There were no competitions ... by Dorothy Hamill, an American Athlete

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“There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.”

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Dorothy Hamill

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Name: Dorothy Hamill

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Jul 26, 1956

Profession: Athlete

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My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.

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I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.

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I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading.

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I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it.

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Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

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