Doctors told her she might never skate competitively again.

She started skating competitively representing the United States on the national level.

Button was a full-time student at Harvard while skating competitively and graduated in 1952.

For Urmanov, the important thing was to skate competitively.

She began learning to figure skate at age four and skated competitively until her acting career made it impossible to continue training.

He stopped speed skating internationally at age 48 the next season, though he continued to skate competitively until 1986.

He has one brother, who also skated competitively.

Kwan is still uncertain whether she will skate competitively again at this level.

Slutskaya stated that she enjoyed motherhood and had no plans to return to skating competitively.

Her younger sister Catherine, 15, and brother Bastien 13, still skate competitively.