Bronze medalist Mirai Nagasu answers your most googled questions about figure skating.
) and to remind themselves to focus. “I do it to get my blood going again and especially going into competition, there’s a lot of adrenaline going on, so I like to re-center and refocus myself by waking up my muscles and giving them just a little kickstart,” says Nagasu.There’s no margin for error, given the level of skill on display. Skaters are scored on the level of difficulty of each technical element, coupled with the execution .
And while Nagasu mastered the triple, she never entertained the prospect of learning a quad, which requires four rotations in the air. Chen makes it look easy. It’s anything but. “Before, we all had to learn the double axel and that’s the hurdle before you get to your triple. Then for me, I started a triple axel, but quads were not in my foreseeable future. I think that as a kid, I never thought, ‘Oh, I might one day attempt quads.’ I think these next generations of skaters, it’ll be fascinating to watch how many quads show up from all of the countries,” says Nagasu.
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