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POST-OLYMPICS: Fleming skated professionally and became a TV sports commentator for the OIympics. figure skating team died in a plane crash en route to the 1961 World Championships.įleming also made headlines for her simple, chartreuse costume, made by her mother, who chose the shade because it resembled the color of Chartreuse Liqueur made in Grenoble. The victory was emotional for Fleming, who was 12 when her coach, Bill Kipp, and the U.S. Replied Peggy: 'It's so good to have it over.' 'Darling, you were wonderful,' Dorothy Fleming told her daughter as she left the ice in tears after her gold-medal-winning performance. The 19-year-old earned the lone gold for the United States. POST-OLYMPICS: Albright retired from skating after the Olympics to attend Harvard Medical School-one of five women in a class of 135-and became a noted surgeon.Īt the first Games televised in color and live to a worldwide audience, Fleming dazzled the judges in Grenoble, France with her elegant, balletic movement, earning first-place votes from all nine of them. 'I was in great pain, but I figured for four minutes I could put up with anything,' she said afterward. But she earned 10 of 11 first-place votes to become America's first female skating gold medalist. In the Olympics final, Albright turned the injured ankle while performing a double loop. The American team doctor wanted to cut away Albright's skate, but she stopped him, the New York Times reported, 'on the grounds that they were the only free-skating skates she had and that they cost $85 a pair.' The 20-year-old spent 48 hours in the hospital, but she was back on the ice a few days later. Less than two weeks before the Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Albright-who suffered from polio as a girl-accidentally stabbed herself in the right ankle with the heel of her left skate during a practice. 1956 Games: Tenley Albright Overcomes Serious Injury

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