Page 162: Scott Hamilton: Olympic Champion and Cancer Survivor on Trusting God
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
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🗓️ 2 June 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Scott Hamilton is one of the most recognized male figure skating stars in the world, winning four World Championships and Olympic gold in 1984. He is a three-time cancer survivor, television broadcaster, motivational speaker, and more. Scott says failure is the thing that has fueled much of his success. God used the challenge of Scott's journey with cancer to get his attention and to grab his heart.
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| 0:00.0 | Page 162 of the unfolding is the story of Scott Hamilton. |
| 0:05.6 | I was 50 cities into a 60-city tour. |
| 0:08.1 | I couldn't stand up straight anymore without pain. |
| 0:10.7 | And so I went to an emergency room. |
| 0:12.4 | They found a mask. |
| 0:13.6 | And I realized in that moment I was being diagnosed with the same disease, |
| 0:16.8 | two months shy of the 20th anniversary of losing my mom to cancer. |
| 0:19.6 | And now I have cancer. |
| 0:22.2 | God's story has been unfolding. |
| 0:25.4 | Since the beginning of time. |
| 0:28.6 | He invites you to be a part of it. |
| 0:34.9 | Another page in the unfolding. |
| 0:45.9 | Hey, this is Meredith Foster. |
| 0:49.5 | When you think of Scott Hamilton, it's not likely you think of failure. |
| 0:54.1 | He is, after all, the guy who won |
| 0:56.2 | four consecutive U.S. championships, four world championships, and in 1984, the Olympic gold medal in |
| 1:03.8 | men's figure skating. He's a three-time cancer survivor, television broadcaster, motivational |
| 1:09.4 | speaker, author, husband, and father, and the list goes |
| 1:12.8 | on. Scott says, the truth is, adversity has been the fuel for much of his success. He talks a lot |
| 1:20.3 | about that in his latest book, which is called Finish First. It was the thing that drove him to work |
| 1:26.6 | hard. But when Scott became a follower of Jesus, he realized that many of the choices he'd made were selfish, materialistic, just plain sinful. |
| 1:36.8 | And those failures didn't feel like fuel. |
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