Ice Dance Gold: Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir (Canada) Silver: Meryl Davis & Charlie White (United States) Bronze: Oksana Domnina & Maxim Shabalin (Russia) First time for a North American Gold Medalist.
I'm hardly a fan of figure skating... but the performances of both virtue and moir alongside their good american friends Davis/white were mesmerizing, with the canadians being a bit better this time out. Virtue is ridiculously cute. Loved Moirs celebration, going nuts, belting out the anthem, falling off the podium after but landing on his feet, then destroying his boquet waving it around. Great passion.
I mean this in as nice a way possible, as she has a certain attractiveness, but that American female skater from the pair that won silver kind of looks like she's from Avatar... except not blue obviously.
Deserved win for Kim Yu-Na. I thought that she and Asada were fairly even in the short program, but she ran away with the free skate. Crazy to think that the high point of her life is already behind her at age 19.
I'm really looking forward to the exhibition performances tomorrow night. Here's a pretty great bit of criticism about the coverage of the men's figure skating event and Johnny Weir especially: http://current.com/items/92224102_thats-gay-johnny-weir.htm