Tessa Virtue and Scott Moirand — all of Canada — might be celebrating this gold medal until the next Olympics. They have a lot of catching up to do. It’s not often the Russians get knocked off their traditional spot atop the ice dancing podium.
Virtue and Moir won Monday night, a first for the Canadians. For only the third time since ice dancing became an Olympic sport in 1976, the gold went to someone other than a Russian or Soviet couple.
“It’s just perfect,” said Moir, who with Virtue scored 221.57 points. “You couldn’t write up a better story for the two of us.”
Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White finished second at 215.74, even if some had trouble figuring out what the Canadians did much better, other than garner louder applause.
The Russian team of Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin won the bronze, staving off the American duo of Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto, who won silver at the 2006 Olympics.
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