If you went short you got a Hamill if you went long you got a Farrah. I STILL love both styles. Beautiful ladies and both had those great smiles and the hair.. On my God...the hair!!
I love her skating. Two things stand out. One, her beautiful delayed Axel. Its such a tough jump, requiring the skating to linger in the air a second longer. And second, her arms. She used her arms not only to gain speed and force, but to enhance the grace of her skating. Just lovely.
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This lady was such a wonderful athlete. Today she is 59 years, 9 months, and 19 days old. It seems like a sign of good luck. I thought of her reaching the age, and here it is.
Dorothy always had beautiful posture, lovely (and correct) spin positions, and very nice port de bras. She was the "full package". Thank you for posting this.
Dorothy was the first ice skater I ever watched. Loved her. (though I didn't appreciate my aunt giving me the 'Dorothy Hamill' haircut. Cute on HER. Not so much on me. But...that was the 'thing' so snip snip. lol
This was the first time I saw Dorothy Hamill and figure skating. I loved everything about her. Loved her hair. My Mom didn't like me in short hair. From this on I would watch figure skating.
I was watching Sharp Edges, an old documentary that follows Tonya Harding at 15, and Tonya's coach was talking about how much Tonya had to have donated to her to achieve what she did, and she said that Dorothy was spending $35,000 a year in the 70s to skate so you can imagine how much it was costing Tonya in the 80s to skate, but the people in her hometown cut her a break. I was shocked it was so expensive. I didnt even know Vera Wang designed ice skating dresses until they mentioned that's what Kerrigan was wearing in another documentary I watched.
Vera Wang designed Kerrigans beautiful costumes that added much to her overall appearance. Vera Wang understood the importance because she started out as a skater herself!
WHEREtheFUNK - For so many of us!! ... I became a figure skater because of her and actually skated with her once. * She is also the only person I've ever proposed to ... I'm still waiting :) ... Dorothy?? .. Well, I guess I know the answer :)
Ikr? Single axels and walley jumps would get laughed off the ice now. Having said that, the single axels and walleys she did were beautifully done. Today seems to be more about difficulty and less about technique.
I dont know why the artistic marks were higher than the technical. As an amateur skater Hamill was a hugely athletic skater with gigantic jumps, amazing spins, great footwork, spirals, and stroking, who lacked artistry. She was still probably the most artistic of the top skaters at the time since her main rivals were DeLeeuw and Errath who clearly were not artistic, but higher artistic marks than technical still makes no sense. I looked at the judges and 5 went up by .1 on the artistic, 3 stayed the same and only 1 went down by .1
Peggy's layback was classic with incredible back arch. Dorothy's (and Janet Lynn's) were comparable, but notably, both of them had more speed in their spins than Peggy.
So funny to watch this and to see how FAR skaters and skating have come in the past 40+ years....WOW! I mean, just think of what female figure skaters are doing today. Amazing. I used to love her. A 6.0 for that performance lol. How far we’ve come....!
Like how would say a Kristy Yamaguchi compare to Dorothy Hamill? Has figure skating changed or evolved where u can't really compare? I'm just asking...Love figure skating but don't really know the details.......
Quentin 33 - Both extremely consistent. AND I might add two of the most pleasant which often cannot be said. Kristi of course had triples to surpase Dorothy, but I've always cautioned another revolution does not a great skater make! - Dorothy had/HAS impeccible technique .. her line, carriage, simple stroking across the ice remains superior to any skater today. She shone with skill, ability, grace and class! In short, she was the COMPLETE package. BOTH exemplary examples of Olympic Champions.
@@Ronizetti Agree on everything you said regarding Dorothy. As a pro, Dorothy was really the only skater that could captivate audience with jump-less routines. She got applause from doing simple long glides across the ice.
It's actually not Korngold; that was the music for her long. Chris Fleming, as he often did, was looking at the wrong cue sheet. It was a piano piece by Artur Ruberstein.
Well of course Dorothy didn't have the same jump content as Kristi. But in term of posture, skating skills, spins, charisma, artistry and presence, Dorothy is heads above Kristi.
I don't understand how she won, Dianne De Lueew did a triple, where Hamill had none. Also Dianne De Lueew was much better artistically. Hamill had terrible choppy crossovers, not smooth and elegant, with a deep edge. Nobody skates this way anymore. She is so overrated. Hamill was the last skater to ever win an Olympic Games without a triple.
Dianne made two mistakes in her long program during the second half whereas Dorothy didn't. Those mistakes negated the triple toe loop Dianne did do near the beginning of her program. I found Dorothy's program smoother and more of a piece than Dianne's. Oddly, at the worlds the next month, Dianne skated much better than her Olympic long, didn't make any mistakes in the program, and still finished third behind Dorothy and Christine Errath.
While I respect your opinion, you are doing what I see a lot of people do when they comment on these classic skating videos. You are judging yesterday's skating using today's standards. Emphasis back then was placed on a skater being balanced and well-rounded--not just good at difficult jumps--but also proficient with figures, footwork, spins and artistry. Compulsory figures were 30% of the score in 1976, and their scores along with 20%for the short program and 50% long program were factored to determine the overall winner. A gifted jumper doing triples also needed to be gifted at figures in order to have the best chance at winning. Such is not the case anymore since the elimination of figures in 1990 and later the scoring system revision in 2004. Loading a program with difficult content to maximize score in order to win became the priority with a gradient system for degree of execution of the content. Artistry (presentation) is still important but seems to have taken a lesser role.
DeLueew couldn't hold a candle to Dorothy! I knew skating then and understand it now (and have my own medals to back that up) ... Remember, Tonya Harding had a triple-axel and look how far THAT got her... EXACTALLY - Please don't kid yourself about DeLeew, or about Dorothy ... I'd be hard pressed to name a single female that has skated since that has shown as much excellence, presence on the ice and impeccable technique and form!! Dorothy's carriage and simple stroking across the ice is greater than anyone's triple jump today!
@@rolandgreen7484 Deleeuw had a weaker short program at Innsbruck, if you see it here you can see there is no comparison. If anyone was closer to Dorothy, it was Errath, but she had placed 5th in figures at Innsbruck and fell TWICE in the LP so she could only expect bronze. The placings were correct in Innsbruck, but Dorothy won on the strength of this short program and the fact that she skated a clean LP, which will win every time!
@@metsdudenj I never saw her short but it was interesting the U.S judge had her only 11th in the short, even below Del Navarro. That suggests to me she had a really subpar skate and was held up by some of the judges due to her reputation to even be as high as 4th.
