Top News
Canada's Virtue, Moir win ice dance gold medal
(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-02-23 14:01
 |
Large Medium Small |
VANCOUVER: Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir had home fans leaping to their feet as the Canadians ended 34-years of European domination to win the Olympic ice dance gold medal on Monday.
|
 Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir finish their performance in the ice dance free dance figure skating event at the Vancouver Winter Olympics February 22, 2010. [Agencies]
|
Virtue and Moir's stirring performance to Mahler's Symphony No 5 raised the domed roof at the Pacific Coliseum after they were awarded a combined total of 221.57 points. They beat Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White by 5.83 points.
| ||||
Britain's Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean (1984) and French couple Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat (2002) had claimed the other two titles.
