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Mirai Nagasu apologizes over puzzling Olympic interview

TuAnh Dam,Yahoo Sports 7 hours ago

Mirai Nagasu didn't fall on her triple axel but it would've been better if she had

The criticism piled on quickly for American Mirai Nagasu after the ladies' free skate.

Not because of her underwhelming performance – she placed 10th overall after botching several of her jumps – but because of her puzzling post-game interview.

The two-time Olympian offered up bizarre excuses for her and Team USA's lackluster showing in PyeongChang. Everything from the lack of a warm shower to the early wake up time to the team competition two weeks earlier was to blame for the US's worst showing in decades. 

No one bought it and days later Nagasu offered a tearful apology in an interview with People magazine and attempted to clarify her post-skate sentiments.

The 'Dancing with the Stars' comment, where she said her skate was essentially an audition for the show, was a tactic her sports psychologist recommended to distract her from the pressure of the moment.

It wasn't meant, Nagasu said, to come across as ungracious or flippant.

It was a result from mental exhaustion.

"I don't know if I can stress enough how mentally exhausting this all is…I feel especially bad that my comments weren't a good representation of me and I came off really poorly," she said,

She continued with apologizing to her USA teammates. Nagasu had said on Friday that she and men's figure skater Adam Rippon "saved" the team competition for the Americans.

Yes Nathan Chen had a bad short program – though not as bad as his skate in the men's competition. But pairs figure skaters Alexa Scimeca Knierim and Chris Knierim and ice dancers Maia and Alex Shibutani put up season best scores to help the US hold off Italy for the bronze.

"I feel really, really awful about the things I said," Nagasu said on Saturday. "I feel bad that people think that I was throwing my teammates under the bus because I never wanted to come off that way."

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