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As the women's Olympic victor, Hughes, who is still a high school junior, says she is aware of the responsibility the precious medal bestows on her--as a champion, as a representative of the sport. But as she has done throughout her young career, she will refuse to allow...
Still, John and Amy Hughes, thrilled with what they thought was, in the best-case scenario, a bronze-medal finish, learned otherwise only by watching Sarah and Wagner's reaction on the monitors. "It never dawned on me that she could win," says Amy. "Fourth in the short--I didn...
In fact, it's unlikely to happen again. No other skater--in women, men, pairs or ice dancing--has ever made up so much ground at the Olympics. Too much has to happen. Given the contorted mathematics that is the skating judging system, it was not enough for Hughes to...
Slutskaya, who immediately followed Kwan, has in the past been too rattled to pull off a winning program in the American champion's wake. Normally a powerful, fast skater who achieves hang time with her jumps, she couldn't dazzle the Olympic judges enough to overtake Hughes. But her performance...
Four years is a long time to wait for four minutes on Olympic ice, and this was a hard defeat for the 21-year-old Californian, who won silver at Nagano in 1992. Her disappointment and surprise at finding herself with bronze this time was as deep as Hughes' ecstatic...