Answer:
D. seemed intimidating to Hughes at first
Step-by-step explanation:
Option D is the correct answer.
From the passage, we discover that Hughes stated that she skated into a gargantuan Olympic arena but then she said "...and now everything seemed small and intimate". This makes me to infer that the gargantuan Olympic arena actually intimidated her at first. But having skated into it, she seemed to have overcome that intimidation.