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Mirai Nagasu will get an Olympic send-off Sunday

By Helene Elliott
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Figure skater Mirai Nagasu of Arcadia, who was named to the Olympic team a few weeks ago, will be sent off to Vancouver in style.

Her home club, the Pasadena Figure Skating Club, will throw a party in her honor Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m., and it’s open to the public. The bash will be held at the Arcadia Presbyterian Church, at 121 Alice Street, Arcadia.

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Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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