A careful throw

Imagine someone picking you up and throwing you into the air. Pretty scary, right?

Now imagine you are not on the ground, but on ice. You might be very scared of falling when you come down.

But this woman is smiling because she is an ice skater. She's not scared of falling, she's scared of losing.

These people are skating in an ice skating competition. They aren't competing against each other, they're competing together against other sets of partners. In ice skating, judges decide which team has the best moves, like spins, jumps and lifts, and then they give each team a score. Whoever gets the highest score wins.