attyfan said:By whom? The American general public has probably long forgotten Tenley,
Carol, and all non-US OGMs except Sonia Henie, Kat Witt, and (possibly) Oksana Baiul. Essentially, they divide skaters into "those we have heard of" and "those we have not", and, any skater they have heard of (except Tonya Harding) is assumed to be an OGM. Debi Thomas, for example, repeatedly stated how people she has recently met will congratulate her on her OGM -- even though she didn't win one, and, many people think Michelle also has an OGM.
I don't think that the public in general has forgotten Tenley, Carol and all the other OGM winners inside the U.S. and outside. They remember some that they thought won the OGM, but fact will be that the historians of figure skating will remember the ones that won the OGM. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that there is anything wrong with not winning the OGM, there are a lot of good skaters down through history that never won a gold medal but skated their best and that's all that matters. But don't knock the ones that did win. There are a lot of other skaters besides Michelle that has not won a gold medal, that would like to have one.