“I have very mixed emotions about it,” Bell said. “I am bummed with the mistake on the opening element, but I am happy how I came back with everything else. Ultimately, I just really enjoyed skating on Olympic ice."
Bell, who won the most recent U.S. national championship, was the first of three American women to take the ice Tuesday. She ended up in 11th place heading into Thursday's free skate.
"There's a lot," American pairs skater Brandon Frazier said, when asked about the process of selecting the music for a program. "We try to find music we relate to. That's number one. We rely heavily on our choreographer's opinion, on what they see us doing. ... But all in all, when we're skating to it, we have to feel it."
There's also the obvious: When you pick a song for a program, you're signing up to skate to it almost every day, for months at a time.
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