--- title: 'Despacito' Wins the 2018 Ice Dancing Competition description: If you watched the ice dancing competition at the 2018 Olympics, there's a good chance you came away with "Despacito" stuck in your head. canonical: https://time.com/5165228/olympics-2018-ice-dancing-despacito/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-19T04:02:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:45.601Z og:title: This Popular Song Is Having an Olympic Moment og:description: The song of the summer is making a serious winter comeback og:url: https://time.com/5165228/olympics-2018-ice-dancing-despacito/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1f52d258e3c63094/69892828096a944fa66a18fb/yura-min-alexander-gamelin.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Yura-Min-Alexander-Gamelin-Figure-Skating og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Popular Song Is Having an Olympic Moment twitter:description: The song of the summer is making a serious winter comeback twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1f52d258e3c63094/69892828096a944fa66a18fb/yura-min-alexander-gamelin.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'Despacito' Is the Clear Winner of the 2018 Olympic Ice Dancing Competition > Sponsored content. 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Jean Catuffe/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 19, 2018 4:02 AM UTC If you watched the short program portion of the [ice dancing competition](http://time.com/5131461/ice-dance-olympics-2018-how-to-watch/) at the [2018 Winter Olympics](http://time.com/5143796/winter-olympic-medals-by-country-2018/), there’s a good chance you came away with [“Despacito”](http://time.com/4923177/spotify-song-of-summer-2017/) stuck in your head. Three pairs opened their program during Sunday’s figure skating event in PyeongChang with versions of the smash hit by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, which [became the most streamed song ever](http://time.com/4888128/youtube-most-viewed-video/) over the summer with more than 4.6 billion YouTube views. “Despacito’s” big night began with China’s Xinyu Liu and Shiyue Wang. Korea’s Alexander Gamelin and Yura Min were next to break it down to the popular Latin jam, with Polish skaters Maksym Spodyriev and Natalia Kaliszek — whose 66.06 was the highest score of the three teams — following shortly afterward. > [](https://twitter.com/hodakotb/status/965428976956030976) The Internet, of course, was quick to take note of the of the Despacito trend. One Twitter user even tried to warn fellow skating fans about the prolific use of the song leading up to the event. “THERE ARE GONNA BE 3 DESPACITO SHORT DANCES TODAY,” @doubleflutz wrote. “AND TWO OF THEM ARE BACK TO BACK. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.” > [](https://twitter.com/doubleflutz/status/965381895952384001) See a selection of the reactions below. > [](https://twitter.com/wundernerd8/status/965414963367071745) > [](https://twitter.com/christylemire/status/965420205764575232) > [](https://twitter.com/EpicK8lin/status/965420425542029313) > [](https://twitter.com/jessieopie/status/965415131910991874) > [](https://twitter.com/CammienRay/status/965418853835722752) > [](https://twitter.com/gunnarolla/status/965418438519746560) > [](https://twitter.com/marshalederman/status/965420578935984128) > [](https://twitter.com/heungsmin/status/965418406404083717) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5165228/olympics-2018-ice-dancing-despacito/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5165228/olympics-2018-ice-dancing-despacito/"},"headline":"'Despacito' Is the Clear Winner of the 2018 Olympic Ice Dancing Competition","datePublished":"2018-02-19T04:02:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:45.601Z","description":"The popular song of the summer is making a serious winter comeback","url":"https://time.com/5165228/olympics-2018-ice-dancing-despacito/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Winter Olympics","2018 Pyeongchang Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1f52d258e3c63094/69892828096a944fa66a18fb/yura-min-alexander-gamelin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1f52d258e3c63094/69892828096a944fa66a18fb/yura-min-alexander-gamelin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Yura-Min-Alexander-Gamelin-Figure-Skating","caption":"Korea's Yura Min and Alexander Gamelin compete in the figure skating team event at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics","creditText":"Jean Catuffe/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5165228/olympics-2018-ice-dancing-despacito/","name":"'Despacito' Is the Clear Winner of the 2018 Olympic Ice Dancing Competition"}}]}] ```