Why I skate

I continued with my dream even with my first injury.Skating has been a dream and all the supporters and fans they made me want to continue this dream I love my parents sislings olympic medalist they all inspired to a new world.

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My Dream Now

I have retired from skating cause of my right groin injury and if your not going to show your very best why show it its not the award its the heart of what you love.Im now the diplomatic envoy for the United States I went to college at the University Of Dencal studying political science and affairs even if I retired I will always remember my skating dream forever!!!!!!!!!!

I'm A Skater



Hi i'm Michelle Kwan and like the title im a skater I was born in Torrance,California ive been skating since I was five to me skating is my biggest dream I achomplished ive been to the Olympics,Nationals,Worlds,Championships ,and openers and I would think every challenge "its not the award its heart of the skater that counts.

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What Im Famouse For

World Championships!

Im a nine time champ ive won first place second third and fourth.I trained three times a day seven days a week three to five hours of practice me and my coach worked so hard on my goal and I acheived it.

Nationals

Ive won second,first,fourth at the nationals this to me was harder then the worlds cause the first time I competed I got fourth place and that always got stuck in my head but I fought my way through it and here I am

Olympics!

The olympics I got second and third but not gold in Torino I was going to fight for the gold to set my title back as worlds best skater since the worlds but I had a groin injury and couldnt compete with pain my coach would say "Never over do your self even if you want to win cause fighting more can end your dream even if you have little pain cause the crash can hurt" and im glad I listened cause I could of then had seriouse conditions if I did THANK YOU COACH FOR EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Childhood

Hi im Michelle Kwan yes the skater im here to talk about my childhood

My Parents

First ill talk about my mom.My mom(Estella Kwan)was born in Hong Kong,China she was very good at school loved the performing arts like ballet and music.My dad(Danny Kwan was born in Canton(now Guangzhou),China he never went to school till almost a teenager he lived with a small poor family surviving with the fact that they lived with poverty.In 1975 Estella and Danny got married and moved to California

Me And My sibs

I was born on July 7,1980 in torrance ,california I am the youngest member of the Kwan family and the oldest is Ron Kwan was born his favorite sport was ice hockey two years later my older sister (Karen) was born she also loved to skate my sister,brother,and I loved to go skate at the ice rink near my house

My First Time to Skate

By the time i was six ive had a year of training and my first competition was one of my fav memories even if I fell

I tried my best and made second place I was competeing with high levled ladies this was a challenged but if you mess up that means your tring hard

School

School for me was a tough challenge cause I did'nt go to a public school till middle school when I was at the Ice Castle I had private tutors so I could keep up on skating and school at the same time.