Janet Lynn 1969 World Championships

Her freeskate at the 1969 world championships in Colorado Springs

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• figure
• skating
• 1969
• world
• championships
• janet
• lynn

[HattieLovesCattie]

@HowDareThey1970 I don't think it amounted to much.I know she was on The Young and the Restless.Google her name and see what it says she has been doing since winning the gold.

[HowDareThey1970]

@HattieLovesCattie I heard Tara tried acting. Where did that go?

[HattieLovesCattie]

@HowDareThey1970 True,Sarah went back to college and Tara,well,she killed her hip.She did tour I think for a year or so with Stars on Ice and no one liked her.She was treated like a outcast as they adored Kwan.

[HowDareThey1970]

@HattieLovesCattie Of course neither one of them stuck around long enough either competitively or as pros to gain that kind of respect.

[floskate]

She was totally busted by the altitude here. You can see it in her face at the end and that last camel spin has such a wide circle she's practically doing a spiral. it's a shame she couldn't skate well here as her North Americans performance was terrific.

[ja3399]

Thanks, ntdude: Janet Lynn was special, and you don't see this kind of skating now. School figures are gone, and the short program is in, largely due to Janet. Watching Trixie Shuba skate figures, then clomp like a cow through the long program and win gold, then watching Janet...out figures, in short program.  I love watching Janet after all these years. Well, dude, ya did good here. Many of us remember, and miss Janet.

[HattieLovesCattie]

When we are old and Janet is gone.We will remember her.We won't remember Tara Lipinksi or Sarah Hughes like we' ll remember Janet.

[MissFit29]

She always used gorgeous music you wouldn't think to use for skating. It's hard to believe she's only 15 here.