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Yamaguchi follows Hamill's golden example

By Larry Schwartz
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, January 17, 2002

February 21, 1992 Sixteen years ago, when she was four years old and Dorothy Hamill was winning Olympic gold, Kristi Yamaguchi skated while holding a Hamill doll. Tonight, Yamaguchi becomes the United States' first women's Olympic figure-skating champion since Hamill, who visits Yamaguchi before she skates her freestyle program. After a near-fall on one of the easiest triple jumps in her 4½-minute program, Yamaguchi regains her composure and recovers nicely. Landing five triples out of the se ...

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