ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
SUMMER FEST
SUMMER FEST
It is the off season. Time for Summer Fan Fest Fun!
A lot of fan fests of great skaters were posted long before we at Golden Skate had begun posting complete (bio, plus article archive, plus video archive) OPs. Back then, the OPs were pretty much two sentence stubs.
When we decided to move Great Skaters who have been retired over five years to their very own section of Fan Fests:
https://www.goldenskate.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?718-Fan-Fest-Retired-Greats
in celebration of this new section, several Golden Skaters, and most notably Mohacz, expanded stub OPs to full coverage and replaced any dead video links with live links.
Quite few Greats now have full OPs!
Quite a few Greats who had no Fan Fest at all now have them, including the ever fabulous Toller Cranston.
Skaters with Full OPs have bold entries in the Greats index.
So now you really can revisit the past by going to the Retired Greats folder and view old vids, read old articles in the OPs.
You can also see whole old competitions in:
Walt FS Hunter's Video Vault
https://www.goldenskate.com/forum/showthread.php?80368-Golden-Oldies
A collection of videos stored by year, discipline and competition, starting with the 1956 Winter Olympics. Walt has been working on this continually, and is now posting competitions from the early 1980's
If there is a great you would like to see added, please tell us who and why in this thread.
Please tell us how you like it.
Here is a copy of the index as it stands today. There will be changes, of course, so you can follow the link from here to the active index.
https://www.goldenskate.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?718-Fan-Fest-Retired-Greats
Retired Greats - Index
https://www.goldenskate.com/forum/showthread.php?80297-Retired-Greats-Index
When a thread has a complete, up to date OP, it is listed in Bold letters.
Miki Ando
Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat
Brian Boitano
Surya Bonaly
Maria Butyrskaya
Lu Chen
Sasha Cohen
Toller Cranston
Alissa Czisny
Meryl Davis & Charlie White
Isabel Delobel & Oliver Schoenfelder
Isabel Duchesnay & Paul Duchesnay
Rachael Flatt
Scott Hamilton
Sarah Hughes
Midori Ito
Brian Joubert
Nancy Kerrigan
Yu-Na Kim
Kiira Korpi
Michelle Kwan
Stephane Lambiel
Tara Lipinski
Tatsuki Machida
Nobunari Oda
Brian Orser
Pang Qing & Tong Jian
Joannie Rochette
Evgeni Plushenko
Yuka Sato
Irina Slutskaya
Elena Sokolova
Adelina Sotnikova
Fumie Suguri
Rosalynn Sumners
Akiko Suzuki
Denis Ten
Tracey Wainman
Johnny Weir
Alexei Yagudin
Kristi Yamaguchi