And then she retired, because there was nothing left to do in the sport, and national-team skiing in 1960 was not like national-team skiing in 2022.
So Heggtveit, who had also competed at the 1956 Olympics, stepped away from elite skiing at the age of 21, after which she won the Lou Marsh Award as Canada’s top athlete for 1960. “You know, you can’t keep those around the house, though I do have a nice picture of it on the wall, a really good reproduction,” she says. “If I really feel like looking at something, I can look at that.
Hamilton is a big believer in the mental side of the game. Taped beside her bed back then was a clipping on the power of positive thinking, and even today, when she sits in front of the TV and views the Olympics, she watches with a gold-medalist’s eye. “A few of the home-town press who can remain unnamed — I don’t even know if they’re alive at this point — neglected to go to watch the race, because I’d had two 12th-place in my two previous events,” she says with a laugh, referring to her showings in the giant slalom and downhill. “They admitted it, and they admitted where they were. Those were the days.”
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