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Maybe it wasn’t that dramatic the first time freshman Steven Keith stepped onto the mat as a Crimson wrestler, but for him, it was the confirmation of all of the hard work he had put into the sport up to that point...
...credibility problem. And at the Vancouver Games, it didn't earn any more respect when the Germans showed up in Hawaiian luau threads and the Russians dressed as Australian Aborigines. How can these people expect to be taken seriously? Where's the athleticism? Where's the sport? Is this anything that can be called Olympic? If ice dancing really wants to enjoy a boost, skating officials should take a few lessons from TV - and from Dancing with the Stars...
...part of one's social education, like etiquette classes and lessons in table manners. So take the ingredients of DWTS, the waltz and tango and rumba, put quarter-inch blades on the dancers, and get them moving at a much quicker clip. That's what is giving the sport its growing Dancing with the Stars-like power. Take it from a winner. "We've been saying it all year," says Meryl Davis, who with Charlie White won the Olympic silver medal in ice dancing for the U.S. "Ice dance is right up there with them...
...Olympics have given ice dancing additional luster in the North American market. On Monday, Feb. 22, for the first time since 1976, when the event was introduced in the Games, the Russians did not finish on top; they won the bronze, signaling a shift in the geocenter of the sport. Canadian pair Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir took the gold, while Davis and White took the silver. (Both pairs have benefited from the Russian legacy, having being trained by Igor Shpilband and Marina Zoueva, two Russian coaches who have established a mecca of ice-dancing expertise at the Arctic Figure...
...each other and express emotion. For that, he looks not at the skates, where the ice-dancing judges train their attention, but at the upper body. "I always watch their posture, their connection, and who leads and who follows," he says. "Even if it is a very technical sport, [the judges] are still human beings ... and they are emotionally affected whether they like...