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.

Michelle could win the Olympics, she is definitely qualified to win a medal. We really do believe that. She's skating very well. Not every element was performed perfectly, but they were at a high level. We weren't really keeping score. We were looking for her competitive fitness. She did a triple lutz-double toe combination several times.