Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo take gold
After 18 years of skating together, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo finally have a gold medal. The Chinese couple came out of retirement just to pursue this honor. It wasn’t the most beautiful performance ever, filled with several mistakes small and large, but it was enough to keep them in first place.
This marked the first time since 1960 that Russians didn’t finish at the top of the pairs skating podium. Not only did they not finish first, the Russians didn’t win any medals this year.
China’s Pang Qing and Tong Jian won silver.
Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy of Germany won the bronze.
