Posted by smile4 on February 15th, 2008
—- Champion
The 2008 ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships opened on February 13 2008 in Goyang, the Republic of Korea. Korea has hosted the Four Continents Championships twice before, in 2002 ans in 2005. This is the first international figure skating competition held by International Skating Union this year. China delegation sent three couples to for the Pairs, three couples for the Ice Dancing and three athletes for the Men and Women competition respectively.
The result of the first two days’ competition is exciting. Chinese athletes Qing Pang/ Jian Tong gained the gold medal in Pairs with their teammates Dan Zhang/ Hao Zhang following. Dan Zhang/ Hao Zhang got the highest point 70.45 in the Pairs Short Program. Qing Pang/ Jian Tong got 67.70. In the Free Skating on 14th, Qing Pang/ Jian Tong overtook their teammates Dan/Hao to grab their third gold medal at the Four Continents Championships. Dan/ Hao had a little fault in the second jump and fell to the second place in total score. The other couple Jiaqi Li/ Jiankun Xu ranked in the sixthplace. They are the new stars after Xue Shen/ Hongbo Zhao.
China were weak in the winter events before, but since these skating athletes appeared, China’s competition result began to get better and better. In my opinon, they are the main force to win gold medal in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
http://www.isu.org/vsite/vcontent/content/transnews/0,10869,4844-128590-19728-18885-282541-3787-4771-layout160-129898-news-item,00.html
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