Skating with time: Sui and Han's final Olympic chapter
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MILAN, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- As the final notes of "A Tapestry of a Legendary Land" faded, so did Sui Wenjing and Han Cong's last journey at the Winter Olympics. The Chinese pair, Olympic champions at Beijing 2022 and silver medalists at PyeongChang 2018, scored 135.98 points in Monday's free skate at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics and finished fifth overall with 208.64. It came just six months after their return to competition. Their free skate drew inspiration from the dance drama of the same name, based on the famed Song Dynasty painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains." In the program, Han portrayed a painter, while Sui embodied a deity symbolizing nature's mountains and...