Ben Agosto

Canadian Mervin Tran is considering becoming the next figure skater to change nationality for the Olympics after bagging a medal for Japan in the pairs at the Grand Prix NHK Trophy.

Olympic champ Kim Yu-na pairs up with 5-time world champion Michelle Kwan for skating duet. Olympic gold medalist Kim Yu-na says she is excited to skate again with her childhood idol, five-time world champion Michelle Kwan.

For Canadian ice dance pair, celebrating Olympic gold with crowd is like `our Stanley Cup'. Scott Moir would have gone to sleep on the Olympic rings in the middle of the Pacific Coliseum ice if they'd let him, clutching his gold medal.

Belbin-Agosto can't add another medal to their 2006 Olympic silver. The leaders of the North American uprising in ice dance will leave the Vancouver Olympics without a medal. Their place in history is secure anyway.

Canada's Virtue-Moir win ice dance, followed by Americans Davis-White. Long after the event ended and the arena had emptied, Scott Moir stole back onto the ice. Clutching his gold medal in one hand, he knelt down and kissed the Olympic rings at center ice.

Virtue and Moir win OD with spicy flamenco, take lead over Americans. See ya, stuffy old world of ice dancing. Sizzle is in.

Tango time: Russian world champs lead Canadians and Americans. Scrapping the compulsories is one idea Olympic ice dancers won't step around.

Rachael Flatt won the ladies' title at the US Figure Skating Championships, surging to victory with a solid free skate as Sasha Cohen's comeback hit the skids.

Flatt and Nagasu appear headed for Vancouver while Cohen appears headed back for home. Her Olympic dreams over, Sasha Cohen stuck around to watch Mirai Nagasu and Rachael Flatt.

SPOKANE, Washington (Reuters) - Rachael Flatt secured a ticket to next month's Vancouver Games when she captured the U.S. women's title on Saturday, while Sasha Cohen's Olympic dream came to a shuddering halt.

Meryl Davis and Charlie White won their second straight US ice dancing title Saturday, this one coming with the extra satisfaction of a victory over Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto.

Defending champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White maintained their lead in the Ice Dance competition by winning the original dance program.

Sasha Cohen turned back the clock at the US Figure Skating Championships Thursday with a strong short programme that put her in solid contention for a third Olympic berth.

Defending champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White edged Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto in Thursday's compulsory routine to lead the ice dance event at the US Figure Skating Championships.

Jeremy Abbott will have his sights on more than another US figure skating title as the national championships begin here Friday - just weeks before the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

Reigning world and Olympic silver medal ice dance duo Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto of the United States said Tuesday they are pulling out of the Grand Prix final next week in Tokyo.

Infected wisdom tooth knocks Olympic ice dance silver medalists out of Grand Prix final. Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto, the reigning Olympic and world silver medalists in ice dance, have withdrawn from next week's Grand Prix final.

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir hit a couple of pot-holes this weekend on the road to their home-country Olympics in February, but they were still the class of the ice dance field at Skate Canada.

South Korea's Kim, American Lysacek skate off with gold, look ahead during Olympic season. Even when she's not at her best, Kim Yu-na romps.

Belbin-Agosto take ice dance, world champ Kim wins despite losing free skate. Kim Yu-na was not infallible. She still was a winner at Skate America.