Vancouver 2010 OD | Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (🇨🇦) "Spanish Flamenco" (1st place)

Australian coverage (commentators: Belinda Noonan, Warren Smith) Highlights from the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, Ice Dance Original Dance (OD) portion (mandatory theme for the 2009/10 season: Country/Folk), performance(s) shown here marked (^) below: Rank Name Nation Total points CD OD^ FD 1 Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir Canada 221.57 2 1^ 1 Music: Farrucas - by Pepe Romero -- NY Times excerpts: Ice Dancing Tilts Toward North America By J. Macur Feb. 22, 2010 VANCOUVER, British Columbia With only one segment of the ice dancing competition left at these [Games], three North American teams find themselves in an unprecedented position: all are in reach of a medal with some even close to the gold. The Canadian team of Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won the original dance Sunday, prying away the spotlight usually focused on Europeans in this sport. Virtue and Moir’s sexy, sultry flamenco, which they said was the best one they had ever performed, received 68.41 points. That victory, which elicited deafening cheers by the home crowd, gave them a 2.6-point lead going into the free dance Monday. They scored 111.15 points over all. Their performance also put them one step closer to history. No North American team has ever won the Winter Games gold medal in ice dancing. Teams from Canada and the United States have won only three medals - one silver and two bronze - in the event since it became a Winter Games sport in 1976. Russian teams have won seven of the nine gold medals. “The power, the rhythm, it brought a certain energy out of us,” Virtue said. “I think we really connected to it.” -- #figureskating #フィギュアスケート #eiskunstlauf #фигурноекатание #피겨스케이팅 #pattinaggioartistico #patinageartistique #icedance thanks to Kim!