2007 National Championship Preview with Nancy Kerrigan (Nancy Kerrigan's World of Skating)

Michelle Kwan segment from "Countdown to Nationals" with Nancy Kerrigan. This is part of the show from the broadcast titled "Nancy Kerrigan's World of Skating."

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[ZachsMind]

It's not about winning the gold. It's about good sportsmanship and being a solid competitor. Michelle Kwan typifies the spirit of the Olympics. She inspired and motivated her competitors and now a whole new generation of skaters, look up to her.

Michelle Kwan IS golden. She doesn't need a medal to prove anything.

[sweetinnocentgurl]

Michelle is so not in it for the money. She loves the sport and it's sad not to see her at nationals this year.

[Donnylutz00]

@sweetinnocentgurl

I can't believe Nancy said that! After Salt Lake Michelle was already a multi-millionaire, she could have just quit and done nothing with the rest of her life. She still competed because she loved to compete. To say that money was a motivating factor is quite rude. Now-a-days Michelle could do anything she wanted, including take it easy, instead she's about to get her masters degree and lord only knows what else she will accomplish.

[getrealandsee]

@sweetinnocentgurl Of course she is in it for the MONEY...the MONEY...And Kwan knows this better than anyone. "Tothe public," she tells you, "the Olympics is the supreme of the supreme, and I don't believe you can ever truly be a legend without winning it." Source: Mark Starr, Newsweek, February 18, 2002, p. 50.

[getrealandsee]

@ZachsMind And Kwan knows this better than anyone. "Tothe public," she tells you, "the Olympics is the supreme of the supreme, and I don't believe you can ever truly be a legend without winning it."

Source: Mark Starr, Newsweek, February 18, 2002, p. 50.

Good Sportsmanship?....she SCREWED Emily Hughes, she crapped all over the Olympic Creed, and made a joke out of FS...a total embarrassment to the USFSA and ISU.

[getrealandsee]

@sweetinnocentgurl "I wanted to be the Michael Jordan of my sport," she said. "I dreamed of being a legend." … But legends are not made by points alone, in the rink or on the basketball court. For figure skaters, the door to that mythic realm of eight-figure endorsement deals, of celebrity that transcends sports itself, opens only once every four years

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[getrealandsee]

@ZachsMind "I wanted to be the Michael Jordan of my sport," she said. "I dreamed of being a legend." … But legends are not made by points alone, in the rink or on the basketball court. For figure skaters, the door to that mythic realm of eight-figure endorsement deals, of celebrity that transcends sports itself, opens only once every four years

[getrealandsee]

@MissGreenDay7 I am so sorry...yes, I read your comment and my reference to Nancy's NOT cheating was simply stating that she was injured by a criminal..had trained all season and had already earned the right to go to the Olympics...she certainly would have medaled at Nats and guess if she hadn't that would have been the end of it. Kwan, PETITIONED for a spot she had no right to..that's all I was saying.

[MissGreenDay7]

@getrealandsee Did you even read my comment? I don't know what you think I said but I did not say that Nancy Kerrigan cheated. Why don't you take a break from youtube for a while.

[getrealandsee]

February 20, 2006

Passing The Torch

Michelle Kwan's sudden exit makes the U.S. skating team better

E.M. Swift

[getrealandsee]

Without the Kwan soap opera, attention at last may fall on the skaters who actually finished in the top three at Nationals: Kimmie Meissner, 16, the youngest U.S. Olympian in Turin; Hughes, who was bumped from the team to make room for Kwan; and Sasha Cohen, 21, who'd finished higher than Kwan in the last two world championships and is a strong contender for gold.

[getrealandsee]

You are right Nancy....MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY