On February 18, Beijing time, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics figure skating pair skating short program competition was fought at the Capital Gymnasium. The Chinese duo of Sui Wenjing/Han Cong performed "Mission Impossible 2" again with a score of 84.41 points, setting a new record for the highest score in the history of the short program, 0.16 points ahead of the Russian Olympic team combination of Tarasova/Morozov and 1.65 points of Misna/Gallamov, ranking first. Another Chinese duo, Peng Cheng/Jin Yang, also ranked fifth in the short program with 76.10 points, advancing to the free skate.
Of course, it is worth noting that the Chinese duo is two pairs, and the third appearance is the Chinese group Peng Cheng/Jin Yang, whose soundtrack is the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. In the whole set of actions, only the outer knot ring after the jump was completed in three weeks, and the others were very perfect, and finally ranked fifth with a technical action score of 40.87 points, a program content score of 35.23 points, and a total score of 76.10 points.
Another Chinese duo, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong, previously set a record score in the pair skating history with 82.83 points in the team competition, ranking first ahead of Misna/Gallamov by 0.19 points. In this game, in the music of "Mission Impossible 2", the whole set of actions was completed perfectly, and finally with a technical action score of 45.96 points, a program content score of 38.45 points, and a total score of 84.41 points, they once again broke the record of the highest score of the short program and ranked first.
The same group as Sui Wenjing/Han Cong is a 3-pair combination of the Russian Olympic team, all of which are powerful combinations. The Russian national champion group Misna/Galyamov, whose soundtrack comes from the three-act ballet Esmeralda based on Notre Dame de Paris. Their overall performance was very good, only in the consistency of the joint transfer, and finally ranked third with a technical action score of 44.95 points, a program content score of 37.81 points, and a total score of 82.76 points.
The Russian duo of Tarasova/Morozov, who also did not make a mistake in a set of moves, received a technical action score of 46.04 points, a program content score of 38.21 points, and a total score of 84.25 points, ranking second. The third pair of The Russian Olympic team, Bojkova/Kozlovsky, ranked fourth with a technical action score of 42.17 points, a program content score of 36.42 points, and a total score of 78.59 points.
In this way, the Chinese two-pair pair successfully advanced to the double free skate. Sui Wenjing/Han Cong have won the World Figure Skating Championships twice and the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships six times. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, the two made mistakes due to free skating and regrettably won the second place in pair skating. At this Olympic Games, the Sui Wenjing/Han Cong combination will go all out to attack the gold medal and strive to achieve a Grand Slam. At the same time, I also look forward to Peng Cheng/Jin Yang achieving good results in the free skating competition!