Canada finally beat the U.S. at something Monday night in the Olympics, but it involved simultaneous twizzles instead of power play goals.
The gold in ice dancing didn’t exactly make up for the Canadians’ loss on Sunday to the Americans in the hockey rink. Still, the hosts took considerable comfort in this victory by Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, which came at the expense of two U.S. couples – Meryl Davis and Charlie White, who took silver, and Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto, the fourth-place finishers.
This is a very subjective event competed in a very small world. The Canadian winners and the American runners-up are training mates and close friends, coached by the same Russian-born Canadian, Marina Zueva, in a Detroit area rink. It was going to be tough for Davis and White to overcome the hometown edge here, and the signs from the start yesterday were ominous when White banged his head into a sink and raised a welt.
