Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir gave a dramatic flamenco performance to lead the way in the Original Dance portion of the Olympic ice dancing competition. They are currently in first place by nearly three points. Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White were also successful tonight, performing a difficult and crowd-pleasing dance to Indian music to secure second place. Russian reigning world champions Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin had some scratching their heads at the judging when their disjointed aboriginal dance received a high enough score to keep them in medal contention; they are currently in third place.
The medal picture is looking more hazy for American reigning Olympic silver medalists Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto. They are going to need a lot of help to make up the ground and jump onto the podium. A more successful night for Emily Samuelson and Evan Bates, who jumped down to 11th place after a fun county music performance.
The ice dancing competition concludes tomorrow night with the free dance. See if Canada can win its first ice dancing gold medal!
Ice Dance Standings after the Original Dance:
|
1 |
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir |
Canada |
111.15 |
| 2 | Meryl Davis and Charlie White |
USA |
108.55 |
| 3 | Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin |
Russia |
106.60 |
| 4 | Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto |
USA |
103.33 |
| 5 | Federica Faiella and Massimo Scali |
Italy |
100.06 |
| 6 | Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder |
France |
96.67 |
| 7 | Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat | France |
96.12 |
| 8 | Sinead Kerr and John Kerr |
Great Britain |
93.78 |
| 9 | Jana Khokhlova and Sergei Novitski |
Russia |
92.75 |
| 10 | Alexandra Zaretsky and Roman Zaretsky |
Israel |
89.62 |
| 11 | Emily Samuelson and Evan Bates |
USA |
85.36 |
| 12 | Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte |
Italy |
84.58 |
| 13 | Anna Zadorozhhniuk and Sergei Verbillo | Ukraine |
83.89 |
| 14 | Nora Hoffmann and Maxim Zavozin | Hungary |
83.12 |
| 15 | Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev | Russia |
80.47 |
| 16 | Cathy Reed and Chris Reed |
Japan |
80.30 |
| 17 | Vanessa Crone and Paul Poirier |
Canada |
79.31 |
| 18 | Christina Beier and William Beier | Germany |
76.73 |
| 19 | Xintong Huang and Xun Zheng |
China |
74.25 |
| 20 | Penny Coomes and Nicholas Buckland | Great Britain |
72.01 |
| 21 | Allison Reed and Otar Japaridze |
Georgia |
68.87 |
| 22 | Kamila Hajkova and David Vincour |
Czech Republic |
63.73 |
| 23 | Irina Schtork and Taavi Rand |
Estonia |
56.94 |