1983 World Pro Champs Artistic | Starbuck & Shelley, Cranston, Protopopovs, Lynn, Tickner & co скачать в хорошем качестве

1983 World Pro Champs Artistic | Starbuck & Shelley, Cranston, Protopopovs, Lynn, Tickner & co

Australian/American coverage (commentator: John Misha Petkovich) --------------- 1983 "Landover" World Professional Figure Skating Championships (Capital Centre, Landover (Washington DC), Maryland, USA) Part 2: Artistic portion performances. Order of appearance: JoJo Starbuck & Ken Shelley "Peer Gynt Suite" Tai Babilonia & Randy Gardner "The Wiz" Ludmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov "Années De Pèlerinage" John Carlow Donald Jackson "Gold Finger" Dianne de Leeuw "Lipstick Montage" Janet Lynn "The Sleeping Beauty" Lorna Wighton & John Dowding "Rock This Town" Krisztina Regoeczy & Andras Sallay "King's Can Can" Dorothy Hamill "Take Back Your Mink" Linda Fratianne "The Man I Love" Toller Cranston "I Pagliacci" Charlie Tickner "My Way" Group numbers - All Stars v Pro Stars (ft. Sandra Bezic) see also:    • 1983 World Pro Champs Technical | Protopop...   --------------- [Washington Post] Protopopovs a Perfect Pair In Professional Figure Skating December 16, 1983 By D. Collins Before the start of last night's World Professional Figure Skating Championship at Capital Centre, Janet Lynn was suffering from a case of cold feet. While Dorothy Hamill and Linda Fratianne were feeling the pressure to win the singles' title, the 30-year-old Lynn just wanted the fans to like her. "I hope the audience isn't disappointed," said Lynn, the 1970 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating champion. Neither the audience, which tossed her flowers, nor the judges, who gave her the women's title, seemed to be. "Not bad for a mom," said Lynn, whose knee problems kept her from doing all but the most elementary jumps. She had retired from the ice for six years to have three children and is now in the midst of a comeback. In the pairs competition, Oleg and Ludmilla Protopopov, a husband and wife team who defected from the Soviet Union in 1979, skated to perfection, earning scores of 10 from each of the seven judges in both of their performances. They outpointed the favorites, Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner, who finished second. Charlie Tickner, a world champion in 1978, was first in the men's singles category, just ahead of Toller Cranston, a three-time world champion from Canada. This was the fourth time Dick Button has held this professional competition in Capital Centre and the first time the skaters were competing against one another for individual titles as well as $210,000 in team prize money. Some of the skaters, who thought they had escaped the critical eyes of judges when they left amateur competition for lucrative contracts with ice shows, admitted they did not enjoy those old familiar feelings of sweaty palms and nervous stomachs. But some in the audience of 15,000 said they wouldn't have it any other way. "You couldn't pay me to go to see the Ice Capades," said Darleen O'Hagan, who took her 9-year-old niece Kara Norment to the show. "This is so much nicer than watching Smurfs on skates." If observers had wanted to see the old stars put through new paces, they obviously did not want them judged too harshly in the process. This crowd had come for a love fest. Every score below 9.8, no matter who received it, was booed. When Don Jackson, 42, was given a 9.5 by one judge after his first performance, the crowd responded as if a Capitals hockey player had just been mugged. "I'm just happy to be able to compete out there with all these young Olympians," said Jackson, who won a bronze medal in the 1960 Winter Games and a world championship two years later. "It would be unrealistic to say I was going to win." Sandra and Val Bezic, a sister and brother team from Canada who had won the world professional pairs championship in 1980, were forced to withdraw from competition because of an injury suffered by Val Bezic on Thursday. During a practice, Bezic collided with a piece of machinery being used to televise the championship. He suffered a concussion but was well enough last night to watch the competition from the audience. ------------------ The World Professional Figure Skating Championships was an elite made-for-TV Figure skating competition. It was created by Dick Button through his production company Candid Productions. It usually took place in December. For most of its existence, it was an unsanctioned professional event. The first professional championship was held in 1973 in Landover, Maryland. Skaters competed in three disciplines: men's singles, ladies' singles, and Pair skating. However the competition was not held again until 1980. It was held again from 1980 to 1982 as a two-team competition. In 1983 individual competition once again resumed alongside continued team competition. 1983 also marked the first year in which Ice dancing was contested. ------------------ #figureskating #フィギュアスケート #eiskunstlauf #фигурноекатание #pattinaggioartistico #patinageartistique thanks to Kim!