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In a moving performance to “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” Sui and Han leapfrogged Tarasova and Morozov, who had taken the lead only minutes earlier with their own impressive free skate. It was the first time in 60 years that the pairs skating, not a more high-profile event like women’s singles, was the final skating event at a Winter Games. The victory by Sui and Han was exactly what China had hoped for when the pairs event was positioned as the final figure skating event at the Beijing Games.

Another Russian pair, the reigning world champions Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov, finished third, less than two points behind.

With a 239.88 total points after winning both the short program on Friday and the free skate on Saturday, Sui and Han barely held off Russia’s Tarasova and Morozov (239.25 points). “I’m so happy,” Sui said, “that I feel that my dream has come true.” Within seconds, they disappeared into a celebratory scrum of coaches and team officials, including one holding a large Chinese flag. When their score was posted on the scoreboard at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, confirming their victory over the Russian pair of Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov, Sui and Han immediately began crying tears of joy. Their gold, just like their silver four years ago, came by the finest of margins: 63-hundredths of a point. On Saturday, at last, they got to experience the joy of being on the winning side of one.

Sui and Han already knew the sting of a razor-thin margin at the Olympics. Their victory, likely the last medal for the host nation, capped two scandal-tinged and tear-stained weeks for their sport with a nearly flawless performance, and added an exclamation point to China’s best-ever medal haul from a Winter Games. įour years after they finished a heartbreaking second at the last Olympics, China’s Sui Wenjing and Han Cong finally won the gold medal in figure skating’s pairs event on Saturday. Follow our live coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympics.

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