Scott Hamilton won four consecutive world titles and then an Olympic gold by 1984. More importantly for him, he has spent the last 49 years trying to make sure cancer doesn’t get to do to others what it did to his mother. The mission became personal twice over: first as a grieving son, then as a patient. Now, the figure skating legend has turned a lifetime of fundraising into something that could outlast his Olympic legacy.
That was after he launched the Scott Hamilton CARES Foundation in 2014. Since then, the Olympian has been at the forefront of the fight against cancer and continues to do so.
“I’ve been raising money for cancer research for 49 years,” Hamilton said in an interview with WTOL11. “Skate to Eliminate Cancer is our peer-to-peer fundraising program. We do them from Boston to Los Angeles and Seattle to Florida…