24 Olympic Moments That Defined the Sport of Figure Skating

Who's the first real skating "superstar" you can remember off the top of your head? Chances are, Dorothy Hamill's name almost immediately comes to mind. Hamill's career reached its peak at the 1976 Olympics, where she snagged the gold medal. Although Hamill's technical content is low-key by today's standards (Hamill would be the last singles skater to win Olympic gold without triple jumps), she pushed the boundaries of her sport at the time and even invented her own spin variation. The spin, which is essentially a camel spin that turns into a sit spin, became one of her signature moves, amusingly called the "Hamill camel."

Watch Hamill's Olympic free skate here.