My
favorite athlete from the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City was Sarah Hughes. She wasn't expected to win a medal, but she
I did a little nosing around the internet and found Sarah. She's a student at Yale, where studies come first, boys come second, and figure skating is somewhere after that (although she has been hosting some skating events for charity). Sarah will be in Italy for the games, however. She'll be doing some sideline reporting for MSNBC and she'll be cheering on her little sister, Emily, the alternate skater who will take Michelle Kwan's place.
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2-13-2006 @ 10:31AM
Joel Keller said...
WNBC here in New York interviewed Sarah and Emily when the Hughes family learned that Kwan dropped out (my favorite headline from that story? "Kwan Gone". Baseball fans will get the reference).
They have the video on the channel's web site: http://www.wnbc.com
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2-13-2006 @ 11:30AM
Ed said...
I saw her interviewed on Today a couple of weeks ago and she said she's considering competing in the 2010 games since she'll be out of college.
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2-13-2006 @ 11:34AM
kerry said...
I, too, am very sad about not seeing Sarah Hughes skate this time around, another four years seems too long to wait. I watched her gold medal performance in Salt Lake City and was jumping up and down on my couch when I realized (and from the look on her face, she did too) that her routine was being executed flawlessly, and she was seconds away from snatching the gold out of poor Michelle Kwan's hands. Now we've got the double disappointment of no Sarah and no Michelle to contend with. *sigh*
(Oh, and I think you mean "peaked" not "piqued.")
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2-13-2006 @ 4:08PM
Mike said...
According to a friend of mine who grew up in the Hughes' neighborhood, Emily is even better than Sarah. So hopefully this "alternate" won't hurt our medal chances too much.
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2-13-2006 @ 11:29PM
veal said...
That picture in the link provided - it's a horrible picture. I wonder why they picked such a bad picture of such a pretty woman.
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