(Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)The night before they won their first Olympic medal, Alex and Maia Shibutani were frustrated. The ShibSibs are the second set of siblings to win an Olympic ice dance medal, first in more than 25 years. “With ice dance, it’s just generally grouped into ‘oh, it’s romantic. Oh, it’s sensual.’ That’s not fair to ice dance. “Having a different point of view, which we naturally bring because we are coming from a different place, is something that we’ve embraced.”[Three U.S. couples among top seven in ice dancing after short program]But that different point of view, that different journey, costs them — or so the Shibutanis believe.

Source: Washington Post February 20, 2018 08:15 UTC