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...During the break, I started thinking about figure skating, where, at the time, Kwan, the Russian Irina Slutskaya, American Sasha Cohen and Hughes stood one through four. Too bad, I mused, that the kids can't jump up in the standings if they really crank one tonight...
...really," she said, "because if Michelle beats Irina then she wins but if Irina beats her and Sarah beats Sasha...
...Sasha had an off night and slipped behind Sarah, fair enough. Then Kwan came a-cropper. Now there was one left, or so I figured...
...take. But we may be especially grateful for the chance to stop and watch this spectacle on ice and snow. The last time we were transfixed together, it was in horror. In the next two weeks, some image will grab us once again, if much more gently. Will Sasha Cohen be the first woman to land a quad in competition? Will Apolo Anton Ohno sweep all his races? Will Picabo Street withstand one last downhill dash? A few months ago, how much would we have cared? It is a pleasure now to pull up a chair and give these athletes...
...mere four-year Olympic cycle later, Hughes is still maneuvering for meetings with Kwan, but now it's on the medals podium. As part of the deeply talented U.S. women's figure-skating team heading to Salt Lake City, Hughes will be facing off with Kwan and Sasha Cohen for Olympic gold in what promises to be the most intense battle of the blades in a decade. The three make up the strongest U.S. contingent since Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding last stirred hope for a medals sweep in 1992. Yamaguchi and Kerrigan delivered, winning gold and bronze...