OSAKA, JAPAN—Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir came within two points of their world record score in the short dance on Saturday to grab an early lead at the NHK Trophy figure skating competition, the fourth stop on the ISU Grand Prix circuit. Virtue and Moir gave another stirring performance of their routine to classic rock tunes tabulating 80.92 points. In men’s competition, the top-three were Sergei Voronov of Russia first, Adam Rippon of the U.S. second and Alexei Bychenko of Israel third. World champion Evgenia Medvedeva of Russia won the gold. Carolina Kostner of Italy was second with 212.24 points, followed by Russia’s Polina Tsurskaya with 210.19.

Source: thestar November 12, 2017 02:26 UTC