Reflections from Ann Marie

A retrospective on people, places, and things from a child of the 70’s & 80’s

Archive for the ‘Olympics’


Sarah Hughes’ Gold Medal Performance from the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Games

I mentioned on the LeAnn Rimes post about Sarah Hughes getting the gold in the 2002 Winter Olympics. Well, I wanted to share that performance, and here it is.

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It’s just brilliant…

Here’s the video as she gets her gold medal. It’s just so precious watching her sing the national anthem as it was played. What’s even more stunning is that home video of her at the end where she says that she’s going to go to the Olympics and win a gold medal.

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Light The Fire Within

I don’t think I’ll ever forget this Olympics. The one that Sarah Hughes came from 4th after the short program to vault to the top winning Gold on her own soil. What a spectacular games. We can thank in large part Mitt Romney for it, with him being Chairman of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee. What a brilliant games just five months after the most horrific terrorist attack in our country’s history.

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