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Mirai Nagasu’s Jumps Defy Physics—and Pummel Her Body

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Skaters make it look easy, but lifting off and spinning three-and-a-half times is brutal on the body—we just don't know how yet.

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Tanya Basu 

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Tanya Basu

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