| Figure skating on 2010 Winter Olympics  | ||||
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| Men's single skating | ||||
| Women's single skating | ||||
| Pair skating | ||||
| Dancing on Ice | ||||
| Qualification | ||||
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Figure skating competitions at the 2010 Winter Olympics were held from February 14 to 25 . Also on February 27, demonstrations were held.
Representatives of China and South Korea won their first ever Olympic gold medals in figure skating. The Olympic Games were extremely unsuccessful for European athletes, who were able to win only a silver and two bronze medals. Since 1972, Europeans have won at least three gold medals, and they did not have gold at all only once, in 1960 in Squaw Valley, when three sets of medals were still being played, and then representatives of Europe won all three silver medals. Also unsuccessful was the performance of the Russian team. The USSR national figure skating team made its debut at the Olympic Games in 1960, showing only two pairs and being left without medals, but then since 1964, won the gold medal, and since 1988 - at least two. For the first time since 1964, Russia was unable to win a gold medal in pair skating, for the first time since 1994 - in the men's single.
In doubles and women's single skating, the favorites of the competition became champions, and there were no surprises in these types of programs. In dancing, gold and silver were played by two pairs, also considered favorites. Only the situation in men's single skating, where Yevgeny Plushenko , who missed three competitive seasons after his victory in Turin, returned and had a real chance of becoming the first two-time Olympic champion in men's single skating since 1952 (after Dick Button ). However, Plushenko took only second place, losing to Evan Lysachek . This situation was widely discussed in the press due to the fact that Lysachek limited himself to triple jumps, while Plushenko made four, and in a cascade with a triple. Proposals were actively put forward in the future to strengthen the role of the technical elements of the program in setting grades [1] .
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Country Representation
In total, 146 skaters (73 men and 73 women) from 31 countries took part in the Olympic Games (the number of athletes from the country is indicated in brackets):
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Medals
Overall classification
( Bold indicates the largest number of medals in its category; the host country is also highlighted)
| Total number of medals | |||||
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| A place | A country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| one | China | one | one | 0 | 2 |
| USA | one | one | 0 | 2 | |
| 2 | Canada | one | 0 | one | 2 |
| 3 | South Korea | one | 0 | 0 | one |
| four | Russia | 0 | one | one | 2 |
| Japan | 0 | one | one | 2 | |
| five | Germany | 0 | 0 | one | one |
Medalists
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's single skating | Evan Lysacek USA | Evgeni Plushenko Russia | Daisuke takahashi Japan |
| Women's single skating | Kim Young Ah South Korea | Mao Assad Japan | Joannie Rochette Canada |
| Pair skating | China Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo | China Pan qing Tong Jian | Germany Alena Savchenko Robin Sholkov |
| Dancing on Ice | Canada Tessa Vertyu Scott Moir | USA Meryl Davis Charlie white | Russia Oksana Domnina Maxim Shabalin |
Competition Schedule
( UTC-8 )
| Day | Sunday, February 14th | Monday, February 15 | Tuesday February 16th | Thursday, February 18 | Friday February 19th | Sunday, February 21 | Monday, February 22 | Tuesday February 23 | Thursday February 25 | saturday, february 27 |
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| Men | 16:15 - 20:45 Short program | 17:00 - 21:05 Free program | ||||||||
| Women | 16:30 - 21:00 Short program | 17:00 - 20:55 Free program | ||||||||
| Couples | 16:30 - 19:55 Short program | 17:00 - 20:55 Free program | ||||||||
| Dancing on Ice | 16:45 - 20:05 Compulsory dance | 16:15 - 19:45 Original dance | 16:45 - 20:55 Free dance | |||||||
| Demonstrations | 16:30 - 19:00 | |||||||||
| Olympics Day | 3 | four | five | 7 | eight | ten | eleven | 12 | 14 | sixteen |
Refereeing
The draw of the judges for the Olympic Games took place in September 2009, at the end of the Nebelhorn Trophy tournament . Competitions of skaters will be judged by representatives of the following countries:
| Judges | one | 2 | 3 | four | five | 6 | 7 | eight | 9 |
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| Women's single skating | |||||||||
| SP: | France | Great Britain | Germany | Japan | The Republic of Korea | Russia | Switzerland | Slovakia | USA |
| FP: | Austria | Canada | Finland | Poland | 5 randomly selected judges out of 9 who judged the short program | ||||
| Men's single skating | |||||||||
| SP: | Belgium | Czech | France | Italy | Japan | Poland | Slovenia | Ukraine | USA |
| FP: | Canada | Russia | Slovakia | Sweden | 5 randomly selected judges out of 9 who judged the short program | ||||
| Pair skating | |||||||||
| SP: | Canada | China | France | Great Britain | Germany | Russia | Switzerland | Ukraine | USA |
| FP: | Estonia | Israel | Italy | Poland | 5 randomly selected judges out of 9 who judged the short program | ||||
| Dancing on Ice | |||||||||
| CD: | Azerbaijan | Canada | Germany | Italy | Japan | Lithuania | Russia | Ukraine | USA |
| OD: | France | Great Britain | Hungary | Israel | 5 randomly selected judges from 9 judges of the compulsory dance | ||||
| Fd: | 9 judges randomly selected from all 13 judges of previous types | ||||||||
Sports venues
| Pacific Coliseum | |
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| Outside view | Inside view |
| Capacity: 14,200 | |
Qualification
According to IOC quotas, 30 singles (both men and women), 20 sports couples and 24 dancing couples (a total of 148 people) were allowed to compete.
80% of all places (24 singles, 16 sports and 19 dance couples) were determined by the results of the 2009 World Cup . The remaining representations were played at the Nebelhorn Trophy tournament , which was held in September 2009 in Oberstdorf, Germany .
Facts
- Athletes from Europe , North America , Asia and Australia and Oceania took part in figure skating competitions at the XXI Olympic Winter Games.
- The youngest figure skater at the 2010 Olympics was Allison Lynn Reed from Georgia, performing in sports dances with Otar Japaridze , she was 15 years old and 257 days at that time.
- The oldest skater at the 2010 Olympics was Zhao Hongbo from China , who plays in sports with Shen Xue , he was 36 years old and 146 days old.
- At the XXI Winter Olympics, a small sports delegation from Israel consisted of more than half of the skaters.
- At the XXI Olympic Winter Games, a small sports delegation from Georgia comprised more than a third of skaters.
- In the sports delegations of the DPRK and Uzbekistan at the XXI Olympic Winter Games, skaters made up one third of their delegations.
Notes
- ↑ “And the judges' scoring probably killed figure skating because kids now are going to see this and say,„ Oh, I don't need a quad. I can just do great footwork for presentation marks and do a couple of nice spins and make it to Olympic champion. "" Elvis Stojko . Elvis Stojko: The night they killed figure skating . Yahoo! Sports (February 19, 2010). Archived March 21, 2012.