On TiVo Top 10 Moments of Games Agony of Defeat Wins Out Over Thrill of Victory

On TiVo Top 10 Moments of Games Agony of Defeat Wins Out Over Thrill of Victory

Canadian Skater's Disastrous Fall Is Most Replayed Moment From Torino, Besting Gold Medal Performances by Ohno, Mancuso

ALVISO, Calif., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The TiVo Top 10 Moments of the winter games showed that sometimes spectacular sporting disasters are more interesting than the most inspiring performances, especially in an Olympics that seemed to feature more than its fair share of pratfalls, mishaps and painful disasters.

According to an analysis of aggregate, anonymous data from 20,000 TiVo(R) DVR households, the most memorable and replayed moment of the Turin games was the stunning fall by Canadian skater Marie-France Dubreuil who slammed into the ice after losing her grip in the Ice Dancing competition.

Sasha Cohen's performance in the Short Program that briefly put her in first place in the women's skating competition was the second most popular moment of the games. The gold medal winning performance of U.S. speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno was the only medal winning performance to rank in the top five of the TiVo list.

American skier Julia Mancuso's gold medal winning giant slalom run, coming in at number nine, was the only other gold medal performance to crack the TiVo Top 10 Moments of the Games. Nearly all of the TiVo Top 10 moments involved skating in some way, whether interviews with athletes, or Ice Dancing, Figure or Speed Skating performances and recaps.

The TiVo Top 10 Moments of the winter games were:

1. Canadian skater Marie-France Dubreuil slamming to the ice
2. Sasha Cohen's Short Program performance putting her in first by a
razor thin margin
3. Apolo Anton Ohno winning gold in the Men's 500M Speed Skating
4. Bob Costas interview of Silver Medalist Sasha Cohen
5. Sasha Cohen performance at the Champion's Gala Evening
6. Commentary featuring U.S. skaters Kimmie Meissner and Emily Hughes
7. Gold medal ceremony for Women's Giant Slalom winner American Julia
Mancuso
8. Re-broadcast of silver medal win by U.S. Ice Dancers Ben Agosto and
Tanith Belbin
9. Julia Mancuso's gold winning Giant Slalom run
10. Russian figure skater Yevgeny Plushenko's performance at the
Champion's Gala Evening

Top Moments of the Day

In addition to the overall top moments of the games, TiVo also measured the top moments of each day of the games. Skating and skiing topped the sports of interest to TiVo(R) subscribers on any given day, with the top daily moments of the winter games being:

Date Top Moment

2/10/2006 The lighting of the Olympic flame

2/11/2006 USA's Rena Inoue and John Baldwin became the first
pair to successfully perform the Throw Triple Axel in
competition

2/12/2006 Shaun White's victory lap after winning the gold
medal in the Men's Snowboarding Halfpipe

2/13/2006 Chinese pair skater Zhang Dan crashes hard on the ice
after attempting a Throw Quadruple Salchow, a move
never previously attempted in competition

2/14/2006 Benjamin Raich of Australia hooks a gate in the Men's
Combined Skiing competition

2/15/2006 Japan's Takahiro Fujimoto crashed into Italy's Yuri
Confortola during the Men's 5000m Relay Speed Skating
Semifinal and was disqualified

2/16/2006 Russia's Yevgeny Plushenko's gold medal figure
skating performance

2/17/2006 USA's Lindsey Jacobellis misses a jump costing her
the gold medal

2/18/2006 USA's Bode Miller remains upright on one ski to avoid
falling after crashing into a gate in the Men's
Super-G Alpine Skiing competition.

2/19/2006 Canadian skater Marie-France Dubreuil slammed to ice
after she loses grip during Ice Dancing competition

2/20/2006 Italian skaters Maurizio Margaglio and Barbara Fusar-
Poli fall during the Ice Dancing competition

2/21/2006 Sasha Cohen takes first place in the Short Program of
Women's Figure Skating by a razor thin margin

2/22/2006 Commentary on the Women's Figure Skating competition
including replays of USA skaters Kimmie Meissner and
Emily Hughes

2/23/2006 American Sasha Cohen's fall in the women's figure
skating competition

2/24/2006 Bob Costas interviewing Sasha Cohen about her results
at the Winter Games

2/25/2006 Apolo Anton Ohno wins gold in Men's 500M

About TiVo Audience Measurement

The top Olympic moments analysis is aggregated from a sample of 20,000 anonymous TiVo households and gauges the interest in programming content by measuring the percentage of the TiVo households who replay any given moment.

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