Peggy Fleming - 1967 Worlds Ladies LP

By request, here is Peggy's complete long program from the 1967 Worlds in Vienna complete with the fall on the fall on the double axel which ABC replayed a LOT! Despite the fall, her skating was still without compare.

[@Tfontaine209]

Idolized her as a child..her hair was always coiffured to perfection 😍

[@dmmchugh3714]

Love it - Peggy stuffed her tissue up the sleeve before skating in a prominent competition ! Certainly a different era !

[@listsofgoodstuff2149]

It was probably a cloth handkerchief that was washed and reused, not a disposable tissue. Kleenex was invented in 1924 as a convenient way to remove cold cream, and it didn't overtake the use of handkerchiefs until the 1980s. Ladies used to put it up their sleeve when they didn't have a handbag because ladies clothes either didn't have pockets or the use of the pockets would ruin the aesthetics of fashionable clothes.

[@tarakwannabe675]

Sasha Cohen just left them on the boards for John Nicks to dispose of.

[@kyrvhy]

Wonderful to see this performance. Thank you for sharing this with us.

[@TravelingMan63]

Very few ladies were executing 2A at this time. I love the crowds oohs and aahs throughout her program.

[@user-wb1vm7bv2q]

Пегги Флеминг -Красавица!!! Нежная!!! Прекрасная!!! Необыкновенная!!! Фигура Идеальная!!! Притягательная!!!

[@barkingtree88]

Thanks for sharing! It's nice to finally be able to see this performance in its completion. It seems the only thing people remember about it is the fall... also great footage of Peggy and Carlo talking during the marks - truly precious and iconic skating history!!

[@vivianaell8228]

Carlo Fassi Coach 🌹 very young...🤗 Beautiful man🌹 Fantastic Coach!!❤️ Thank you very much.....❤️

[@ГалинаДмитриевна-о6е]

Звезда тех времён, знаменитая Пегги Флеминг!А ее " Аве Мария" это шедевр был!!!👍👍👍🌹🌹🌹👋👋👋🌟🌞💥🌟🌈😘

[@chikhimnatalia9840]

Галина Дмитриевна на 2 минуте аксель 2 .5 или 1.5 никак не могу разобрать. Вы как думаете?

[@Laddyqueenn]

Непобедимая Пегги Флеминг! Классика, лёгкость, мягкость скольжения. Достаточно сложные на тот период программы. Настоящая чемпионка и очень порядочный человек.

[@jennifersantiago7665]

Her delayed axel was fabulous. Good height and she held it a long time.

[@carolpowers4077]

I was just saying the same thing as I watched it!! Really gorgeous!!

[@bernieudo4399]

Skating for the USA, Miss Peggy Fleming.

[@PhilAlumb]

I must confess.....I miss this Style of Skating. No Triples or Quads. Something very Fresh about how the Old School Athletes skated. Maybe.. it's How FIGURES affected their edge control on the ice..or carriage. Miss these days.

[@fsc4823]

it doesn’t help that bad technique is rewarded and components aren’t valued nearly enough in the scoring system. politics are too ingrained now as well

[@confidentlychar80]

She was excellent

[@swizzle1961]

The reason why I became a figure skater

[@swizzle1961]

Amazing her hair stayed in place! But honestly such soft knees and posture

[@ZakSF]

I love that she skated the program with a tissue tucked in her sleeve. Lovely and elegant and a used tissue in her sleeve. lol

[@nataliaeskova533]

Непосредственная обстановка на катке, дорожка шагов и вращения в музыку и очень красиво

[@ЛюдмилаБецкова-ц8о]

Мне было тогда 7 лет, и я помню это выступление! Карло Фасси великий тренер, Пегги - талант от природы.

[@kevinpeeks3273]

I love the way she talks about the first d axel. Very sweet.

[@MT-he9fy]

She is amazing. I love the hang time on the delayed axle.

[@cayea4076]

Hilarious, the judges holding up score cards out on the ice! How times have changed!

[@Person-mh6xq]

Totally! It looked charming though.

