pETEs (Sasha Fan)
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IIRC Irina is older than Kwan, won her first Euros the same year Kwan won her first US Nationals, and nobody was saying Irina was an old vulture that had already botched two Olympics and should have retired ...
I guess it is because Irina was on top of her (mind and body) game at the conclusion of the 2004-05 season: she built an archifavoritism towards the Torino Games which seemed so right to the general public (she could back up her decision to give the Olympics one last try). Besides, people love a good old history of resurgence, overcoming your obstacles (illness, family tragedy, depression) and get a career back on track. Resilience is implied in the concept of Champion. By the end of the 2004-05 season, Kwan's career was over in the eye of the general public, she never seemed to (want to) adapt to the COP in the way Slútskaya and Cohen did, and faced a lot of physical and mental problems in her forced path to Torino.
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