being wicked! It had a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and ‘Dorothy’ under it. “It was so neat that he sent it to me. Te fact that he still had it after all these years is just remark- able. I have the sign folded and protected in tissue paper so nothing will happen to it. I treasure it.” After Innsbruck, the new ladies gold medalist
could have turned professional, but she had one more goal in her sights: a World title. “Tere were so many people suggesting that I might not win or that I’d tarnish the Olympic gold medal,” she said. “I just knew that I had to do it, so I made that decision. “John Curry was at the Olympics, too, and
he’d said — at first — that he wasn’t going on to Worlds,” Hamill recalled. “I was sad that I wouldn’t have my buddy there. But when he heard that I was going on [to Worlds], he decided that he’d com- pete, too. So we got to train together for a cou- ple more weeks and we were both happy that we’d stayed in it.” Hamill returned to the United States and dis-
covered that she was being called “America’s Sweet- heart.” Plus, her new “wedge” hairstyle was all the rage.
“I never liked my short hair, so the reaction
was very odd to me,” she said. “Whoever would’ve thought — a haircut?”
Left photo, Hamill is introduced as one of the U.S. Olympic champions at the 2014 U.S. Championships in Boston. Right, Hamill appears on the cover of SKATING magazine following her Olympic triumph in 1976. Bottom photo, 1976 U.S. Olympic Team, back row (l-r) Olympic team managers Dr. Hugh Graham and Dr. Franklin Nelson; Linda Fratianne, Wendy Burge, Al- ice Cook, Bill Fauver, Susan Kelley, Andrew Stroukoff, Judi Genovesi, Kent Weigle; World team leaders Paul George and Charles DeMore; front row (l-r) David Santee, Tai Babilonia, Randy Gardner, Dorothy Hamill, Jim Millns, Colleen O’Con- nor and Terry Kubicka
30 FEBRUARY 2016
MATTHEW STOCKMAN/U.S. FIGURE SKATING
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