Sylvia
11-06-2010, 03:42 PM
I think that Mirai Nagasu deserves her own thread in the Trash Can. :P
From Phil Hersh's 10/28 Globetrotting blog entry:
*Also much anticipated: Mirai Nagasu's season debut at next week's Cup of China. Nagasu, the leading U.S. finisher at the 2010 Olympics (4th) and worlds (7th), missed a month of training in late summer because of a stress fracture in her right foot, which she uses for takeoffs on her lutz and flip jumps.
Her coach, Frank Carroll, told me Thursday by telephone that the injury has healed to the point where her lutz and flip are fine. Carroll said the U.S. Figure Skating international committee gave Nagasu the go-ahead for China after monitoring her last week.
A couple weeks earlier, Carroll had what he called a "knockdown, drag-out'' with the skater because he didn't think she was working hard enough. "It's never easy with Mirai,'' he said.
The irrepressible Nagasu would agree -- and did, more or less, in a tweet last week: "I told my mom my legs are worth gold. . .she told me that it's unfortunate my brain doesn't have the same value.''
From the press conference after winning the SP at Cup of China:
Nagasu said she spent much of her recovery time hanging out with her cousins at the beach.
"I'm not going to lie," she said. "I had a really good time off the ice for two months. I got to go to the beach - even though I live in California, I never get to go - so I didn't really think about my injury and before I knew it, I had to go back on the ice."
And yes, her fans are still waiting anxiously for Nagasu to deliver a solid free skate after winning the short program...
From Phil Hersh's 10/28 Globetrotting blog entry:
*Also much anticipated: Mirai Nagasu's season debut at next week's Cup of China. Nagasu, the leading U.S. finisher at the 2010 Olympics (4th) and worlds (7th), missed a month of training in late summer because of a stress fracture in her right foot, which she uses for takeoffs on her lutz and flip jumps.
Her coach, Frank Carroll, told me Thursday by telephone that the injury has healed to the point where her lutz and flip are fine. Carroll said the U.S. Figure Skating international committee gave Nagasu the go-ahead for China after monitoring her last week.
A couple weeks earlier, Carroll had what he called a "knockdown, drag-out'' with the skater because he didn't think she was working hard enough. "It's never easy with Mirai,'' he said.
The irrepressible Nagasu would agree -- and did, more or less, in a tweet last week: "I told my mom my legs are worth gold. . .she told me that it's unfortunate my brain doesn't have the same value.''
From the press conference after winning the SP at Cup of China:
Nagasu said she spent much of her recovery time hanging out with her cousins at the beach.
"I'm not going to lie," she said. "I had a really good time off the ice for two months. I got to go to the beach - even though I live in California, I never get to go - so I didn't really think about my injury and before I knew it, I had to go back on the ice."
And yes, her fans are still waiting anxiously for Nagasu to deliver a solid free skate after winning the short program...