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转一篇关于DV的最新报道，06年将是他们第5次参加冬奥会了，他们的自由舞是“剧院幽灵”，关于表演节目“加勒比海盗”，Drobiazko说他们是因为看了这部电影并喜欢Johnny Depp的表演，并为此向专业人士请教剑术的趣事。
Lithuania's Drobiazko and Vanagas Return for Fifth Olympics
Margarita Drobiazko and Povilas Vanagas
November 15, 2005
Article & Photo © J. Barry Mittan
 One of the big stories of the skating season is the return of Lithuanian ice dancers Margarita Drobiazko and Povilas Vanagas after more than three years away from competition. Although they have done over 200 top-level professional shows in the past three years, the popular couple had not competed since the 2002 World Championships in Nagano, Japan, where they finished fourth in a bitterly-contested decision. Earlier in that season, the couple had placed fifth at the Olympic Games, fourth at the European Championships and third at the ISU Grand Prix Final.
The dancers started strongly in 2005-06, placing second to 2005 World silver medallists Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto at the Nebelhorn Trophy in Germany, even winning the free dance. Two weeks later, they easily won the 2006 Olympic qualifying competition at the Karl Schaefer Memorial in Vienna, showing that they are still in contention for the podium.
This will be the fifth Olympic Games for the talented and durable couple, who have been married for several years. And it was for love of their country that they returned for another grueling season of competition. "Lithuania is a small country with a small Olympic team," Vanagas stated. "We don't win many high places. When we finished fifth in Salt Lake City, it moved our country up about 40 places in the team standings."
"We have been really satisfied with our professional careers," he continued, "but when the Olympics started coming near, we felt strange not to be a part of it. All the years after we quit competing when we were busy doing shows, we were comparing ourselves physically with the other top-ranked skaters and we felt we could compete with them. About a year ago, we started seriously considering it. Margarita's mother thought it was a joke and told us not to do it. But last summer, there was a recall of the president in Lithuania and our favorite candidate ran for election. We said that if he won that it was time for us to come back. He won so there was no way back."
"Then we had to explore the possibilities of coaches," Vanagas related. "We went to Rostislav Sinitsyn for help with mainly compulsory dances and to Elena Maslennikova, our chief coach in Moscow for the original, free dances and choreography. In the United States, we work with Igor Shpilband and Marina Zoueva. In Lithuania, we worked with Gintaras Svistunavicius, a professional ballroom dancer. And David Liu helped us with the choreography in Sun Valley. We only train about three hours a day, five days a week, and sometimes a half-day on Saturday if we feel like it. We did most of our training in Sun Valley. They helped us with a lot of ice time and everything else, but we also trained in Michigan, Oberstdorf and Dortmund in Germany, Moscow and of course in Lithuania."
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