Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are comfortably one dance away from winning the first Grand Prix of the season at Trophee Eric Bompard Cachemire. They won the original dance this afternoon. French couple Nathlanie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat are in second with only a 1.1 lead over third place couple from Great Britain, Sinead and John Kerr. Americans Samuelson and Bates do not appear to be doing well; they came in sixth in the original dance (and stand more than 20 points behind the leaders), while American teammates Kimberly Navarro and Brent Bommentre placed fourth in the OD. Here are the overall standings after the compulory and original dance:

1) Virtue and Moir, Canada: 100.32

2) Pechalat and Bourzat, France: 91.87

3) Kerr and Kerr, Great Britain: 90.86

4) Samuelson and Bates, USA: 77.66

5) Navarro and Bommentre, USA: 77.36

6) Gorshkova and Butikov, Russia: 75.14

7) Rubleva and Shefer, Russia: 74.24

8) Carron and Jones, France: 71.46

9) Hubbell and Hubbell, USA: 70.24

10) Blanc and Bouquet, France: 68.32