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Since Hughes was the first of the medal contenders to skate, she didn't know exactly what she had done. Or that her program would weather assaults from Sasha Cohen, favorite Michelle Kwan and Russia's Irina Slutskaya to stand, at the end of the evening, as worthy of Olympic...
Sarah Hughes' performance was the pinnacle of a figure-skating competition tarnished by a judging scandal in the pairs competition that resulted in two gold-medal awards. It also had to withstand a protest by a cranky Russian Olympic federation demanding gold for Slutskaya and threatening to leave the Games...
Hughes didn't just skate flawlessly. She became the first woman to land two triple-triple jump combinations--the triple Salchow-triple loop and the triple toe-triple loop--in one program. Even more impressive, she is the first skater to fight her way from fourth after the short program...
Hughes and coach Robin Wagner made critical adjustments to her program away from the Olympic bustle, in Colorado Springs, during the week before the competition. To build up to a dramatic conclusion, Wagner decided to splice in heavier music in the last 90 sec. And to trade on Hughes' technical...
Hughes' cool performance chilled her competitors into stiff responses. The eye-catching Cohen, after a solid short program, could not hold the landing of her triple-triple jump, and though she skated on brilliantly, portraying Bizet's Carmen, her performance lacked the energy of Hughes' routine. She and Hughes will...