FREE ICE  SKATE 2017 , Freestyle sakte |skating|
Channel: sky Sports
Date: 2017-01-26

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Gold's prince this season, who awakened the newly-crowned princess of American figure skating, was Frank Carroll, the veteran coach who masterminded Michelle Kwan's career and guided Evan Lysacek to an Olympic gold in 2010. Carroll admitted that "I didn't leap at the chance of taking her" when he was asked to add Gold to his roster of skaters last summer. He was already working with Lysacek, who was hoping to defend his Olympic title until he was sidelined by an injury, and Denis Ten of Kazakhstan, who finished second at the world championships last year. With Lysacek no longer training in earnest, Carroll says, "I thought, 'You can help this girl.'"

Help her he did. Gold was the last skater of the event, which can be nerve-wracking, but she wasn't aware of the devastating skate by reigning champion Ashley Wagner. Wagner, who has said all season that her goal was to earn a spot to the Games, had two falls and left out a jump from one of her combinations, kicking open the door to Sochi for Polina Edmunds, who finished second; Mirai Nagasu who finished third; and Gold, who was leading after the short program. Wagner just missed joining Nagasu and Rachel Flatt on the 2010 Olympic team in Vancouver and dedicated this season to not letting that happen again.

Whether that effort was successful or not will be up to the U.S. Figure Skating Association (USFSA) selection committee. The top three finishers at these nationals, which also serve as the Olympic trials, are not guaranteed berths on the Olympic team. But the placements are considered, as are each skaters' performance throughout the season. Wagner competed well all year, the only skater to qualify for the Grand Prix final in the ladies' event. But Nagasu has Olympic experience; she skated two remarkable programs at the 2010 Games in Vancouver to finish fourth. The committee will weigh those performances, along with the trials, in deciding who to send to Sochi.