It’s been 31 years since he won his Olympic gold, yet Scott Hamilton in many ways remains the face of figure skating. Problem is, his face and the rest of him have not been on the ice much recently. So when Hamilton was offered a chance to skate with his 7-year-old son, Maxx, for a nationally televised show, it was impossible to resist. ”I don’t skate anymore, full disclosure,” says Hamilton, now 57 and a fundraiser/campaigner for cancer research as well as a producer of skating shows. ”This is a family show, which I knew Maxx would really enjoy being part of. He loves to skate and at the rink the skating director calls him her assistant.” Hamilton had not skated as a performer since 2009, and he spent nearly a year preparing and getting in shape for that 10th annual cancer benefit show – Hamilton is a survivor of testicular and brain cancer. He even resumed, at age 51, doing the back flip that audiences came to see. This routine was a lot different. ”This was not a run-through of my Olympic long program, that’s for sure,” Hamilton says with a laugh. ”I did my thing. But this was… Read full this story
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