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- skating history. He
- performed it perfectly in
- Olympic competition and
- won the gold medal. Dick
- was the first U.S. figure
- skater to win a gold medal in the menΓÇÖs
- singles event.
-
- Four years later, Dick was a senior at
- Harvard University (in Massachusetts). He
- worked hard in school, but he still found time
- to train. Dick made it to the Olympics and
- showed off another new jump. This time, he
- performed a triple loop to become the first
- skater to perform any kind of triple jump in
- competition. Again, he did it perfectly. All
- nine judges awarded him first place.
-
- After the 1952 Olympics, Dick became