Meryl Davis and Charlie White

Charlie Davis and Meryl White are the 2009 and 2010 U.S. champions, the 2009 Four Continents champions and the 2009 Grand Prix Final champions just won the silver medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics last night

Won the silver at the 2008 U.S. Championships and the bronze at the 2007 event ... Took the bronze at the 2008 Grand Prix Final ... Are the 2006 U.S. junior champions and the 2006 World Junior bronze medalists ... Missed the bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships by .04 points ... Named USOC Team of the Month for December 2009 ... Are the longest-tenured U.S. ice dancing team, having been together since 1998 ... Were coached by Seth Chafetz from 1997-2005.



Davis started skating at age 5 on a lake near her house ... Started in the U.S. Figure Skating Basic Skills Program at the same age ... Graduated Phi Beta Kappa from and was a member of the Principal's Honor Roll at Wylie E. Groves High School, from which she graduated on June 5, 2005 ... Attends the University of Michigan and is studying anthropology and Italian ... Mother is a retired school teacher and father is a lawyer ... Has a younger brother, Clayton ... Hobbies include reading and traveling ... Favorite city to which she's traveled for skating is Vienna, Austria, because "it is such a beautiful, elegant city" ... After her skating career, would like to continue her education and travel the world ... Would like to meet President Obama because "he has so much power, intellect and possibility" ... Has a passion for travel, foreign languages, learning about new cultures and music ... Volunteers at St. Jude's Children's Hospital.

There's no arguing with Meryl Davis and Charlie White's lead. No questioning the authenticity of their Bollywood-style dance, either.

Davis and White won the original dance Friday night, extending their lead and moving one step closer to an upset victory over Olympic silver medalists Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Davis and White are 1.62 points ahead going into today's free dance, a margin that is difficult to make up in dance.



"It's a slight confidence boost, but nothing we're going to think about," White said. "We know what we have to do."

In original dance, couples can create any kind of dance that falls within an assigned theme. This year it's country/folk, and world champions Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin have outraged some Australian aboriginal leaders, who claim their dance is offensive cultural theft, with inauthentic steps and gaudy costumes.



There are no such complaints about Davis and White, whose original dance has become a viral hit in India and among people with ties to South Asia. One video of their OD has been viewed almost 236,000 times on YouTube, astronomical numbers for a skating video, and it's gotten high praise on several Web sites celebrating Indian culture.

There's no arguing with Meryl Davis and Charlie White's lead. No questioning the authenticity of their Bollywood-style dance video,click link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaMaCevuZn8