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♪ GET KNOED DOWN
T I GEUPGA ♪
♪♪ YOU'RNEVER GO
KE ME DOWN ♪
♪ I GET KNO
BUI T UPIN♪
♪OUE NEVER GONNA
KE MDO ♪
TARA TO BEHENE
DOING THE KNOCNG DN,NK
YOU RY MUCH.
AT ONLY , E'S A D CHAMP.
IN TEN YEARS OF COMPET
TODD HAS H HISNOCKS.
T HE AAYS DOES G BACK UP
AIN.
♪♪
[ SINGING IN FNCH ]
>> THERERICANS.
IT'SIS
WE, YOU GEE PIURE.
>>IENVU PARIS.
AS T LOCY, WCOME
NERCHARM.REIAR,
ONOFORLDIT
OFRT CULS HOME
NITOHIBITI
ANOTHIN-- T
A SEAT AS THE CI OF LIT
STS TH"PMETAR ATE
INTERNATIONAL FRANC"
HI, EVERYONE.
I'M SUZY KBER.
WELLYOU'VE PROBABLY ALREADY
GUESSED THE THEME BY NOW,
BUT WE WEREN'T GOING
AND WE'VGOT THE TOP AMERANS
IN PARIS.
FO-TIME NATIAL CHAMP
TODD EREDGE IS MAKING
HIS FAREWELL TOUIS SEASON.
WOAND U.S. CHAMP
TARAIPINSKI T GINNING
MAKE HER MARKN THE SPORT.
AND RE TO HE ME PUT IT
INSPECTIVEA COUP
U.S. AM WHO MADE
EIR MARK ON THT ST
A FEW AG
SILVER MEDIST OM
THE OLYMPICS PETARHE,
D ME NIONAICDANC
CHAMSUSIE
AND SIODD AND RA MAKE
EATRNI PTN
FODD HAS EVDMITTE
THATA'S HAD HULUCE
ON HIM
>>ELL,'VD A CHAN
TOATCH THEM TH TRAIN
RSTH I'VBEEN
TO THE DETIT SKATING CLUB
THREE TIMES WEEK FORHE LAST
TWO MONTHS.
D THEY BOTH REALLY SCORE ONE
OTR ON DAILY BASIS.
W MEEL
SHE MAY YOUNG,
SH WORKING VHARDOT
ONLY OTHTECHCASI,
ONHE AISTIC SIE
OFER PGRAM.
BUTHTECHNICAL SIDE CANNOBE
DENI.
SHE IS STRONG.
E HAS EIGHT IPLES PLANNED
R FREE PGRAM.
WOMEN ND MREBLE TOOT MT
IR FE PROGMS
IN.OH, GO AHEAD, TRY TO RUB IT
EIGHT TRLES.
A LITTLE BF BATTLE
OFHE SES THERE.
BUT SERISLODEDGE IS
OUTANDIN
HE TAKES EVERYTHINTRID
HE HASUCREXED OUTLOOK.
BUT THTHING AT H BES
THAT MAKES HIM AHAMPN IS
THE FACT THAT HEANAVJUS.
HE'S ABLE TO TURN IT ADE
AND LA PERFELY.
'S AMAZING TO E CAT-KE
FE, THAT'S WHAWE CL
STING.
ALSOOK F ALEXEYAGUDIN.
HE'LL BE CHA H, AND I KN
HE HAST AMING QUE
TOE LOOPLA
>> AND WHAS IT LO
ADAD WDDLDREE?
THE FOURTH MEMR OF OUR TEA
'SHRTOPHER BMAN.
>> TUZY.
FOURIM MEN'S CMP,TG
ISVERCOMING T ANOTIN
IN PAS.
KEEP IMIIN THE OLYMPIC
MES P '92ND94,
HIM CTURING AN YMPIEND
DAL.
