Edmunds surprise leader at U.S. championships

(Photo: Andy Clayton-King, AP)ST. PAUL — The headline of the evening was written not by an editor, but by a figure skater, a three-time national champion who has seen her share of mystifying moments in a very slippery sport.

"The top two international skaters faltered under the pressure," Ashley Wagner proclaimed, and the bad news for her is she happened to be one of them.

Minutes after Wagner fell on a triple toe loop at the end of her opening combination in the short program at the U.S. national figure skating championships Thursday evening, Gracie Gold answered with an even worse mistake. She popped her opening blockbuster triple lutz-triple toe loop combination into one ugly, inexplicable…