Let Olympic ice dancer Yura Min demonstrate how you can recover expertly from a wardrobe malfunction.
As Min hit the ice together with her partner Alexander Gamelin on Sunday, her costume became unhooked just seconds into their routine.
“I was like, ‘Oh no!'” she told The Detroit Free Press. “If that comes undone, the whole thing could just pop off. I had been terrified the entire program.”
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While Min, that has dual citizenship in South Korea and the United States, might have stopped to repair the clasp, she didn’t want to lose points. “This is my first Olympics, our first program and if my top would fall, that would happen to be a disaster,” she said.
So she powered on and managed to avoid anymore snafus by skating together with her shoulders back and head held high. Unfortunately a stiff back doesn’t alllow for a fluid, graceful ice dance and the pair, who have been competing for Columbia, placed near the bottom of the rankings, 9th out of ten competitors. Min took the wardrobe malfunction in stride, though. “I promise to sew myself in for the individual event,” she wrote on Twitter on Sunday, adding a laughing emoji. “I would like to thank the audience to keep us going ’till the end. Couldn’t have done it without you guys.”
There would be a #KOR wardrobe malfunction during ice dancing #Pyeongchang2018 pic.twitter.com/cRd6QKQdXF
— Rob Williams (@RobTheHockeyGuy) February 11, 2018
Oopsie ?? pic.twitter.com/KP2QlTisCW
— Yura Min (???) (@Yuraxmin) February 11, 2018
Min’s good-natured response should earn her points with fans, if not the judges. Min might be okay with that, though. A week ago she told The Boston Globe that they and her partner were in the Olympics for that experience, not the very best prize. “We’re not going for a medal or anything, so there isn’t much pressure upon us,” she said. “We would like to have fun.”
Let me tell you about a good partner he pulled it when they ended I love it. @Olympics pic.twitter.com/y6ukRoqZpW
— Leslie Jones ?? (@Lesdoggg) February 11, 2018
