GANGNEUNG, South Korea – It is not often a dance team ends up falling in a heap on the ice, but that’s exactly what happened to accomplished Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates Tuesday in the Olympic ice dance long program.
It’s also not often that another dance team, the current U.S. national champion, has the distinct bad fortune to have someone fall from their knees onto their hands near the end of the program, but that’s exactly what happened to Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue on their way to a possible bronze medal.
Hubbell and Donohue finished fourth and Chock and Bates finished ninth while their U.