Dorothy Hamill - 1976 Olympics - Short Program

Dorothy Hamill's Short Program from the 1976 Olympics

[@ernststrau1564]

In 1976, as a 16 year old male teen, i watched this live on tv. Dorothy Hamill was the favorite girl of many young men.

[@poorthing]

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!!

[@cennedycurry9843]

And we loved how her hair flowed with her skating. And everyone got the hair cut.

[@lucy8025]

We even named a (male) dog after her and gave him a Dorothy haircut once each month. Hammill's hair was epic.

[@k.c.4423]

I had that cut! Cutest hair in the second grade.

[@VioletJoy]

@@k.c.4423 Same here.

[@bettybane9915]

It is a cute haircut. She’s just very cute

[@vaskylark]

haha I had that haircut in the 70's so you are right about that

[@rickram1961]

Dorothy had one of the best laybacks ever in ladies figure skating!

[@officialmelpeachey]

+Rick Mileske No one will ever touch Peggy Flemings layback spin . Peggy had the best layback spin ever.

[@morlavader5454]

I disagree. Dorothy has an equally good or better position but it is way faster than Peggy's too.

[@cleol4108]

Ever heard of Yu Na Kim?

[@sdcashman45]

Nicole Bobek had the best layback.

[@Ronizetti]

morla vader - Oh, indeed. Dorothy was superior to Peggy in EVERY way ... like comparing champagne to coca-cola, or cold syrup :)

[@Ricky0101]

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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[@vincestyles1030]

This woman aged to perfection

[@valuecalc]

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.

[@BeveC21E]

It became her signature cut and helped make her whom she ultimately became. And we loved her! ❤

[@shimmeringfairydust3275]

Just a little 19 year old girl with a beauty that transcends the ice. Oh, and such a swell haircut!

[@garysimmons1485]

Dorothy Hamill and Lucinda Ruh should travel the world teaching proper lay back spins and posture to the up and comers,,,

[@drugvash4899]

True

[@janyshendrickson3833]

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.

[@shimmeringfairydust3275]

Well put!

[@anonymousposter6671]

I knew her about this time, and she could do an amazing sit and spin!!

[@bootlegapples]

That's quite a performance off ice as well.Her expressions crack me up🤣,wow was she so damned adorable.😍

[@jenaeison2402]

Thank you for posting! Brings back so many memories! She was incredible!

[@djs2356]

Great...and so many beautiful performances yet to come.

[@johnorlando9839]

Winning the short program was key in those days.

[@zatheris]

When I was 12 I had such a huge crush on her. I couldn't think straight. I wrote her a letter, and she wrote me back. Best day of my life.

[@cennedycurry9843]

She made it look effort less. What a skater she was.

[@lucy8025]

That, in itself, was elegant.

[@emilyhayek1132]

She was perfection. Love her

[@skibum7986]

So cute !! best haircut !!

[@46foryounger]

She’s so exquisite ❤️

[@swissmissdemeaner]

LovedDorothy, remember this as a little girl and got figure skates and her hair style 💁‍♀️

[@beaverstandig1747]

Was and is the greatest

[@katymagnets]

Dorothy Hamill - a force of nature. OMG!!

[@suzum5689]

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

[@cordeliachase601]

Suzu M Buffy mentions that in season 2.

[@JusticeFortheSilenced]

Suzu M I remember reading that in one of the Ramona books. Her sister wanted hair like "the ice skater."

[@stevegarcia9098]

we all had a crush on her. she was very pretty then and beautiful today. god bless her.

[@marel6279]

Back in the days when it was more about skating then what you wore.

[@lilbatz]

No illusion fabric was abused to make that dress. Refreshing lol

[@user-vn7sj5ig8w]

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.

[@user-vn7sj5ig8w]

@Jenny Paschal She still looks iconic with that famous hair style.

[@richardforce5620]

Beautiful

[@firenze5555]

I was in middle school and so many girls, including me, wanted her haircut! She was so pretty! And talented, of course.

[@paulschoppe1448]

When figure skating was elegant...

[@jillh.2084]

I had that haircut until an owner of an Italian restaurant called me a boy Couldn't grow it back fast enough 😂

[@coppermo]

love her!

[@ilovebeinagirl]

45 years later and i still want that haircut.And I even notice she has a tail on it. People didn't start wearing tails until the late '80s.

