German pair rallies to take figure skating gold Savchenko, Massot jump from 4th on strong free skate, 피겨 스케이팅 골드를 가져갈 독일 랠리 두 번, Savchenko, Massot가 강력한 프리 스케이트에서 4 위로 뛰어 올랐다.

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 피겨 스케이팅 골드를 가져갈 독일 랠리 두 번, Savchenko, Massot가 강력한 프리 스케이트에서 4 위로 뛰어 올랐다.

평창에 자신들의 국가를 대표하는 올림픽 선수들은 엄청나게 끈기가 있지만 독일의 알리온 사브 첸코 (Aliona Savchenko)보다 그다지 중요하지는 않습니다.

 The Olympic athletes representing their countries in Pyeongchang are incredibly tenacious, but perhaps none more so than Germany's Aliona Savchenko.

The 34-year-old pairs skater competed in her fifth Olympics this week alongside her brand-new partner Bruno Massot, and while she had two previous Olympic bronze medals under her belt with a former pairs partner, she had never broken into the top two before.

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That all changed once she and Massot finished a stunning world record-breaking free program, which catapulted them to first place. That made Savchenko—who considered retirement after the Sochi Olympics—tie the record of most Olympic pairs skating medals of all time.

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Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot were flawless as the rest of the top contenders fell, and their free skate was enough to give the German pair Olympic gold.

Savchenko and Massot scored 159.31 points in their program set to music by Armand Amar on the final day of pairs skating at the Pyeongchang Games. That gave them 235.90 points, catapulting them from fourth place after a shaky short program to Germany's first pairs gold since 1952.

China's Sui Wenjing and Han Cong, who led after the short program, recovered from a slow start to their free skate to score 153.08 points. But their early bobbles proved costly — they finished with 235.47 points, less than half a point off the top step of the podium.

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Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford added a bronze medal after winning team gold with Canada.
The victory was sweet vindication for Savchenko and Massot, who were stamped the favorites after winning the Grand Prix Final but whose error on a jump in the short program left them playing catch-up.
Alexa Scimeca-Knierim and Chris Knierim became the first Americans to land a quad twist in an Olympic competition when they opened their free skate with it. The rest of their program didn't go nearly as well and they finished 15th.