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===After 2006=== Kwan did not compete during the 2006β2007 figure skating season.<ref>[http://www.usfsa.org/Story.asp?id=35383&type=news Michelle Kwan To Skip 2006β07 Competitive Season] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006170307/http://www.usfsa.org/Story.asp?id=35383&type=news |date=October 6, 2015 }}, United States Figure Skating Association, September 6, 2006, accessed September 6, 2006.</ref> Kwan told the Associated Press in October 2007 that she would decide in 2009 if she planned to compete in the [[2010 Winter Olympics]],<ref name=pismk /> but she ultimately decided not to do so, focusing instead on graduate school.<ref name=Elliott /> She has said "Representing the United States as an American Public Diplomacy Envoy the past three years has been very rewarding, and I want to do more." After graduating from the University of Denver in 2009, Kwan said "Furthering my education will bring me closer to that goal, and I don't want to wait any longer to continue the journey."<ref name=Elliott /> On February 17, 2010, Kwan told [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] in an interview that she was continuing her studies as a graduate student at the Tufts University [[Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy]], as well as continuing her work as a Public Diplomacy Envoy. Kwan also said she would be commentating for Good Morning America at the 2010 Winter Olympics.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://news.yahoo.com/video/entertainment-15749636/18196202#video=18196202 | title = Michelle Kwan Off the Ice | access-date = February 17, 2010 | date = February 17, 2010 | publisher = [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] | archive-date = February 19, 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100219092412/http://news.yahoo.com/video/entertainment-15749636/18196202#video=18196202 | url-status = live }} (video)</ref> <!-- This link looks dead. Another url, http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/video/michelle-kwan-off-ice-9866231 does not work outside the US --> In August 2009, Kwan made her first on-ice appearance in several years, performing at [[Ice All Stars]], a show headlined by South Korean world champion [[Yuna Kim]] in [[Seoul]], [[South Korea]]. Kim considered Kwan her idol growing up.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2009-07-03-kwan-return_N.htm | title = Kwan Returning To Ice For August Show | access-date = April 24, 2011 | date = July 3, 2009 | publisher = [[Associated Press]] | work = [[USA Today]]}}</ref> Kwan also later appeared in Kim's [[All That Skate : Summer, Los Angeles|All That Skate]] shows in South Korea and Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/sports/2010/06/136_67089.html | title = Yu-na, Kwan to do another show in July | date = June 4, 2010 | work = [[The Korea Times]] | access-date = June 5, 2010 | archive-date = October 27, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121027184806/http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/sports/2010/06/136_67089.html | url-status = live }}</ref> She was chosen as the guest of honor to help open a new synthetic skating rink at the [[Marina Bay Sands]] resort in [[Singapore]] in December 2010, where she performed a modified routine to "Winter Song", a program she self-choreographed with her sister.<ref name=ao101217 /> She returned to Singapore a month later as a Public Diplomacy Envoy<ref name=usdos1101 /> to meet local students and to promote ice skating in the tropical country.<ref name=st110112 /> As of 2008, Kwan is a member of the Chinese-American organization [[Committee of 100 (United States)|Committee of 100]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.committee100.org/aboutus/aboutus_members.php?start=50&pn=7&sort=ln&dis=25 |title=Committee of 100 |access-date=November 21, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116114730/http://www.committee100.org/aboutus/aboutus_members.php?start=50&pn=7&sort=ln&dis=25 |archive-date=January 16, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2014, Kwan joined [[Fox Sports 1]] for its [[2014 Winter Olympics|Winter Olympics]] broadcast.<ref>{{cite web | last = Wilner | first = Barry | url = https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/06/michelle-kwan-fox-sports-olympics-tv_n_3712441.html | title = Michelle Kwan To Cover Winter Olympics Sochi For Fox Sports | website = [[HuffPost]] | date = August 5, 2013 | access-date = February 2, 2014 | archive-date = February 19, 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140219050305/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/06/michelle-kwan-fox-sports-olympics-tv_n_3712441.html | url-status = live }}</ref>
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