You could be forgiven for cerebration it was a new alternation of Dancing On Ice.
The Olympic amount skating teams in Vancouver bygone seemed as aggressive with their apparel as they were with their abilities on the ice.
For the aboriginal ball category, couples had been appropriate to actualize a accepted aggressive by a country of folk theme.
Yee-ha! British amount skating aggregation Sinead and John Kerr went for a country and western-style accepted for the Aboriginal Ball challenge in Vancouver yesterday
But clashing U.S. skater Evan Lysacek, who was cutting Vera Wang as he biconcave his gold on Thursday, their offerings were added asinine than sophisticated.
British brother and sister aggregation Sinead and John Kerr, who currently angle in eighth place, went for a country-western affair in denim and checkerboard - she in Daisy Duke-style hotpants, he in a cowboy hat that would accomplish the Village People jealous.
Dancing to Johnny Cash's 'I've Been Everywhere', their accepted accepted a absolute crowd-pleaser, admitting declining to affect the judges.
Howdy pardner! Sinead takes the ache as she agitated John aloof like Daisy would in the Dukes Of Hazzard
Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, won the antagonism with a adult flamenco number, while the French aggregation went for a built-in can-can appearance ball in apparel that wouldn't accept looked out of abode in the Moulin Rouge about 1900.
But that was annihilation compared with the efforts of the Russian team, which autonomous for nude-coloured bodysuits bizarre with Aboriginal-style arrangement and faux foliage.
Indeed, apple champions Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin, who aboriginal wore the apparel at the European Championships challenge aftermost month, accept back been affected to accent bottomward their act afterwards aboriginal Australian leaders airtight the accepted as cultural theft, citation inauthentic accomplish and blatant costumes.
Ooh la la: French skaters Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder performed a Can Can-style ball that would not accept looked out of abode in the Moulin Rouge
Controversial: Russia's Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin performed an Aboriginal-inspired routine
US' Meryl Davis and Charlie White afflicted board with their Bollywood number, in which they played helpmate and benedict in a Mumbai wedding
Bev Manton, administrator of the Aboriginal Land Council in New South Wales state, alleged it appalling. 'The accomplished affair was a poor effort,' she said. 'They could accept provided added account to our ability by accomplishing added research.'
Miss Domina, however, insists that the accepted was fair. 'We account this culture,' she said. 'It's actual unique, and that's why we chose it.'
'Maybe this confounding is because you can't do a folk ball 100 percent authentic. We accept appropriate elements ... and we accept restrictions for our costumes.'
But about antic the costumes, the accepted of abilities bygone set the pros afar from the Z-listers and soap stars of Dancing On Ice.
Russia's Jana Khokhlova and Sergei Novitski donned blatant blooming apparel for their aboriginal ball number
Traditional: Japanese skaters Cathy and Chris Reed performed a accepted aggressive by their built-in dances
France's Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat accepted a country and western affair for their routine
U.S. brace Meryl Davis and Charlie White placed abaft the Canadians in additional place, with Russians Domina and Shabalin in third.
The Kerrs, who are in eighth place, are now attractive advanced to today's chargeless skate, in which they will be dancing to 'Krwing' by Linkin Park.
Miss Kerr accepted bygone that this could be their aftermost adventitious at acceptable an Olympic medal. 'Never say never, but I am array of examination this as my aftermost Olympics,' she said.
