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TIME on Instagram: ""Some might say that this return, this comeback is crazy. But sometimes you hit three 7s in a row." The Shibutani siblings (@shibsibs), who have won two national titles and eight senior-level medals at the U.S. championships, have been making history since they began skating together as kids. In 2011, when Maia was 16 and Alex was 20, they became the youngest U.S. team to win a world-championships medal, their first of three, in ice dance. And with that achievement they also