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Dorothy Hamill

6 Articles

Ice is slippery.  Figure skating is hard. Olympic pressure is massive. Only the strong survive, and the toughest will win. Adelina Sotnikova is figure skating’s new ice queen because she competed like a street fighter. The...

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Handicapping the upcoming United States Figure Skating Championships is kind of like being tossed into the air for a triple twist for the first time.  It’s a pretty exciting flight, but you never really know how...

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  Next week the nation’s finest skaters will descend on Boston for the US Figure Skating Championships..  Every four years this competition deterimines who will make the United States Olympic Figure Skating Team. It will be...

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The best figure skaters on the planet are in London, Ontario competing for the World Championship. It is the competition that will determine how many American skaters will make the Olympic Team next year. This ...

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There are 16,000 athletes competing in the London Summer Games in hundreds of events. Simple math confirms the vast majority of these competitors will be going home without a medal.  Most of these athletes are...

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It was the biggest day of my young life.  I was marching in the Opening Ceremonies proudly wearing the USA’s red, white and blue. After the grand entrance, waves and smiles, there I was snuggled in...

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