This was a wonderful thread, more than all else it makes me appreciate that I was alive to see & experience so many great performances over the decades. Though they may not have been in person, I was there to see them on t.v. when they actually happened (e.g. Dorothy Hamill in 1976). And I recall Rosalynn Sumners versus Katarina Witt like it was yesterday. Being a lifelong Seattleite (i.e. a person from Seattle) the hoopla surrounding Rosalynn skating at the 1984 Olympics was all over the news, and then the actual skate itself was something else. And what made it more special was back then, before the internet & 1000+ channels on t.v., there were only the basic channels (aka 4,5,7,9,11,13), so it was more old-fashioned and intimate imho, kinda like how everybody would gather around the radio in the days of my grandparents before t.v. was a reality.
And now we have IN and the intimacy of watching skating competitions live with like-minded individuals across the world, one good thing of technology imho.
I say this all for those that will come after us in the future, be it 25, 50 or 100 years from now. Ahhh, what they will miss, like how I miss & envy those that were alive to see Sonja skate...
But who knows, 100 years from now the actual spectators may actually have the ability to transport themselves to the competitions!, kinda like how Captain Kirk and his Star Trek crew are able to do so.
And now we have IN and the intimacy of watching skating competitions live with like-minded individuals across the world, one good thing of technology imho.
I say this all for those that will come after us in the future, be it 25, 50 or 100 years from now. Ahhh, what they will miss, like how I miss & envy those that were alive to see Sonja skate...
But who knows, 100 years from now the actual spectators may actually have the ability to transport themselves to the competitions!, kinda like how Captain Kirk and his Star Trek crew are able to do so.