GANGNEUNG, South Korea — The opening of the Olympic ice-dancing competition was affected Monday by a wardrobe malfunction that left the costume of a French gold medal contender revealingly open, causing her to become distracted and cautious.
Despite that momentary embarrassment, the results set up a showdown in Tuesday’s final between the Canadian and French couples, who present a stark philosophical contrast in style at a potentially transformational moment for the sport. Ice dancing is being energized by an inventive sense of flow and is trying to gain new respect where it was once mocked for a seeming lack of sporting legitimacy.
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada, the 2010 Olympic champions and 2014 silver medalists, won Monday’s short dance with their season-best score of 83.67 points. Skating to compulsory Latin rhythms, they displayed characteristically brilliant musical interpretation, precise dancing to the beat and an inspired choice of music, extracting a samba from the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil,” coaxing a rumba from the Eagles’ “Hotel California” and summoning a cha-cha from Santana’s “Oye Como Va.”
Second after the short program are Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France, two-time world champions making their Olympic debut. They scored 81.93 points despite a problem with Papadakis’s costume that revealed her breast and seemed to leave the couple somewhat unnerved and guarded. Papadakis called it her “worst nightmare.”
Source :- nytimes
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