As Olympic silver medalist Sasha Cohen nears her time to compete again, her return to figure skating is being followed closely. And there are questions as to why she is returning:
“… As Cohen, 25, prepares for next weekend’s Skate America in Lake Placid, N.Y., her first competition in 44 months, the sport’s amateur psychologists question: Is her return prompted by some deep-seeded and primal need to erase the heartbreak of the 2006 Turin Olympics, where she led after a nearly flawless short program only to stumble to the silver medal in the long program? Or a compulsive need for attention? Or to satisfy the commercial interests of her numerous corporate sponsors?
Cohen is amused by the speculation…”
link to the article by Scott M. Reid for The Orange County Register
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