2010 Winter Olympics: Mirai Nagasu - Figure Skater

Rocketboom's Ella Morton interviews 2010 Winter Olympic hopeful figure skater Mirai Nagasu.

Mirai Nagasu
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• olympics
• nagasu
• MiraiNagasu
• WinterOlympics
• 2010
• Vancouver
• FigureSkating

[5600167]

she should have won bronze ! ro even silver

[dsfddsgh]

You are a moron. She did skate for her home country. She's american not japanese.

[MsPelicanus]

personally Asians are NOT cute!

[youku08]

目がつり目やね

[Vihzel]

@yi81 I have also checked her some other results from Mirai's FS and she seems to be right around the 60 PCS range. What she needs to do to increase her PCS is unknown to me since I'm not an expert in that area but unless there's some international conspiracy to not allow Mirai to get a higher PCS score... I'm not buying your argument.

[Vihzel]

@yi81 You must be quite stupid to believe that there was a "home advantage" at the Olympics. Do you think Laura Lepisto, from Finland, had a home advantage as well and that resulted in +2 more PCS than Mirai? Please stop embarrassing yourself and Mirai by insinuating that there was controversy over her scoring that the international judges (only 1 is from Canada) purposely put her in 4th place.

[Vihzel]

@yi81 Small correction... Yuna's was 71.76.

[Vihzel]

Do you realize that Yuna Kim's PCS was essentially around the same mark with the #11 man (Michal Brezina) at the Olympics? Yuna's PCS was 71.50 and Plushenko's and Lysacek's PCS were 82.80. What evidence do I have? I'm looking, right now, at the judge's marks for the 2010 Olympics on both men's and women's sides.

[yi81]

@Vihzel

PCS were totally messed up. You can't depend on that. Even Kim got higher PCS than the MALE gold/silver medalists. How could female skaters get higher PCS while they have shorter performing time? PCS is more like "career mark" since older senior skaters seem to get higher PCS than the younger senior skaters . Plus, Rochette had "home-country advantage," & Kim used that too (practiced in CAN before Oly & she quickly fired her CAN coach/moved away from CAN after Vanc).

[Vihzel]

@yi81 Do you even understand how the scoring works? I just looked at the judges scores for both performances and Joannie blew her away in the Program Components 68.50 vs. 60.50 (rounded). Joannie also had a higher base value for her technical marks but did worse than Mirai 62.80 vs. 65.80. Mirai needs to work on her Program Component scores.

[imuniquez]

she's so cute i like her accent :D

[yi81]

She deserved the bronze medal at the Olympics. But didn't have as competitive program as Asada so not silver. I think there was video posted up on how there was mysterious minute before Nagasu's mark was handed in. The judge were definitely playing around with the numbers so Rochette can win the Bronze. Vanc. Olym. was horrible competition, but still, I was impressed with most of the skaters :). and she's one of them. good luck Nagasu!