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I have skated when I was a child, but it was just with our friends and our parents, no special technique.

The main thing for me now is figure skating, which I intend to devote more than one year.

I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.

Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in.

I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.

I started skating when I was six years old.

I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

Skating in itself is a difficult sport, and the amazing athletes within the sport are very challenging.

Largely, I began skating because I wanted stuff to do outside of school. My mom decided to put me into figure skating.

I began skating when I was 3. It was during 2002, the year the Olympics were held in Salt Lake City.

The Grand Prix Final is an opportunity for me to go out and experience new jumping passes in competition. I put in a triple loop-half loop-triple Salchow in the second of the program. It's a very difficult jumping pass so this is a chance for me to try out the new elements and the adjusted jumping layout to get prepared for nationals.

I like to skate on the other side of the ice.

I don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because all I can remember is every day, tying up my skates and a big smile on my face, excited to go on the ice.

Figure skating is not a hobby. It's my work, which I want to do, and do well.

I'd never gone as a kid to an ice rink. There was always that fear that I'd break my leg and it would affect my career.

I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.

Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice.

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

Yes, I am the Olympic champion, but this is not the end of it. I want all the gold that there is out there, everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.

I've always wanted to skate. If and when I decide to retire... I want to perform. I want to be on the ice. I want to continue contributing to the sport. I feel like I still have a lot to offer.

I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.

My legs are ice skaters' legs. No tan in sight.