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Where is Sarah Hughes?

by Anna Johns, posted Feb 13th 2006 9:48AM

My favorite athlete from the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City was Sarah Hughes. She wasn't expected to win a medal, but she piqued peaked at exactly the right time. She skated a flawless final program and, thanks to some bobbles and falls by her teammates, she ended up on the top of the medals podium. But, where is Sarah today? She was only 16 when she won gold so she's not too old to skate. Heck, Michelle Kwan has been a part of the Olympics since Lillehammer in 1994 (sadly, she had to withdraw from the games yesterday due to injury).

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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veal

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.

February 13 2006 at 11:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mike

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.

February 13 2006 at 4:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kerry

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.")

February 13 2006 at 11:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ed

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.

February 13 2006 at 11:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joel Keller

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

February 13 2006 at 10:31 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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