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Did we do it?

Sometime after 9 p.m. local time on Monday night in the Sochi suburb of Adler, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir will step on the ice for what will be their final Olympic skate of a memorable career. What the two spoke about the day before, after a near perfect rendering of their short program, will come back into play at this moment – their moment. “We sat in the kiss and cry and looked at each other and said, 'It doesn’t matter,' because that [short program skate] was the moment we wanted to have,” said Moir. It doesn’t matter. It...

Filed at 4:50 p.m. ET VENICE, Italy (AP) -- The man accused of trying to fix Olympic figure skating told ice dancing champion Marina Anissina her event could be banned from the games because of ``the mess,'' Italian police said Thursday. According to police wiretap transcripts, reputed Russian mobster Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov told Anissina, who won the gold medal with partner Gwendal Peizerat, that she could be ``the last champion.'' The latest transcripts were obtained by The Associated Press a week after the arrest of Tokhtakhounov on U.S. and Italian charges of corrupting judges at the Salt Lake City Games. Prosecutors...