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USA Today Sports Media Group
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Mary Clarke

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

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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