BURBANK, Calif. (AP)—Olympic figure skating champion Kim Yu-na is set to train in Los Angeles. Although for how long and under whose tutelage still remains to be seen.
Since splitting from her longtime coach Brian Orser in a public spat last month, Kim had remained coy on her future plans.
Kim eliminated some of the mystery on Tuesday, confirming she would be moving her training base from Canada to Artesia on the outskirts of Los Angeles.
NEW YORK (AP)—Ice dancing once was the ugly stepchild of figure skating, so scorned that there was discussion of dropping it from the Olympics.
Now, particularly after the sensational showings by the Canadians and Americans at the Vancouver Games, skating fans are clamoring for more.
Meryl Davis and Charlie White are ready to give it to them.
TURIN, Italy (AP)—Kim Yu-na returned home to South Korea from her majestic performance at the Vancouver Olympics and, for the first time, found it hard to get motivated.
She didn’t want to go to practice and she didn’t want to work—even with the World Figure Skating Championships in Turin, Italy, just a few weeks away.
Yet she didn’t get a hard time for that.
VANCOUVER ' Scott Moir stood in the kiss-and-cry area, motioning for the crowd to quiet down so that the ensuing couple, Americans Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto, could hear their music.
Not that it mattered.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP)—Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir have won Canada’s first Olympic ice dance gold medal, beating Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White at the Vancouver Games.
World champions Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin of Russia won the bronze.
Vancouver (AFP) - Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir surged to the Olympic ice dancing lead as world champions Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin's controversial Aboriginal-themed original dance failed to impress in Vancouver.
A dramatic Spanish Flamenco allowed Virtue and Moir to overtake the Russians who had been leading after the compulsory dance, with the three-time Canadian champions scoring 68.41 points for the programme and 111.15 overall.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP)—Sizzle beats buzz.
Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won the original dance Sunday with a sultry, fiery flamenco number that reduced the uproar over the Russians’ aboriginal routine to background noise. Virtue and Moir, medalists at the last two world championships, scored 68.41 points to edge Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White. With 111.15 points overall, Virtue and Moir lead Davis and White — their training partners—by 2.60 points going into Monday night’s free dance.
Reigning world champions Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin, the focus of all the attention before the OD and leaders after the compulsory dance, dropped to third. Olympic silver medalists Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto are fourth.
First, the bad news: It's Monday. Now, the good news: The Vancouver Games forge ahead, undaunted by how difficult it is to begin a new work week. Below is a look at what to watch closely on Day 11:
After the completion of the individual ski jumping events, NBC looks at the top story lines to watch for the Day 10 team competition.Ski jumping, team final: Austria's sigh of relief. Much to the delight of the Austrian team, the final event on the Olympic ski jumping program will not feature Simon Ammann . The all-time Olympic leader in individual ski jumping golds doesn't have enough sidekicks to successfully field a squad for the four-man event. Even if Ammann were competing, the formidable Austrian squad - headlined by two-time Vancouver bronze medalist Gregor 'The Human Typo' Schlierenzauer - will be tough to beat.
Sunday: The biggest names in Alpine face off in a two-headed event, and two familiar faces from Alpine resurface in a new Olympic sport. Here are some of the key events to watch on Day 10 of the XXI Olympic Winter Games:
Aksel Lund Svindal recovers from a 2007 crash to become a champion. Watch how he races to super-G gold while his father Bjorn watches.VANCOUVER -- If it only took two to tango at these Olympics, instead of 46, compulsory ice dance would not be such an obvious target.
