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Benjamin Alexandro "Ben" Agosto (born January 15, 1982) is an American ice dancer. With partner Tanith Belbin, Agosto is the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, a four-time World medalist, the 2004–2006 Four Continents champion, and 2004–2008 U.S. champion.
Benjamin Agosto was born January 15, 1982, in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Northbrook, Illinois. He is the son of a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother whose family has roots in Romania and Russia. Agosto attended grade school at the Chicago Waldorf School, then spent two years at Glenbrook North High School, and graduated with honors from Michigan's Groves High School in June 2000. He played in a high school jazz band.
Agosto lived in Detroit, Michigan from June 1998 and then Canton, Michigan before moving to Aston, Pennsylvania in the summer of 2008. He relocated to Lacey, Washington in September 2010 and to Scottsdale, Arizona in 2014.
Agosto started skating at age six, after receiving a pair of ice skates for his birthday, and started ice dancing at about age 12. Early in his career, he was coached by Susie Wynne. He skated with Katie Hill from 1995 to 1998, competing with her on the novice and junior levels, including internationally. They skated out of Midwestern Section. When that partnership ended, Agosto moved from Chicago to Michigan in 1998 in order to train under Igor Shpilband.
Tanith Jessica Louise Belbin White (born July 11, 1984) is a Canadian-American ice dancer. Though born in Canada, she holds dual citizenship and has competed for the United States since she began skating with Benjamin Agosto in 1998. With Agosto, Belbin is the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, four-time World medalist, three-time Four Continents champion (2004–2006), and five-time U.S. champion (2004–2008).
Tanith Belbin was born in Kingston, Ontario and raised in Kirkland, Quebec. In 1998, she moved to the Detroit area in the United States and received an immigrant worker visa in 2000. Due to immigration rules at the time, she did not receive a green card until July 2002 and would not have been granted U.S. citizenship until 2007. An amendment was passed which allowed Belbin to be sworn in as an American citizen on December 31, 2005. The amendment was authored by Senator Carl Levin who stated "This amendment corrects an anomaly in the law that unfairly disadvantaged some people who had begun their naturalization process before 2002. Tanith Belbin began her naturalization process in 2000, but due to changes that were made to the law in 2002, the process has taken significantly longer than it would have if she had filed her paperwork two years later."
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Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto are American figure skating trailblazers. The five-time national champions did the unthinkable when they stood on the medal rostrum at the 2005 World Figure Skating Championships. It had been twenty years since an American team medaled in the dance event and many more since an American team was seen as a possible contender for gold. Though they didn't manage to win gold at Worlds or the Olympic Games, Belbin and Agosto cemented a legacy of American success in ice dance that has continued to this day. Recently, we chatted with the pair about their careers and learned how they've managed to succeed both on and off the ice. SUBSCRIBE!! Instagram.com/TheSkatingLesson Twitter.com/SkatingLesson Facebook.com/TheSkatingLesson
They are so enjoyable to watch and this program rocks.
December 11, 2013 in East Rutherford, NJ
March 18, 2015 in Hershey, PA
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Kristi Yamaguchi and Brian Boitano Golden Moment 2014 November 2, 2014 San Jose SAP Center
2006 Olympic Silver Medalists Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto sit down with WEBN to talk about the upcoming World Figure Skating Championships, Stars on Ice Tour and the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. Producer - Jake Duhaime, Crew - Kaitlyn Fox, Elizabeth Poland, Cassidy Brettler For tickets to see Tanith and Ben in Stars on Ice, visit www.ticketmaster.com or www.starsonice.com
2006 Olympic Silver Medalists Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto sit down with WEBN to talk about the upcoming World Figure Skating Championships, Stars on Ice Tour and the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. Producer - Jake Duhaime, Crew - Kaitlyn Fox, Elizabeth Poland, Cassidy Brettler For tickets to see Tanith and Ben in Stars on Ice, visit www.ticketmaster.com or www.starsonice.com
2006 Olympic Silver Medalists Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto sit down with WEBN to talk about the upcoming World Figure Skating Championships, Stars on Ice Tour and the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. Producer - Jake Duhaime, Crew - Kaitlyn Fox, Elizabeth Poland, Cassidy Brettler For tickets to see Tanith and Ben in Stars on Ice, visit www.ticketmaster.com or www.starsonice.com
2006 Olympic Silver Medalists Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto sit down with WEBN to talk about the upcoming World Figure Skating Championships, Stars on Ice Tour and the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. Producer - Jake Duhaime, Crew - Kaitlyn Fox, Elizabeth Poland, Cassidy Brettler For tickets to see Tanith and Ben in Stars on Ice, visit www.ticketmaster.com or www.starsonice.com
Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto talk about plans after retirement from competitive skating. Video interview held in April 2010 in NYC at Figure Skating in Harlem's annual ice benefit. The benefit also featured Kristi Yamaguchi, Johnny Weir, Jeremy Abbott, Sasha Cohen, Meryl Davis, Charlie White, Sarah Hughes, Emily Hughes, Dorothy Hamill, Todd Eldredge and many more. See more at: http://www.lifeskate.com/skate/2010/07/tanith-belbin-and-ben-agosto-life-after-retirement-video.html.html
1.Fluff: Teammates & Rivals 2.Meryl Davis / Charlie White (USA) (03:45) 3.Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali (ITA) (12:19) 4.Davis/White Interview (17:08) 5.Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (CAN) (18:10) 6.Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto (USA) (28:05) 7.Virtue/Moir Interview (33:29) 8.Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin (RUS) (35:42) 9.Belbin/Agosto Interview (44:14)
I caught up with Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto last week at Rockefeller Skating Rink in New York City where they were promoting the Everlon Diamond Knot Collection. After winning Cup of China and Skate America, the duo had to withdraw from the Grand Prix Final due to Tanith's unexpected wisdom tooth infection. The chat forums then came alive with talk on whether she actually was "injured" or whether they were simply looking for more time to refine their programs in order to outscore teammates Meryl Davis and Charlie White, Canadian team Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, and the other top ice dance teams. So here's Tanith's response to all the conspiracy theorists out there as well as an update on their training leading up to Nationals and the Olympics. See more Tanith and Ben at: http://www....
EKATERINA GORDEEVA - TANITH BELBIN & BEN AGOSTO - MICHAEL WEISS - EVAN LYSACEK - GROUP INTERVIEW AT THE ROCKEFELLER CENTER ICE RINK. PART 1 of 2 - THE SKATING RIGHT AFTER THIS INTERVIEW IS IN PART 2.
please don't go and build a fence around your heart
like you've done before
when you're losing ground
i know i can't wait
i don't even have the strength to begin to imitate the dying little bird you've saved when the night breaks
and the clouds shake
and your hopes ache to someday be redeemed
please don't go and build a fence around your heart
like you've done before when your losing grace
and i know i can't wait
i don't even have the strength to begin to imitate the dying little bird you've saved when the night breaks
and the clouds shake
and your hopes ache to someday be redeemed
her face is a curtain of this truth i'm certain i know i know i know
so please don't go and build a fence around your heart like you've done before when you're losing ground
i know i can't wait
i don't even have the strength to begin to imitate the dying little bird you've saved