Pang Qing and Tong Jian gave their very best "on this day", but this cannot match the Nirvana of a 18-year-long, 4-Olympics story of endeavor, redemption, and later, of love.
Shen/Zhao won gold and Pang/Tong won silver, China ended Russia's 44-year gold medal monopoly in the pair figure skating in a spectacular way. Another Olympic moment in history!
Pair figure skating is such a unique sport. It is beyond sports, as Zang said. It is so demanding and detail-oriented when you see this, yet so free-flowing when you watch it. It is about one-ness, evetually. That's where no one can match (our beloved) Shen/Zhao.
Olympics has some bias for "seniority". That's sometimes an ultimate test for atheletes. People like Xiong Ni, are the ones I admire. Such stories are few in China.
Lastly, from Beijing to Vancouver, watching Olympics on NBC is such an enjoyable experience, 100 times better than CCTV.
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