University of Michigan skaters win "Ice Dance" Gold Medal (Winter Olympics at Sochi, Russia)

from coverage of Detroit Free Press (mid-afternoon of Feb. 17, 2014) by sportswriter - columnist Jeff Seidel ______________________ This gold medal was made in Michigan. Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the ice dance at the Winter Olympics Monday (Feb. 17, 2014), becoming the first U.S. skaters to capture a gold medal in the event. “That, in itself, justified 17 years of hard work,” White said of their performance. Davis, 27, of West Bloomfield and White, 26, of Bloomfield Hills finished with 195.52 points. Davis and White defeated their archrivals, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who finished with 190.99 points and won the silver medal for Canada. Both teams train at Arctic Edge in Canton, under acclaimed coach Marina Zoueva.