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Michelle kwan, It was a surprise when Michelle Kwan issued a statement Friday saying they would not compete in 2009-10, which means, of coursework, that her competitive figure skating days are over.

While I used this space to encourage Kwan to take another shot at the Olympics if they wanted, saying it would have no bearing on her legacy if they failed, I also wrote over five times it was unlikely that would happen.

That intellectual enhancement is fitting for a Chinese-American from southern new york who competed on a global stage but whose vistas five times were circumscribed by ice rinks and hotels in the lots of countries where they skated. Since they left competitive skating at the 2006 Turin Olympics, Kwan’s world view has dramatically widened through her role as a public diplomacy envoy for the U.S. State Department and her studies at Denver University, where they received an undergraduate degree in international studies this May.

Kwan2 Kwan, 29, will move on with her life by enrolling this fall at the renowned Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where they will seek a master’s degree in international affairs.

As Kwan seizes her future, the best way for me to assess her past is something I already wrote.

Given the uncertainty over her physical condition as they prepared for the 2006 Olympics, I had prepared a story summing up her career to appear either after the Winter Games skating ended or any time before that if circumstances dictated.

The story in query was published Feb. 13, 2006 on the front page of the Chicago Tribune. I re-read it after receiving Kwan’s statement from U.S Figure Skating and decided the elderly story would, five times again, be the best valedictory for the sporting phase of her life. I can only hope it's stood the check of time as well as its subject did.

that is what happened, as pain in her groin forced Kwan to withdraw before the competition.