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Slutskaya and Kwan will be too old by then, atleast too old to miss the time they have missed and make a return. Notice that the only reinstated pros who had success in Lillehammer were in dance and pairs. Well Gordeeva/Grinkov retired very young, they were still only 22 and 26, younger then many of their competitors in the event when they returned. Miskutienok/Dmitriev had won the Olympic Gold only 2 years before Lillehammer, so missed only 1 season, and were not old for the event when they returned either. Torvil/Dean were the only true "old timers" to return and win a medal, that is in ice dancing, a totaly different event then the other 3 events, and particularly then the singles event with the fine tuned jumping elements. In fairness alot of people believed reinstated pros Boitano and Petrenko had good chances of medals(although their exact chances were probably exagerrated by attention hungry media) but back then the pros had a very competitive circuit with a fairly high technical level, triples, even the hardest triples per gender, were in existance in those pro events. The pros have nothing like that now to stay somewhat competitively sharp.
Cohen is young enough to make one final comeback at 24 and 25 years old but she seemed to be struggling with motivation even when she left, and has never been considered one of the hardest workers. She also stopped attempting triple-triples, she used to have a triple lutz-triple toe and even was once trying a quad sal, but abandoned them. She might try a comeback, like some previous posters suggested, but will almost certainly IMO abandon it when she finds the work and commitment required to get to the required technical level to even have a chance. If she were serious about continuing she would probably have not stopped at all, or at latest been coming back in the 2007-08 season, 2008-09 is too late for her to make a return, unless she really buckles down in a way I dont believe she has in her.
Cohen is young enough to make one final comeback at 24 and 25 years old but she seemed to be struggling with motivation even when she left, and has never been considered one of the hardest workers. She also stopped attempting triple-triples, she used to have a triple lutz-triple toe and even was once trying a quad sal, but abandoned them. She might try a comeback, like some previous posters suggested, but will almost certainly IMO abandon it when she finds the work and commitment required to get to the required technical level to even have a chance. If she were serious about continuing she would probably have not stopped at all, or at latest been coming back in the 2007-08 season, 2008-09 is too late for her to make a return, unless she really buckles down in a way I dont believe she has in her.
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She was atleast pushing hard to try and master those jumps if nothing else, you are right she never really did though anyway. However I did believe she had landed the triple lutz-triple toe one other time, other then clean triple lutz-triple toe she landed to start her free skate at the 2003 Worlds, but I could be mistaken on that.
