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I vagely remember something about Browning? The point is that coaches are a necessary evil. You need them to improve yourself. (even with simple exercises) They piss you off and make you do better than you thought you could. Her firing of her coach last year and not replacing him was stupid, and it showed in competition.

Kwan did not make any mistakes at Nagano, won the silver and Carroll was at her side. Kwan won Nationals hands down without Carroll at her side. She was great in the short program at SLC but faltered in the Long program w/o Carroll. They had and still have a wonderful relationship - 10 years. And they are still friends by the way. But on the ice, like Kwan says, nobody is there to hold your hand or catch you when you fall. You are on your own. She faltered on her triple-triple combination and fell on the triple flip - she knows what she did wrong. With her experience she does not a need coach to tell her what she did wrong.