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...magazine this week, senior reporter ALICE PARK profiles Long Island skater Sarah Hughes, the 16-year-old who, along with established star Michelle Kwan and the mesmerizing Sasha Cohen, completes the strongest U.S. figure-skating trio since Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding stirred hope for a medals sweep in 1992. Talk with Park about the U.S. team on Wednesday...
...first time figure skater Sarah Hughes came face-to-face with Michelle Kwan, they weren't on the ice, but they might have been, for all the care that went into choreographing the meeting, at least on Hughes' part. Hughes had learned that Kwan, her idol, was competing near Hughes' home on New York's Long Island and would be dining at a local restaurant. Hughes couldn't let the opportunity pass and persuaded her older brothers and sister to eat with her at the same establishment. "I just wanted to go and eat at the same restaurant as Michelle...
They say it's lonely at the top, but U.S. figure skater and gold medal contender Michelle Kwan never knew it would be this lonely. At 10:20 Saturday morning, just 12 hours after marching in the Opening Ceremonies, Kwan was the only skater on the rink at her first official Olympic practice session in Salt Lake City. This being Utah, and these being figure skaters, the empty rink had less to do with Opening Ceremony hangovers and more to do with competitive strategizing - the remaining ladies in her group, Americans Sarah Hughes and Sasha Cohen, have decamped for more...
...that's fine by Kwan, who is taking a decidedly different tack at this Games. The last time around, in Nagano, she skipped Opening Ceremonies and shunned the Olympic Village in favor of a private hotel. That wouldn't have been a big deal, but Tara Lipinski, who would trump her for the gold, did the exact opposite - marching in Opening ceremonies, living in the athlete dorms, taking in every bit of the Olympic experience. And it worked for Lipinski. All of this may or may not have played in Kwan's mind on Thursday when she decided to stay...
...downside of staying in Salt Lake is that Kwan will be dogged by the one question she doesn't want to answer - "So, are you going to win the gold?" Lance Armstrong, one of the torch relay bearers in the Opening Ceremony stadium, has already asked. Kwan's only answer - "No comment...