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In 2014, figure skaters Mirai Nagasu and Adam Rippon were left off the Olympic team heading to Sochi, Russia. For the two athletes, it was a low point in their respective careers. And during the Sochi Olympics, Rippon and Nagasu consoled one another while eating In-N-Out burgers on Nagasu’s roof.
The memory, which Rippon recounted to NBC’s Mike Tirico following the team event in Pyeongchang, South Korea, where the 2018 Winter Games took place, became a talked-about anecdote, particularly as Rippon and Nagasu both took home bronze medals.

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