At Friday night in Staples Center, Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto were being as gracious as they could, especially since they train with the Russian couple who had just won the world championship in ice dancing.
Inspite of the five-time U.S. champions couldn't help but wonder where the idea of dance and thematic choreography had gone in a discipline that rewarded Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin with a gold medal for their execution of a series of unrelated movements completely unrelated to music from the film "Spartacus" that was playing as they skated.
