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Bradie Tennell makes dazzling debut for US in team event

GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) — Bradie Tennell fell in love with the music to her short program long before the Winter Olympics, when the young American figure skater didn't even know she would qualify.

It's from the film "Taegukgi," a blockbuster in South Korea but hardly known back home.

"One of my close friends used the music previously but was injured before she could compete with it," Tennell explained, "so she told me that if I wanted to use it this year, being the Olympics in Korea, I could. And knowing I loved the music, I said, 'Why not?