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Karen Chen is set to make her debut at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics later tonight and we can’t wait to watch her!

Did you know that the 18-year-old figure skater choreographed her own routines?

“It’s something that I truly love,” she shared in a recent interview with ET.

“The music choices are something that I feel very attached to, especially the short. It’s very sentimental and I have a lot of emotions attached to it.”

Karen continues, “I think putting that out there, skating at the Olympics with that kind of mindset and embracing my own choreography, knowing how much effort I have put into this, is really going to come through.”

She also adds that getting a medal at the Olympics is the ultimate goal.

“Sometimes it may not seem realistic, but I feel like thinking about that ultimate goal that I really want, it helps motivate me, and it really helps push me to get better and stronger and work hard and smart,” Karen says. “Anything is possible. I always try to tell myself that.”

Ladies’ figure skating will start tonight @ 8PM ET/PT on NBC.

Madison Chock and Evan Bates most likely heard your gasps around the world as they fell on the ice during a spin at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics last night.

One of three USA teams competing for a spot on the podium, Madison and Evan spun out during one element of their free skate, which was set to John Lennon‘s “Imagine”. Because of the fall, the team ended up in 9th place overall.

“I think we clicked blades entering the spin, and it’s really impossible to spin with that kind of friction,” Evan shared with Time afterwards. “One moment things were going exactly how we wanted to, and the next moment in a flash, disaster stuck. There’s no other way to put it really.”

Madison adds, “As soon as it happened, I couldn’t believe our butts were on the ice where our skates were supposed to be. It’s just not something you want to have happen.”

“We worked so hard this season to reinvent ourselves, and I think we’ve done that. It just sucks that this happened at the Olympic Games. But it’s okay. Life goes on, and we’ll go on, we’ll be okay.”

After their program ended, you could see how heartbroken Madison and Evan were, but don’t worry — they will be back, and stronger than ever. Their next competition will be at the World Championships in Milan.

“We’ve got to come back. We’ve got to come back and redeem ourselves,” Evan says. “That’s part of our story now.”

Nathan Chen didn’t have the best results at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics this month.

Although, we think he did phenomenal in coming back so strong in his free program that no one was able to actually catch him until gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu took the ice, Nathan admits that he didn’t have the best programs.

“These past two weeks have been the biggest emotional rollercoaster of my life,” Nathan broke his silence on Instagram this weekend. “I began this competition with the two worst short programs of my competitive career. I couldn’t believe what happened, and my confidence completely dissipated.”

But thanks to the fans and the love of his teammates, he got up.

“If not for the hundreds of messages of support from all of you I never would’ve been able to bounce back and lay down the long I did here,” he adds. “Truly thank you all so much for the support and love. #WeGetUp.”

Nathan also gave another shout out to his teammates, as he did leave with a bronze medal with the team event.

Congrats to sibling ice dancers Alex and Maia Shibutani!

They just won the bronze medal at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in their individual event for ice dance!

The free skate ended with Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir on top with the gold medal and France’s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron with silver.

Team USA’s Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue slipped to 5th place.

During the free skate, the third USA team — Madison Chock and Evan Bates, who performed a stunning routine to John Lennon‘s “Imagine” — fell during their program. They finished in 12th place.

Congrats to all the medalists!

Team USA has three ice dance teams at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics — Maia and Alex Shibutani, Madison Chock and Evan Bates, and national champs Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue.

The two started skating together fairly recently, in 2011, and date a pair of other ice dancers, who just happen to skate together too.

But before they dated and skated, and broke up, they actually didn’t like each other at all.

“We were both competitors against each other and we hated each other,” Madison shared with People. “Our mutual coach at the time kind of forced us to start skating together just to kill time.

She adds, “We didn’t really want to skate together. It was fate.”

Madison and Zachary will make their Olympic debut TONIGHT @ 8PM ET/PT on NBC.

Maia Shibutani has had quite a bit to celebrate this week already, after Team USA figure skating won the bronze medal at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics.

After the medal ceremony, the 23-year-old skater shared quite the throwback photo with teammate Adam Rippon.

“GLOW UP! Amazing to watch your friends make their dreams come true at the Olympics!” she captioned two pics, one new, and one old. Check them out below!

Maia is gearing up to head to the Short Dance program portion of the games, where her and brother Alex will perform in the 18th position on Monday (February 19).

Vincent Zhou got really emotional after his free skate program on Sunday (February 17) at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics.

The 17-year-old figure skater, who is the youngest member of Team USA, slipped on one jump, but landed five quads and scored his personal best with 192.16.

Vincent placed 6th after his free skate, while teammates Nathan Chen and Adam Rippon placed 5th and 10th, respectively.

“These are memories that I will think back on many decades later and smile an old, withered smile complete with knowledge that I made the most of my life, especially as a 17 year old Olympian,” Vincent wrote on Instagram. “I placed 6th among the best skaters in the history of this sport and I am so very proud to do so representing the USA. My place is here and my time is now.”