Canadian duo Vritue, Moir wins ice dance at worlds
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March 31, 2012, Saturday
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OLYMPIC ice dance champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada reclaimed the world title from their archrivals, reversing last year's result by beating defending champs Meryl Davis and Charlie White in Nice, France, on Thursday.
Virtue and Moir, who clinched the worlds and Olympic double two years ago, won the free dance to clinch the title, having already won Wednesday's short dance. "It's the icing on the cake, it really is a bonus to be world champions," Moir said. "There was a lot of pressure for us to win, because we knew we had done the work to deserve to win. When the marks came up I was a little bit relieved ... I was excited, I screamed something under my breath."
The Canadians, with 182.65 points, beat the Americans, on 178.62, for the second straight event, after also winning at last month's Four Continents against their close friends.
"What we really did well was completing and executing everything we set out to do," Virtue said. "We didn't get too ahead of ourselves which is sometimes easy to do at this point of the season when everything is so automatic."
Davis and White kept the pressure on with an inspirational free to the searing sound of Johann Strauss' "Die Fledermaus" that had the crowd applauding on its feet at the Palais des Expositions in Nice.
Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat of France won the bronze with 173.18.
Virtue and Moir, who clinched the worlds and Olympic double two years ago, won the free dance to clinch the title, having already won Wednesday's short dance. "It's the icing on the cake, it really is a bonus to be world champions," Moir said. "There was a lot of pressure for us to win, because we knew we had done the work to deserve to win. When the marks came up I was a little bit relieved ... I was excited, I screamed something under my breath."
The Canadians, with 182.65 points, beat the Americans, on 178.62, for the second straight event, after also winning at last month's Four Continents against their close friends.
"What we really did well was completing and executing everything we set out to do," Virtue said. "We didn't get too ahead of ourselves which is sometimes easy to do at this point of the season when everything is so automatic."
Davis and White kept the pressure on with an inspirational free to the searing sound of Johann Strauss' "Die Fledermaus" that had the crowd applauding on its feet at the Palais des Expositions in Nice.
Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat of France won the bronze with 173.18.
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