This is Sherbloom & Pierce's gold-medal-winning freedance at the 1961 US National figure skating Championships. A month later, the plane carrying the US team to Worlds crashed, killing everyone on board.
Never have seen this before. So sad to see the potential of these guys diminished by tragedy. Beautiful knees and purity personified. Thanks for this opportunity.
So cool to see these old clips of competition. Thank you to whomever put these up!!
Larry was amazing keeping those glasses on his face without them flying off! You could tell they wern't held on with elastic as he kept adjusting them at the beginning.
Thank you for posting these. It seems to be our only chance to see these skaters perform. What a shame they all lost their lives like that almost 50 years ago. RIP to all of them.
The interview at the end was a nice surprize. Obviously very poignant too considering the eventual tragedy. On a lighter note I thought Larry and Diane had a couple of cool moves in their routine particularly at 1:17 and the sort of spiral spin hold.
It is at once haunting and breathtaking I think. Such simple elegance, and grace and they trained together for just a few weeks and won anyway. That would be all but unheard of these days.
I wasn't even born when the U.S. Figure Skating Team died in the plane crash with their families and coaches. I was really shocked to learn that.
EZR09 4 months ago
Never have seen this before. So sad to see the potential of these guys diminished by tragedy. Beautiful knees and purity personified. Thanks for this opportunity.
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benbiarritz 11 months ago
So cool to see these old clips of competition. Thank you to whomever put these up!!
Larry was amazing keeping those glasses on his face without them flying off! You could tell they wern't held on with elastic as he kept adjusting them at the beginning.
lolabrigida4u 1 year ago
thanks for posting this wonderful video. So nice to get to see such beautiful pure skating. So sad they had to perish.
dwj20101 1 year ago
Now this is ICE DANCING.
grayandpanther 1 year ago
Thank you for posting these. It seems to be our only chance to see these skaters perform. What a shame they all lost their lives like that almost 50 years ago. RIP to all of them.
The1fuzzylogic 1 year ago
@faeryquene Yes, definitely. And the suit he's wearing is pretty slick too, and that is also coming back in style.
mrshinyshoes 1 year ago
The interview at the end was a nice surprize. Obviously very poignant too considering the eventual tragedy. On a lighter note I thought Larry and Diane had a couple of cool moves in their routine particularly at 1:17 and the sort of spiral spin hold.
faeryquene 1 year ago
@TheSwingingSixties Indeed. God rest their sweet souls. :(
faeryquene 1 year ago
It is at once haunting and breathtaking I think. Such simple elegance, and grace and they trained together for just a few weeks and won anyway. That would be all but unheard of these days.
faeryquene 1 year ago