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Pride for Asian-American skaters as they take to Olympic ice

HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) — Keita Horiko glided across the rink at the Ice House, picking up speed as he attempted a jump — and sprawled in a fall as he came back down.

Unfazed, the 10-year-old U.S. Figure Skating juvenile boys champion got up and started skating again. His older brother, 13-year-old Yuki, also was on the ice, practicing his own moves as they wound down their second practice of the day before heading home to Manhattan and doing it all again the next day.

They've got Olympic-size dreams, and when they watch figure skating at the Pyeongchang Games, they've got plenty of role models — a history-making U.