11.   The institute provides free dance instruction to schoolchildren.

12.   Platov and Grishchuk, the favorites, have requested then Russian skating federation to give them a chance to polish their free dance before the Nagano games.

13.   American champions Naomi Lang and Peter Tchernyshev dropped to third heading into the free dance Friday night.

14.   At the European championships, last year the French couple fell in the final free dance.

15.   Dean choreographed the lilting Gaelic waltz the Canadians performed on Thursday and the free dance routine set for Friday.

16.   Each team member will perform an interpretive free skate or interpretive free dance.

17.   Earlier, world champions Anjelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsiannikov won the ice dance gold medal with an emotional and energetic free dance, which earned two perfect scores.

18.   Even if they win the free dance, if one of the other top two couples comes in second, that couple would win the title.

19.   Even though Torvill and Dean won the European championship, Gritschuk and Platov took the free dance there.

20.   French sweethearts Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat enter the free dance as the hot favorites.