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NOBODY wins in Politics.
Or in Olympic skating.
NOBODY wins in Politics.
Back to the original topic of Michelle's possible new career path,...
Mathman I just discovered that if you google usa figure skating nationals the 4th result is the Michelle Kwan wikipedia Hughes who?
why you downplay my discovery of the day?not surprising as Sarah was never a national champion.
why you downplay my discovery of the day?
I think this is probably a good place to post a little interesting tidbit about some skaters of Chinese descent.
Patrick Chan, Nathan Chen, Lu Chen and Mervin Tran of Takahashi/Tran all have the same family name. Chan is Canotonese/Hongkong, Chen is Mandarin indicating origin of China and Taiwan, and Tran is how the same name is spelled in Vietnam and Cambodia. In Singapore and Malaysia, it will be Tan (from Hokien/Fujian).
Tran is a Canadian of Southeast Asian Chinese descent skating for Japan.
A little non skating anecdote: A few weeks ago, I got a late night phone call from a friend for help to call Beijing to save an oil deal worth possibly $1B because his local Chinese partner was drunk at the time. I didn't know if the family name of the person was the first or last as given but turned out he was in Hongkong so we spoke in Cantonese. His name was Choi. I figured he was not the right person to talk to and asked my friend for a real dicision maker and I was given a Mr. Tsai. I told my friend the two of them might be related as they had the same family name, one spelled HK way and one in Taiwan fashion. They were brothers. Heh.
Also, this name is spelled differently in China, Chai I think.