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Kristi Yamaguchi: It was definitely my choice.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Well, everything just snowballed.

Kristi Yamaguchi: I did compete in both.

Kristi Yamaguchi: At the senior level.

Kristi Yamaguchi: It was tough because we had grown up together, literally, from eleven to 17, 18 years old.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Absolutely.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Like a week.

Kristi Yamaguchi: I think--.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Yes.

Kristi Yamaguchi: They like to go out and skate with their friends.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Well, unfortunately, I haven't really been skating much lately.

Kristi Yamaguchi: I think it's--.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Yeah.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Sure.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Hi there.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Thank you.

Kristi Yamaguchi: OK.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Definitely got nervous every time I competed, even for every show, almost every performance.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Sure.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Yeah.

Kristi Yamaguchi: I want this energy.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Hello.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Oh, all right.

Kristi Yamaguchi: I probably have thoughts like that more now than I did after the Olympics.

Kristi Yamaguchi: I feel your pain, for sure.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Yeah, I think the older you get, those pain receptors seem to become more sensitive.

Kristi Yamaguchi: How old are you?

Kristi Yamaguchi: Actually, I'm working on book two right now--the follow-up to this book about Poppy.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Thank you.

Kristi Yamaguchi: The current competitors.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Yeah!

Kristi Yamaguchi: Oh, at Central Park?

Kristi Yamaguchi: No.

Kristi Yamaguchi: You're welcome.

Kristi Yamaguchi: My motivation?

Kristi Yamaguchi: Fremont hands go up.

Kristi Yamaguchi: I just wanna say thank you to Google for having me here today.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Well, it did help with strength and coordination.

Kristi Yamaguchi: I had seen a local ice show and remembered Dorothy Hamill had just won the Olympics a few years earlier, so she was my childhood idol.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Yeah, definitely.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Well, like all parents, I'm still learning along the way, too.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Four.

Kristi Yamaguchi: OK, yeah.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Yeah.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Lots of fun.

Kristi Yamaguchi: Oh, why a pig for the main character?

And celebrities like Michael Chang, Kristie Yamaguchi, they were identified as foreigners, while Hugh Grant, and Katarina Witt

And today, it is my great, great pleasure to introduce Kristi Yamaguchi to Google .