Michelle Kwan

The basketball world is stirring after two breakout games by New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin. The first Chinese-American player in the NBA, Lin has averaged 26.5 points and 7.5 assists in his last two games, both ...  

The Special Olympics was established in 1968 in the United States at the suggestion of the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a philanthropist and younger sister of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy. It is different from the Paralympics as it ...  

She is the standard of how excellence is measured, while Kristi Yamaguchi, Tara Lipinksi and Sarah Hughes took their Olympic golds into the sunset, Kwan was the familiar face who kept coming back to Nationals and Worlds for more. “Michelle is such an ...  

Philip Hersh of the Chicago Tribune recently conducted a lengthy interview with former figure skating star Michelle Kwan. Below is an except of the interview, Part 2 of which you can read here. Q: What is the funniest thing that happened to you ...  

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- For several weeks before the 2006 Winter Olympics, I prepared a valedictory on Michelle Kwan’s career, expecting the story to appear after she finished the free skate in Turin, Italy. Instead, it made the Chicago Tribune ...  

This month, we're creating The Ultimate NPR Workout Mix. As many of us head back to the gym in the new year, we're asking people what music makes them move. Today: the figure skating legend Michelle Kwan. For exercise, she says she runs and does ...  

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Michelle Kwan was already a five-time U.S. ladies gold medalist the first time Alissa Czisny had a chance to see first-hand what being a champion was all about. It was 2002, and Czisny was about to launch her senior career at ...  

In the same arena where Michelle Kwan won her first of nine U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 1996, on the night of Kwan's induction ceremony ... In a field that included three U.S. champions, Czisny, Mirai Nagasu and Rachael Flatt, the ...  

In the same arena where Michelle Kwan won her first of nine U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 1996, on the night of Kwan's induction ceremony ... In a field that included three U.S. champions, Czisny, Mirai Nagasu and Rachael Flatt, the ...  

SAN JOSE – Jeremy Abbott was right when he said he was the one to ... Kwan honored – Michelle Kwan was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in the same city where she won her first national title in 1996. Though she won five ...  

SAN JOSE – Michelle Kwan was already a five-time U.S. gold medalist the first time Alissa Czisny had a chance to see first-hand what being a champion was all about. It was 2002, and Czisny was about to launch her senior career at the U.S ...  

Daily MailLondon 2012 Olympics: Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell 470 sailing classDaily MailWith less than 200 days to go until the Olympics begin in earnest, Patience and Bithell have already sown the seeds of success. Come August, on the waters of Weymouth Bay, they'll hope to reap their harvest. All smiles : Patience and Bithell live on ...