I also wanted to share my thoughts on what I thought of her skating. Kristi Yamaguchi is my favorite American skater ever, so I thought I would go back and watch a lot of her performances and try to pick out the ones I enjoyed a whole lot even though they are not all clean. I really enjoyed her articulate and thoughtful commentary and she has a nice tone of voice. Skate America 1990 LP definitely one of her best performances, beautiful, athletic, subtle, intricate and highly artistic: ġ990 Goodwill Games SP: nice performance especially so early in the season, also interesting because Debi Thomas (I believe) is announcing. Here is a wonderful early performance Nationals LP 1989: Here is a lovely performance of Fantasie Impromptu from 1992: Īn early really entertaining and expressive program with a nice ebb and flow that builds to an exciting finish, just one technical mistake but a lot of fine jumps 1988 Skate America LP: She hits her triple salchow and the artistry, lines and musicality are entrancing: Kristi Yamaguchi's Nationals SP 1992 with Peggy Fleming and Dick Button announcing: Īlso here is her LP performance at Nationals 1992 which is one my favorite performances of hers. It is Kristi Yamaguchi's Olympic LP in HD:

Perhaps everyone has already seen this but I hadn't and I look at youtube a lot so I am posting it here. Thanks to Sylvia for posting this on FSU. Here is a video of Kristi practicing for the event with her daughter Emma. Olympic Committee for humanitarian work in early childhood literacy. Kristi has a benefit show coming up in San Jose. She retired from competitive skating after the 1991-92 season. She is the 1992 Olympic Champion and also holds the World title for 19. Figure skater Kristine 'Kristi' Yamaguchi was born on July 12, 1971, in Hayward, California.

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