#ShibSibs Score Olympic Ice Dancing Bronze Medal

From Cosmopolitan

The ice dancing event came to a close in PyeongChang on Monday morning (that's Sunday night in the U.S. given the time difference). The race for the gold and silver medal had always been between France's Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron and Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir - the Canadian team eked out the gold by less than a point in the end, a well-deserved victory though certainly heart-breaking for the French athletes considering they'd lost a point or so in their short dance after Papadakis's costume unclasped, exposing her breast.

Competition for the bronze medal was no less fierce, though! All three of Team USA's pairs were in contention, along with teams from Italy, Canada, and two Olympic Athletes from Russia. Sibing skaters Maia and Alex Shibutani won out with bronze in the end, though, after a near technically perfect free dance saw them squeak ahead of their Team USA rivals Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue - who had been leading by, wait for it, two hundreths of a point after the short dance.

Below, the Shibutanis' reactions at the conclusion of their performance:

With the technical judges cutting the skaters no slack at all in both dances, NBC's commentators reported Hubbell and Donohue were penalized for a twizzle sequence that ran too long, and for a moment when Donohue appeared to place both hands on the ice - this was counted as a fall, though it seemed more like a theatrical gesture than a stumble to this viewer. (I'm two glasses of pinot in and I can't skate to begin with, but I saw what I saw!) Watch both free dances - as skated at the U.S. Championships last month - below:

Madison Chock and Evan Bates, meanwhile, fell to 9th place after a most unfortunate fall on the ice. Falls rarely happen in the ice dance competition, which just makes them even harder to watch (let alone to process for the skaters themselves).

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