Tag: Ice Dancing

American ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates had the most delightfully weird Olympic team free dance

Madison Chock and Evan Bates are out of this world!

You’ve never seen an ice dancing routine like this.

On Sunday night, the final events of the figure skating Team Event at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing were in full swing. Heading into the Ice Dance Free Skate, Team USA was sitting in third place behind Japan in a battle for silver. That was, until, Madison Chock and Evan Bates took to the ice for the United States in the free dance.

And folks, their routine was out of this world. Literally.

Eschewing typical figure skating norms of dancing to classical music or covers of pop songs, Chock and Bates went full outer space with an incredibly theatrical routine set to a Daft Punk medley. Even more weird — but awesome — is that in the routine, Bates is playing an astronaut and Chock… an alien.

Seriously, it was something to see.

So good! And this lift as the music swells? Just phenomenal.

Look at how happy they are after placing first too!!

It’s a performance that helped Team USA win silver in the Team Event, but we’re so looking forward to what these two can do in the individual event later in the Olympics.

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Leslie Jones is back with incredible NSFW reactions to Winter Olympics amazingness

The best Olympic tradition, Leslie Jones’ reactions, is back for the 2022 Games.

Warning: This post contains NSFW language.

The Olympics are built on tradition. Whether it’s the parade of nations, the emotional medal ceremonies at the podium or the staple events, everyone has something they look forward to when the Games come around every two years (usually).

But one of the greatest of all these traditions, at least in recent years, comes from comedian Leslie Jones, who is back with her real-time Olympics reactions for the 2022 Beijing Games.

The former Saturday Night Live star went viral back in 2016 during the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro when she live-tweeted the events and provided her own incredible (though usually NSFW) commentary to some of the Games’ wildest moments.

Her reactions were so popular that word reached NBC, who decided to fly her to Brazil to assist with coverage —albeit it in a more FCC-friendly fashion. She did the same in 2018 in Pyeongchang, and she live-tweeted last Summer Games in Tokyo.

With Jones’ iconic commentary making its return for this year’s Winter Olympics, here are some of the best (and more publishable) reactions so far.

Warning: Many of these are still fairly NSFW, proceed with caution.

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