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Jeremy Abbott to skip 2016-17 season, train for Olympic year

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Jeremy Abbott will take a second straight season off from top-level competition, but he would still love to skate in a third Olympics in 2018.

But he’s not yet committing to a run for Pyeongchang, either.

“I committed myself to training for next season,” Abbott, a four-time national champion whose last major event was the January 2015 U.S. Championships, said in a recent phone interview. “I haven’t committed to anything past that.”

When Abbott’s name was not on the fall Grand Prix Series assignments list, it was logical to surmise he would not be competing on the top international level at all this season.