Albertville 1992 Pairs FS | Gold for Mishkutionok-Dmitriev; Moskvina coaches another pairs victory

HD format. Australian/Canadian coverage (commentators: Chris Cuthbert, Paul Martini, Barbara Underhill). Performances previously uploaded as individual clips. This version is remastered. Performances shown marked with (^) below. Pairs' free skate (FS) from the 1992 Albertville Winter Games: Rank Name Nation SP FS^ TFP 1 Natalia Mishkutionok Наталья Мишкутёнок / Artur Dmitriev Артур Дмитриев Unified Team 1 1^ 1.5 (with preceding profile "fluff" piece featuring Tamara Moskvina) 2 Elena Bechke Елена Бечке / Denis Petrov Денис Петров Unified Team 2 2^ 3.0 3 Isabelle Brasseur / Lloyd Eisler Canada 3 3^ 4.5 4 Radka Kovaříková / René Novotný Czechoslovakia 4 4^ 6.0 5 Evgenia Shishkova Евгения Шишкова / Vadim Naumov Вадим Наумов Unified Team 5 5^ 7.5 6 Natasha Kuchiki / Todd Sand United States 6 6^ 9.0 7 Peggy Schwarz / Alexander König Germany 8 7^ 11.0 9 Christine Hough / Doug Ladret Canada 9 10^ 14.5 10 Calla Urbanski / Rocky Marval United States 7 11^ 14.5 13 Danielle Carr / Stephen Carr Australia 13 13^ 19.5 [with preceding profile "fluff" piece] see also:    • Albertville 1992 Pairs SP | Moskvina's Pai...   ------------- Chapters 00:00 Opening 00:44 Danielle & Steven Carr (Aus) 07:38 Christine Hough & Doug Ladret (Canada) 15:41 Peggy Schwarz & Alexander König (Germany) 22:52 Rocky Marval & Calla Urbanski (USA) 30:08 Natasha Kuchiki & Todd Sand (USA) 37:59 Evgenia Shishkova & Vadim Naumov (Unified Team) 45:38 Radka Kovaříková & René Novotný (Czechoslovakia) 52:54 Profile piece — Natalia Mishkutenok & Artur Dmitriev 57:14 Natalia Mishkutenok & Artur Dmitriev (Unified Team) 1:04:49 Elena Bechke & Denis Petrov (Unified Team) 1:12:11 Isabelle Brasseur & Lloyd Eisler (Canada) 1:21:07 Medal ceremony -- [from the LA Times] The Past Is Golden, the Future Looks Bleak : Skating: Moskvina coaches another pairs victory, then wonders where the money will come from for the next. By R. HARVEY Feb. 12, 1992 12 AM PT ALBERTVILLE, France — Tamara Moskvina, indisputably the world’s champion figure skating pairs coach, barely had time to congratulate her Winter Games gold and silver medalists Tuesday night before someone asked her about the future, a subject citizens of the former Soviet Union approach in the same manner they do winter, with dread. “Our plans for the nearest future are to have a glass of champagne with a sandwich and caviar,” she said. “Those are our plans for the future.” It is much more pleasant for Moskvina to discuss the past, when Soviet pairs skaters ruled. Beginning at Innsbruck, Austria, in 1964, they won seven consecutive gold medals, and, in four of those Games, they also won silver medals. There were the Protopopovs, Rodnina and Ulanov, Rodnina and Zaitsev, Valova and Vasiliev and Gordeeva and Grinkov. Now, although they no longer are Soviets but instead are members of a temporary conglomeration of former republics called the Unified Team, there are Natalia Mishkutienok and Artur Dmitriev of St. Petersburg, Russia. “For innovation, ‘creativeness’ and an original skating approach, that couple heads the list,” U.S. Coach John Nicks said. That is where all nine judges Tuesday night placed them. Although they were not flawless technically in their freestyle program, which they performed to Franz Liszt’s “Dreams of Love,” they received 5.9s on a 6.0 scale from all but two judges for presentation. The only pair that seemed to belong in the Ice Hall with them was Moskvina’s other team from St. Petersburg, silver medalists Elena Bechke and Denis Petrov. On a night when most of the performances were less than Olympian, Canada’s Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler won the bronze medal because the judges had to give it to somebody. “We’re happy with the bronze medal, but it’s hard to hold our heads high because of the way we skated,” Eisler said. “Really,” she said, “the changes in our country have been truly great and truly disappointing. But, truthfully speaking, these changes did not affect our training. There were some extra expenses, but our (Russian figure skating) federation and myself tried to make everything stable for the skaters to prepare for the Games properly. You now know the results.” ---------- #figureskating #フィギュアスケート #eiskunstlauf #фигурноекатание #pattinaggioartistico #patinageartistique special thanks to Kim!