flippet
08-27-2004, 11:31 PM
In this week's SI, there's a Q&A with Sarah Hughes. I tried to find it online, but the SI site appears to be exceptionally stupid. :frus: So, I let my fingers do the walking. :D Below.
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Q&A Sarah Hughes
~Richard Deitsch
The 19-year-old gold-medal-winning figure skater is covering the Athens Olympics as a reporter for New York City's WCBS-TV.
SI: Now that you're a reporter, you're finally getting a sense of what it's like to work hard at the Games, right?
Hughes: Hey, I worked hard at the last Olympics.
SI: What's the best question you've asked in your new gig?
Hughes: I was with Michael Phelps's mom, and I asked her, "What are my chances of getting a date with Michael?"
SI: What did she say?
Hughes: She said since Michael and I are friends, she didn't think dinner would be too difficult.
SI: Have you gotten a chance to interview Australian softball pitcher Tanya Harding?
Hughes: No, but one time I did interview American boxer Tonya Harding.
SI: At Yale how often did you party with the Bush daughters?
Hughes: I think this is a trick question (laughs).
SI: Are you going back to Yale next fall?
Hughes: I'll be going back to Yale often but not to take classes. I'll be skating on the Smuckers Stars on Ice tour. I got a year of Yale under my belt, and I made great friends, but it turned out I miss skating. This is a one-year thing, and afterward I'll see what I want to do regarding [the 2006 Games in] Torino. But ask me why I wanted to do the tour.
SI: O.K., why did you want to do the tour?
Hughes: Well, I figured if I want to find a boyfriend, I can go to every city in the country, find the cute boys and give them seats on the ice to watch me do what I do best.
SI: You were of of Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating People of 2002. Are you still fascinating?
Hughes: I didn't even know if I was fascinating in 2002. Perhaps I'm two years more fascinating.
SI: So, what should Michael Phelps know about living life as an Olympic champion?
Hughes: That there are other very cute Olympic champions from America who were not in the Summer Games.
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If that's verbatim, and not doctored by the columnist (which I doubt), then I think I just became a Sarah fan. :) She's too cute.
The columnist's daily blog also had this on Sarah:
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Last night, past midnight, I interviewed figure skater Sarah Hughes for SI's weekly Q&A. She's working at these Games as reporter for the local CBS station in New York, though most reporters I know don't get invited to red-carpet parties sponsored by Speedo. Then again, most reporters also don't get into Yale, where Hughes just completed her first year.
The 19-year-old, with personality to spare, had an interesting proposal for U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps: "Michael has six gold medals; he can have one for every night of the week," she said. "But think about this: Say me and Michael Phelps are hanging out. Well, Speedo offered him a million dollars for winning seven golds. He hangs out with me, and together, how many do we have? We have seven. There you go. If that happens, I should get a seventh of the million, right?" ...
Good luck to Sarah on that, [and the blog goes on to something else]
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I think they'd make an adorable couple. :mrgreen:
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Q&A Sarah Hughes
~Richard Deitsch
The 19-year-old gold-medal-winning figure skater is covering the Athens Olympics as a reporter for New York City's WCBS-TV.
SI: Now that you're a reporter, you're finally getting a sense of what it's like to work hard at the Games, right?
Hughes: Hey, I worked hard at the last Olympics.
SI: What's the best question you've asked in your new gig?
Hughes: I was with Michael Phelps's mom, and I asked her, "What are my chances of getting a date with Michael?"
SI: What did she say?
Hughes: She said since Michael and I are friends, she didn't think dinner would be too difficult.
SI: Have you gotten a chance to interview Australian softball pitcher Tanya Harding?
Hughes: No, but one time I did interview American boxer Tonya Harding.
SI: At Yale how often did you party with the Bush daughters?
Hughes: I think this is a trick question (laughs).
SI: Are you going back to Yale next fall?
Hughes: I'll be going back to Yale often but not to take classes. I'll be skating on the Smuckers Stars on Ice tour. I got a year of Yale under my belt, and I made great friends, but it turned out I miss skating. This is a one-year thing, and afterward I'll see what I want to do regarding [the 2006 Games in] Torino. But ask me why I wanted to do the tour.
SI: O.K., why did you want to do the tour?
Hughes: Well, I figured if I want to find a boyfriend, I can go to every city in the country, find the cute boys and give them seats on the ice to watch me do what I do best.
SI: You were of of Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating People of 2002. Are you still fascinating?
Hughes: I didn't even know if I was fascinating in 2002. Perhaps I'm two years more fascinating.
SI: So, what should Michael Phelps know about living life as an Olympic champion?
Hughes: That there are other very cute Olympic champions from America who were not in the Summer Games.
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If that's verbatim, and not doctored by the columnist (which I doubt), then I think I just became a Sarah fan. :) She's too cute.
The columnist's daily blog also had this on Sarah:
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Last night, past midnight, I interviewed figure skater Sarah Hughes for SI's weekly Q&A. She's working at these Games as reporter for the local CBS station in New York, though most reporters I know don't get invited to red-carpet parties sponsored by Speedo. Then again, most reporters also don't get into Yale, where Hughes just completed her first year.
The 19-year-old, with personality to spare, had an interesting proposal for U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps: "Michael has six gold medals; he can have one for every night of the week," she said. "But think about this: Say me and Michael Phelps are hanging out. Well, Speedo offered him a million dollars for winning seven golds. He hangs out with me, and together, how many do we have? We have seven. There you go. If that happens, I should get a seventh of the million, right?" ...
Good luck to Sarah on that, [and the blog goes on to something else]
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I think they'd make an adorable couple. :mrgreen: