'Is that Bing Dwen Dwen... on ice?' 7 stronger together figure skating moments at Beijing 2022

While figure skating is a sport of just one or two competitors on the ice at a time, the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 reminded us there is a strong community aspect to it, too.

Over the 11 days of skating inside the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, Olympians and their support teams showed the true value of being #StrongerTogether - while also providing plenty of smiles, laughs and - not to be missed - a skating Bing Dwen Dwen mascot.

Here, we highlight seven of those smile-inducing moments in a look back at the event from Beijing 2022.

There was perhaps no greater moment of togetherness during the individual portion of the figure skating event than when four-time world champion ice dancers Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron received their Olympic-winning scores in the arena's 'Kiss and Cry' area.

They were clobbered by Montreal-based training mates Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue, who had won bronze, as well as Madison Chock and Evan Bates, who placed fourth.

The group hug came after Papadakis/Cizeron had sealed their golden fate four years after disappointment with silver at PyeongChang 2018.

There are few stories as heart-warming as Kegan Messing's race-against-time journey from Vancouver to Beijing after being held in Canada for over a week after testing positive for Covid-19. The heartwarming part is that he made it, just in time for the men's event, in which he placed 11th.

The men were the first to compete after the team event, so Messing took on a new role in the largely empty arena: Canadian flag-bearer. Every time a Canadian skater would step onto the ice he would unfurl a massive Canadian flag, often running from one side of the stands to the other to whip up the crowd. Messing even borrowed