The world's elite skaters discuss the joys and challenges of pursuing perfection on ice

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U.S. Figure Skating photo

Ice dancers Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker make the seemingly impossible look incredibly graceful.

Quadruple jumps. Dazzling spins. Perfect synchronization. One skater flinging another through the air, who manages to land gracefully on a thin blade moving across a sheet of ice. Most can only imagine the difficulty of elite figure skating: launching in the air to spin three or four full revolutions before gravity pulls you down, then landing on one leg. Now picture doing it at full speed amid a packed routine

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