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Davis and White win ice dance title

 

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Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the ice dance title for the second time in three years on Saturday.

Davis and White beat out Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who had won the event in 2012 and 2010.

Davis and White scored a mark of 112.44 while Virtue and Moir took a score of 111.17. Italy's Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte placed third at 100.11 while the Russian pair of Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev finished in fourth place at 99.14.

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