I still watch her free skate and always get tears in my eyes.
I will never forget that night. The crowd (20,000 people) went from heaven (Sarah Hughes skate) to hell (Michelle Kwon slip) back to heaven again (Russian skater slip and Sarah winning the gold) in the course of 20 minutes.
My BF at the time used to disagree about Sarah. She wasn’t as beautiful as the others (I am not considered a beauty) but Sarah held her own, did her job and won.
Just like Suni Lee winning the all-a-round. She is Hmong and didn’t get the platitudes that the other “victem” got.
Suni did her job and won.
Good people like us remember their victories.