@B.Cooper Well, Tom Z is notorious for doing that, but it sounds like she had been getting treatment of some sort the whole time. So maybe both agreed it was okay to continue with her training since she was doing the alternative therapy? Not that I agree with the decision, but one would think they may have thought that having some treatment made the training situation okay somehow...
It isn't that Nagasu wasn't receiving some sort of medical therapy/treatment, and trying to avoid surgery, bc Mirai was correct, the recovery time for her surgery is unpredictable and quite frankly, unreliable in terms of coming back 110%.
What bothers me is this pattern of behavior, by TZ and "team" of having chronically injured elite athletes....and having them "push thru" the injury, to reach an end goal. At this point, I can't fault the athlete...to me it is a pervasive cloud or training environment that does not allow for full recovery, earlier, during the course of the injury. Whose to say that perhaps only the labral tear would not have been further compromised by further repetitive motion, and the fracture may not have occurred. Hard to say. But what are the conversations that happened day in and day out, that pushes an athlete to compete beyond pain, that as Mirai stated, was excruciating? For two years?
Can't fault Mirai for wanting to make it back to the OLY team, having been skipped over in 2014. I can't blame her. Subconsciously, I think there has to be some level of animosity toward USFS on her part, with the back and forth, from 2010, thru 2018, on team selection. Wagner had the stronger FS of the two skaters in 2010, but finished 3rd overall (4 points total behind Nagasu), and did not make the team. Nagasu finished ahead of Wagner in 2014 by 8 points total ( ahead of Wagner in both the SP and LP), and was passed over. Yes, there was the issue of Wagner's collective resume in the 2014 team selection (don't get me started on how US Natls are NOT the OLY trials, for figure skating, LOL) So, to her credit and to her statement where she tipped her hat and said she wanted to be sure that USFS could NOT pass over her in 2018, she was going to do whatever it takes to make the team, and probably to give her team credit, the only way that was going to happen was to bring in the 3A to her repertoire. Wagner had struggled over the years to do 3x3 successfully and had UR called on occasion, and Nagasu had a history of UR. Nagasu had also lost some of her "sparkle" from 2010, and had become a bit more reserved on the ice in terms of presentation (and maybe that was a reflection of maturity, or music selection that was too mature for Nagasu, hard to know). Wagner, on the other hand, had found her "space" in terms of presentation, working most frequently with Shae Lynn and had learned how to pull in the audience (you can't ignore the diva factor, LOL).
So, to tip the scales in Nagasu's favor, I am sure Zakrajsek analyzed the numbers back in 2016, and figured out what needed to make Nagasu a "contender". They started having her rotate 3As at many competitions on practice sessions and on social media...to get the word out that it was in the works....he was building a visual history of her attempts at the jump. And for all the hype around Zakrajsek being a good technical coach, and he may be, as he has been able to teach quads to many of the guys, and Nagasu the 3A, corrected Flatt's flutz to a true lutz, and despite Flatt's small stature, she had incredibly fast twitch rotational speed and was an unusually consistent jumper when she was healthy....those are difficult skills to teach.
But it is the consistent thread of the history of chronic or severe injury in his elite athletes that bothers me more.....
I love Mirai as a skater and a funny, wifty-in-a-good-way young woman. She’s the last person who should go into mean old political communications and chant messages! 
