Exclusive Olympic Images, Day 4

The competition for pairs figure skating on Monday night was worthy of a Russian novel, but it was Chinese duo (and real-life couple) Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo who won the hearts of the judges with a near-perfect routine. Russia missed silver, too, with Chinese teammates Pang Qing and Tong Jian and taking the second spot.

Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szokowy bring bronze home to Mother Germany and speaking of mothers, we have a mother/son shot you have to check out: a distillation of what these millions of dollars and years of toil are all about.

 

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See the Olympic Games day by day

HOCKEY

Day 16: Canada vs. USA (Men’s gold)

Day 14: Canada vs. USA (Women’s)

Day 11: Sweden vs. Finland (Men’s)

Day 10: Canada vs. USA (Men’s—preliminaries)

Day 7: Canada vs. Switzerland, plus Norway vs. USA (men’s)

 

SPEEDSKATING

Day 15: Men’s and women’s shorttrack, feat. Charles Hamelin

Day 13: Women’s 5,000m longtrack, feat. Clara Hughes

Day 9: Men’s 1,000m, feat. Apolo Ohno; women’s 1500m, feat. Yang Zhou

Day 5: Women’s 500m

 

SKI / SNOWBOARDING

Day 6: Men’s halfpipe, feat. Shaun White

Day 2: Women’s moguls, feat. Jennifer Heil

Day 1: Luge and ski jump

 

FIGURE SKATING

Day 12: Women’s short program, feat. Joannie Rochette

Day 8: Pairs ice dance, feat. Vanessa Crone and Paul Poirier

Day 4: Pairs, feat. Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo

Day 3: Practice at the new Trout Lake rink, feat. Daisuke Takahashi