Brian Anthony Boitano (created October 22, 1963) is an American figure skater from Sunnyvale, California. He’s the 1988 Olympic champ, the 1986 and 1988 World Champion, as well as the 1985–1988 U.S. National Champ. He returned to contest in 1993 and competed in the 1994 Winter Olympics, where he placed sixth. At the initial World Championships of the post-Hamilton age in 1985, Alexander Fadeev won, with Brian Orser ending 2nd and Boitano 3rd. At the 1986 World Championships, Boitano took the title, while Fadeev had a catastrophic free skate despite having been in a great position to win; Orser completed 2nd once again. During the 1986–87 season, Boitano had introduced two new components to his systems: the ‘Tano triple lutz as well as a quadruple toe loop, although he never succeeded in getting a clean quadruple jump in competition. The 1987 World Championships were held in Cincinnati, giving protecting World champion Boitano a home-field advantage. The results of the event would establish the tone for the 1988 Olympics. At Worlds, Boitano fell on his quadruple toe loop effort and set second. Boitano had always been great in the technical necessities (“The primary symbol”), however he was poor on the arty (“the second mark”). He was a self described “bound robot.” As a way to aid his development as an artist, he hired choreographer Sandra Bezic to choreograph his systems for the 1987–1988 Olympic season.
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program
Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography
Movies
Blades of Glory, Carmen on Ice
Star Sign
Libra
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The 'tano Lutz jump which is a variation on a Lutz
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So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching a short program. Everyone was doing exactly the same elements.
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Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.
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The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.
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Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.
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Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.
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I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.
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Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that.
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The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line.
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That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.
$700,000
