For Olympic figure skaters, all those hours, jumps and training are boiled down to around six or seven minutes during the Winter games. Mirai Nagasu became the first ever American woman to land a ...

Mirai Nagasu made her triple axel look elegant and effortless. But in landing one of the most challenging jumps in figure skating, she accomplished a feat that made her the first female American ...

GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) - The wonderful thing about the inspiring - shall we call it Olympian? - story of Mirai Nagasu is that it's not over. Not even close. Nagasu has gone from teenage ...

Mirai Nagasu became the first American female figure skater to land a triple axel at the Olympics, and just the third woman to ever accomplish the feat. Nagasu, 24, put the jump at the beginning of ...

Figure skater Mirai Nagasu has made history in PyeongChang by being the only American woman to hit a triple Axel on the Olympic stage. At 24-years-old, Nagasu is far from a novice but she’s still open ...

One of the more popular events at the Winter Olympics is figure skating. It's speed combined with the athleticism and degree of difficulty of the stunts make it a fan favorite. One female U.S. figure ...

During the figure skating team competition on Sunday night, 24-year-old Mirai Nagasu became the first American in history to land a triple axel jump at the Olympics. She also became just the second ...

When she was passed over for an Olympic spot in 2014, Mirai Nagasu considered giving up figure skating. Instead, she used the snub as motivation. “This is definitely history, or herstory, whatever way ...

Mirai Nagasu’s first performance at the Pyeongchang Olympics quickly became a historic one, as the figure skater is now the first American woman to land the triple axel at the Olympics. What made the ...