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Maia Shibutani

When Maia Shibutani and ice dancing partner (and brother) Alex won bronze at the 2018 Winter Olympics, they became the first ice dancers of Asian descent to medal at the Olympics. (PS: they were already the first to do it at the World Championships.) Their journey since has been a difficult one; in October 2019, a cancerous tumor was found on Maia's kidney, requiring surgery and a long recovery. The 26-year-old ice dancer says she's cancer-free now, and the siblings (and published authors of two children's books!) are working their way back to the ice.