Figure skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Ice dancing
| Ice dancing at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
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Figure skating pictogram
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Iceberg Skating Palace Sochi, Russia |
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| Dates | 16–17 February 2014 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 48 from 15 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning score | 195.52 | ||||||||||||
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Meryl Davis / Charlie White |
 United States
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Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir |
 Canada
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Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov |
 Russia
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The ice dancing competition of the 2014 Winter Olympics was held at the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi, Russia. The short dance was held on 16 February and the free dance on 17 February. The competition was won by Meryl Davis and Charlie White from the United States. This is the first time the US won gold in ice dancing.
Prior to the competition, the existing ISU best scores were:
The following new best scores were set during this competition:
All dates and times are (UTC+4).
The short dance was held on 16 February.
The free dance was held on 17 February.
Teams were ranked according to their overall score.
On 8 February, French sports newspaper L'Équipe, quoting an anonymous Russian coach, alleged that Russia and the United States would swap votes, with the United States voting for Russian athletes in pairs figure skating and team events and Russia voting for the Americans in ice dancing. The allegations were categorically denied by U.S. Figure Skating.
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