Patrick Chan wins silver medal at Winter Games after disappointing performance
Posted Feb 14, 2014 06:35:41 PM.
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SOCHI, Russia – Canada’s Patrick Chan has won silver in men’s figure skating at the Sochi Games.Chan didn’t have a clean program, touching the ice on one jump while falling on another to score 178.10 in the free skate. That gave him a total score of 275.62 and a place on the podium, just not the one he wanted.
Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan, finished first after also falling twice en route to a 178.64 for 280.09 points.
Two skaters remained but neither could catch Hanyu or Chan.
Hanyu, a 19-year-old who lives and trains in Toronto with coach Brian Orser, set a world short-program record the previous night of 101.45, making him the first man in history to break the 100-point barrier.
The 23-year-old Chan, from Toronto, trailed Hanyu by four points going into the long program.
