是以下这一部分,不过英文不好。只看懂了一点点! Pairs, Free Skating
The Pairs skated next. In what was a high-level competition, two-time World Champions Xue Shen/Hongbo Zhao of China defended the title they had won last year. Maria Petrova/Alexei Tikhonov (RUS) skated to the silver medal while Qing Pang/Jian Tong (CHN) took the bronze. Shen/Zhao, who had won the Short Program and skated last, produced a flawless program to “The Soong Sisters”, completing a side by side double Axel-triple toeloop sequence, a triple toeloop, triple twist as well as a high throw triple loop and Salchow. The Olympic bronze medalists were awarded 136.02 points (67.94/68.08) and accumulated a total score of 206.54. They clearly beat their previous personal best total score of 196.08 points (from last season’s Grand Prix Final). “I think that we gave a very strong performance because the audience supported us so well. That gave us extra confidence, so we could skate better and better during the competition”, Zhao told the press. “We didn’t make mistakes. Shen Xue and I were very well together during the performance.” He added that they might need to improve their lifts. Skating to “The Circus Princess” by Emerich Kalman, Petrova/Tikhonov landed a solid double Axel-triple toeloop sequence right at the beginning and then attempted a side by side triple Salchow for the first time in competition. Petrova’s was clean, but Tikhonov put his hand down. The 2000 World Champions continued with a triple twist, throw triple loop and difficult lifts with many variations, but they lost unison in their side by side spin. The two-time European Champions received 119.90 points (60.70/59.20) for this performance. They remained in second place with 187.32 points. “The spin was out of sync. We started spinning too close together. To include the triple Salchow in the program was a big step for us”, Petrova explained. Her partner added: “We tried the side by side triple Salchow for the first time in competition, and it wasn’t bad. I should have done it clean as it was a good jump, but maybe it was just nerves because we did it for the first time.”
Pang/Tong included a triple twist, a throw triple Salchow and nice lifts in their routine to “The Butterfly Lovers”, but Pang doubled the toeloop in the triple toeloop-double Axel sequence and also stepped out of the landing of the throw triple loop. The couple was awarded 113.32 points (57.24/56.08) and pulled up from fourth to third place with at total score of 173.66 points. “We skated very well tonight. I thought we improved over our previous events”, Tong said. “We lost three points because of the doubled toeloop, but then we had some other elements later in the program that the judges appreciated, and we earned some extra points for them.” Julia Obertas/Sergei Slavnov (RUS) dropped one spot to finish fourth. They landed a quadruple twist, but Obertas popped the solo side by side triple toeloop into a single (173.28 points). Dan Zhang/Hao Zhang (CHN) finished fifth (172.50 points) and Rena Inoue/John Baldwin (USA) remained in sixth place (155.72). Both couples also skated well.
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