T I OWS NOT ONLY
ANNAST WATINDDLL
ANCALMLY APPROACH VENT,
ALSO KNOAT AA MPITOR
AND A RMEAATE OFIS,
AT H CONERS
PROBLEWI DIGTY L
A ON IN THOST
IMPORTANT OLYMPIC YE.
CHEERS A APPUSE
>> TD DREDGE IS A FOURIME
S.HAMP AND '96ORLD CMP
MAKINHIFAREWELL TOUR.
TH WILL BE HISINAL OLYIC
OFF TO AOOD STINNING
ATMERICA.
♪♪
I'LL TELL YOU, A CO
OF SECONDSGO, JUST
INHEUP, HE WASOING
THESE DOUBLE AXE.
HE'S A LTLE TILTEDN THR,
T HE'S GOTATT,
AND USUALLY CAN LA ON THAT ONE
FOOT THAT HE NEE.
RE IS THE TRIP AXE
LE TOE.
[ ] IT
LT ITHE UTULLED IT
OF
VERY LIAB.
VERY NICSIT TION.
NICE A FAST.
HEEALLY WORKEDAR
ON HIS S
D BETTER, TOO.ER
>> LOOCOMPEDE IS.
NOKILLING MSF.
CONSERNG THE ERG
SATEG
LONG IPLEZ.
RYIC
AND WOG TH DISVANT
YOMAY VE HEAHAT
ATKATEMERICA HE SEPARAD
HIS LD.
AND CPEATINFOR THAT,
HE PLEA MUSCLE
BY RS.
FLICIAL WHEN
HE PULLS HISRMS
IN ON FOR THE MULTIPLE ROTATIONS
ON THE JUMP.
>> BUT TODD'S A FIGHTER
THROUGH AND THROUGH.
>> FT ET, W POSITI
ON THE SPIN.
LL DONE.
>> OH.
[ CHEE ALAUSE ]
>> TODELEDGE H IL
TOGEER.
GO FOR OLC .LAST CHANCE
>> HE'S JUE TO DELIVER
GOODS PRESSURIS
, CAUSEALLSK
THSE
EE TECHNIQNTAC
>> STILL TO CO --
MOREF THE ERINIS
THREIG WORLD CH,
SPOTGHT.I, TAK
D DDLDREDGE WILL BBACKELCO BACT,
ANTHIS, THE TH STOP
IN THE CHAMPION SERIES.
JUST AS THIS SERIES WAS
BEGINNING LA MONTH IN DETROIT,
TODD ELDREDGE NEARLY SAW IT
ALL END.
A FREAK FALL ITHE FREE WARM-UP
SLOCATED HIS SHODER.
TODDAD THE COURAGE TO P IT
RIGHT BACK INTO PLE.
NOTNLY WENT ON TO WIN,
BUT EARNED ONE 6.0, THE VERY
FIRST OF HIS CAREER.
THE LADIES' NIGHT BELONGED
TO MICHELLE KWAN, WHOSE BEAUTY
ANRITY WAS FIRMLBACK
INLACE
MICHELLE WAS SO GOOD THAT IT
ONLY TOOK ONE MISTAKE
FROM TARA LIPINSKI,
AN OTHERWISE STRONG SKATE,
TO PUT HER IN SEND PLACE.
ROUND ONE TO MICHEE.
NEXT STOP, GERMANY,
AND THE FIRST APPEARANCE
OFANADIAN WORLD CHAMP
ELVIS STOJKO.
HIS TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE SCORED
HIM SERIES WIN.
D AFTER A SEASON OFF THECE
NG ILLSS,
TANYA SHANKO CHARMED
HER HOME COUNTRY WITH R FIRST
SERIES VICTORY.
T-LAG FROM THE TRIP HOME
FROM GERMANY WASN'T APPARENT
TO TO ANY OF US AS ELVIS TOPPED
THE CHARTS IN CANADA
THOUGH MICHELLE FALTERED
A PAINFUL FOOT INJURY,
HER SCORES WERE GOOD ENOUGH
TO GIVE HER THE N.
AFTERWARDS, THE PAIN WAS FOUND
TO BE A STRESS FRACTURE.
