Figure skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 88. Chapters: Sarah Hughes, Michelle Kwan, Elena Berezhnaya, Brian Joubert, Aliona Savchenko, Sasha Cohen, Fumie Suguri, Alexei Yagudin, Zhao Hongbo, Shen Xue, Stéphane Lambiel, Irina Slutskaya, Anton Sikharulidze, Evgeni Plushenko, Tong Jian, Pang Qing, Jamie Salé, Sarah Meier, David Pelletier, Tatiana Totmianina, Maxim Staviski, Massimo Scali, Zhang Dan, Federica Faiella, Elvis Stojko, Zhang Hao, Kevin van der Perren, Maxim Marinin, Olivier Schoenfelder, Isabelle Delobel, Albena Denkova, Marina Anissina, Júlia Sebestyén, Gwendal Peizerat, Maria Butyrskaya, Timothy Goebel, Alexei Tikhonov, Stanislav Morozov, Maria Petrova, Galit Chait, Marie-France Dubreuil, Margarita Drobiazko, Patrice Lauzon, Povilas Vanagas, Shae-Lynn Bourne, Takeshi Honda, Kyoko Ina, Vanessa Gusmeroli, Dorota Siudek, Anabelle Langlois, Galina Efremenko, Ilia Averbukh, Alexander Abt, Mariusz Siudek, Todd Eldredge, Michael Weiss, Tatiana Navka, Sergei Sakhnovski, Elena Liashenko, Naomi Lang, Elena Grushina, Peter Tchernyshev, Roxana Luca, Ruslan Goncharov, Roman Kostomarov, Viktoria Volchkova, Laetitia Hubert, Mojca Kopac, Igor Lukanin, Julia Soldatova, John Zimmerman, Ivan Dinev, Jennifer Robinson, Yoshie Onda, Tatiana Malinina, Idora Hegel, Victor Kraatz, Sergei Davydov, Irina Lobacheva, Kati Winkler, Maurizio Margaglio, Barbara Fusar-Poli, René Lohse, Kristin Fraser, Li Chengjiang, Chuen-Gun Lee, Sylwia Nowak, Sebastian Kolasinski, Frédéric Dambier, Zhang Min, Dmitri Palamarchuk, Anthony Liu, Gheorghe Chiper, Norman Jeschke, Natalia Gudina, Dmitri Dmitrenko, Alexei Beletski, Charles Sinek, Patrice Archetto, Silvia Fontana, Yang Tae-Hwa, Tiffany Scott, Zoltán Tóth, Zuzana Babiaková, Cao Xianming, Zhang Weina, Beata Handra, Elina Kettunen, Oleg Voiko, Yosuke Takeuchi, Margus Hernits, Philip Dulebohn, Julia Golovina, Angelo Dolfini, Katerina Beránková, Olga Beständigová, Lenny Faustino, Otto Dlabola, Natalia Ponomareva, Vanessa Giunchi, Evgeni Sviridov, Tatiana Chuvaeva, Jozef Beständig, Eliane Hugentobler, Daniel Hugentobler, Jacinthe Larivière, Li Yunfei, Park Bit-Na, Katerina Kovalová, David Szurman, Vakhtang Murvanidze, Ruben De Pra, Marika Humphreys, Roman Skorniakov, Maria Krasiltseva, Stephanie Zhang, Lee Kyu-Hyun, Michela Cobisi, Julia Lebedeva, Artem Znachkov, Sergei Rylov, Vitaliy Baranov. Excerpt: Michelle Wingshan Kwan (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Guan Yingshan; Jyutping: gwaan1 wing6 saan1; born July 7, 1980) is an American figure skater. She is a two-time (1998 & 2002) Olympic medalist, a five-time (1996, 1998, 2000, 2001 & 2003) World champion (a record bettered only by Sonja Henie among ladies skaters) and a nine-time (1996, 1998 2005) U.S. champion (the all-time record, as tied with Maribel Vinson-Owen). She competed at a high level for over a decade and is the most decorated figure skater in U.S. history. Known for her consistency and expressive artistry on ice, she is widely considered one of the greatest figure skaters of all time. For well over a decade, Kwan maintained her status not only as America's most popular figure skater but as one of America's most popular female athletes, consistently making the top ten on many such polls and lists (often as the only figure skater) even years after she had stopped competing. During the decade of her reign Kwan enjoyed unprecedented popularity and amassed numerous multi-million dollar endorsement deals, starred in multiple TV specials and was the subject...