It is truly the opinion of this monitoring team that Michelle could win the Olympics. We really believe that, and she skated that way. We really do believe she's skating very well.

Emily is a wonderful athlete, she competed well. Michelle competed well at worlds last year. There aren't numbers I can compare there, there are relationships.

The mission of the international committee is to win medals.

We looked at basically the Olympic selection criteria we're dealing with … and we had a healthy discussion. … We felt she had a better chance to medal.

I said, ?What are you doing Michelle? She was ready to do her short program.

It is truly the opinion of this monitoring committee that Michelle could win the Olympics.