I admit to being sports mad, and I have two passions: baseball and figure skating. In my not so-always-humble-opinion, I believe that Janet Lynn and Michelle Kwan are the two greatest ladies skaters of all time. Period. Full stop. Neither won an Olympic gold medal, but the Gold Medal doesn't always go to the best skater. Janet Lynn, who competed in the 1960s and 1970s (between Peggy Fleming and Dorothy Hamill) recently gave this speech. In a word: awesome.
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