Michelle ... reaffirmed her status as a member of the 2006 Olympic team. Not every element was performed perfectly, but they were all done at a very high level.

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.