Evora-Ladwig of US set career best in pairs

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) Amanda Evora and Mark Ladwig have outskated their teammates and U.S. champions in the Olympics short program. They set a career best with 57.86 points to finish 10th.

The surprise Olympians are 4.6 points ahead of Caydee Denney and Jeremy Barrett, who made one major error and stand 14th. Denney did only a double on planned side-by-side triple toe loops and had 53.26 points.

China's Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo have won the short program with a world-record 76.66 points.

A point of interest is that while they skate with different partners, Jeremy Barrett and Amanda Evora are dating.  In a question and answer session with Jeremy Barrett, he discussed the idea of competing against his girlfriend.  Click here to read about it.

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Tags: Amanda Evora, Caydee Denney, Figure Skating, Jeremy Barrett, Mark Ladwig, Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Winter Olympics