Olympic Figure Skating: Michigan's 'Shib Sibs' Dance To Medal

Ice dancers Alex and Maia Shibutani of Ann Arbor ice danced their way to a bronze medal in the Olympic Ice Dance competition on Tuesday in PyeungChang. And, while their performance was nearly flawless, it was not good enough to beat the ice dancing duos from Canada and France.

Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir came into the free dance competition on Tuesday in first place, and were able to hold on to win their fifth medal – and third gold – in figure skating. France's Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron, skated the best free dance performance, but it was not enough to beat Virtue and Moir and won the silver medal.

The Shibutani siblings came into the free dance competition in fourth place, but finished with a total score of 192.59. They edged fellow American ice dancers, Madison Hubbell, 26, of Okemos, Michigan, and Zach Donohue, 27, of Madison, Connecticut, who had been in third place coming into the competion. Hubbell and Donohue finished fourth with a total score of 187.69.

Meanwhile, Evan Bates, 28, of Northville, and Madison Chock, 25, of Novi, finished in ninth with a total score of 175.58.

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