Free Skating 155.47 points, short program 84.41 points, a total score of 239.88 points! This is the total score of the Sui Wenjing Han Cong combination after the pair skating final. Accompanied by a song "Golden River on the River of Sorrows", Sui Wenjing and Han Cong have been paired for 15 seasons, and the combination that came all the way together with a set of near-perfect free skating achieved the highest score of 155.47 points on the free skating field, plus the score of the previous short program, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong also became the second pair of pair skating groups in China to successfully win the Olympic championship with the highest score this season. The gold medal was also the ninth gold medal won by the Chinese sports delegation at the Beijing Winter Olympics. So far, the total score of the Chinese delegation's 9 gold and 18 medals has also set the best record in the history of participating in the Winter Olympics. As commentator Zhang Dan said, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong created a new history of figure skating in China, and they led the entire Chinese figure skating industry to a golden bridge. As their coach, Zhao Hongbo has also become the best booster to achieve this new historical moment. Of course, everyone also saw on the TV screen, in the moment when Sui Wenjing and Han Cong competed for the championship, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo stood by their side and became the first to stand up and congratulate the two new Olympic champions.
Inadvertently, the 48-year-old Zhao Hongbo himself also created a new history of world sports, that is, to become the first coach in the history of Chinese figure skating to win the Olympic championship during his personal athleteship, and to help his disciples win the Olympic championship after stepping into the coaching position. Seeing such a result, he will still remember the words that Zhao Hongbo said when he first took over the combination of Sui Wenjing and Han Cong, he said that he used four Olympic Games, and at the age of 36, he achieved his Olympic championship dream, and he would never let his disciples be like himself again, and he would spend 16 years to achieve his Olympic championship dream. Obviously, Zhao Hongbo has done it now.
In fact, looking back, we will find that the Olympic title pressure faced by the combination of Sui Wenjing and Han Cong this time is more severe than the combination of Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo in that year. Because at that time, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo were also around Zhang Dan/Zhang Hao, as well as Pang Qing and Tong Jian were helping them. In particular, Pang Qing and Tong Jian also have considerable competitiveness, and in the case of the first appearance in the front, they skated the highest score of free skating, and helped the Chinese team lock up the championship of the pair skating in advance. It also made that year's Russian duo comparable, as a figure skating powerhouse, none of the pairs could even stand on the podium at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo appeared in the last pair, which can be said to be completely without the pressure of fighting for the championship, with a happy mentality to complete their own game, and finally achieved the championship.
And this time Sui Wenjing and Han Cong, the three Russian combinations in front of them can be said to have done a good job of comparing a pair of actions, some of which are difficult, some of which are emotionally sufficient, the content of the program is very high, and some of which have strong comprehensive ability to win steadily. In short, before Sui Wenjing and Han Cong did not appear, the Russian three-pair combination forced the other Chinese pair peng Cheng and Jin Yang to appear in front of them, ranking in the top three positions, if Sui Wenjing and Han Cong could not play to the best, or even get the highest difficulty grade of the action, it may even not be able to stand on the podium. At that time, the psychological pressure and the pressure to win the championship, everyone can imagine. But it is in such a situation, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong still resist the pressure, 10 of the 11 actions are perfectly played, only one jump action Sui Wenjing has a slight mistake, which also allows them to score the program content in the case of basically equality with the opponent's difficulty score, suppress the opponent, and finally stand on the highest podium of the Olympic Games. And their winning score is only 0.63 points higher than the 239.25 points scored by the runner-up combination of the Russian combination, which shows how close the level of the two sides is, and the two people are really a narrow victory. In addition, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong scored only 2.17 points higher than the third-ranked combination.
It is precisely because of the pressure to win the championship that it is more difficult to finally win the championship, so many ice fans will cry together when they see Sui Wenjing and Han Cong finally win the championship, and Sui Wenjing cries in disgust. 29-year-old Han Cong and 26-year-old Sui Wenjing, the two people have suffered major injuries again and again, accompanied each other again and again, re-stood on the field, won a new rebirth, and jointly ushered in such an exciting championship moment. Let us once again congratulate Sui Wenjing and Han Cong. At the same time, I also send the best congratulations to Zhao Hongbo, Shen Xue and all the people who have contributed to the cause of figure skating in China.