Maybe it was not the performance that she was looking for, but 24 year-old Alissa Czisny captured her first Skate America title...
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Shizuka Arakawa became the first Japanese figure skater to win an Olympic gold medal at the 2006 Olympics (where she was the only Japanese medalist at that Olympics). One of her trademark moves is the Ina Bauer with a full backbend.