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Can U.S. ice-dancing duo Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto outdo their 2006 performance, when they took home the silver medal? Luckily, inclement weather won't stop us from finding out after all.

It was a harrowing journey, but Belbin and Agosto arrived in Vancouver Friday after enduring 12 canceled flights from Philadelphia.

The 2006 Olympic silver medalists are widely viewed as contenders for the gold, although it is another pair -- Meryl Davis and Charlie White -- that comes to the games as the official U.S. champions. Last month, Davis and White beat out Belbin and Agosto in the U.S. nationals.

But it is Belbin and Agosto who broke a 30-year medal-less dry spell for U.S. ice dancing in 2006.

The team has hinted this will be their final competition, and hope to one up themselves in this year's Winter Games.

The pair, which has skated together 11 years, shook things up in 2008, when they fired their coaches and relocated from Detroit to suburban Philadelphia.

Belbin, 25, was born and raised in Canada, but was granted U.S. citizenship in 2006, just before the 2006 Winter Games.

Agosto, 28, was born to a Jewish mother and Puerto Rican father. He grew up in Chicago, where he played in his high school jazz band, and has always wanted to be a professional blues musician.