When figure skaters finish Olympic routines the most private seconds often come next ¡ª the deep breath after the music stops, quick looks to the boards, a sense of relief or disappointment before facing their coaches in the kiss-and-cry area.

At the Milano Cortina Games, those moments are being captured in a way audiences have rarely seen ¡ª by a former competitive ice dancer skating alongside the athletes with a camera ?rig he designed himself.

Jordan Cowan, who grew up in Los Angeles and has competed for the U.S., works on the ice ?as a ?roaming camera operator, filming skaters from the end of routines through their exit, a gap in coverage ?he calls ¡°unexplored territory¡± in broadcasts.