At the 2006 Winter Olympics , Belbin and Agosto won the first ice dancing medal ( a silver ) for the United States since 1976 . In January 2006 , the pair won their third consecutive national title and qualified for the Olympics . At the Turin Olympics , Belbin and Agosto won the silver medal in ice dancing , the highest Olympic result of any American team in the discipline , and the first American ice dancers to win an Olympic medal in 30 years .