I do not think America has ever had a bigger sweetheart then Dorothy Hamill. I know as a young boy of only 15/16 in 1976 I had a crush on alot of woman but Dorothy was one of the special ones. She was classy & the girl next door. She still looks fantastic at the age of 58. There will never be another like her.

I was at the 1960 Winter Olymics in Squaw Valley. The whole family went there for only $50. You could walk around, see any event. There were no security cops, didn't need any. I saw my first giant size Snickers bar there. "You mean they make giant candy bars?"

Dorothy Hamil is so beautiful❤️

What a babe. Had a major crush on her. Look at her at 3:18. So sweet and fresh faced. How could anyone not like her?

Dorothy earned her success through hard work. Classy lady. True star. Real talent.

Peggy wasn't a favorite of mine but for the times she did well.

Again, thanks for sharing! This was wonderful

Hermosa Peggy los años te han sentado muy bien y tu hermosa alma...

Thanks for sharing these very special moments!!!

Love Dorothy's powerful legs and tush'/!!!

wow that was amazing. thanks for uploading this gem

And yet the skater in between these two was left out.

I like how she says "you can finally be free" when they just got through telling us all the pressure she had from the sport. About perfection and such. I guess that is the bad side of intelligence. You see the crap no one wants you to see and people bitch about it.

wow all legend ware here salute to all

This may sound very off topic, but when Dorothy Hamill was young she reminded me of a young Diana Spencer. It’s something about her eyes and her facial expressions. Very similar to Diana’s when she was in her late teens/early 20s.

Peggy’s comment on the European skaters is not very nice and respectful (1.12) ‘I didn’t like the others were skating. Sjoukje Dijkstra won in 1964. And she was such a masculair skater, and really a big woman, very strong, she could do the jumps, but she was not graceful. I don’t like that at all.’ I fully agree: Peggy was a very elegent and a gentle skater, like a ballerina. Sjoukje was a more full figured woman than Peggy Fleming and her Olympic predessor Carol Heiss. She was an athletic skater, but she also excelled at both figures and free skating (1961-1964). I don’t think, that the jury was mistaken at the Olympics in Innsbruck by giving Sjoukje very high notes for both the technical merit (on the 6.0 scale): 5.7, 2x5.8 and 6x5.9. And on her artistic (!) impression: 5x5.8 and 4x5.9. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bNKDadegzbrLlKc.html

Nice

Peggy Fleming was an ok skater. She is a graceful woman though. Although she seems kind of conceited.

If there was a ladies' figure skating Mount Rushmore it would be as follows: Sonja Henie Peggy Fleming Dorothy Hamill Katarina Witt

Judges. In the early days they were often on the ice itself. Weird for a free skate but there it was.

"I knew I could never live up to Peggy Fleming..... I just knew it........" How utterly wrong she was. Hamill so went beyond Fleming as to beggar description.........................