IN CANAD MICHEE WASN'T
SKATING FOR FINAL POINTS,
BUT HER INJURY MAY FOR
HER TO TRY AND COUNT THE WIN
TOWARD A TRIP TO THE FINAL.
CONFUSED?
LL, HERE IHOW IT WORKS.
THE CHAMPION SERIES IS MADUP
OF SIX INTERNATIONAL EVENTS.
ATERS EARNOINTS TWO
THE SIXO QUALIFY
FOR THE SERI FINNEXT MONTH
IN MUNICH.
ALG THE WAY, THEY ALSOK UP
SOME BKS -- $3000 TO
THE WINNER OF EACH EVENT.
AT THE FINALS, THE DRS GO UP
AS THE TOP SIX MEN, SIX WOMEN,
FIVE PAIRS, AND FIVE DANCE
COUPLES INHE WORLD BATTLE
FOR A SEOUS COMPETITE LEG UP
IN THIS OLYMPIC YEAR.
AND BY THE WAY, WE SHOWED
YOU TODD ELDREDGE.
WELL, HE HAS PLENTY
OF COMPETITI HERE IN FRANCE.
>> YOU WANT TO GET THE JUDGES'
ATTENTION?
TS.
THE TRIPLE AXEL, TRIE TOE OP
COMBINATION IN THE SHORT
PROGM.
NOTHE BEST, BUT DENITELY ONE
OF THE UP-AND-COMERS IN MEN'S
FIGURE SKATING.
>> A SOMEONE THAT AL
CAPTURES THE AUDIENCE'S
ATTENTION, PHILLIPE CAELORO.
HE SKATED A GREAT SHT PROGRAM,
RY ELECTRIC, AND SHOWED MUCH
IMPROVEMENT FROM TWO WEEKS
BEFORE IN RMANY.
>> IN MY MIND, ALEXEI YAGUDIN
GETS THE MVP SKATEAWARD
OF LAST YEAR.
WHEN HE DO JUMPS LIKE THIS --
YOU CAN SEE WHY.
HE'S GOT THE RIGHT STUFF.
>> AFTER THE SHORT PROGRAM,
THE STDINGS LOOK LIKE THIS.
ELDREDGE IN FIRST.
BUT ALEXEI YAGUDIN HAS REALLY
IHIS OW
D SO FAR THIS SEASON,
IGOR PAS
>> IN CO AER T SRT
PROGM, ALEXEI YAGUN
OF RUSSIA.
AND WE TALD UC
ABT THE DIES A H YOUNG
THEY A.
HE ONLY A HE'S RKG
RYD SHOWI
HIMATURITY.
>> LAST AR ARLD
AMSHIP RIGHT BEHIND
TODD ELDREDGE, SHE IS
DEFINITELY GUNNING FORIM HERE.
TO TURN IN AN AMAZING TO HAVE
PERFORNCE TO BEAT ELVIS.
♪♪
WATCH THE TECHNIQUE HE HAS
ONHIS TRIP AXEL, TPLE TOE.
HE UALLY IS VERYTRAI
IN T AIR.
OHNO
STHTT CHECK
THE LANDING.
AN ATTEMT E QUADRUPLE
LOOP, UR TIMES AROUN--
[ APPLAUSE ]
ONPLTH, N'TBECING
>>T SOLY IS.
N, THIS, THEPL
, HIS COMBINATION,
AS HIS ONING JUMP.
AND HERE HE PROBABLY WL Y
D T IN.
[ CHEE ANDPPUS]
TRIPLE AXEL, TRI.
'S REAL FIR.
>> AXEI MISSION,IS CCH,
O SO TRAEDLEI URMANOV,
RY SIMIL IN YLE BETWEEN
THE TWO MEN.
>> UNFORTUNATELYTHAT W
SUPPOSED TO BE ARIPLE
DOLE.
IT LOOKS LIKE HE'SETTINGUST
A LITTLE TIR.
