Contrary to wide expectation, Mitchell Kwan won a bronze in the Winter Olympics figure skating on February 21. Kwan who won world title four times was a greatest skater all times. She was the favorite to win, but Sarah Hughes, 16, of Great Neck, New York jumped from the fourth place to win the gold. Irina Slutskaya of Russia finished with the silver, and Kwan was in the third place. Kwan performed very well until she fell out of a triple jump. In the 1998 Winter Olympics in Japan, she lost to Tara Lipinski. It went bad for her long wait for the second Olympic try.