the most beautiful Olympic moment: the dueling Carmens
What: The showdown between ice skaters Katarina Witt and Debi Thomas at the 1988 WInter Olympics in Calgary, both skating to a suite from Bizet’s “Carmen”: (To play them simultaneously, move the counter on Thomas’s video to 0:30, then start both.) Why: At the culmination of the Calgary games, America’s Thomas and East Germany’s Witt […]