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SPARTA, Ky. -- Brad Keselowski wont soon forget an eventful Saturday night in which the same right hand that held the winners trophy was soon bloodied and bandaged after he broke a champagne bottle celebrating. "We were playing around with some champagne and I told my good friend I should have stuck with beer," Keselowski joked after receiving four stitches in the infield care centre. "We had too much fun with champagne and one of the bottles broke and I cut my hand open. Its no big deal." Hell certainly remember the masterful performance that set those wild series of events in motion. Keselowski showed early and often that his No. 2 Ford was the best car at Kentucky Speedway, dominating the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race to become the tracks first repeat winner. The Penske Racing driver and 2012 race winner and Cup champion followed his record-breaking pole effort to lead 199 of 267 laps en route to his second victory of the season and 12th of his career. Keselowski won from the pole for the first time, pulling away after rallying from sixth on a restart to chase down and pass leader Kyle Busch on Lap 248. "I knew it was going to be a dogfight to get back to Kyle and then race him," Keselowski said. "We got there with a really fast car and I hit the perfect run on him with traffic. Next thing I knew, we were there. It feels really good to get that second win." Busch was second, followed by Ryan Newman, Matt Kenseth and Dale Earnhardt Jr., who rallied from a 29th-place start. A night after dominating the Nationwide Series race before finishing second to Kevin Harvick, partly because of a pit-road speeding penalty, Keselowski saved his heavy foot for the bumpy, rough track. The 2012 Cup champion went on to win by 1.014 seconds and post his ninth top-10 this season in moving one spot to fourth in the standings. Teammate Joey Logano started second and led 37 laps before a dropped cylinder left him ninth. Busch led 31 in a race that featured 12 lead changes -- all but one featuring Penske drivers. "I felt like we were better than (Newman), but nowhere near as good as (Keselowski) or (Logano)," Busch said. "Those guys were really stout." Keselowski, also the winner in Las Vegas, became the first driver this season with multiple victories on 1.5-mile tracks that make up much of the Chase for the Sprint Cup. The circuit wont see another such track until late August at Atlanta, and Keselowski made a case for being a favourite with arguably the most impressive run of his career. It followed his track-record qualifying speed of 188.791 mph and 138 laps led in the Nationwide race, which also featured a furious late run before settling for second to Harvick, who was seventh in the 400-mile race. This time he had enough laps to pass Busch. But the tone was set from the start, as Keselowski and Logano justified their front-row qualifying sweep with a vengeance. Keselowski wasted no time with that agenda, taking charge at the green flag and leading the first 78 laps before Logano took over for five laps. The two traded leads from there with nobody else to challenge them until Aric Almirolas wreck brought the sixth caution on Lap 213. That sent the leaders down pit road and scramble off produced the races first non-Penske leader in Busch, whose No. 18 took over on Lap 217 and led the restart with Newman second. The Penske duo needed just seven laps to draw a bead on both drivers and Keselowski was soon second and making a furious effort trying to chase down Busch, who had a 2-second lead at one point. Once Keselowski caught him in the backstretch, he again showed his Fords superiority. "Our car was awesome," said Keselowski, who has led a series-high 346 laps in four starts at Kentucky. Earnhardt, Jimmie Johnson and Tony Stewart meanwhile overcame bad starting spots to finish in the top 11. Johnson was 10th after starting 25th and Stewart recovered from a 42nd-place start because of a transmission change for 11th. He had qualified 13th. "I would have liked to have been a little better than what we were there at the end," Stewart said, "but I think we definitely had to fight our way up through the day. .. All in all I thought we had a pretty honest day there; cant complain about that." Points leader Jeff Gordon finished sixth and leads Johnson and Earnhardt by 24. Air Max 270 Flyknit Triple Black . -- David Price didnt think he would be in Port Charlotte this spring. Air Max 270 React Bauhaus AO4971-002 . According to TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger, the Maple Leafs have trade offers on the table for the 26-year-old, but none have been deemed acceptable by the team. http://www.max270cheap.com/air-max-270-womens-sale.html . 