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Essay title: Apartment Hunting + Kwan

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Michelle Kwan’s disappointments usually start when it’s time to hand out Olympic medals.

This time, she might be out before she even skates.

Kwan left open the possibility of withdrawing from the Turin Olympics after a sore groin forced her to cut short her first practice Saturday.

“I really have to pay attention to how I am feeling these days,” said Kwan, who missed the U.S. nationals last month with a groin injury. “It is important that I’m in touch with it right now and being serious about it and how I’m skating and feeling.

“Dropping out, it’s not something I want to do,” she said, “but I have to listen to what my feelings are.”

Kwan is a five-time world and nine-time U.S. champion, and no one has defined figure skating more in the past decade. The only place she’s faltered is at the Olympics. She went to Nagano and Salt Lake City as the favorite and came home with a silver (1998) and bronze (2002).

Now 25, she hung around the past four years for one more shot at that elusive

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