Two-time Olympic medalist Michelle Kwan serves as an inspiration to Alysa Liu and the next generation of figure skaters.
Kwan had won attention as the 1993 world junior champion but wasn’t well known when she competed at the 1994 U.S. championships in Detroit, which would determine the team for the Lillehammer Olympics. After the furor caused when Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the knee — an attack commissioned by rival Tonya Harding’s husband — Kwan finished second to Harding at the event.
Kwan returned to Olympic ice in 1998 but was outdone by fellow American Tara Lipinski’s technically strong program and took home a silver medal. Given another chance in 2002, Kwan uncharacteristically fell in her long program and finished third behind American Sarah Hughes and Russia’s Irina Slutskaya. Kwan’s poignant performance to “Fields of Gold” in the post-competition exhibition left spectators in tears and rivaled any of her triumphant skates.
“You hope that you made an impression and an imprint, a positive impact on people,” she says. “I kind of expressed the journey that I was on, whether it was a good journey or an emotional journey or a sad one, I was never afraid to emote. I feel like the people who partook in that journey experienced a lot of emotional moments during those 20 years with me, and looking back, I was a part of their lives.
Kwan says she had no strategy for her post-skating career. “It was like, now what? Finding another passion.” And she did. Kwan got a degree in international studies from the University of Denver and
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