Chinese pair looks to wedding after finishing fourth
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Chinese veteran figure skaters Pang Qing and Tong Jian, silver medalists at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, turned their focus to their impending wedding after finishing fourth at the Sochi Games.
Pang and Tong, both 34, started skating together as six-year-olds.
They got engaged last year when Tong proposed during an ice show in China.
Skating to “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Miserables they finished third in the free skate but fourth overall.
World champions Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov won the gold ahead of fellow Russians Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov.
Germany’s Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy took a second Olympic bronze.
A disappointed Tong said they had put their wedding plans on hold until after the Winter Olympics, but they would now be retiring.
“We haven’t planned our ceremony yet, as we’ve been focused on our training. Now it’s time for us to think about it,” he said.
“We’re happy to have had the chance to skate our last performance at the Olympic Winter Games. It’s an honor. We could have been more lucky if we won a medal.”
Pang added: “We performed every element as best as we can except I didn’t do the double axel very well.
“The audience was very enthusiastic and the people showed their appreciation for our performance.”
Over a career spanning 20 years, the 2006 and 2010 world champions have won every major title possible apart from the Olympic gold.
In Vancouver the pair from Harbin chose the music ‘Impossible Dream’ for their free skate and it took them to silver behind fellow Chinese Xue Shen and Zhao Hongbo, who broke Russia’s Olympic gold medal dominance in pairs going back to 1964.
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