Editing Michelle Kwan (section)

====2006 Olympics====
[[File:Michelle Kwan Turin 2006 Games.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Kwan announcing her withdrawal from the [[2006 Winter Olympics]] in Turin, Italy, February 12, 2006]]
Kwan looked at the 2005 Worlds as a learning experience in the [[ISU Judging System]]. She continued to train and stated that she would attempt to qualify for the [[Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics|2006 Olympic Games]] in [[Turin]], Italy.<ref name="afampointofview.com">{{cite web|url=http://afampointofview.com/POV%20Archives/2007/May%202007/Sports_Sullivan%20Award.htm |title=Sullivan Award Part V of V: The 2000s |access-date=July 23, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928004106/http://afampointofview.com/POV%20Archives/2007/May%202007/Sports_Sullivan%20Award.htm |archive-date=September 28, 2007 }} Retrieved July 23, 2007</ref> However, following a hip injury, she was forced to withdraw from her three planned competitions in the fall of 2005. Kwan skated her new short program ("Totentanz") at a made-for-TV event in December 2005, but her performance was well below her usual standard. On January 4, 2006, Kwan withdrew from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships with an abdominal injury incurred in December 2005. One week later, she filed a petition with the USFSA for a medical waiver to be placed on the 2006 Olympic figure skating team.<ref name="afampointofview.com" /> On January 14, 2006, after the United States ladies' figure skating event, the USFSA's International Committee met and in a 20 to 3 vote approved Kwan's petition under the stipulation that she show her physical and competitive readiness to a five-member monitoring panel by January 27.

Kwan performed her long and short programs for the panel on the stipulated day, and her spot on the Olympic team was established, as the panel felt she was fit to compete. However, on February 12, 2006, the [[United States Olympic Committee]] announced that Kwan had withdrawn from the Games after suffering a new groin injury in her first practice in Turin. Kwan remarked that she "respected the Olympics too much to compete".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060222021622/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11302192 Injured Kwan withdraws from Olympics], Associated Press, February 13, 2006, accessed October 8, 2006.</ref> The Turin organizing committee accepted the USOC's application for [[Emily Hughes]] (who had finished third at the U.S. Championships) to compete as Kwan's replacement.

After her withdrawal from the Olympic team, Kwan turned down an offer to stay in Turin as a figure skating commentator for [[NBC Sports]].<ref>David Bauder,[https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/torino/2006-02-13-kwan-nbc_x.htm Kwan says thanks, but no, to NBC's offer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802042959/https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/torino/2006-02-13-kwan-nbc_x.htm |date=August 2, 2017 }}, Associated Press (February 13, 2007).</ref> During an interview with [[Bob Costas]] and [[Scott Hamilton (figure skater)|Scott Hamilton]], Kwan said she was not retiring yet.

Kwan underwent elective [[arthroscopic surgery]] in August 2006 to repair a torn [[acetabular labrum|labrum]] in her right hip, an old injury which she traces back to 2002.<ref name=latoutlook /> According to Kwan, the surgery allowed her to skate pain-free for the first time in four years.<ref name=pismk />