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November 05, 2009

Gold-Medal Skater Returns to Ice for Clinic Benefit

The Olympic figure-skating champion Scott Hamilton is returning to the rink at age 51 to skate in a fund-raising event for the Cleveland Clinic, where he was treated for testicular cancer and a brain tumor, The Tennessean reports.

The men’s gold medalist at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Mr. Hamilton retired from skating in 2004, when he underwent radiation treatment for the tumor. He began training last fall to prepare for the clinic event, to be held Saturday in Cleveland.

Calling the comeback “the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” Mr. Hamilton said that whether fans attend out of “a real sense of support or morbid curiosity … if I can build that interest and build some sort of momentum through events that will raise more money, then I’ve won.”

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