"John Allen Wisden Nicks" is a British figure skating coach and former Pair skating/pair skater. With his sister and pairs partner, Jennifer Nicks, he is the 1953 World Figure Skating Championships/World champion. As a coach, his skating pupils have included Peggy Fleming, pairs team Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner (figure skater)/Randy Gardner, Kristi Yamaguchi, and Sasha Cohen.

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She's been very much more mature and trained very hard. Tonight was a good start. It was a very good start. But it was only a start.

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She came back a different skater. She used to think about winning. Now, she's more focused on excelling. It's the right attitude for a champion.

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She was 17 when she went to the East Coast and didn't come back until she was 20. She left as a girl and came back as a young lady.

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It's been very difficult to strategize with Michelle because I haven't seen her compete but one time, and that wasn't a legitimate competition.

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It was a good start. But it was just a start.

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Her mother called me, and I think she was perhaps a little apprehensive about my reaction. But I was very positive. I was only too pleased.

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It's been quality, not quantity. We've been working harder, not longer. Today for her was a good start, a very good start, but it was only a start.

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That was the first time I ever saw her distraught.

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