Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might have wondered what a prom was doing in the middle of the Olympics, or whether there would be a cotillion at the Summer Games. Their lovely exhibition upstaged much of the serious skating ahead and showed how joyless that can be. Not the usual word applied to Scott Hamilton, 25, a happy little dynamo who looks as though he fell off a charm bracelet. Yet it fitted even him. He won the gold medal, but with a wistful shrug said he always imagined it would be "more special." A miscalculation, evidently, involving flips and salchows. Rosalynn Sumners skated beautifully...
...American, Scott Hamilton, went into battle at Zetra and, feeling that he "wasn't into the ice," decided to retrench, withdrawing two triple jumps from his free-skating program. He still won the gold medal, but it was not with the dominating performance with which he wanted to cap his career. The English ice-dancing couple, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, gave the Winter Olympics its first utterly flawless exhibition: nine perfect marks of 6.0 from nine judges. But Gary Beacom, a Canadian skater, became so enraged over his marks from the judges that he kicked the rinkside barrier...
...newcomers alike. For the favorites, there is the safety of incumbency. Like heavyweight champions, they cannot lose their titles on a draw: they must be beaten. But with that status come expectations that are perhaps impossible to fulfill. Thus, after a performance that was lackluster by his exacting standards, Hamilton could finger his gold medal and say, "I look at this, and I see 16 years of my life. I've waited a long time. I didn't want it to be like this...
This is Scott Hamilton's week too and, in skiing, Tamara McKinney's and Phil Mahre's. Although it does not sound like Mahre's. "Some athletes need a gold medal to be set for life," he says. "I'm set for life already." For a commentary on the relative riches of men, the Yugoslavs tending drifts on the snowy hills were rewarded with candy bars. Most of the snowplows in Yugoslavia, and a few from Austria, are in Sarajevo. The rest of the country must be closed. The duty-free shop at the press...
...Hamilton usually completes five triple jumps in his final program but he popped out of a triple flip and that cost him point deductions for technical merit. Instead of three revolutions he only did one. Had he not been winning by such a large margin after the compulsory figures, he might have lost the medal that America had expected him to win for some time...