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At the end of an exciting free dance program Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir win their third Olympic gold career after the one in the same race in 2010 at home in Vancouver and in the team competition ended eight days ago and definitely enter the legend.
Tuesday 20 February 2018 4 minutes reading time
The two Canadians with three golds and two silvers, both won in Sochi 2014, are the first in history to reach five five-circle medals in figure skating by detaching the Swedish Gilles Grafström, three golds and a silver between 1920 and 1932, and the Russian Evgeny Plushenko, two golds and two silvers between 2002 and 2014. Today they had to overcome to overtake the French Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron, who after the short program were behind the North Americans of 1.74 points, and that in the free program they set the new world record in the segment with 123.35 improving themselves by 1.48 points, as well as the new world record for the total score, 205.28 against the 203.16 of the last Europeans.
But the last to go on the track were Virtue and Moir who, in fact, have passed: with 122.40 points were not able to be the best of the day but the most important thing is that they bypassed the transalpine with the total score of 206.07, 79 cents better than their opponents: as in last year's World Championships, the short program was decisive for gold, even though this time Virtue and Moir had much less advantage than Papadakis and Cizeron, who also this time have to settle for 'silver.
The American derby for the bronze went to the brothers of Japanese origin Maia and Alex Shibutani, who with 192.59 points have overtaken Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue (187.69), to which as in the last World Cup the free was fatal, then they had dropped from third to ninth, this time they lost only one position. Fifty Russians Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitry Soloviev, who overtake the pair of blue veterans Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte, who equal sixth place in Sochi. Tenth Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri improve by four positions compared to four years ago: for the first time two blue couples are among the first ten of an Olympic dance.
Changing completely sports, the same nations that took the medals of the dance, won the same identical metals in the female halfpipe of freestyle: the gold went to the Canadian Cassie Sharpe, who after receiving 94.40 points for the first run the final was improved in the second with 95.80, the silver, as in Sochi, won the French Marie Martino, 92.60 in the second run after 92.20 in the first, bronze to the US Brita Sigourney, 91 , 60 in the third run.
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