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Davis and White Win Second U. S. Ice Dancing Crown

February 04, 2010

Article by J. Barry Mittan

Ice dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White won their second consecutive gold medal at U. S. Nationals last week to qualify for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in February. The dancers are the top-ranked ice dancing couple in the world this season after winning the 2009-10 ISU Grand Prix Final in December as well as two Grand Prix events in the fall.

The dancers scored a personal best 222.29 total points to best 2009 world silver medalists Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto by 3.78 points.

Davis and White earned 45.42 points in the compulsory dance, the Golden Waltz.

"We've done a waltz every year for the last ten years," he added. "Waltzes come easy for us and feel very natural."

"We haven't been senior that long so we had done the Golden Waltz but not the tango," White stated. "Both the Golden Waltz and the tango are very different dances and the skating skills required are tremendous, but we're comfortable with the steps."

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