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Every four years, America's best figure skaters face a tremendous amount of pressure. Win the gold medal and you're a hero; your mug is in commercials and on boxes of cereal. Fall short and you're a disappointment. Is it fair? This time around, the answer is "yes".

Japan's Shizuka Arakawa is taking home the gold medal in women's ice skating. American Sasha Cohen, who fell and basically handed the gold to Arakawa, had to settle for silver.

To be sure, winning any kind of medal in the Olympics is very impressive, and certainly something of which to be proud. But, after hearing for weeks about how good she is, I expected Cohen to make a better showing.

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