Sochi, Feb 17 (IANS) The duel between defending champions Tessa Virtue-Scott Moir and World No.1 Meryl Davis-Charlie White continued among 24 pairs here at the Winter Olympics.
Dancing to "My Fair Lady" tune Sunday, 2010 Vancouver Olympics' silver medallists Davis and White from the US, who have won every competition they have entered in the last two seasons, set a new season best of short dance at 78.89 points, edging Canadian arch-rivals Virtue-Moir to second after the latters' short dance scored 76.33, reports Xinhua.
The two North American ice dance couples, who both have been training for many years in Detroit under the tutelage of Russian Marina Zueva and, have dominated the event for the past Olympic cycle, swapping world titles between them.
"We did what we needed to do tonight. We like our chances," said Moir.
"I don't think we could have done it much better than we did tonight," echoed Virtue.
Russian Elena Ilinykh-Nikita Katsalapov took third with a 73.04-point short dance ahead of France's Nathalie Pechalat-Fabian Bourzat on 72.78. Another Russian pair Ekaterina Bobrova-Dmitri Soloviev were fifth on 69.97.
The top 20 dancers after short dance advanced to the free dancing Monday.
Europe has dominated the discipline since it was introduced in the 1976 Games. Russia/Soviet Union have won it seven times, Britain and France have one gold each and Canada won the title at 2010 Vancouver.
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