Analysis: Expect tangos, twizzles and two top American teams at the Olympic ice dance free skate.
gold medalist in an individual event — featured syncopated waacking, a form of dance similar to Voguing popularized in the LGBT community during the 1970s.
Sinitsina and Katsalapov’s best hope is for the French to make a similar mistake in the final phase of the competition. The Russians skated with more confidence and precision on Saturday than they did in, with a rhythm dance that was appropriately funky without being too cheeky. The United States’ Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue will try to overtake the Russians for the silver medal — the gold is likely out of reach. Traditionally too ragged in the restrictive short dance, Hubbell and Donohue found the secret sauce on Saturday, matching their unbridled power and speed with the amount of detail needed to master that tricky blues pattern.
And although the previous two sentences might sound like they were influenced by mind-altering drugs, the concept has been an effective way of showing off the best parts of their skating — their incredibly strong lifts, the alluring style of Chock and the confident ease in which they shift from one side of the blade to another. Judges have seemed to gravitate toward this vehicle — and a perfect performance could make the competition even more complicated.
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