Tiger Woods Back in Rehab
WHITFIELD: Tiger Woods is back in rehab today. Yesterday he publicly apologized for his sex scandal and what he is calling his irresponsible behavior. He apologized to his wife, family and fans but gave no indication when he will return to golf.</s>TIGER WOODS, PRO GOLFER: I was wrong. I was foolish. I don't get to play by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone applied to me. I brought this shame on myself. I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation, and kids all around the world who admired me. My wife's family -</s>WHITFIELD: Woods made his comments in a tightly controlled televised event attended by a hand-picked crowd including his mother there who you see him hugging. So will Woods' apology help him regain some of the endorsements that he lost during the sex scandal? Rick Horrow, specializes in the business aspects of professional sports and earlier I spoke with him about that.</s>RICK HORROW, CNN SPORTS BUSINESS ANALYST: This was a classic mea culpa on steroids. It's the biggest apology in the history of spokespeople. It's going to write a lot of textbooks over time.</s>WHITFIELD: But why was it really necessary at this juncture? This was maybe a statement that some think should have happened much earlier in the game, but now months later. Why?</s>HORROW: Well, you have to do it sooner or later to move on. Not just move on psychological but move on in the business. And for example, for corporate America, we have Accenture and we have AT&T; who dropped him. We had Gatorade and other companies putting him on hold and you have Nike and EA Sports who are saying we're sticking by you. Nike's representative was there in the press conference. And so this begins the rehabilitation of Tiger Woods from a corporate perspective as well.</s>WHITFIELD: All right. Rick Horrow's point of view earlier today. And if you missed Woods' statement, you can watch in its entirety at our web site at cnn.com. And now to the Olympics. One athlete has dreams of stardom that go beyond the excitement of winter games. Speed skater Katherine Reuter hopes to one day trade in her speed skates for a spotlight on Broadway. Here's CNN Mark McKay with more on her story.</s>MARK MCKAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Some day Katherine Reuter wants to see her name in lights. Right now she's aiming to become an Olympic star. But after that, Broadway?</s>KATHERINE REUTER, U.S. SPEED SKATER: That would be a pretty good dream job for me. I do like to sing and act and dance, and you know, speed skating always got priority over everything in high school but it's something I really wish I was able to do more of.</s>MCKAY: That Reuter would want to prance on the stage is a bit of a surprise. Sure, she sometimes sang the national anthem to crowds before her competitions but she long ago left the dainty world of figure skating for the rough and tumble of short track speed skating. No grace required.</s>REUTER: I just had no fun figure skating. I wasn't interested in doing spins and twirls and all that.</s>MCKAY: So she spent her teens going in circles on the ice and off it, including two years worth of weekend training trips t St. Louis from her Champaign, Illinois home. A six-hour drive roundtrip, usually made on consecutive days.</s>REUTER: When it got to the point we were doing it every weekend it just turned into a super long commute, because I didn't want to be away every weekend, and it ended up being cheaper to just pay for gas and to pay for a hotel room and didn't want to wear out the hospitality anywhere.</s>JAY REUTER, KATHERINE REUTER'S FATHER: I had calculated it out and I had an old car and I wasn't worried about putting the miles on it.</s>REUTER: Pretty soon it was just normal to be driving. There and coming right back.</s>MCKAY: Going the extra miles wasn't a problem. Reuter was used to being told to do just that by the man who is both her coach and her driver.</s>REUTER: My dad taught me everything I know about being a good athlete.</s>JAY REUTER: You look back and you say, gosh, if all my ideas worked out this well, you know, it's really - it's been hard but it's been great.</s>MCKAY: She eventually got a professional coach and now stands as a three-time national champion, hoping to follow in the multiple medal winning footsteps of the sport's biggest name, Apolo Anton Ohno. Of course, as you might expect, she's just as interested in Ohno's footsteps as the footwork of the former "Dancing with the Stars" champion.</s>REUTER: I certainly don't want to take away from the amazing dancer that he is, but I do love to dance. I think I could pick that up pretty quick.</s>MCKAY (on camera): It sounds more like you'd be made out for "American Idol."</s>REUTER: Oh, I hadn't even thought of that. Great idea. All right. Okay. Simon Cowell, here I come.</s>MCKAY (voice-over): From Vancouver to Hollywood to Broadway, Reuter is raising to wherever the lights shine brightest.</s>WHITFIELD: All right. Mark McKay with us now, out of Vancouver. All right. Let's talk about another skater, Apolo Ohno tonight and all eyes are once again on him.</s>MCKAY: No doubt about it. We heard, I mentioned Ohno in that piece. He will be skating tonight as will Reuter. She is in the women's 1500-meter speed skating event, a short track event. But, yes, all eyes indeed, Fred, on Apolo Anton Ohno looking to win his seventh winter games gold, or medal overall. He would love that gold for sure. But he has a gold, silver or bronze after tonight's event, he will become the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian, passing Bonnie Blair. We'll keep an eye on that as this unfolds. Fred, no fewer than six gold medals being awarded today on the ninth day of competition. One has already been awarded in Whistler in the women's Super G race. It was considered to be Lindsey Vonn's best race. But she wasn't best on this day. Lindsey Vonn picking up bronze as the Austrian skier Andrea Fischbacher claims gold.</s>WHITFIELD: Wow. All right. I know it was exciting to watch.</s>MCKAY: No doubt about it. A great race, Fred.</s>WHITFIELD: All right. Mark McKay, thanks so much, and a very sunny Vancouver. Beautiful weather today.</s>MCKAY: Beautiful, beautiful.</s>WHITFIELD: All right. We're going to talk more about Olympics. We're going to talk about skating of another sorts. We'll ask Olympic skater Elvis Stojko what he thinks about the man who brought home gold, the American right there - who brought home gold in Vancouver, and her dancing was a revelation. Coming up I'll talk with one of the most influential dancers and artistic directors of our time. Judith Jamison.