1.   The top pair never fastens, are known as dress buttons.

2.   Kyoko Ina-Jason Dungjen and Jessica Joseph-Charles Butler, the top returning pair and dance couple, went pfffft.

3.   No duo in the country could do to the top pairs skating team of Kyoko Ina and John Zimmerman what a football nearly did.

4.   Now, he and Meno are skating with the same degree of difficulty as the other top pairs.

5.   The conflict is understandable given the way the two were virtually force-fed to one another in their quest to become the top pairs team in the world.

6.   The Germans were the first of the top four pairs to skate.

7.   Ties are decided by the value of the top pair, then the value of the second pair, and finally by the spare card.

8.   VIRGIN TERRITORY sped to the early lead inside, dueled along the inside on the turn and through the drive but could not match the top pair late.

9.   Vision and Verse did stage a wide rally to show, but he did not menace the top pair, who were a head apart.

10.   Another top pair also withdrew from the competition.