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The Guardian
Meryl Davis and Charlie White won a gold medal in ice dance on Monday, the first Olympic title in the event to go to the United States.Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada, the 2010 champions, took silver. Russia’s Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov took bronze.
Davis and White won silver in Vancouver, but in the four years since have overtaken the Canadians, their training partners in Detroit.
The Americans scored 116.63 points in the free dance to finish with 195.52, 4.53 ahead of Virtue and Moir. After a near-flawless performance to Shéhérazade, Davis rested her head on White’s back in exhausted elation.
USA Today
SOCHI, Russia – The wardrobe malfunction occurred on ice to the music of a Michael Jackson Medley. Brother and sister Alex and Maia Shibutani did their best to improvise and make it through their Olympic ice dancing moment Monday night.During a lift, her black-sequined skirt somehow got caught on his black sequined jacket. Instead of him moving her across his body, the duo from Ann Arbor, Mich., had to struggled to overcome the snag. They were stuck together.
“When you get caught, you can’t really do too much about it. We were trying to un-rip it without setting the lift down and keeping the lift up,” said Maia, 19, who said nothing like that had ever occurred to them in competition.
They stuck with the lift. She finally worked free. Afterward, she showed that her left tight around the thigh was ripped during the effort.