HE'S BN RKINON USI ME
OF THE ICE
HE SS, "I VE TO GROW UP
METI."
TAKIUCMOREIM
WITH T AISTRY, TO BE M
COHE.
PLAUSE
>> WOW
BACKIT UWITH A GRE
COMBINATN LI THAT.
SOMPING MEANS ARE RY
ALLOWHI REALLSP
F THE ICE IN A ,
TH FOLLOW ITWI A STRONG
NDIN
TIFUL!
[ APPLAUSE ]
THAT WAS SUCH AN IMPRESSIVE
QUADRUPLE E LOOP
THINK ABOUT IT, FOUR TIMES
AROUND ITHE AI
TO ME,RIPLS AZG.
BUT EY REALLY ARTTING
E ADS ON AE CONSISTENT
LENOW.
AND IT'S JUST NO BIGHI.
WHAT MAKES THIS SO HARD IS
YOU HAVE TO UP
REAL TIIN ORDER F I
[ AINED APPLAU
IT'SOT NECESSALY HOW HIGH
U GO'S T MES TT
NEBRING INHERM
AN CLOSE TOGETHER LAN
THAT SOUND TECHNI
TER IS TKING ABOUTXTENDS
INTOVETHING HE
TO THE TRIPLFLIP/TRIPLTOE
COMBINAT
HE'S CLEAN, PRE, GAT
CHECKOUT LANDI.
IMPRESVE QUAD.
BUT WEANVERLOOK AT LEAST
A UPLEF STAKES.
[ APPLAUSE ]
INNSITY PEONIFIED BACKAG
AS TD EDGEOCUSES
AND EPARES TO GIVE IT A GO.
IN E ADY,
PHILLIPE CLORO.
ESS S E LLEMAIN
SURPRISE.
'RE BACK IPARIGHAFAF
E'RE BACWITH
YOU FROM PARIS AND, OF CRSE,
THE FRENCH HAVE A AIR
FOR SHOW
CA IN POINT, RIG NOW.
[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]
YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING
TO GET FROM FRANCE'S
PHLI CANDELORO, O BROUGHT
OUT L E ARLLERY
IN THE SHORTGR AND EVENED
SCORES.
>> AND THIS, OF URSE, IS
NAPOLEON.
I VE SEETH FREE PROGM.
AND WHEN HE LAST DID IT, IT
DIDN'T REALLY LIVE, THAT IS,
THE CHARACTER.
BUT K HE'S REALLY
VELOPED ITINCE THEN.
IF HE CAN T THE JUMPS TOGETHER
WITH THE CHAERI THINK
WE'VE GOT SOMETHING SPECIAL.
[ DRUM CADENCE PLAYI ]
♪♪
STARTING OFF WITH A ***.
A TRIPLE AXEL/TRIPLE LOOP.
FIRST ONE.
TRIPLE TOE LOOP.
WELL DONE.
SUBSTITUTION, NO PROBLEM.
>> AND HE WASTES NO TIME
AS HE GOES INTO HIS SEND JUMP.
BEAUTIFUL TRIPLE LUTZ JUMP.
TRIPLE FL.
LEANING, SAVED IT.
APPLAUSE ]
I THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO GO
WN ON THAT.
>> IID, TOO.
THAT WAS A GREATAVE.
>> NICE,TRAIGHT POSITION
ON THAT TRIPLE LOOP.
I INK THAT MAKES UP
FOR THE FLIP JUMP EARLIER.
>> HE'S GETTING MORE HEIGHT
ON THE JUMPS, ALLOWING HIM
TO COMPLETE THE ROTATION N.
SO, AT'S HELPING
IN THE JUMPING DEPARTMENT.
[ PLAUSE ]
SOMETIMES HE GS A LITTLE STIFF
ON THE LANDING.
HE DOESN'T REALLY BEND HIS KNEE
AND ABSORB THE SHOCK.
T THIS IS THE BE I'VE SEEN
OF HIM.