Janet Lynn 1968 Olympics - at the microphone: Eva Pawlik

At the microphone: the 1948 Olympic runner-up Eva Pawlik. Pawlik (who happened to be the world’s First lady to be a TV figure skating commentator) underlined in her commentary Janet Lynn´s enormous artistic abilities. I was asked to translate my mother´s commentary for the non German speaking audience: “Though participating for the first time at Olympics or Worlds Janet Lynn is well known to us. Last year, she did some training in Switzerland (Davos) and then came to Vienna where the Worlds took place. Lynn did not participate but showed her free program at a skating exhibition in Vienna. We were all deeply impressed by the enormous artistic abilities of the then 13-year-old girl. She is extremely fit. When practising she skates her free programme three times non-stop without getting tired. These 12 minutes are by far longer than a normal free programme at the men´s events which lasts 5 minutes. Delayed axel. Double axel. Double flip. Inside axel (in German the sort of axel la