Peggy Fleming: beautiful, stylish and a great champion. When I was first taking figure skating lessons as a young person (in the late 1960's) I wrote to her and received a lovely picture and hand written note. Peggy Fleming has been a classy ambassador for skating. I believe she is retired now. All the best to you Peggy!
This was a funny video. Nice to see what skating looked like then but I prefer watching the more athletic performances of today. I do, however, feel that only women should be allowed to compete. They have the grace and maturity young girls don't.
I love the artistry and could watch this all day over today’s ice skating BUT I have to agree with you! Of course the sport has been taken over by little girls doing quads with the bare minimum amount of transition elements which are hastily performed to get to the next big move, I want to see them trying it when they’ve ended puberty in their 20’s but they end up retiring earlier and having shorter careers because of injury.
Peggy Fleming should do more figure skating movies as a figure skating coach. Although she is in Blades of Glory, but I think it is time Hollywood uses Peggy Fleming for more figure skating coach characters.
Agreed. I like how she elevates the leg about halfway through the spin while maintaining the back position, which I imagine makes the spin more difficult.
Another comment -- I wonder what exactly was USFSA's beef with this program that they made Team Peggy trash it and go back to her previous year's program for Worlds?
+officialmelpeachey I agree with you. People today so often judge skating from decades past very harshly, especially for lack of high-caliber jumps. I feel that is not a fair comparison. The skating of today was built upon the excellence of skaters from the past, who innovated and advanced the sport and made the sport better because of their contribution. Peggy was the first to truly incorporate balletic moves into skating, setting the standard for how ladies figure skating would be judged thereafter. Her attention to detail, and simplistic elegance would become the benchmark for artistic quality in ladies figure skating. Peggy was one of the few "complete" skaters who excelled in compulsory figures and free skating. Her successor, Janet Lynn's amateur skating career was plagued by her inability to master the figures despite being the best technical and artistic skater the sport has ever seen.
+Michael Dupre Agree with all you say! On the men's side, all one has to do is watch John Curry @ 1976 Olympics! THAT (like Peggy Fleming) IS figure skating!
Peggy Fleming: beautiful, stylish and a great champion. When I was first taking figure skating lessons as a young person (in the late 1960's) I wrote to her and received a lovely picture and hand written note.
Peggy Fleming has been a classy ambassador for skating.
I believe she is retired now.
All the best to you Peggy!
Her hairdo is FABULOUS. :D
I agree, why must such pretty things change??
@@dr.wilfriedhitzler1885 fashion is the most changeable thing of all
@@wendyleeconnelly2939 but when something is perfect, it should stay as it is. It's so pretty and she is so graceful!!!
who could possibly not love her???
Peggy Fleming is simply "pure elegance on the ice"
Грациозно и музыкально! Отличная хореография!
Beautiful!
This was a funny video. Nice to see what skating looked like then but I prefer watching the more athletic performances of today. I do, however, feel that only women should be allowed to compete. They have the grace and maturity young girls don't.
I love the artistry and could watch this all day over today’s ice skating BUT I have to agree with you! Of course the sport has been taken over by little girls doing quads with the bare minimum amount of transition elements which are hastily performed to get to the next big move, I want to see them trying it when they’ve ended puberty in their 20’s but they end up retiring earlier and having shorter careers because of injury.
Peggy Fleming should do more figure skating movies as a figure skating coach. Although she is in Blades of Glory, but I think it is time Hollywood uses Peggy Fleming for more figure skating coach characters.
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And Nobody does a Lay Back spin like Peggy did. it will never be match. yes some do it but not at the level Peggy did
+officialmelpeachey I concur! Her layback spin is one of the best I've ever seen.
Agreed. I like how she elevates the leg about halfway through the spin while maintaining the back position, which I imagine makes the spin more difficult.
Another comment -- I wonder what exactly was USFSA's beef with this program that they made Team Peggy trash it and go back to her previous year's program for Worlds?
Peggy Fleming is the greatest female skater ever . Pure elegance on the ice.
Two Words Peggy Fleming
+officialmelpeachey I agree with you. People today so often judge skating from decades past very harshly, especially for lack of high-caliber jumps. I feel that is not a fair comparison. The skating of today was built upon the excellence of skaters from the past, who innovated and advanced the sport and made the sport better because of their contribution. Peggy was the first to truly incorporate balletic moves into skating, setting the standard for how ladies figure skating would be judged thereafter. Her attention to detail, and simplistic elegance would become the benchmark for artistic quality in ladies figure skating. Peggy was one of the few "complete" skaters who excelled in compulsory figures and free skating. Her successor, Janet Lynn's amateur skating career was plagued by her inability to master the figures despite being the best technical and artistic skater the sport has ever seen.
+Michael Dupre Agree with all you say! On the men's side, all one has to do is watch John Curry @ 1976 Olympics! THAT (like Peggy Fleming) IS figure skating!
+Tom S. I concur! John Curry is one of my all-time favorites on the men's side of figure skating.
My vote goes to Tonya Harding, who in her prime could outskate many of the men.
Were these audiences segregated in the 60's?
Your an idiot
@@willnill7946 clearly you don't know anything about American history. SMH. My parents had to sit in a coloured only section in 1965 at a hockey game.
Depended on the state or city.
@@vistaprime no nothing?🤔🤔
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