Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir smashed the short dance world record as French rival Gabriella Papadakis suffered "my worst nightmare" with a wardrobe malfunction at the Olympics on Monday. As Virtue and Moir glided, twizzled and spun their way to a best-ever score of 83.67, Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron performed stoically in the face of the embarrassment of her dress becoming unclipped early in their routine, exposing a breast.

"It was pretty distracting, my worst nightmare at the Olympics," the 22-year-old Papadakis said. "I felt it right away and I prayed. "I told myself 'you have to keep going' and that's what we did, and we have to be proud of ourselves, delivering a great performance with that happening."

A great performance it was with the Olympic debutants' samba-rhumba-samba to two Ed Sheeran hits earning them 81.93 to go into Tuesday's free dance final just behind the Canadians. Lying in the bronze medal position in this discipline likened to ballroom dancing on ice were Americans Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue.

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