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nitpicker

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1. On the women's side

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Thu Feb 3, 2022, 01:04 PM

Feb 2022

I think it really started with Elaine Zayak in the early 1980s.

Before then, it was double jumps and artistry ((I recall Peggy Fleming's long program in 1968, on a black and white TV)).

AND compulsory figures, which disappeared in the early 1990s.

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On the women's side nitpicker Feb 2022 #1

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