There are regular group selfie pics, and then there are Team USA selfie pics and the US Figure Skating Olympic team has one of the best!
Ice dancer Alex Shibutani snapped the epic shot of the (almost the) whole team after winning the bronze medal at the team event over the weekend in South Korea at the Olympics — and it was quickly shared by the entire team on social media.
Bradie Tennell captioned it, “Squad goals”, and we definitely have to agree.
“I’m just so proud of this entire team,” Maiashared afterwards. “It was so special for us. This is the first team event that Alex and I were a part of. To have this experience at the Olympic Games, to come away with a medal for our country and for each other, I think we’ll come into the individual event with so much more confidence.”
So, what exactly is the team event? It’s kind of like the team event in gymnastics at the Summer Olympics.
There will be a short program and free skate is held in each of the four disciplines: men’s, women’s, pairs and ice dance. Skaters are judged as usual, but teams are scored based on placements within their discipline.
So, if a first-place performance would earn a country 10 points, a second-place performance would earn nine points, and so on.
Team USA still has to choose a rep for the ladies and ice dance sections. However, countries are allowed two substitutions, meaning that for two of those three disciplines a different skater or team can be used in the short and free.
After each of the short programs, the top five highest-scoring teams advance to the free program round. At the 2014 Sochi Olympics, Team USA earned a bronze medal for the inaugural event.
Nathan Chen is showing everyone why he’s headed to the Olympics in the first of five Winter Olympics TV Spots, which aired during the Superbowl tonight.
The 18-year-old figure skater brushes past hockey players after their own practice to show off his skills — and impresses with his quads on the frozen ice.
“I am so excited and honored that NBC chose me to have my own commercial,” Nathan shared with EW earlier in the week. “It’s super cool.”
Check out the commercial below, and stay tuned for Olympic coverage on JJJ starting next week!
The official roster for the U.S. Figure Skating Olympic Team have been announced.
After competing at the 2018 U.S. Championships over the weekend in San Jose, U.S. Figure Skating announced that three men, three ladies, three ice dance teams and one pair team would be headed to the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics set for next month.
During the Olympics, like in 2014, the US team will also compete in the team event consisting of one lady, one man, one pairs team and one ice dance team, which will be announced in the coming weeks.
The 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics will kick off on February 9th in South Korea.
Click inside now to meet the 2018 U.S. Figure Skating Olympic Team…
“It isn’t so black and white,” she shared in a new interview. “Charlie and I took until about a month and a half, two months ago to decide for sure to announce that we weren’t going to go back to the Olympics.”
That’s over three years of weighing options and going through all their pro and cons lists.
Meryl adds, “For us, it really is a sort of intangible feeling…We took that time, and were sort of blown in the direction of new adventures.”
And adventures there are…when Meryl isn’t teaching young kids learn to skate through the Figure Skating in Harlem and Figure Skating in Detroit programs, she’s working on her anthropology degree, and next up? Stars on Ice!
The 17-year-old figure skater, who blasted the leaderboard with any amazing 318.47 total tonight, declared back in 2010 after his winning performance that he was headed to the 2018 Olympic games, which will be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Congrats to Nathan Chen — the new Men’s US National Champion!
The 17-year-old shattered records while going to the top of the leaderboard, earning 318.47 points total for both of his short and long programs over the weekend at the 2017 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
He performed FIVE quadruple jumps in his long program! A first ever!
Nathan is being name dropped all over as the skater who will be changing the face of men’s figure skating.
“That’s what I’ve strived for my whole life,” Nathan shared ahead of the long program about earning the title of champion. “I don’t think it’s necessarily something I should be afraid of.”
He adds, “It’s something I’ve wanted my whole life. It’s definitely a good step for me and I’m really happy to be where I am tonight and hopefully to continue with this in the free skate.”
