free skater likely to slip between herself and Trenary. But Yamaguchi fell twice in an uninspired routine and was fourth overall after the third-place showing in the free skate." The event used the former 6.0 system (using a scale from 0.0 to 6.0 to determine the judge's preferred ranking), which was later replaced from 2004 by the ISU Judging System (the 'code of points') where each element contains a pre-set base value that is affected by its quality of execution. This compulsory figures were abolished following this event. #figureskating #フィギュアスケート #iceskating    • 1990 Worlds (Halifax, Canada)