Of their second Olympic Video games collectively, Crew USA’s Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue gained ice dance bronze. The skaters completed simply off the rostrum on the 2018 Olympics and got here into the Beijing free dance on Feb. 14 (Feb. 13 within the US) in third place following the rhythm-dance portion two days prior. Their mixed complete of 218.02 finally solidified third. France’s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron took house gold. The French pair, who had been Pyeongchang 2018 silver medalists, scored a 90.83 within the Feb. 12 rhythm dance, which set a new world record, they usually totaled 226.98 factors after a panoramic free dance. The Russian Olympic Committee’s Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov took silver with a complete of 220.51.
NBC Olympics reports that is Hubbell and Donohue’s final Olympics and their final season earlier than retirement. Their rhythm dance on Feb. 12, set to songs from Janet Jackson, scored a private greatest, according to US Figure Skating. The pair’s free dance, a beautiful efficiency to “Drowning” by Anne Sila, sealed the deal for a podium spot with Hubbell and Donohue showcasing textbook twizzles and emotion-infused choreography.
Hubbell and Donohue are the definition of connection on the ice. The 2 dated up to now for about two-and-a-half years, however they stayed ice dance companions following their breakup. Hubbell refers to Donohue as her confidant, by no means her ex, USA Today reports. Her fiancé, Spanish ice dancer Adrián Diaz, completed in eighth place in Beijing together with his associate, Olivia Good.
Crew USA’s Madison Chock and Evan Bates, whose romantic relationship spans 5 years and who’ve been to the Olympics two occasions previous to Beijing, completed in fourth place on Feb. 14 with a mixed complete of 214.77; they had been eighth in Sochi 2014 and ninth in Pyeongchang 2018. Their Beijing performances featured a Billie Eilish rhythm dance and an out-of-this-world Daft Punk free dance, the place Chock portrayed an alien and Bates embodied an astronaut. The free-dance rating of 130.63 ended up being a private greatest. (Enjoyable truth: Chock designs their costumes, and she or he told POPSUGAR in a previous interview that the “coronary heart” of every skating program is the narrative they inform.)
The third American ice dance duo, Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker, completed their Olympic debut in eleventh place after the free dance. They advised Yahoo! Sports that their precompetition ritual at all times features a lengthy hug to calm their nerves and soothe themselves into sync.
Males’s determine skating gold medalist Nathan Chen sat within the stands to cheer on the US’s ice dance pairs. Crew USA — together with Chen, Hubbell and Donohue, Chock and Bates, and others — claimed silver in the figure skating team event earlier within the Olympics. Nonetheless, a positive test for banned substance trimetazidine from the ROC’s Kamila Valieva delayed the medal ceremony. Outcomes from a listening to dominated that Valieva, 15, is obvious to proceed competing within the Beijing Video games, although it is unknown right now if it will affect the gold that the ROC gained over the US within the workforce occasion, The New York Times reports.
Forward, take a look at images from Hubbell and Donohue’s final Olympics collectively, in addition to a glance into their ultimate efficiency on Feb. 14. These snapshots seize moments we’re certain they will bear in mind for the remainder of their lives.
