CNNSI.com 2002 Heisman Trophy


 

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Golden Girl
  Heinz Kluetmeier
The second-youngest U.S. Olympian [Sarah Hughes] had skated the performance of her life to leap from fourth to first and win the marquee event of the Games. Everyone wanted a piece of that story. An unpretentious kid from Great Neck, N.Y., had not only knocked off the two favorites, Michelle Kwan of the U.S. and Irina Slutskaya of Russia, but also lifted her sport from the mire of the pairs' judging scandal by providing the most enduring image of the figure skating competition: her joyous, uninhibited reaction to the news that she'd won.

-from "Head Turner" by E.M. Swift, Sports Illustrated, March 4, 2002


 


 
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