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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 gold. As she came off the ice, none of that mattered. "Going in, I didn't think I had a chance for gold, let alone a medal, given who was skating here," Hughes says. "So I didn't hold back...
...club,” as some of its members lovingly refer to it, is a new addition to the extracurricular offerings at HLS. The club got its start last September when second-year law student Sasha Volokh decided to address what he saw as a serious problem on the HLS campus—the absolute lack of lethal firearms...
...DOES IT BEST Irina Slutskaya is powerful enough to hold the outside edge entering the jump, while Sasha Cohen probably turns more quickly...
...DOES IT BEST The exquisitely flexible Sasha Cohen, left, dips forward in a textbook Charlotte spiral while skating backward with her legs in perfect vertical alignment. Michelle Kwan does her own version of the Charlotte, as well as a signature change-of-edge spiral sequence that almost takes her from one end of the rink to the other...
...DOES IT BEST Last year Irina Slutskaya, right, landed an unprecedented triple-triple-double. The Russian powerhouse and American medal contenders Sarah Hughes and Sasha Cohen all perform more difficult combinations than perennial favorite Michelle Kwan, who is planning a triple toe-triple toe. Hughes plans to launch two triple-triple combinations in her long program...