From news on athletes, tickets, facilities and the border, Adventure writer Craig Hill takes you inside the ramp up to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Just 175 miles north of Tacoma, the Vancouver, B.C., games will likely be the closest the Olympics ever come to the South Sound region.
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Despite falling just short of their fifth Skate America title, ice dancer Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto where pleased with their first performance under new coaches Natalia Linichuk and Gennadi Karpanosov.
“There is good recognition of what we need to do (to improve) … and that’s typical of this point in the season,” Belbin said. “… It’s good to get this feedback now so that we have time to work on it.”
The Americans won the free dance Saturday, but it was not enough to claim gold in the three-dance competition. Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder of France took first with 187.64 points. The Americans scored 186.53 points to take silver.
“We are so pleased with the progress we are making under the tutildge of our new coaches,” Belbin said. “… I hope this is a platform we can build on.”
Part of the reason the dancers brought in a new coach was to develop a clear plan for progressing over the next two seasons.
“This is the first step in this season,” Agosto said. “But at the same time it is the first step toward the Olympic games. And the Olympic games is the main goal.”
