1.   There were three ice skating pairs on the plane.

2.   He seems to be the natural spokesman for the Russian skating pair, especially when the questions are in English.

3.   Several skating pairs are costumed according to varying regions, and they dance to orchestrations of the melody that capture the flavor of their cultures.

4.   Splitting up after an injury-riddled career are Danielle and Steve Hartsell, the sister-brother skating pair who won the US title three years ago.

5.   They were peeved when their skating pair was forced to share a gold medal.

6.   Together, the two ice skating pairs hugged.

7.   His skating pairs included the gold medalists Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitzev, and Gordeyeva and Grinkov.

8.   They teamed up as a skating pair and got engaged while at the next Olympics at Lillehammer.