Vancouver, October 31 ( Xinhua) -- The 2021-2022 grand prix of figure skating in Canada ended in Vancouver on the evening of the 30th local time, and the two-time world champion Sui Wenjing/ Han Cong won the double skating championship with a nearly 31-point advantage over the second place, Chen Wei, a Chinese American, and Camilla Valieva, a 15-year-old talented girl from Russia, won the men's and women's single skating titles, and Canada's Giles/Bowerell won the ice dance championship.
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Sui Wenjing (Top) / Han Cong in the pair skating free skating competition on October 30. Xinhua News Agency/Midland
With the song "Golden Bridge on the Sorrow River" that the duo had skated in 2017, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong brilliantly completed the twisting for three weeks, and the rear outer point ice for three weeks and then two weeks in a row and jumped for three weeks, and the biggest flaw appeared in Sui Wenjing's three-week single jumping action of the inner ring. Their free skating ended up scoring 145.11 points, plus the previous day's short program score of 78.94 points for a total of 224.05 points, improving their scoring record this season.
The Russian duo of Pavlyutchenko/Hodduck and the American duo of Kane/Leduc won silver and bronze medals with a total score of 193.08 and 189.90 respectively.
Sui Wenjing (right)/Han Cong at the award ceremony. Xinhua News Agency/Midland
After the game, when explaining the intention of the new compilation of the old free skating track, Han Cong said: "We have only used this music twice, so I think it is better to use it again." ...... When Sui Wenjing was choreographing, I was like a bridge waiting for her to return; this year we chose this song again, because I also had an operation last year, and this time Xiao Sui became my bridge and supported us. ”
Sui Wenjing said: "This story (not only for both of us) is also for everyone. Because there are actually many difficulties at this stage, we can't see friends and family outside in the bubble (closed-loop management of epidemic prevention and control), but we have pillars in our hearts. They are far away, even on the other side of the ocean, but our hearts are all together, and we hope that we can be more united, which is also a new content of the Olympic motto. ”
Sui Wenjing (top) / Han Cong in a pair skating free skating competition. Xinhua News Agency/Midland
This is the fourth time that Sui Han has participated in the Canadian leg of the Grand Prix, and they have finished second in the previous three competitions. The silver medal duo at the PyeongChang Olympics finished runners-up at the World Championships earlier this year and competed in the Asian Open and Beijing Winter Olympics test match this season, with Canada making their debut at the grand prix of the new season.
In the men's singles competition led by Chen Wei, another American player, Jason Brown, and 18-year-old Russian rookie Yevgeny Shemenenko finished second and third respectively. The Russian women's player finished in the top three in women's singles, with her comeback former champion Tuktamiseva trailing Varieva by more than 30 points and finishing second, and European champion Kostonaya three times earlier.
Sui Wenjing and Han Cong are also the only Chinese players to participate in this grand prix. Next, they will travel to Turin, Italy, to participate in the Italian leg of the Grand Prix held there next week, where Chinese players such as Peng Cheng/Jin Yang, Jin Boyang, Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu, Chen Hong/Sun Zhuoming, Chen Yudong, Zhu Yi and other Chinese players will also attend the race.