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He needed to be thinner to compete against younger skaters, secretly starving himself. there. >> would be days where i would just have a few pieces of bread and be like im good, ill just have a coffee or two. >> a few pieces of bread for the day? >> yeah. >> reporter: some days he would throw in a yogurt or two. >> i was hungry, but im like im in control of this situation. im strong because im not eating anything. >> adam, that sounds an awful lot like what the experts call an eating disorder. >...

What more i could have done if i had a better diet, if i had the proper nutrition. would i have been doing quadruples consistently in competition. >> reporter: antonia balm says athletes who restrict their diets like ripon did are literally disintegrating, losing bone density. >> you have a young athlete who is pounding, landing jumps on the ice. and they have the bones that look like on a radio graph, look like the bones of an 87-year-old. these are not things to be taken lightly. >> reporter: ...

Everyone. here in pyeongchang, team usa is adding to its medal count thanks to freestyle skier brita sigourney. she captured bronze in the halfpipe. in ice dancing alex and maia shibutani won bronze. it is their second medal of these games. and as we marvel over all the beautiful figure skating weve been witnessing here, there is unfortunately a darker side to the sport. all the pressure can too often lead some of the athletes to eating disorders. and not just female figure skaters, but the me...

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>> reporter: its going well. we got another medal for team usa in ice dancing. the canadian couple, now winning their second gold medal in ice dancing. they won eight years ago on home ice in vancouver, got the silver in sochi. went last today. absolutely crushed it. they beat a french duo. and shibutanis stepped up today and got themselves a bronze medal. a big win for the u.s. there. the united states mens hockey team had an elimination gwen ga -- game today. they are into the quarter final...

Of talk they havent won as many as people expected them to do. the united states could win a gold in lindsay vonn does what she came to do tonight. >> isnt that our motto, i like it when people think theyre faster than us? >> and she did it again today. she checked the gate to slow down a little bit. >> so far, its all strategy. >> yeah. do many people come up to you and remember what you and i did in 1994? when we won ice dancing? >> yeah. >> the pairs dancing. it wasnt an official event at tha...

>> i had given up on myself and basically wanted to end it. i was really glad that i got the help that i needed. >> reporter: today, a different story. >> life is good. >> reporter: john-henry krueger also taking home the silver in short track speed skating saturday, the first medal in the event for team usa since 2010. the u.s. is now in sixth place in the standings, but looking forward to bringing home more hardware. on the ice, big-time contenders mirai nagasu, who already made history pullin...

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