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Hughes will be the first U.S. woman to compete in the national championships the year after winning the Olympics. Her gold medal-winning predecessors immediately turned pro, making them ineligible for nationals, or they retired.
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Hughes was a member of the media at the 2004 Summer Olympics, as a reporter-interviewer for New York’s WCBS television. In 2005, she again laced up her skates to headline the “Stars On Ice” touring ice show.
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Hughes didn't find out she was going to the Turin Olympics until the games had already started. She missed the opening ceremony, and spent most of the first week of the Olympics at home in New York, training at her own rink.
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Hughes, who won the silver medal in the 2007 U.S. National figure skating competition and competed in the 2006 Olympics, plans to pursue both her competitive figure skating career and full-time studies at Harvard. She will train at the nearby Skating Club of Boston under coaches Peter Johansson and Mark Mitchell.
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Following her 2002 Winter Games triumph, Hughes completed high school and enrolled at Yale University, eschewing the tedious training regimen that dominated her everyday pre-Olympics life. Nonetheless, she managed to medal at the few events she entered, and finished second at the 2003 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, and sixth at the 2003 World Championships.
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In a sport that sometimes retires its Olympic women's champions before they retire their braces, Hughes, 17, is taking a step this week as bold as the performance she used to win gold. She is breaking out of the cocoon of smiles-and-sequins tours and TV specials to return to the glare of scrappy competition in the State Farm U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Dallas.
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