U.S. takes silver in team figure skating—and the best could be yet to come Beijing2022
. The 15-year-old, who is competing in her first season as a senior skater, set a couple of firsts; she became the first female skater to land a quadruple jump at the Games, as well as the first female skater to perform two different quadruple jumps at the Olympics. Valieva had three quads planned, but fell on the last one, and seemed more disappointed by that mistake than elated over making history.
And there was even more figure skating news on an already eventful day. Minutes after the competition ended, U.S. Figure Skating officials announced that Vincent Zhou, the national silver medalist,. Zhou is undergoing confirmatory tests to determine if he will be eligible to compete in the men’s short program Tuesday. If his additional tests are also positive, he will be required to go into isolation and will be unable to participate in his individual competitions.
Next came the ice dancers, culminating in the showdown between Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates, co-captains of the U.S. team, and Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov of the ROC. The programs were a study in contrasts. The ROC’s performance was rich in classic and traditional ice dance techniques—down to the Rachmaninov piano concerto to which it was set. Sinitsina and Katsalapov executed their moves with smooth precision, but lost a point for holding a lift too long.
It was a huge boost for the medal-contending U.S. ice dance squad, long seen as the afterthought behind the women’s and men’s singles skaters. The two top U.S. teams in Beijing have now scored higher than Sinitsina and Katsalapov—Madison Hubbell and Zacharay Donohue, the national silver medalists, beat the Russian team in the short program, and Chock and Bates edged past the Russians in the free skate.
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