- Joined
- Jul 28, 2003
I look at Sonja Henie as the first lady of Figure Skating. She may have been "primitive" as you point out, but she basically put figure skating on the map for the general public. She was a great competitor and she genuinely loved to skate. I read that her private life was not that happy, but she was always happiest on the ice - like the rest of us fellow figure skaters can relate. She made figure skating popular through her movies. One can't fairly compare Sonja's style of skating to today's skaters because figure skating has evolved so much over the years. In Sonja's days the emphasis was on tracing figures. Sonja Henie influenced a lot of little girls to take up figure skating - she even had a doll made in her honour. I would love to have a time machine to see the likes of Sonja Henie skate live!