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The 2010 Olympic countdown begins in earnest this week at the ISU Four Continents Championships at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia. With the competition doubling as the test event for the Games, now just one year and seven days away, Olympic fever is bound to take hold.

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The Finnstep -- figure skating's newest compulsory dance, which made its North American debut today at the 2009 ISU Four Continents Championships -- is proving to be hazardous to some ice dancers' health.

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World champion Mao Asada of Japan out-skated South Korea's Yu-Na Kim for gold at the Grand Prix Final in December, but it was Kim who prevailed Wednesday in the women's short program at the 2009 ISU Four Continents Championships, in the process setting a new record for the highest ladies short program score in international competition under the International Judging System -- 72.24.

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No one could come close to overtaking China's Qing Pang and Jian Tong for the pairs title on Thursday at the 2009 ISU Four Continents Championships.

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No Canadian man has ever won Olympic figure skating gold. Patrick Chan would like nothing better than to rewrite that bothersome statistic a year from now in Vancouver.

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Meryl Davis and Charlie White scored a major upset at the 2009 ISU Four Continents Championships on Friday, taking the ice dance gold in a come-from-behind win over favorites Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.

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The 9,873 fans -- thousands of them of South Korean and Japanese descent -- who flocked to Vancouver's Pacific Coliseum to see their idols battle for gold at the 2009 ISU Four Continents Championships certainly got their money's worth on Friday night.

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Evan Lysacek had a message for the young guns here at the ISU Four Continents Championships in Vancouver.

To paraphrase: Don't count the old guys out.

Still, the grizzled veterans are going to have to show some gumption to top Canadian upstart Patrick Chan when the world comes to Los Angeles in March.

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