[@reichmuth100]

I had her exact hair cut with the tail, Who was cutting your hair?! LOL

[@user-hc6fb2yt1y]

Дороти , люблю тебя,!Ты лучшая , ты самая красивая !

[@demorik6794]

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.

[@poorthing]

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!

[@shimmeringfairydust3275]

Dorothy, luckily, was from a fairly well to do family. But costumes back then were rather pleasantly simple. The skating was really what mattered.

[@larrypascua8777]

Wow! Reading Figure skating for dummies by Kristi Yamaguchi then she referred about this

[@dianewetovich238]

Tinkerbell on ice...magical beauty 😍

[@WHEREtheFUNK]

first crush was all about her at 13 years old lol

[@Ronizetti]

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 :)

[@charlesharmon8478]

Same here. I was 12 yrs old and remember it well.

[@brihmendiola4347]

The most beautiful figure skater. 😂😂😂

[@iomoon3608]

Jeebus. It's crazy to think how ice skating has evolved.

[@theshillneckedlizard8364]

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.

[@morlavader5454]

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

[@waynehentley4332]

Dorothy lacked artistry? Nonsense!!!

[@metsdudenj]

Thank God Dianne de Leeuw and her coach didnt succeed in running over Dorothy outside the arena before this short program.

[@ronronizetti2534]

OMG - In all these years I've never heard the culprits named?!? Thank You

[@metsdudenj]

@@ronronizetti2534 my bad, it was Diane De Leeuw's coach, sorry I mistyped

[@mca1218]

I don't hear the sound. I'm wondering if this is the skate where Hamill is compared to a music box during the layback spin.

[@SageWhite-Rose]

I think I got this haircut the day after I saw this performance.

[@lindaosika7648]

I think her Dad chose some of her music.

[@officialmelpeachey]

nobody has a layback as good as Peggy Flemings layback is . Peggy had by far the best

[@MichaelWDupre]

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.

[@lyndasalas5882]

Nah. Dorothy's would look like flames of fire would come up and back down with her arms. It was beautiful

[@dmmchugh3714]

Yes Peggy Fleming, Janet Lynn and Sasha Cohen had the best laybacks. IMHO

[@user-yf9rd1xc1y]

What is the music? Please, help(;

[@johnorlando9839]

This was the first time in her career she won the short program.

[@oktayaxmedov6204]

Aylavyu Doroti 1974

[@jeffreyrichardson]

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[@kimberlybellefontaine1215]

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....!

[@dmmchugh3714]

Who was Dick Button interviewing at the start of this video ? I didn't catch the name : was it Beatrix Schuba ?

[@waynehentley4332]

1972 Olympic champion aka Big Trixie!

[@quentin3330]

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.......

[@Ronizetti]

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.

[@AT-jm4dl]

@@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.

[@judyjean47]

Why don't these announcers be quiet? They ruin the performance.

[@jeffreyrichardson]

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[@sgsmozart]

I am surprised how poor the video quality was in 1976...The Korngold music is not very thrilling.....

[@matthough3590]

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.

[@jeffreyrichardson]

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[@GetBenched2010]

Dick Button WITHOUT a beard???

[@jessicamurrieta7710]

Did anybody else hear the commentator say "double dildo?" Around 2:01

[@metsdudenj]

No fool, double loop

[@kiroburno579]

So simple compared to todays routines.

[@Person-mh6xq]

That’s not the point. All things are relative in sports.

[@waynehentley4332]

It's called progress.

[@ameliareaganwright2758]

Love, love, love Hamill, but she cannot compare to Yamaguchi.

[@AT-jm4dl]

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.

[@ronronizetti2534]

You just MIGHT want to ask Kristi about that!! LOL I assure you she'd beg to differ! 🤣

[@kiroburno579]

It really didn't seem like there was much to that performance.

[@waynehentley4332]

Called progress.

[@captainh3831]

1976....when Bruce Jenner was a MAN, BABY!!

[@cleol4108]

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.

[@matthough3590]

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.

[@MichaelWDupre]

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.

[@ronronizetti2534]

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!

[@metsdudenj]

@@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!

[@ralphbourgeois5875]

@@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.

[@ameliareaganwright2758]

Good, but so crude/rough as far as graceful skating goes, compared to Kristie Yamaguchi's skating years later.