TOP 10 Best Female Figure Skaters of All Time

Описание: A century of women's figure skating told through the ten who shaped it most. From the era when skating became spectacle, through the triple Axel revolution and into the age of quads and controversy. Journey of Icons ranks the TOP 10 Best Female Figure Skaters of All Time.

What you'll see in this video:
How a four-foot-nine teenager landed the first female triple Axel and forced the sport to abolish compulsory figures
The Battle of the Carmens, a Stasi file with thirty-five hundred pages, and the only woman besides Sonja Henie to defend Olympic gold
Why Yuna Kim's 2010 Vancouver performance is still considered the closest to perfection the sport has ever seen

00:00 Introduction
00:30 #10 Peggy Fleming (USA)
01:33 #9 Anna Shcherbakova (Russia)
02:34 #8 Irina Slutskaya (Russia)
03:24 #7 Midori Ito (Japanl)
04:25 #6 Kaori Sakamoto (Japan )
05:30 #5 Mao Asada (Japan)
06:45 #4 Katarina Witt (Germany)
07:42 #3 Michelle Kwan (USA)
08:41 #2 Sonja Henie (Norway)
10:00 #1 Yuna Kim (South Korea)

Sources:
Olympics.com
olympics.com
ISU
isu.org
Britannica
britannica.com
ESPN
espn.com
U.S. Figure Skating
usfigureskating.org

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