The Video Of Madison Chock & Evan Bates' Ice Dancing Fall Is So Devastating

Things took a turn for the worse for American ice dancing pair Madison Chock and Evan Bates this week in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The video of Chock and Bates' fall during the ice dance free program on Tuesday, Feb. 20 (Monday night U.S. time) shows what went wrong during their performance. They finished in ninth place after the rocky routine.  

Chock and Bates danced to "Imagine" by John Lennon, a song that NBC says was chosen purposefully by the pair to convey a message. And the couple looked fairly smooth for the majority of the dance, which lasts between three minutes 50 seconds and four minutes 10 seconds. (Ice dancing may seem similar to pairs figure skating, but here's how to tell the difference.)

The fall happened during a spin element, where the couple's skates appear to have gotten tangled. A move that they've done countless times in a split second became, literally, their downfall.

"That is a disaster in ice dance," said the NBC commentator.

You can see the full performance here.

Despite their fall, Chock and Bates received an outpouring of support.

"What I LOVE is after Chock & Bates slipped the entire crowd cheered as they got and clapped to the music as the continued to encourage them," wrote NBC anchor Cheryl Preheim on Twitter.

"To fall like that - in front of the world - and get up with a smile, dance harder and finish the performance so beautifully is what makes athletes like Chock and Bates great Olympians," wrote one user on Twitter.

More to come.

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