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Bergen Olympic Figure Skaters Finish 7th
Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje of Team Canada finished with a score of 181.98.
BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — Locally-coached figure skaters Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje finished seventh at the figure skating competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics Tuesday.
Weaver and Poje, who is from Fort Lee, finished with a combined score of 181.98.
Weaver and Poje train at the Hackensack Ice House. Their teammates, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, won the gold medal with a score of 206.07.
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Two other figure skaters, Paige Conners and Evgeni Krasnopolsky, who are on Team Israel, placed 19th out of 22 competitors last week. Conners, 17, lives in Edgewater and Krasnopolsky, 29, lives in Hackensack.
Related: Bergen Olympic Ice Skaters Fail To Qualify For Olympic Medal
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Photo: Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje of Canada perform during the ice dance, free dance figure skating final in the Gangneung Ice Arena at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea Tuesday. (Associated Press Photo/David J. Phillip)
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