Russian duo dances to Euro gold
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January 24, 2010, Sunday
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RUSSIA'S Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin pushed aside earlier controversy and showed their passionate side to win the ice dance gold at the European championships in Tallinn, Estonia, on Friday.
The world champions, who angered Australian Aboriginal elders on Thursday with their original dance, scored a total of 199.25 points in their three dances this week, although Federica Faiella and Massimo Scali scored higher in two dances.
The Italians took the silver, having been deemed better in the original and free dances, but because the Russians had built a five-point lead in the compulsory dance they could not catch the leaders and ended with 195.86 points.
Last year's champions Jana Khokhlova and Sergei Novitski of Russia had to settle for bronze with 189.67 but were happy that their new "Firebird" dance was well received by fans and judges ahead of February's Vancouver Olympics.
Domnina and Shabalin, who missed last year's competition because of injury, returned to claim the title they won in 2008 with a dramatic dance mixing love and hate called "Passion," to The Double Life of Veronique by Zbigniew Preisner.
It was the third time in as many days the crowd stood for the Russian national anthem, after Yevgeny Plushenko's victory in the men's event and Yuko Kavaguti and Alexander Smirnov's gold in the pairs.
In the women's event, Italy's Carolina Kostner charmed the judges with an elegant routine to lead after the short program.
She is seeking to grab back the crown she held for two years before losing it last year to Finland's Laura Lepisto, who struggled with a wobbly heel on her boot but still stood third.
Kostner landed her jumps and moved around the ice with speed and grace to score 65.80 points and lead Finns Kiira Korpi (64.26) and Lepisto (62.96) before the free skate.
The world champions, who angered Australian Aboriginal elders on Thursday with their original dance, scored a total of 199.25 points in their three dances this week, although Federica Faiella and Massimo Scali scored higher in two dances.
The Italians took the silver, having been deemed better in the original and free dances, but because the Russians had built a five-point lead in the compulsory dance they could not catch the leaders and ended with 195.86 points.
Last year's champions Jana Khokhlova and Sergei Novitski of Russia had to settle for bronze with 189.67 but were happy that their new "Firebird" dance was well received by fans and judges ahead of February's Vancouver Olympics.
Domnina and Shabalin, who missed last year's competition because of injury, returned to claim the title they won in 2008 with a dramatic dance mixing love and hate called "Passion," to The Double Life of Veronique by Zbigniew Preisner.
It was the third time in as many days the crowd stood for the Russian national anthem, after Yevgeny Plushenko's victory in the men's event and Yuko Kavaguti and Alexander Smirnov's gold in the pairs.
In the women's event, Italy's Carolina Kostner charmed the judges with an elegant routine to lead after the short program.
She is seeking to grab back the crown she held for two years before losing it last year to Finland's Laura Lepisto, who struggled with a wobbly heel on her boot but still stood third.
Kostner landed her jumps and moved around the ice with speed and grace to score 65.80 points and lead Finns Kiira Korpi (64.26) and Lepisto (62.96) before the free skate.
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