[@PhilAlumb]

I miss those Earlier timed..they seemed More Real.

[@rosarosae4978]

Beautiful and charming

[@abrahamlora329]

I would’ve gone 5.7 tech since the fall was a big one and disruptive and 5.8 for presentation.. great posture and presentation regardless though.. Peggy is one of a kind..

[@victoriagill3337]

5.9 for presentation when she sat on the ice for what seemed like forever 😳 really disrupted the programme

[@abrahamlora329]

Victoria Gill right? And 5.9 for technical was outrageous too

[@e2theeyepie]

@@abrahamlora329 That what happens when you have a master of politik like Carlo Fassi in your corner, LOL. (It also helped that on a normal day, Peggy would've wiped the floor with the rest of her competitors.)

[@dr.wilfriedhitzler1885]

Jennie Walsh skated more confident and did not fall. Of course not so elegant as Peggy.

[@waynehentley4332]

@@victoriagill3337 Nonsense! She was up in a second!!

[@lynnpeppa1]

Excellent… And boy oh boy! Ice Skating has come a long long way!

[@AT-jm4dl]

I wonder what Peggy had under her hair to give it so much volume. Inquiry mind wants to know, LOL. She was a beautiful skater. Such a physical and stylistic contrast to Gaby and Hannah.

[@megah5028]

This was just a bit before my time 😉and I have always wondered that, too. I’m always in search of more volume! 😂 I have a little sign in my bathroom-“The higher the hair, the closer to God” 😁

[@ilovebeinagirl]

She probably had what was called "a fall" back in those days, and sometimes still is but more commonly a "half wig" now, or she might have used "a rat"--which is basically a ball of teased hair in a hairnet.

[@rickram1961]

I think the 1967 Worlds was the last competition to be outside and what is 1,2,3 & 4 on top right part of the screen?

[@abrahamlora329]

Rick Mileske correct. Held at the Wiener Eislauf-Verein

[@ilovebeinagirl]

That's gracious of her to wish the next competitor good luck, and her coach kind of looks like Joe Pesci.

[@tarakwannabe675]

Yes, especially while she was racking up 5.9's.

[@Itstonytime77]

The spread eagle to the double axel was cool! But I’m another note…how did all that hair stay in place lol

[@carolpowers4077]

LOTS of hairspray!! :)

[@simoneu.nathaus7292]

Hair helmet,lol....😂

[@aoiahiru670]

Great poise and speed. Too bad about that first dbl axel.

[@AnaLuiza-rl9ee]

Menina adorável maravilhosa em tudo

[@marthabakry7353]

No one uses their toe pick like that nowadays. Is that my imagination?

[@jamesfox6909]

Thanks for this. Great to see how far skating has come. She must have been able to do triples. No can do a double axel and not try the occasional triple.

[@MichaelWDupre]

Peggy never did triples, nor tried them. In those days emphasis was more on school figures (60% of the score) of which she was a master. With only one long program worth 40% of the score to showcase free skating, triples were considered too risky to attempt for female skaters whose ordinals placed them within medal contention. There were a few female skaters trying triples (Janet Lynn had a triple salchow and triple toe loop in 1967), but she was so far down because of school figures that she could try them since she had nothing to lose. In fact, Janet included a triple toe loop in her skating programs in 1969 and after a terrible fall on a triple toe loop attempt in the 1970s nationals, removed them from her programs thereafter.

[@waynehentley4332]

@@MichaelWDupre Janet's triples were underrotated!!

[@MichaelWDupre]

@@waynehentley4332 and your point there would be....?

[@waynehentley4332]

@@MichaelWDupre Her jumps were incomplete!

[@MichaelWDupre]

@@waynehentley4332 The point of my mentioning her doing triples was that she was trying them in a time when other ladies were not. There is not a lot of footage of her triple jump attempts (I've only found 3), so unless you were with Janet Lynn for every competition she was in, you can't know for a fact that all her triple jumps were underrotated.

