Olympic Figure Skating

This page will show updates on Olympic figure skating during the Winter olympics 2010 to be held on February 12-28, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Stay tuned in for updates on the events and medals!

Virtue and Moir of Canada became the first North American Ice Dance team to win Gold which was a very powerful moment in front of their home country. They also are the first Ice Dancing team to win Gold in their first olympic appearance. They are the youngest medal winners in olympic history in figure skating.

After a night of dramatic tension with the Men's Short Program here are the standings as they go into the Free Skate on Thursday 2/18/2010

1st Russian Yevgeny Plushenko 90.85

2nd USA Evan Lysacek 90.30

3rd Japan Daisuke Takahashi 90.25

4th Japan Nobunari Oda 84.85

5th Stephane Lambiel 84.63

6th USA Johnny Weir 82.10

It will be quite a battle for the Gold Medal

Gold Medal: China (Shen and Zhao) Silver Medal: China (Pang and Tong) Bronze: Germany (Savchenko and Szolkowy)

Shen and Zhao win the Gold after 4 olympics. They have been skating together for 18 years and were the sentimental favorite to win.

Figure skating is officially underway. The Pairs short program began on 2-14-2010.

The favored team to win (China team Shen/Zhao) drew to skate first, which is often a dreaded spot since judges are known to hold off on awarding higher scores for later performances.

The night started off with a look at the romantic journey for Shen and Zhao. They started skating together almost a decade ago and the romance bloomed years later after Zhao suffered a major injury and Shen was there for him every step of the way. They have won numerous world championships and won the bronze medal at the Torino Olympics but their ultimate goal is the olympic gold medal. They came out of skating retirement for this shot at the gold.

It is so poignant that they skate together on Valentine's Day.

They set a record for the highest score for a short program at an International competition with 76.66

On 1/23/2010 U.S. Figure Skating announced their nominations for ladies figure skating and ice dancing for the 2010 U.S. Olympic Figure Skating Team, pending United States Olympic Committee (USOC) approval. Rachael Flatt and Mirai Nagasu are the nominees for ladies, while Meryl Davis & Charlie White, Tanith Belbin & Ben Agosto, and Emily Samuelson & Evan Bates are the ice dancers nominated to the team.

For Ladies Figure Skating Flatt won Gold and Nagasu won Silver at the US Championships January 2010 Davis and White won Gold and Belbin and Agosto won Silver while Samuelson and Bates won Bronze in Spokane, Wash.

The ladies alternates nominated to the team are Ashley Wagner (Alternate No. 1), Sasha Cohen (Alternate No. 2) and Christina Gao (Alternate No. 3). Kimberly Navarro & Brent Bommentre (Alternate No. 1), Madison Chock & Greg Zuerlein (Alternate No. 2), and Madison Hubbell & Keiffer Hubbell (Alternate No. 3) are the ice dancing alternates nominated to the team. http://www.usfsa.org/Story.asp?id=44109&type=media