🥇 China's Sui Wenjing and Han Cong won gold in pairs figure skating at the 2022 Beijing Games on Saturday
The duo finished with a world record total score of 239.88 -- 84.41 for short program and 155.47 for free skating -- to capture their first-ever Olympic gold. The pair skated to the song"Bridge Over Troubled Water," a song written by US duo Simon & Garfunkel -- seemingly a nod to their friendship, which has endured an ankle injury suffered by Sui.
"If there is no way in front of us, we will pave our own way, leaving it to others, and that's how we create a legend," she added.They become the third pair skating team to win Olympic Games gold on home ice following Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia at Sochi 2014 as well as Maxi Herber and Ernst Baier of Germany at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936.
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