![]() ![]() Sarah Hughes (USA) - 2002 Salt Lake City, Figure Skating, Ladies' Free Skate After she retired from skating, Hughes earned a bachelor's degree from Yale and went on to earn a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. It is still considered one of the most technically difficult performances in Olympic history. Her nearly flawless performance in the ladies' free skate can be seen below. I spent my whole life on the ice, but I hadn’t made the national championship until 1998, at the junior level." "I started skating when I was three years old. ![]() "I had a fairly quick rise within the skating world," Hughes later recalled. In 2002, when she was just 16 years old, she snatched the gold medal in women's figure skating from Michelle Kwan, who entered the Olympics as a heavy favorite. Hughes, now 38, has a history of winning as an underdog. ![]()
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