Foolhardy Ham Lint
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In a press call after the 2006 US Nationals when Michelle was named to the Torino Olympic Team, Kwan was asked if she'd consider skating at Four Continents prior to the games to give her programs some crucial extra mileage.Also Meno & Sand in 1998. And Kwan in 2006 although she ended up withdrawing in time for the substitute to skate after all.
However, the rules for Olympic selections had been written to allow for International Committee discretion to consider criteria other than Nationals results before they made that officially the case for assigning skaters to Worlds -- for legal reasons to avoid Nationals being considered an official Olympic qualifier. I don't remember exactly when that changed, but at least a decade before 2018.
As a demonstration of how skaters sometimes exist in their own bubble her answer was, "What's Four Continents?"