By the 2014 Olympics, American figure skaters had won plenty of gold medals in the singles' disciplines, but despite making strides in ice dance, the gold medal still eluded them. Silver medalists Meryl Davis and Charlie White had spent the four years since the 2010 Olympics in a sport-defining rivalry with training mates Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir (the 2010 gold medalists). Finally, in Sochi, it was the Americans' time to shine. Davis and White put down two spectacular programs, breaking a world record and winning the country's first Olympic title in ice dance. Davis and White's gold medal marked a new era for the American ice dance "dynasty," which has seen an American team on every Olympic podium since 2006.
Watch Davis and White dance into history here.
