Lloyd Lockridge

So could you tell me your name and where you're from?

For Charlene Von Sayer, growing up in Connecticut was a pretty idyllic experience.

She remembers learning how to ride her bike on Todd Lane, her parents running alongside her as she wobbled forward with nervous excitement.

In the winter, Charlene's mother, Mariah Von Sayer, a retired figure skater, taught her to ice skate.

She liked it and she was very good at it.

As she got older, she began competing at a very high level.

The highest, in fact.

Charlene and Nancy Kerrigan trained under the same coach.

And in 1993, Charlene won the gold medal at the British Championships.

In 1994, she competed at the Olympics in Norway.

But unlike her friend Nancy Kerrigan, Charlene didn't represent the United States.

Ultimately, she decided to represent England, her place of birth.

And those probably weren't her only two options, because Charlene's background is somewhat complex.

She was born in England to a father who was born in Amsterdam but raised in America, and a mother who was born and raised in West Germany, which no longer exists.

Despite losing the German, Charlene was always aware of her European roots.

As a young girl, she and her sister would go to Holland to visit their paternal grandmother, Daisy.

And there in Holland, Charlene would pick up bits and pieces about what her grandmother's life was like growing up.

Tell me, as a grandmother, what was she like?

And occasionally, Charlene's grandmother would talk about life in the 1930s, when she was still married to Charlene's grandfather, a man named Jacques Goudsticker.

In a sense, Jacques was one of the reasons Daisy had moved back to Holland in the first place.