Janet Lynn was always a ballerina on ice no matter where she placed. She was a joy to watch and so graceful. She has always been one of my favorite all-time figure skaters.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing this. I have idolized Janet Lynn's skating for more than 40 years, and despaired of ever seeing programs like this again. I am thrilled that Janet's 1968 Olympic program is saved for posterity, as I was afraid it was lost forever.
She was my favorite for so many years. She had such beautiful line and grace, and her layback is one of the very best ever. Seeing this video brings me back and makes me want to return to those more innocent years - years when the skating was becoming more artistic and athletes like Janet, John Curry and Toller Cranston filled the arenas with amazing beauty and the excitement of their unique styles.
This program is LOADED with content! Ahh...the energy of a 14-year-old. Did you notice she tries to throw a triple Salchow halfway through? Not sure how many of the ladies attempted that back in 1968. Cheers!
@@Ronizetti That is incorrect. Peggy's programs had the exact same basic content. Her programs included ALL doubles including two double axels in every program.
как далеко? не так много элементов придумано с тех пор. Скорость прибавилась. Пируэты некоторые появились, например, Дэнис Билльман. Откатала программу Линн чудненько и плавненько - было интересно смотреть - уровень отличный. Мне, например, совершенно не интересно смотреть нанешнее фигурное катание - ничего интересного. Последние, кого смотреда с удовольствием - это наши Плющенко, Ягудин, Сихарулидзе с Бережной, американка Мишель кван...Дальше - пурга с быстрее-выше-сильнее.
@@user-iq2fx8jc9n хоть я и делитант в ФК, но честно смотрела и мысли проскальзывали, а ведь ничего не поменялось, все то же самое и сейчас, да оборотов прыгают больше и если честно, то эстетически приятнее сиотреть чем сегодняшгих и чем то напомнило во многом в движениях школу Тутбиридце и мысль скользнула, а не отсюда ли они черпают ту красоту катания, тут все есть, и пластика и грация и и легкость и воздушность, завораживает! И ваш коммент читаю, как свои мысли мелькнувшие)) толтко более профссиональные терминологии знаете!
@@user-iq2fx8jc9n I totally agree with your comment. Today's free skating is overloaded with acrobatic attempts, lacking artistry and personality. I highly respect to what extend they invest the outmost of their life. Apart from jumping, footworking has become extremly difficult, not compareble with former times. Perhaps 25% compulsories - who knows - would bring back a certain balance.
@@swissskate70ies40 yes...there is much acrobatic - and generally emptiness in FSkating - if not to bing back the beauty of former times, there will be the end of this kind of sport
And people don’t realize that 60 percent of scoring was on school figures - hours and hours we spent on patch. All that time goes to freestyle and artistry now.
Trouble is we did not even see the school figures being done. When Peggy Fleming won the Olympics in 1968, she was declared the winner before she even stepped out on the ice because she was so far ahead in her school figure scores.
Janet seems much freer, more avant garde in her movements and music (Afternoon of the Faun) than Peggy. Fleming was the last I think of the old style of skating which seemed a bit more static in the upper body, and general choreo/expression.
@ballinagra13 I'm so glad her skate from Sapporo is on YT now.I got to see her in person in NC in 1976.She was judging a kids skate at a mall ice rink ( for Easter Seals ) and was like 7 months pregnan with her first sont.She looked so tired so I didn't get up the nerve to ask her for her autograph.
Of course, this is a delightful performance, full of youthful energy! What I love about seeing this performance, though, is that you can clearly see how she improved and matured steadily after this competition, toward the 1972 Games. Here, her lines weren’t refined, her edges weren’t as crisp or controlled, her skating was generally tentative, her moves weren’t fully extended, and her jumps and spins were clearly still under development. This shows that she worked VERY hard to achieve the level of refinement, control, and so on to realize her potential by 1972-and I absolutely LOVE that. [Unlike what some are saying, thus, I don’t think her overall skating was strong enough here to challenge Peggy Fleming here or for a string of 6.0s…at all…given the areas of improvement I’ve noted.]
@@angelaloof852 Glass half empty vs. glass half full, I suppose. My comment emphasized what an incredible improvement she made following this performance. If you took it as nitpicking and uninformed (that I missed out on something), I am sorry you took it that way. When skaters have extraordinary lines, superb presentation, and/or overall outstanding fundamentals in FS, they typically tend to start out that way (e.g., Lisa Marie Allen, Yuka Sato, etc.) but Janet Lynn has actually gone through a major transformation. She and her coach must have worked very hard-and, to me, that is a compliment rather than a criticism.
Actually if you compare the two programs Janet had much more content and far greater execution (*Peggy herself will tell you it was far from her desired skate that day*), Janet had far more freedom, stylized and athletic ease. Both had bobbles, but the more complete program execution was Janet. Peggy is VERY lucky figures were Janet's nemesis!!
A) Fleming RARELY skated her best under pressure. Her Olympics performance (68) was tentative, scared, and full of poorly landed jumps/omitted rotations. Her best performance on video was the US Nationals a month or two earlier than that Olympics. She was VERY lucky that Seyfert's compulsories were not anywhere near hers, just as with Lynn. Fleming would never win now that compulsories have been trashed. B) Lynn is already at least as artistic as Fleming in this performance. Period.
What's the problem. This young lady did at least 12 jumps during her performance. Why did the judges and commentators complain about Surya Bonaly's 4th jumps saying the ladies are only allowed 3 jumps in a competition? Really? 🤨
Different rules. After this, Short Programs were introduced in the 1973 season, and in 1981, the scoring system went through a major change, moving to the Factored Placement system. Besides these major changes, minor changes occurred each year. FYI, there was no limit on the number of jumps skaters could perform in FS until the current rule went into effect in 2006 (well after Ms. Bonaly retired), so you seem to be misremembering that particular issue about 4 jumps. Generally, the judges and, more importantly, the skating audience “complained” about Ms. Bonaly b/c she had abysmal basic skills-with shallow and messy edges, little control, and very little speed-and even her jumps were of poor quality without much flow.
You may be remembering a SHORT program/s which historically had requirements/limitations placed upon them (combination/double/triple-no repeated jump etc.) Free/Long programs in Bonaly's day had no such restrictions.
Peggy WHO!?!? ... Fleming was fortunate to have age and good figures in her favor, for this FOURTEEN year old girl certainly outskated her that night!! How Flemings skate garnered 5.9's remains a mystery!?! - in that case Lynn deserved all 6.0!
@@barbarawilcox182 if this was at Grenoble, she was sick with the flu. The medicine that would work was banned by the Olympic committee and the medicine they did approve didn't do Jack for her. Finally, her father, a pharmacist, said give her the banned medicine and forfeit if you have to. So she probably wasn't 100% here.
@@barbarawilcox182 Not possible. Janet was very young and far back after compulsory figures. The judges held back the top marks for the top skaters after compulsories.
Peggy “who”? Peggy Fleming, that’s who. Putting down Peggy doesn’t make Janet shine brighter, and vice versa. There’s no need to compare. Both are highly accomplished athletes and inspiring women. Get a life.
