Landing It: My Life On and Off the Ice

by Scott Hamilton

Hardcover, 1999

Status

Available

Call number

B Ham

Call number

B Ham

Barcode

1602

Collection

Publication

New York : Kensington Books, 1999.

Description

Scott Hamilton talks candidly about the early hurdles thrown in his path. A childhood disease that stunted his growth, the wrenching decision to leave home at age thirteen to train with other Olympic hopefuls, the death of his mother from breast cancer, yet nothing could stop him from achieving his goal. Scott Hamilton came to dominate the sport in the late 1970s & skated away with Olympic gold in 1984. Thirteen years later Scott was still skating professionally, performing on TV specials & commentating for CBS Sports. In 1997, however, Scott found himself in the toughest competition of his life, battlling testicular cancer & win he did, performing on prime-time television just seven months later

Original publication date

1999

User reviews

LibraryThing member anotterchaos
Uncompromising. Unflinching. Honest. Fascinating.

Scott Hamilton proves himself to be just what you always thought he was...a just plain old nice guy, who happens to be an amazing figure skater and entertainer. Sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, sometimes tear-inducing, always honest, sometimes
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painfully so. Never catty, never gossipy, and he's hardest on himself. He has his own point of view, but always tries to give others the benefit of the doubt. Literate, easy to read...either Scott is a very well spoken man, or he has a superb co-writer (I suspect both!).

The only thing I would have liked is a glossary of skating terms, and diagrams of the figures. But I guess that's what Wikipedia is for!
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LibraryThing member Salsabrarian
This former library book sat on my shelf for 15 years before I finally picked it up as pandemic reading! I liked Scott's voice: down-to-earth and a touch of humorous self-deprecation. Has he ever been named the hardest-working man in figure skating? He should be because he certainly deserves the
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title. A well-paced read that will definitely appeal to skate fans, casual and serious.
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Rating

½ (21 ratings; 3.9)

Pages

340
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