3. Oksana Baiul was born on 16 November 1977 in Odessa. She started skating in
1982, four years. Her first coach was Stanislav Crytek. Career Baiul is full of funny
and dramatic situations. In one of the first performances at international
competitions, at the Nations Cup in November 1992, 14-year-old Oksana fell on the
jump in the rotation. But was suddenly able to beat the fall dance moves, and then
on the third try, performed a triple Salchow. In January 1993, she made her debut at
the European championship. In the original program made a mistake in the
cascade hops, instead of the triple Lutz double. Through fifteen minutes after the
start of the program, finding that rides with rastoropnym boot, stopped the
execution and appealed to the judges. After the meeting, the referee allowed to re-
implement the whole program.(Video) the second time he executed a triple Lutz in
the cascade. Impressed the judges gave scores down to 5.8. In any program, despite
two falls, has performed the most difficult triple Lutz and triple rittberger,
eventually finishing in second place. In the same year sensationally won the world
championship, being a debutante these competitions than set a record. Performed
both exciting emotionally, artistically adorned the program of dance movements,
bringing delight room.
4. At the Olympics-94 made one of the best short programs in the history of
figure skating (music by Tchaikovsky). The first part of the lyric, was
decorated with an exquisite combination of spirals in the second part, the
emotions were literally flushed over the edge. In tempo, high-speed full
original track steps, interesting rotation (Galina Zmievskaya called from
side to calm down). Despite the error in the cascade triple Lutz - double
toeloop" (touch free leg landing), some judges practically not reduced
evaluation was rated to 5.9).
After grading for equipment with Oksana had a nervous breakdown (which
could be seen by millions of viewers), because it seemed that Oksana will
take only 2nd place. When very stiff competition, the outcome of the
competition decided with one voice German judges, world champion Ian
Hoffman, in the short program put Baiul second, and arbitrary changed his
mind and gave her the first place. After the Games, the President of Ukraine
L. Kravchuk invited Baiul, the only Olympic champion 1994 from Ukraine,
the delegation visited the United States.
