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And standoff mikaela shiffrin won't compete in the ladies downhill. a scheduling change and can't do it. and chris jansing has a front row seat to all the action from south korea. chris, all that happens after what was another really fun night on olympic ice in a different way. right? >> reporter: yeah. usa killed it in ice dancing. three teams in the top seven, hallie, heading into the free skate. and the shib sibs we like to call the shibutanis, they're in fourth. two team usa members with legit chances at the podium and the shib sibs were really psyched about the way they skated. take a lis...

It's a good one. team usa picking up its first two gold medals. the u.s. dominating the snowboard competition. however, this one figure skater did something no american woman has ever done on olympic ice. coy wire with one of those dream assignments. he's there in south korea with the "bleacher report". and you're doing great, my brother. >> reporter: it's a dream. i'm pinching myself but i can't feel it. it's cold here, chris. feels-like temperature, negative 5. the wind, 45-mile-per-hour gusts will slap you in the face. events being postponed. that didn't stop one american from conquering th...

We've been doing the book tour. and now, really my days are just filled with dancing at this point. that is all i'm doing. >> hoping to make it to finals? . >> i hope so. it's going to be up to the fans i am up against two olympic ice skaters they're amazing. like, i love watching testimony. that is what is fun about the show. it's not just a dance competition. it's a performance competition the fans have half the vote. >> i admire your courage and we appreciate you coming by. good luck. i'm going to vote for you. >> i appreciate thachl thank you very much. >> that is all the time we have left...

The judges do and what all of the other skaters do before me. all i can control is myself. so i really put that pressure on myself to go out there and skate my best and some days you do that, some days it's not -- you know, you fall a little short. but i enjoy it every single moment. >> yeah. can i just ask you about pressure, too, because your teammate there, jeremy, he had a pretty strong reaction when he was asked about his fall on the ice. and here's what he had to say about it on the "today" show this morning. let's take a listen. >> i've been called a head case for many, many years. and ...

Little something goes wrong? >> for sure! you know, for me, it still hasn't hit me i was on olympic ice. it's something that for so long you dream about it and you envision it and you imagine what it would be like. and when you're on it, it feels so -- you know, you have seen it. you have pictured it. and it doesn't feel real. and it still haesn't. all i wanted to do was go out there, it felt like another competition and the crowd was incredible and i just wanted to go out there and just skate my skate. >> what about pressure, though? how do you deal with that when you go from the short to the...