On February 19, Beijing time, the figure skating project of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics ended the competition for the last event at the Capital Gymnasium. In the pair skating free skating competition, the last Chinese "onion barrel" duo Sui Wenjing / Han Cong performed well, and finally scored 155.47 points in the free skating, with a total score of 239.88 points to set a new record for the total score of the pair skating, 0.63 points ahead of the Russian Olympic team combination of Tarasova / Morozov, and won the gold medal. This is the first gold medal won by the "Onion Barrel Combination" at the Winter Olympics.
It is worth noting that this is the third time that the "onion barrel combination" has set a new world record in 15 days. The previous figure skating record for the highest score in pair skating was set by the Russian duo Misna/Gallamov at the European Championships on January 13 this year. At the time, they scored 82.36 points in the short program and 157.46 points in the free skate, for a total of 239.82 points, setting a new world record of 236.43 points previously set by another Russian duo, Tarasova/Morozov, earlier in the day.
In the previous February 4 on the team double skating short program, Sui Wenjing / Han Cong with 82.83 points to refresh the highest score in the history of the double skating short program, in yesterday's individual double skating short program, the "onion barrel" combination once again perfectly interpreted "Mission Impossible 2", and finally set a new record 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, today their free skating score of 155.47 points, a total score of 239.88 points set a world record for total points.
At this point, the figure skating projects of this Winter Olympic Games have all ended. The Chinese team ranked 3rd in the individual medal table with 1 gold medal (tied with France), the Russian Olympic Committee ranked 1st with 2 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze, and the United States ranked 2nd with 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze. The Japanese team won 1 silver and 3 bronze, unfortunately there was no gold medal in the account.
In this Winter Olympics, the Chinese team sent a total of 4 men and 4 women from Han Cong, Jin Yang, Jin Boyang, Liu Xinyu and Sui Wenjing, Peng Cheng, Wang Shiyue and Zhu Yi. Among them, the women's singles young player Zhu Yi is participating in the Winter Olympics for the first time, while the pair skating female player Peng Cheng is the "elder of the three dynasties", and the other players are standing on the Winter Olympics for the second time. In the team competition that started first, the Chinese team achieved the best results since the three Winter Olympics, entered the free skating competition for the first time, and finally finished fifth with 50 points – in Sochi and Pingchang, the Chinese team won the seventh and sixth places of this new event respectively.
In the next 4 individual events, the Chinese team held the advantage of pair skating. Sui Wenjing / Han Cong broke the world record for total double skating points and won the gold medal. Peng Cheng/Jin Yang ranked 5th, setting their best at the Winter Olympics. In the men's singles, Jin Boyang set a personal season best with 90.98 points in the short program, 179.45 points in the free skating season, and a total score of 270.43 points, ranking ninth.
In terms of ice dance, Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu rhythm dance scored 73.41 points, and free dance scored 111.01 points, with a total score of 184.42 points, ranking 12th, creating the best record in the history of Chinese ice dance in the Winter Olympics. In the women's singles, young player Zhu Yi devoted his efforts in the short program and finally ranked 27th with 53.44 points. Although she failed to break into the free skating, this was already 6.41 points higher than her record in the team competition, which was not easy.