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- Jun 21, 2003
Spineless people like Scott Hamilton go through life proclaiming they are "Olympic Champion" like it means anything.
I think you are too hard on Scott Hamilton. Hamilton had a huge positive impact of the popularity of figure skating in the United States through his entrepreneurial talents. When Ice Capades told him that no one will pay to see a man skating, he started his own show, Stars on Ice, building it from the ground up from into the premier US pro skating tour for the better part of three decades. (Sort of like Yuna Kim's All That Skate adventures. )
Having the credential of Olympic champion helped him get his foot in the door, but his success came from entertaining audiences as a showman and organizing the talents of others (Kurt Browning, Kristi Yamaguchi) as an impresario.