Israel’s ice dancing team at the Winter Olympics finished in 10th place.
Roman and Alexandra Zaretsky performed to music from “Schindler’s List” in the free dance Monday night at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada. The brother-and-sister duo earned a score of 90.64 in the free dance, and a score of 180.26 overall.
The music was chosen in part as a tribute to 27 family members that died in Minsk, Belarus, during the Holocaust, the Jewish Chronicle reported.
“The music is amazing. We just weren’t sure we could skate it or not,” Roman Zaretsky told The Star-Ledger, a New Jersey newspaper. “I think it brought the balance—music and skating together. It doesn’t matter when you hear it, it’s the greatest music, and we wanted to try it.”
Prior to competing, the Zaretskys had said they hoped to break the top 10 in their Olympic finish.
Americans Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto, who is Jewish, finished in fourth place with a total score of 203.07, missing a bronze medal by 4 points. The duo won the silver medal in 2006.
