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Ashley Wagner changes free skate one month before nationals

Ashley Wagner changed her free skate for the second time this season, reverting to music from “La La Land,” which she had dropped in August.

“I’m listening to my original instincts,” Wagner said in an Instagram video posted Monday. “It’s definitely the change that I need. … It feels fresh. It feels light, and I haven’t felt like that in a while on the ice.”

Wagner trained a “La La Land” free skate in the preseason until August, when she decided “the character didn’t really feel as complicated as I wanted her to be.