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LI's Hughes finishes 7th in first skating event in comeback

South Korean Kim Yu-Na, the 19-year-old reigning world champion and an early favorite to win the 2010 Winter Olympics, won Skate America in Lake Placid Sunday despite a fall in her long-program final. Top-ranked American Rachel Flatt, 17, based in Colorado Springs, actually won the long program, with Kim second, but couldn't close Kim's huge 17.48-point lead built in Saturday's short program, and...

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