A long time ago, a sports reporter wrote that I wasn’t stro… - Mirai Nagasu

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A long time ago, a sports reporter wrote that I wasn’t strong in the free-skate, that I was more of a short program skater. And that bothered me because I work so hard every day just for a person to judge me on a couple of bad skates and deem me a bad free skater. That's absurd!

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Mirai Aileen Nagasu (born April 16, 1993) is a Japanese-American figure skater.

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