TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir hold a slender lead over American pair Meryl Davis and Charlie White after Thursday’s short program in the ice dance competition at the Four Continents figure skating championships.
The Canadian couple scored 69.40 points in their return to the ice following Virtue’s October surgery to relieve pressure in her legs from compartment syndrome. That compared to 69.01 for their American rivals.
Virtue and Moir combined precision, fluency and elegance to delight the crowd at the Taipei Arena. But they will have to be at their best to stay ahead of Davis and White, their training partners in Detroit, when the ice dance competition concludes Friday.
