The Battle of the Carmens is an informal name given to a figure skating rivalry and "media-fed battle" between East German Katarina Witt and American Debi Thomas during the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. The competition is so named because both Witt and Thomas independently elected to skate to the music of Bizet's opera Carmen in their respective long programs.
The Battle of the Carmens is an informal name given to a figure skating rivalry and "media-fed battle" between East German Katarina Witt and American Debi Thomas during the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. The competition is so named because both Witt and Thomas independently elected to skate to the music of Bizet's opera Carmen in their respective long programs.
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