![]() When he told his wife, she took his hands and started to pray. But another hardship came his way when he discovered he had a brain tumor. Hamilton and Tracie married and had a son. These things actually happened.' And I go, 'OK, that's a good starting-off point.'" And the first thing he said to me, which was extraordinary was, he goes, 'You have to understand that Christianity is a faith of history. "She took me to a minister, a man named Ken Durham. It was at that moment in his life that he met his wife, Tracie, who brought him to church. What's my purpose now? What do I need to do?" "I survived something that took the most important person in my life off the planet … I survived. "What was about to happen really changed my life forever," he shares. In 1997, at a career high, Hamilton was forced to leave the ice to undergo chemotherapy for testicular cancer. The more I look back on it, I think that's been unbelievably awesome."īut he acknowledges in his testimony, "I think I'm probably more known for my health problems now than I am for anything I ever did on skates." "But I found a way to be just good enough to win the gold medal. "I don't think anyone's truly equipped to go out in front of 1 billion, 2 billion, 3 billion people on an Olympic stage, and you're scared of your mind, on a 200 by 100 surface of ice," says Hamilton. Olympics and World Figure Skating Hall of Fames. He nabbed a gold medal in the 1984 Olympics and was inducted in both U.S. Not wanting to be "less than what she (mother) thought I could be," Hamilton went on to win 16 consecutive national and world championships starting in 1981. "I knew I needed something more," he recalls. ![]() That devastation awakened something in him. "And I found skating which kind of took on a life of its own."įrom that point on, however, he would face many more tragedies, including the death of his mother who was battling cancer. When he returned home after countless hospital visits, he ended up going to "the skating club thing just by accident." "I was in and out of hospitals for years and I was never really home," he shares. He suffered from what was a mysterious disease at that time that stopped him from growing. In his video testimony, the former skater recounts a tough journey that began when he was little. Many would know Scott Hamilton as an Olympic gold medalist and a figure skating commentator who had cancer, but few had an idea on how he accepted Christ until his video was featured on the " I Am Second" website this week. ![]()
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