[LaDivaLoca]

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.

[codebreaker]

How do you explain in esssence Miss Thang Kwan 'flipping the bird' to the judges in the short program when her heiness gives the thumbs down..

Daddy/Coach Danny was nowhere to be seen, and that lack of coaching may have cost her the gold with the U.S. Judge who was curiously anti- Kwan in the long.