[@mmills5951]

The outside spread eagle to axle to spread eagle...can we think of anyone who’s doing this now??

[@abrahamlora329]

m mills Matt savoie did a spread eagle into triple axel but not to spread eagle a second time

[@noninoadios8501]

더블 점프여서인지는 모르겠지만 토점프들을 보면 확실히 치팅성이라곤 하나 없는 정확히 차는 도약을 하네( 블레이드로 미는 도약이 아닌 정석대로 차는 도약). 그리고 정말 우아하고 예쁘다 ㄷㄷㄷ

[@e2theeyepie]

Was this the Worlds held outdoors when it was raining? I thought I read some time ago that many programs were affected badly from the rain.

[@metsdudenj]

No this was indoors actually the last one was 1966 outdoors

[@waynehentley4332]

@@metsdudenj Not true. The last outdoor championship was in 1967!

[@Parsifal3363]

This performance was not perfect, of course, with the fall on a jump early in the program, but she had such a significant lead after the school figures, which made up 60 percent of the score then, that there was never a possibility of her losing as a result of it. As it was, she still received the highest scores for this portion of the competition. Standing with her coach, Carlo Fossi, while waiting for her scores, she's quite charming about the fall. As the next competitor takes the ice, she even calls out, "Good luck," but it was a different time then. As for her skating, it is just wonderful, though very different from modern figure skating competitions. There are no triple jumps, for instance, though the height of her jumps indicates that she had the ability to do them, had skating evolved to that point. However, given that her most difficult jumps were doubles, that height and the number of turns makes the jumps clearer and more beautiful in execution. The delayed double axel is not done by anyone today--the difficulty wouldn't be compensated by the score awarded--but it is very elegant. The edge work is superb and reflects the emphasis on the school figures, and no one has ever done a layback spin as well. It is just gorgeous. She was especially popular in Europe at this time. The French referred to her as a "shy doe." In a few months, a young man in America, watching her skate in the Grenoble Olympics, would fall in love with her. Such beauty was a key to a heart that had never been opened.

[@ilovebeinagirl]

Her skating style reminds me a lot of Nancy Kerrigan's, especially the part where she fell. But they both had that slow kind of graceful but also somewhat aloof style of skating.

[@dannybro147]

She did not use this music in Nationals.

[@e2theeyepie]

The story was USFSA didn't like her Nationals music/program and had her go back to her prior year's program for Worlds.

[@metsdudenj]

Is this outside? It looks like inside but maybe it is outside??

[@Dossen_A]

5.9/5.9 by French judge :))

[@bernieudo4399]

The French loved her.

[@baritonebynight]

This was 23 years before Tonya Harding, the greatest one of them all.

[@waynehentley4332]

You must be her cousin!!

[@daphnebasset940]

And skated with helmet hair

[@waynehentley4332]

A typical 60s style and a very stupid comment!

[@fairamir1]

Lots of axel jumps...

[@larciabella]

Boy she scored high even with her fall compared to the others.What's up with that?

[@ИринаАлександрова-т9с]

Пегги упала. Не помню была ли она чемпионкой мира в 1967 году, но в следующем олимпийском 1968 году она была чемпионкой мира и олимпийских игр в Гренобле. Но это её катание не тянет на золото

[@MsSlucyna]

How come that posh hairstyle did not disturb them in skating?

[@sgsmozart]

Yes....it seems "back heavy"....

[@cjm7764]

They left a lot of jumps back then

[@user-lu2tx1pk6d]

Несравненная Пегги.. И Фасси

[@russcohen3779]

Skating sucks cookies today no grace or figures which is needed badly

[@222mozart]

eternal beauty. I loved her. but Gaby Seifert was better.

[@e2theeyepie]

LOL. Umm, no.

[@waynehentley4332]

Gaby was a tank!

[@222mozart]

@@waynehentley4332 nonsense

[@waynehentley4332]

@@222mozartWell, she looked like a little tank! Her jumps were better than Peggy's but she couldn't avoid appearing 'butch'. Peggy was so elegant!