the team but personally as well,” Kristi Yamaguchi said. “She really went out there and skated like she knows how she can skate. And she really did start the momentum for Team North America.” Wagner, feeling the drain of a long season,
came through with a gutsy performance and a score of 143.20. “Te triple-triple in the second half for me
was amazing,” she said. “I pulled that out of some- where very deep inside me, so I was happy that I was able to pull that one off when I needed to. Te jumps were not perfect, but I got the job done.” Brown, who missed most of the season with
a back injury, showed no signs of the long layoff, delivering a crowd-pleasing performance that gen- erated 181.50 points, second only to Uno. “I worked so hard to get healthy and back
into shape,” Brown said. “To be able to put out those two programs and meet my expectations and, in some places, exceed them, I’m thrilled.”
To the excitement of his team, Jason Brown put his back strain behind him as he made a triumphant return to competitive ice.
Team North America’s Nam Nguyen of Canada asked U.S. silver medalist Polina Edmunds to prom after a strong free skate. (She said yes!)
(Clockwise) Team North America’s Gracie Gold, Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford, Alexa Scimeca and Chris Knierim, Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, and Madison Chock and Evan Bates help their team’s cause.
Rippon, the reigning U.S. champion, turned
in the third-best free skate of the night with his popular Beatles medley program. Despite a fall on his opening quad Lutz attempt, Rippon kept the crowd engaged. “I knew I wasn’t the most trained as I could
be coming into this competition,” Rippon said. “My coach told me, ‘Just do your job.’ Tat
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meant doing each element the best I could. And I went for everything — that’s what I’m proud of.” “As the two nights went on, they started to
get more and more invested in the results,” Ya- maguchi said. “I saw that coming out of them. It’s been a long weekend, but they left it all out there.”
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