The U.S. pairs team of Ellie Kam, 21, and Danny O’Shea, 34, delivered the skate of their lives at the Olympics, putting together a career-best performance when the team needed it most.
Skating in the pairs segment of the Olympic team competition, Kam and O’Shea — who have been skating together for four years and train out of Colorado Springs — entered the ice under pressure. As NBC’s Terry Gannon noted before they began, “The U.S. with a five-point lead, but this is not their strong suit.”
What followed was a near-flawless performance.
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They opened by nailing their triple twist. “Beautiful start there with that triple twist,” said commentator and former Olympian Tara Lipinski. They followed it with a clean side-by-side triple salchow-double axel combination, setting the tone early.
Attention then turned to the elements that had troubled them most in practice: the throws. “The most difficult element for this team is the throws,” commentator Johnny Weir explained, noting that they had only landed one cleanly during multiple practice attempts.
Under Olympic pressure, Kam and O’Shea delivered.
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They nailed the first throw, a triple lutz. “Beautiful!” Weir exclaimed. Moments later, they attacked the second — a throw triple loop — with Weir adding, “This is their chance at an Olympic medal, and they’re skating like they’re hungry for gold.”
Lipinski could barely contain her reaction after the landing. “I haven’t seen them skate this well in a long time,” she said.
Their lifts brought the crowd to its feet. “In pairs, lifts are king. This is one of the most spectacular lifts,” Weir said, with Lipinski responding, “I have chills.” O’Shea, known as one of the strongest lifters in the discipline, earned further praise. “He is one of the best lifters in the world,” Lipinski added.
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As the program ended, the superlatives kept coming. “Forget about meeting expectations, they just exceeded them,” Gannon said. Lipinski went even further: “I haven’t seen them skate like that ever… they were unstoppable.” Weir summed it up bluntly: “That was the most fantastic skate I’ve seen from them, absolutely stunning from start to finish.”
Kam and O’Shea scored 135.36, a personal best.
While final standings were still pending, their performance was especially meaningful within the Olympic team competition, where each country fields skaters in men’s singles, women’s singles, pairs, and ice dance. After earlier events, the U.S. team was sitting in first place, thanks to strong finishes from Madison Chock and Evan Bates in ice dance, Alysa Liu in women’s singles, and Ilia Malinin in men’s singles.
After a fall during the short program that left them in fifth place, Kam and O’Shea delivered exactly what the U.S. needed. As Gannon put it, “If they’re fourth, not fifth here, that extra point for the U.S., that’s big.”
Instead, they did far more than that—delivering an Olympic moment they’ll never forget.
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