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2018 Winter Olympics: Dismal showing for US figure skating

Kaetlyn Osmond of Canada competes during the Ladies Single Skating Free Skating on day fourteen of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Gangneung Ice Arena on February 23, 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea.
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Kaetlyn Osmond of Canada competes during the Ladies Single Skating Free Skating on day fourteen of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Gangneung Ice Arena on February 23, 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea.
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2018 Winter Olympics: Dismal showing for US figure skating

These are the highlights as events continue in PyeongChang.

If you are planning on watching the events as they are broadcast stateside, you may want to avoid the following. Some have already been aired live.

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Dismal showing for US figure skating

The Americans secured their worst showing in modern-era Olympic women’s figure skating with Mirai Nagasu failing to get any lift on her triple axel and popping a triple lutz.

The 24-year-old Nagasu was fourth at the 2010 Vancouver Games but never got going in the individual competition at the Pyeongchang Games after helping the U.S. win a team bronze. She hit her triple axel in that event, becoming the first American woman and third overall to do so in an Olympics. But she slipped below U.S. champion Bradie Tennell in the standings after Friday’s free skate, with 2017 national champ Karen Chen just behind.

The Americans would wind up ninth, 10th and 11th. Since World War II, at least one American woman finished sixth or higher.

Gold medal winner Kelsey Serwa, of Canada, front, crosses the finish line during the women's ski cross final at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 23, 2018.
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​Canada wins two medals in women’s ski cross

Canada’s Kelsey Serwa and Brittany Phelan took gold and silver, respectively, on Friday in the women’s ski cross. Switzerland’s Fanny Smith took bronze.

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Swiss posts fast time in 4-man training run

Pilot Rico Peter of Switzerland (front) corners at turn 14 in their 4-man bobsleigh training session at the Olympic Sliding Centre on February. The Swiss team posted the fastest time in heat 6, completing the course in 49.51 seconds. Latvia was second, with Germany third.

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