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...taunted runt as a child in Bowling Green, Ohio. His growth had been stunted by Shwachman's syndrome, a disease that interferes with normal digestion. But Hamilton, at age eight, serendipitously found a therapy: ice skating...
...Hamilton still buys teeny shoes (size 51A) and clothes in boys' sizes, but his attitude toward his sport is grownup. "You live, you hope, for 100 years. You are only a top skater for ten. So that is the perspective." He knows that his insular, single-minded life has been severely Limiting...
...spins of a double axel. Some fellow Olympic team members are concerned, however, that the sheltered teenager has not mastered the inner game of figure skating. Says one: "I really wonder if she's got the emotional strength to be what she wants to be." The determinedly upbeat Hamilton points to the difficulty of withstanding the pressure at the top. "She has the physical capabilities," he says, "but emotionally it's very, very difficult. I hope she doesn't let the emotion take over." Sumners admits to an extreme, storybook am bition. "I want...
...from the sport seems unsurpassed. The U.S. champion skating pair has never placed better than third in world competition. But Kitty adores Peter, he is reverent of her and both are dauntless performers. (Defying preposterous odds, they are the separately adopted children of a Massachusetts engineer and a teacher; Hamilton too was adopted, also by teachers.) Skating pairs are a unique entity in sports, competing neither individually nor as members of a large team. Their event is all a matter of synchrony. Like other ice-skating pairs, Peter, 24, and Kitty, 22, are in sync off the ice as well...
Fearless or phobic, most skaters are also romantics, including the superathletes among them. Says Hamilton: "I'd like everybody-Rosalynn and Elaine, Peter and Kitty-to come away from this year satisfied with what they've done, and ready for the rest of their lives." Zayak, for her part, is not thinking much beyond the Olympics, the grand chance to redeem her string of failures. "It's made me mad," she says, "and when I'm mad, watch out!" -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by B.J. Phillips with the U.S. figure skating team