[Utah Girl]

Yep, Michelle really blew it when she didn't replace her coach. And I can't believe the antipathy on this thread towards Kwan. Wow, it is a case of "The Queen is dead, long live the Queen."

[codebreaker]

Honestly, the backlash is from the fact that Michelle was acting like she was entitiled to the gold.

Last time she played it smartly conservative in Nagano and should have won gold, but Lipinski skated great-that's fine.

This time she didn't learn and still skated conservative doubling a triple and still almost won by one point! I call that 'grading on the curve,' she is most definitely not the Jordan of skating yet...not even close

[jimt]

Wow, it is a case of "The Queen is dead, long live the Queen."

I think some of us are saying she never WAS the queen. More a case of "a legend in her own mind".