In tonight's Beijing Winter Olympics figure skating pairs short program competition, two-time world champion and Pyeongchang Winter Olympic runner-up Sui Wenjing / Han Cong scored a high score of 84.41 points with a perfect set of "Mission Impossible", breaking their own short program world record just set in the team competition. After the short program, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong are temporarily in the first place, and tomorrow will start a free skating competition, resulting in a gold medal in the project.
The "onion barrel combination" Sui Wenjing and Han Cong teamed up in 2007, and the two won the world championship repeatedly in the youth group. After moving into the adult group, their grades went all the way up. At the 2017 Figure Skating World Championships, the two were crowned world champions for the first time, becoming China's third pair of pairs of world champions in pair skating. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, they finished second with a difference of 0.43 points. Entering the Beijing Winter Olympic cycle, they remain in good shape, successfully winning the World Cup in Canada and Italy this season, and now the two are one Winter Olympic gold medal away from the "Grand Slam".
The biggest opponent on the way to the "Onion Barrel Combination" to win the championship is the new world champion, the Russian Olympic Committee duo Ofishna/Galyamov. At last year's World Championships, the latter won the championship with a 1.88-point advantage over Sui Wenjing/Han Cong. In the team competition of this Winter Olympic Games, the two pairs competed in the double skating short program, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong won the first place with 82.83 points, and the Russian Olympic Committee combination ranked second with 82.64 points.
In tonight's competition, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong danced on the ice to the applause of the audience. Mission Impossible is about a couple who overcome difficulties and accomplish impossible tasks. Sui Wenjing/Han Cong's entire set of actions was done with high quality, and the three weeks of throwing Philip showed their characteristics, throwing the jump very far, and finally they scored 84.41 points.
Another Chinese duo, Peng Cheng/Jin Yang, appeared in the third pair of the fourth group, and their short program music is "Piano and Me", which tells the romantic love story of a couple who have been reunited for a long time and finally come together after experiencing struggles. In the competition, the two played well, the final technical action score of 40.87 points, the program content score of 35.23 points, the total score of 76.10 points, ranking 5th into tomorrow night's free skating competition.