stars meryl davis and charlie white that you were felt the need to reinvent themselves to challenge the north american stranglehold and recruited the help of former world ice dance champion alexander julian who coached the town enough a month as the model to russia's last olympic gold in turin in two thousand and six is that it wasn't easy changing coaches as we've been with our previous one for twelve years but when everyone kept saying we were becoming too repetitive and using old school techniques when you had to do something about it this is why i would turn to alexander that was proven time and again that his approach and techniques are exciting new and different. now while change is good got to read and dimitri really do have their work cut out for them as trainer alexander stille it's a work ethic that sounds extremely demanding especially seeing as he would like to see them in the top three of the world very soon and that of course is easier said than done virtue and more are currently world and olympic champions with former world champions davis and whites running them a close