Scott hamilton

Last week the clock recalibrated as Yale undergraduate Nathan Chen became the seventh American man to win an Olympic gold medal in figure skating (it is the eighth gold medal as Dick Button won two back-to-back in 1948 and 1952).

Last week the clock recalibrated as Yale undergraduate Nathan Chen became the seventh American man to win an Olympic gold medal in figure skating (it is the eighth gold medal as Dick Button won two back-to-back in 1948 and 1952).

Here's another great reason to get drunk and watch figure skating.

The last competition Scott Hamilton's mother ever saw him skate in was, as he calls it, 'a massive failure.' It was the former Olympian's first year as a senior-level skater, and he suffered a humiliating defeat. Not long after, Scott's mother passed away from breast cancer. Watch as he recalls the morning she died and the resolution he made that fueled his successful skating career.

Scott Hamilton grew up going in and out of hospitals. Then he found skating. "It was the first-ever taste of self-esteem," he says.

BOWLING GREEN Scott Hamilton packs em in when he makes public appearances, but when he was learning to skate, he had a knack for clearing the place. One by ...

Scott Hamilton, American figure skater, who was a four-time world champion and the 1984 Olympic gold medal winner in men’s figure skating. He has been credited with imbuing men’s figure skating with an air of athleticism. Learn more about Hamilton’s life and career.

List of famous male figure skaters, listed by their level of prominence with photos when available. This greatest male figure skaters list contains the most ...

The following is an incredible testimony of Scott Hamilton , US Olympic Ice Skater and Gold Medal winner during a I Am Second clip. You say...

If Scott Hamilton were a gambling man, he’d never have bet on himself. “I’m the most unlikely person on the planet to have experienced any of this,” he says. The list of his accomplishments is remarkable: winning the first men’s figure skating gold medal in 24 years at the 1984 Winter Games, starting the hugely successful Stars on Ice figure skating tour, surviving four bouts of cancer, founding a cancer charity that’s touched countless lives. Then, of course, there’s falling in love with…