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'Underdog' Hughes training hard for 2010 Olympics

John Jeansonne

Newsday columnist John Jeansonne.

Jeansonne has been a reporter in Newsday’s sports department since

Once again, Emily Hughes is working on a dramatic entrance. The U.S. women’s national figure-skating roster currently is filled with other prospects for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics in February and Hughes mostly has been occupied with goverment and sociology studies at Harvard the past two years.

But this is the skater who was summoned to Turin, Italy, the day after the 2006 Olympics opened,...

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