It was a slump year for Kwan. I mean she didn't win in 1999.
That was more Butyrskaya's year. She won Euros and Worlds, and came in second at the GPF to Ilia's mom.
(Yeah, I wanted to say Ilia's mom instead of Malinina.)
ETA:
Slutskaya was really the lady of that era that was progressing the...