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Their styles are too different — she skates with the power and force of an athlete, he carries himself with the grace and artistry of a dancer.Sometimes now we read mean comments online: They dont match. Why would they skate together? They dont look good together. She needs a new partner. He needs a new partner. Really mean, hurtful things that we cant change, Duhamel said.There was one comment when Dylan (Moscovitch) and Kirsten (Moore-Towers) broke up (last summer), it was Ah, I just wish it was Meagan and Eric that broke up.Duhamel, from Lively, Ont., and Radford, from Balmertown, Ont., are writing their own success story with a season that has thus far seen them win both their Grand Prix events and then the Grand Prix Final in December in Barcelona, firmly entrenching the Canadians as the team to beat at the world championships in March.Theyre in the hunt for their fourth consecutive national title at the Canadian championships this week.They possess one element — side-by-side triple Lutzes — that no other team in the world has. And their quad throw Salchow, added this season, is only attempted in competition by one other team.Were doing a program so dynamic that if you gave it to one of the top Russian teams, they wouldnt be able to do it, Radford said. Theres an undeniable fact that we are doing elements and programs that nobody in the world can do except for us.People who dont like us, you can hate us as much as you want, but what we do is undeniable and were going to keep on doing it.Critics arent uncommon in a sport that enjoys a large and vocal fan base. Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, darlings of the Vancouver Games, were the subject of a spiteful blog dedicated to everything anti-Virtue and Moir.Radford said a Russian coach fired shots at the Canadian pair in a recent interview, asking Why did the coach put somebody tall, with somebody short like Meagan?In Canada you already have very few pair boys and very few pair girls, its not just like we get to choose them off a construction line or something, Radford said. Whereas in Russia, everybodys trained in the same style. . . its a totally different mindset. It just goes to show what Meagan and I have accomplished is even rarer maybe than what some of the Russians have.Partnering in figure skating is a tricky business at the best of times. Houston native Kaitlyn Weaver became a Canadian citizen in order to compete with Andrew Poje. The ice dancers are also enjoying a wildly successful season, with two Grand Prix victories and gold from the Grand Prix Final.Weaver drove to Waterloo, Ont., in 2006 for a tryout with Poje, and wound up staying. They were a perfect fit, something as rare and lucky, she said, as finding ones soul mate.I remember the tryout, and I remember thinking to myself, Okay, this is the real deall.dddddddddddd This could be something really good. I feel like I was so young, I was 17. . . but I just remembered thinking, This could be the opportunity I’ve been waiting for.Why are you laughing? Weaver said, turning to Poje.My first thought was, Wow, this girls quiet, Poje said. Because our first day of the tryout, she didnt speak a word. . .(But) from the very beginning we knew there was something unique and something that we knew would take us far.When did Weaver start talking?The second day, she said, laughing. Andrews coach, who turned into our coach, Rebecca Babb, she pulled me aside the second day and said, Kaitlyn, its OK to smile. I was so nervous. I wanted to be so perfect, to prove that I was the right partner.Oh, yeah (I was intimidated). I mean, hes six foot three, he was gorgeous, he was great. And he was way more qualified than I was at that point.There were some early awkward moments for Duhamel and Radford as well.Coach Bruno Marcotte instructed their choreographer to try to minimize the obvious size difference.He told our choreographer Dont have them stand next to one another, I had to be down on one knee, or doing a spread eagle thats shortening me, and shes standing up as tall as possible, Radford said.Or all our costumes. . ., Duhamel added You can only make my body look so long. People are always trying to make my body look as long as possible. And Eric as least long as possible, even still now.This weeks championships decides the team that will represent Canada at the world championships in Shanghai.Canada can send three teams in both pairs and ice dance, and two skaters each in mens and womens singles.While Duhamel and Radford and Weaver and Poje are the class of their respective fields, Skate Canada high performance director Mike Slipchuk expects a dog fight for the remaining spots.After Moore-Towers, from St. Catharines, Ont., and Torontos Moscovitch split a few months ago, he teamed up with Russian Lubov Ilyushechkina, while she joined forces with Michael Marinaro of Waterloo, Ont.Ilyushechkina is eligible to compete for Canada at the world championships, but needs Canadian citizenship to compete at the Olympics.Its an interesting mix, Slipchuck said of the pairs field. And then I would really say that the surprise here is (Julianne) Seguin and (Charlie) Bilodeau.Seguin, from Longueuil, Que., and Bilodeau, from Notre-Dame-du-Portage, Que., won both their junior Grand Prix events plus the junior Grand Prix Final this season.Theyre coming in here with the second highest international score of all our teams, with junior elements, Slipchuck said. Theyre sometimes a bit forgotten because they werent on the senior circuit but theyve really developed into a strong team.Kevin Reynolds of Coquitlam, B.C., and Toronto teen Nam Nguyen, last years world junior champion, should battle for the mens title in the absence of Patrick Chan, whos also taking the season off.Without injured Kaetlyn Osmond, the womens field is wide open, and the weakest of the four events at the Rogers K-Rock Centre this week.Note to readers: This is a corrected story. A previous version had Duhamels height listed incorrectly. ' ' '