Linda Carbonetto - 1968 Olympics LP

There has been such a positive response to the footage I posted of Linda winning the 1969 Canadians that I wanted to share this one too. Linda skated a beautiful LP at the 1968 Olympic Games in Grenoble to finish 9th in the free and 13th overall (24th in figures).

[@ruslinleaves]

What an elegant, complete skater. I especially liked the one-foot axel double Salchow combination and the single axels in BOTH directions.

[@kyrvhy]

Was just a kid but I remember those axels in both directions. She was very good.

[@janyshendrickson3833]

She was a very well packaged skater, nicely attired, good choreography, nice presentation skills and good athletic skills. Very nice height and ice coverage in her jumps, loved her Axels in opposite directions, and the Flying Camel combo spin. Solid performance 👍👏👏

[@lentyelenacotulbea1228]

Șarm , elegantă, frumusețe și toate la un loc.....Fantastic.....Well done... !!!!

[@barkingtree88]

Tremendous height and distance on that second double axel!

[@grantnoroyan4083]

was very good and under marked for that time

[@Person-mh6xq]

Great program and great skater! So undermarked. This performance was actually better than Peggy’s.

[@psychoshamrock]

still married to Eddie Villella!

[@luvmuzik4me]

Thank you again.

[@annadanielatravaglio2196]

bravissima

[@dianaparker4807]

Nice job!

[@Timzart7]

Linda who? I thought there were only two people in the 1968 Winter Olympics, Peggy Fleming and Jean-Claude Killy. Anyway, guess what? I kind of like Linda's skating more than Karen Magnussen, even though Karen was 4th in the free skating at this Olympics. And I do remember her name, Carbonetto, because it's so cool. In 1968 I was a young teenager at home in Uh-merica really wanting Peggy Fleming to not throw up or freak out or anything, and for her to win this. She was slated to be crowned the next major ice queen. And I knew that with the coronation, it would mean more skating on TV. I couldn't just satisfy my ice craving by binging on Sonja Henie movies during Sonja Henie Week on late-night TV, or seeing the Carol Heiss and the damn three Stooges movie for the umpteenth time. I knew Janet Lynn wouldn't win, because of compulsory figures and her age, but I was excited about her appearance too. Peggy's performance wasn't great, but it was good, and good enough. And the TV specials followed, and for me they were a little disappointing and unsatisfying. They were a lot of Peggy skating around alone in a quandary, no handsome prince, no Stooges or anything. But with the succession of ice queens, Peggy Fleming, Janet Lynn, and Dorothy Hamill, figure skating entered a new era of popularity. So I was looking at the roster of nobodies below Fleming in the '68 Olympics. Did you know that Trixi Schuba was 3rd in compulsory figures? Was that even possible, that Fleming was first in figures and Trixi was down in third? Okay, I guess Trixi was kind of young, so it is possible, but ever since Donald Trump became president, I think maybe THERE WAS A CONSPIRACY. Look, everything was perfect. France is perfect for the Winter Olympics. Grenoble is perfect. Peggy Fleming was thin, beautiful, and a perfect skater, so balletic, with a lovely personality. She probably launched a million wet dreams and all. So let's just say Trixi had skated superlative figures as she did four years later? Would the Olympic Committee, the TV sponsors, Jean-Claude Killy etc. really have wanted to risk putting Trixi in first place? I bet Linda Carbonetto-Villella never considered that while she was skating in her lovely pink dress and bouffant hairdo.

[@Dagmar-St]

Why no words about Gabriele Seyfert 🤔

[@Timzart7]

​@@Dagmar-St I appreciate Gaby's talents in retrospect, and I'm sure some European media played her up as a favorite, but it what happened to Emmerich Danzer (first in free skating and yet out of the medals in the '68 Olympics) which was sad to me. Trixie was more historically important, since they changed the scoring to depreciate compulsory figures after her victories. Big Gaby fan were you? LOL

[@dmmchugh3714]

Lovely, stylish interpretation and such fluid connecting moves. On a non-technical note, I love the understated (yet still pretty) dresses and bouffant hair ! Wish we could return to more stylish - and less hardass (sorry) - skating.

[@lexiekrewitt1735]

Such a great performance!!!! Was she good at figures? Probably not, otherwise she would have been a medal contestant!!!! And she skated with start number 8, so probably she was really low after figures...