Michelle Kwan

Just a quick gushing session on how wonderfully exuberant Michelle Kwan is on the ice. I've never really seen videos of her performance before, all I know is "Oh yeah Michelle Kwan, she's a world-class figure skater".

But yesterday for some strange reason I decided to look up Yuna Kim on YouTube and that led me to old videos of Michelle's performance and may I say that it is the most powerful, joyful, beautiful performance that I've seen in figure skating. Granted, I haven't seen very many, but there is just such passion and joy radiating from her as she glides on the ice. See her leaps and bounds, look at her as she spins and floats away, witness how her very soul seems to transcend her physical body and swell up in a crescendo reaching beyond the confines of the skating rink.

It seems as though that there on the ice, she finds such happiness and release. It's breathtaking to watch.