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With her heart set on competing in the Olympics for the second time, Hughes returned home to New York to train with her long-time coach Bonni Retzkin. She practiced intensively throughout the summer and the fall semester.
“It was a very difficult decision for her...It’s good that she gave it one last hurrah to see if she could do it,” Wheeler says. “If she did make the Olympics, we wanted to get a Winnebago...
Despite her desire to strike the perfect balance between school and skating, Hughes decided to take a leave of absence from Harvard last semester to train to qualify for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. She knew she needed to dedicate more time to skating to compete at the Olympic level...
But Hughes could not let the possibility of participating in the 2010 Winter Olympics slip past her. Blockmate Claire M Wheeler ’11 remembers sitting with Hughes on their futon in Mather at 3:30 in the morning last March, when the skater was deciding whether she should...
The ice rink has long been an alternate home for two of Hughes’ family members: her father played ice hockey as an undergraduate at Cornell, and her older sister—the 24-year-old Sarah Hughes—won a gold medal in figure skating at the...