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Evan Lysacek, Mirai Nagasu to be honored in El Segundo

By Helene Elliott
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Olympic men’s figure skating champion Evan Lysacek and fourth-place women’s finisher Mirai Nagasu of Arcadia will be honored at a reception Tuesday at the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo, where both trained leading up to the Vancouver Games.

The event is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. and end at 7:30. It’s open to the public, with seating starting at 5:30 p.m. and being handled on a first-come, first-served basis. The address is 555 North Nash in El Segundo.

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Olympic coaches Frank Carroll and Christa Fassi also will be honored during the reception, which will include presentations from city officials and a question-and-answer session for audience members to ask the skaters and coaches about their Olympic experiences.

-- Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

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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