Champion in an event created by promoter Dick Button to showcase her. Lynn's professional career was cut short after only two years by problems with allergy-related asthma exacerbated by the cold, damp air in skating rinks. In 1975, she retired from skating and started a family. In the early 1980s, with her asthma under control, she returned to skate professionally for a few years. She again appeared in Button's professional competitions and co-starred with John Curry in his made-for-TV ice ballet, "The Snow Queen". Legacy The contrast between Lynn and Trixi Schuba was one of the reasons why the International Skating Union devalued the weight of compulsory figures in competition by introducing the short program. Since compulsory figures were rarely televised and were not well understood by the general public, television audiences were confused and angry when skaters such as Lynn, who excelled in the free skate, consistently lost competitions to skaters such as Schuba and Duba, who were not as strong in the free skate. Results See also V sign (her fame in Japan, and the possible origin there of the V sign in casual photos) Figure skating 1972 Winter Olympics U.S. Figure Skating Championships World Figure Skating Championships References Bibliography Janet Lynn. Peace + Love. . Janet Lynn Salomon. Family, Faith, and Freedom Christine Brennan. Inside Edge: A Revealing Journey into the Secret World of Figure Skating. Anchor Books, 1997. . 1953 births Living people American female single skaters Figure skaters at the 1968 Winter Olympics Figure skaters at the 1972 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in figure skating Sportspeople from Rockford, Illinois American Christians Olympic medalists in figure skating World Figure Skating Championships medalists Medalists at the 1972 Winter Olympics People from Evergreen Park, Illinois American people of Polish descent 21st-century American women