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Show WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3 1072018 DIXIESUNNEWS.COM - 5 USA Figure Skating announces three women participating at Winter Olympics 7) " -- Ir-- ii fi 'j1 Jill )) p kid fn. 1 i 1 I ', F-- ,,,,,:-.- ) HELENE ELLIOT BY TNS Avoiding controversy, U.S. Figure Skating on Saturday announced that it had nominated Bradie Tone 11, Mirai Nagasu and Karen Chen for the three women's singles berths on team for the Pyeongchang Olympics. The three women finished in that order at the U.S. figure skating championships, but the selection committee empaneled by the sport's national governing body had been given the latitude to weigh the results of other events over the past year in making its the 1 U.S decision. The alternates, in order, finisher are fourth-plac- e Ashley Wagner, Mariah Bell, and Angela Wang. The announcement was timed for inclusion on the Saturday version of NBC's "Today" show. Tennell won the title with 219.51 points, followed by Nagasu (213.84), and Chen (198.59). Wagner amassed 196.19 points. Tennell, 19, of Carpentersville, Ill., won her first national title by prevailing in the short program Wednesday and again in the long program Friday. Nagasu, who is from Arcadia but trains in Colorado so at n in tn, tt 7:30 .15,c d Ticket f Springs, was a tearful second. Nagasu, 24, was a member of the 2010 U.S. Olympic team at the Vancouver Winter Games but was passed over in 2014. She finished third at the 2014 U.S. championships but was left home in favor of Wagner, who finished fourth at the U.S. competition that year. Karen Chen, 18, was third here, one year after she won the U.S. title Wagner, 26, won a silver medal at the 2016 World Championships but has not skated consistently well since then. The three-tim- e national champion finished seventh at the 2017 world competition, three spots behind Chen. She withdrew from her second Grand Prix series assignment this season because of a foot infection and afterward scrapped her long program and returned to an old one, to music from "La La Land." After her short program was ranked only fifth here she said she would revamp or reject it if she were to make the Olympic team, a notion that might have disturbed the selection committee. Wagner said Friday night that she believed she had d been in the two parts of the competition, but she hurt her own cause by "popping" a jump under-marke- demand up TNS ticket resales through Monday, demand for seats at Monday night's game is up 118 percent compared to last year's national title game between Alabama and Clemson in Tampa, FL. according to secondary ticket marketplace Sfubflub. 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The most expensive single seat that has been purchased on club Stub Hub was a lower-lev110 for in Aisle seat $12,000, mid-afterno- LA under-rotatin- mid-afternoo- n, BY TIM TUCKER ut 118 reducing its difficulty in and doing a midjump instead of salchow single a triple salchow. She also g was penalized for a triple lutz jump, missteps that cost her valuable points. The U.S. women will face stiff competition in Pyeongchang, especially from Russian and Japanese women, who have consistently displayed superior technical skills. U.S. women were shut out of the medals at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and again in 2014 at Sochi, Russia. The U.S. championships will continue Saturday with the men's and pairs finals. The competition will end Sunday with the ice dance finale. U.S. Figure Skating also said Chen, Nagasu, and Tennell will be sent to the World Championships. Sixteen-year-ol- d Starr Andrews of Los Angeles, who won over the crowd with her long program to her vocal rendition of "One Moment in Time," was named to the team for the Four Continents Championships, along with Mariah Bell and Wagner. In addition, Andrews was chosen to compete in the 2018 junior world championships. (c)2018 Los Angeles Times. - 1 on el el according to the company. A suite sold for $94,000. And dating back to when tickets for the game first went on well the secondary market a before the Georgia-Alabamthe least matchup was set sold on Stub-Hu- b ticket expensive was $750 for an upper-lev- el sideline seat. there As of were 1,300 tickets available on Stub Hub. Almost all tickets to mid-afternoo- n, the game are digital. For years, Atlanta sports and tourism boosters have made a strong case for the city as the "Capital of College Football," citing the passionate fans who live here, the major corporate sponsors based here, the star players recruited from here and the big games played here. But despite all of that, college football's national championship has never been decided in an omission that will Atlanta be corrected Monday night. "The first time to have the national championship game of this sport played in Atlanta it seems kind of crazy to even say that," Michael Kelly, the College Football Playoff's chief operating officer, said on one of his many trips here to prepare for the game. (c)2018 The Atlanta ;and , r21--,n.,,,,,- ad r!!!'p : rand, am 41111 fi 1 r:.'!f, I 1 , A 1 , , 4 1 , . I.. 1 11 21 - ,t , j -... :" , .i ' t r. 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