Will Michelle compete?

In an ominous sign Michelle Kwan is struggling in her early practices in Torino. She seems to still be feeling the effects of the groin injury that kept her from competing at U.S. Nationals last month and had to cut short her practice today in Torino.

Michelle commented: "I really have to pay attention to how I am feeling these days. Dropping out, it's not something I want to do, but I have to listen to what my feelings are."

Better dust off the passport, Emily Hughes.

photo by Kevork Djansezian/AP

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#23 Comment from whittlesoule
2/12/06 1:44 PM | Permalink

Michelle,I think You are an Awsome young lady in many ways,you have made us a better America just by the way in which you handle yourself on and off the ice.
I truly believe you made the right decistion about not competting in the Olypics, and that right there is what makes you Great in my opinion.For someone like yourself to make thet decition is huge,You have given all that you could and all thet you are in the world of ice skating,and I for one Thank You very much !!!

You have always been a joy to watch, I saw you at the worl arena in Colorado Springs, I was in AW over the way skated, such grace such talent...truley breathtaking.

God has blessed you with
many things, may you always
stay true to yourself !!!

1 big fan, Shelly Soule
Colorado
#22 Comment from phales35
2/12/06 1:05 PM | Permalink

Please Kwan, get out you cry baby, You can NOT scate as well as the other scaters. The only thing you can do is throw one leg in the air spread your arms and grin at the public. We are tired of that. You did not scate good enough to get the GOLD, accept that move on, I am sick of you DRAMA.
#21 Comment from kenneyo3125
2/12/06 12:34 PM | Permalink

Ms Kwen, you have for many years brought me so much fun and felt feeling that she can bring out in people. Her beatuy, and elegnite grace and styel.
Don't have any regreats, your the best, sadly though it doesn't go a way, ever. Sorry, I will miss her skating so much I can't even say. It also showes what a team player. Isn't that's what its all about? She has frist, always did it for her Country, and did it with a smile, alot of peoplee are goint to also miss it. Michelle thank you for all the happness you have brought me.
#20 Comment from kma825
2/12/06 8:53 AM | Permalink

Anyone who knows figure skating will remember these details - Kwan was 2nd at '94 US Nationals but was made the US Olympic team alternate when Kerrigan was granted a medical bye, providing doctors said she was healthy to skate (sound familiar?) Kerrigan was. Then the US committee suspected Harding of being involved and yanked her off the team and put Kwan in her place. Harding sent her lawyers to court to file a lawsuit which scared the US officials into letting her compete (in case they were wrong). Kwan was actually supposed to take Harding's spot, not Kerrigan's - it was Harding's fast legal team that kept Kwan from her first Olympics ('94). At least Kwan was smart enough to go the Norway on her own dime, just in case. Now Emily Hughes, who by the way deserves nothing just because she is related to an Olympic champion, is stuck in New York and may not even make it to the Games in time. Bullshit she isn't sitting at home pouting!!! She's the alternate! Why wasn't she already there if everyone was so uncertain about Kwan? For everyone who says Kwan is a cry-baby who whined to get her way - not one of you has a box to stand on. If she was really that way, she wouldn't have dropped out in time for Hughes to stop her head from spinning. Much less get to the Games, since she doesn't care enough to be there already. As her father said, "just point the way and she'll be there" - provided US officials pay for it. (hint?) And if you don't like the fact that skaters can petition to be in the Olympics - do something to change it. Kwan followed the rules of her sport in the US. Do you think for a minute anyone else in her situation wouldn't? She took a shot at it and now she knows she can't do it - so she's out. FYI - Katrina Witt took the only spot on Germany's team to compete one more time in '94. She had no hope of a medal and she knew it, but her ego skated anyway and she was terrible. Sorry guys, Kwan has more class. You still have no box to
#19 Comment from heiyu2
2/12/06 5:53 AM | Permalink

Frankly , I think this sport called "Figure Skating" is clearly laughable . Michelle was clearly wrong for letting her ego get in the way of total lack of judgement and good sportmanship. Her quote now from Turin " I have to listen to what my feelings are" says it all, in that she has one of the worst cases of "I" strain imaginable . The Judges / US Olympic figure skating committee were even bigger jokes for considering this matter but they did go to prove that what they are speaks so loudly, you can't hear what they say. I sincerely hope the word 'Idiots' will suffice .
I refuse to mention in the same paragraphs here the name of the real Victim because even The Journal structured this 'comments section' around Michelle and her ordeal. The real Victim if or when approached to go to Turin is entitled to make her own decision and I really hope one she considers seriously is Thanks but No Thanks .

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