02:43 AM EDT 10/15/2009
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It's Official: Scott Hamilton Is Returning to the Ice
Originally posted 08/16/2009 12:30PM
During the five years he took off from ice skating, Olympic champ Scott Hamilton has had his hands full. Not only was he busy raising two sons with wife Tracie – Maxx, 19 months, and Aidan, 5 – he was also fighting a debilitating pituitary gland tumor and overcoming infertility by self-injecting hormones.
So what prompted Hamilton, at 51, to return to professional ice skating?
"This is a life change. Every time I've had a health challenge in the past, skating has brought me all the way back," Hamilton tells PEOPLE.
Hamilton, who also overcame testicular cancer in 1997, decided that the time had come to get healthier for his family. "I want to be in shape when my youngest son is ready to play sports," he says. "It means a lot to me that my family will get to see it and my oldest son will get to see me perform."
Hamilton will make his return to the ice at his annual cancer benefit, the Scott Hamilton CARES Initiative, at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland on Nov. 7. Currently, he's scheduled to skate to a pair of numbers backed by a live performance from his favorite rock band, Cheap Trick, and the Cleveland Pops Orchestra.
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Scott Hamilton Vows to Return to the Ice
Originally posted 03/21/2009 12:00PM
After becoming the second contestant fired from this season's Celebrity Apprentice, Olympic champ Scott Hamilton announced this week he is returning to his day job: ice skating.
"Skating brings out the best in me," says Hamilton, who began training again in earnest late last year and plans on making a public return to the ice next fall.
His comeback will come five years after he quit performing to help raise his family with wife Tracie and recover from a benign pituitary gland tumor diagnosed in 2004.
"I've been at home being a dad and getting older and slower," Hamilton tells PEOPLE. "I had been feeling physically slow and under the weather, but I feel great after skating. Why not set a goal and get back into it?"
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Scott Hamilton Gets Surprise 50th Birthday Party
Originally posted 08/26/2008 12:15PM
More than 150 friends surprised Olympic skating champ Scott Hamilton to celebrate his 50th birthday at a private residence in Los Angeles on Sunday.
"We got him," cheered his wife Tracie, who drove Hamilton blindfolded from Van Nuys airport to the party. "He thought he was going to spa resort."
Among the surprise party-enablers were country singer Brad Paisley and his wife, According to Jim actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, who rode with the Hamiltons from the airport to the celebration.
"I was greeted by friends from every phase of my life," a teary-eyed Hamilton said later. "This is the best gift of all."
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Ice Skater Scott Hamilton & His Wife Have a Boy
Originally posted 01/21/2008 03:30PM
Olympic champion ice skater Scott Hamilton and his wife, Tracie, celebrated the birth of their second son on Monday at a Tennessee hospital, the couple confirmed exclusively to PEOPLE.
"Mom and son are doing just fine," Hamilton said in a text message.
Maxx Hamilton arrived at 7:51 a.m. He weighed in at 7 lbs., 8 oz., and measured 20 inches long, Hamilton said. He joins big brother, 4-year-old Aidan.
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Scott Hamilton and Wife Are Expecting Baby No. 2
Originally posted 08/15/2007 02:25PM
Olympic champion figure skater Scott Hamilton and his wife Tracie are expecting their second child, PEOPLE has confirmed.
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