Winter Olympics 2022: Sui Wenjing, Han Cong earn gold at last in pairs figure skating

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Sui Wenjing and Han Cong exploded from their seats in the kiss-and-cry area, and a small and carefully chosen crowd of Chinese fans in the stands did the same, the moment their scores were read in the pairs event at the Beijing Olympics.

Four years after a crushing disappointment at the Pyeongchang Games, when they lost the gold medal by the thinnest of margins, Sui and Han had flipped the script: They were the ones walking away as champions by a razor-thin margin.

Sui and Han scored a world-record 239.88 points with a flawless free skate set to a rendition of "Bridge Over Troubled Water," beating Russian rivals Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov by just 63 hundredths of a point.

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Sui Wenjing and Han Cong, of China, compete in the pairs free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

"We went through a lot, from being not expected (to do well) at the very beginning," said Sui, who along with Han missed out on gold by 43 hundredths of a point in Pyeongchang. "So today, we have really put out our best on the rink."

The difference in gold may have come down to Sui and Han opening with a quad twist, a high-scoring element that made up for a sloppy triple salchow and kept them from losing their lead of 16 hundredths of a point after the short program.

"We just did what we did before. It wasn’t particularly difficult. We just skated our program as we trained," Morozov said. "We didn’t feel much stress. We feel like we skated as one, so it went pretty smooth for us."

Tarasova and Morozov, coached in part by the