Figure skating pair skating, China's "onion barrel combination" Sui Wenjing and Han Cong won the championship with a slight advantage of 0.63 points, overpowering the Russian-Austrian team combination of Tarasova and Morozov. Perhaps because of this, the Onion Barrel was questioned by Russian reporters after the game as a host. Unexpectedly, the Russian reporter was quickly "punched in the face" by his own people and netizens in Russia. According to the post-match survey of the Russian Sports Network, 49% of Russian sports fans believe that the Chinese combination has performed better, which is undoubtedly the best response to the reporter's questioning of the onion barrel to win gold.
Figure skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics is free skating, and China's "onion barrel combination" gets the opportunity to make the finale debut. In the previous short program event, The Onion Barrel scored the highest score of 84.41 points in the game, and the technical action score also won the best in each combination. What's more, this score allowed them to break the world record 2 times in just 14 days.
In the free skating competition held on the 19th, the second-to-last Russian-Austrian gold medal combinations Tarasova and Morozov scored 155 points, plus the short program score of 84.25, with a total score of 239.25 points, once jumping to the first place.
Subsequently, the onion barrel team came under great pressure, and although the yellow light was lit twice in 11 technical moves (the referee needed to look back to determine whether the action was effective), it still scored the highest score of 155.47 points, 0.47 points higher than Tarasova and Morozov. Coupled with the results of the short program, the onion barrel scored 239.88 points, with a slight advantage of 0.63 points to defeat the Russian-Austrian team combination and win the gold medal in the project, which was also the 9th gold of the Chinese Legion in the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The short program broke the world record twice, and the free skating was also the highest score in the whole game, and it is reasonable to say that the onion barrel should be convincing. However, the Russian media reporter directly questioned Han Cong's final score during the post-match interview, suggesting that the referee scored them too high, because the Russian-Austrian team Tamo combination also performed quite perfectly.
In response to the Russian reporter's questioning, Han Cong behaved very calmly and replied: "You asked very directly. You can see the difficulty of our challenge for four weeks, and there is no other pair skating challenge twist around the field. If every game is scored unfairly, with all kinds of problems, it is impossible to compare. At the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, we also scored a very close score (at that time, the onion barrel lost 0.43 points). Do you also have to question the referee in Pyeongchang? I believe the referee is impartial! I have to say that Han Cong's answer was loud and reasonable, and such an answer also made the reporter embarrassed and completely speechless.
Perhaps Han Cong's answer has its subjective factors, but the votes of netizens in Russia can always represent their attitude. After the match, the Russian Sports Network conducted a poll on the results of the event. As a result, after 3,020 people voted, 49% of Russian netizens thought that the Chinese was better, and only 51% thought that the judges helped. Being able to get a super high support rate of 49% on Russian domestic websites is enough to show that the onion barrel has conquered most Russian netizens. The onion barrel won the championship, the price is real, and it is deserved.