Olympic Figure Skating: Canada Wins Team Gold; U.S. Grabs Bronze<br />The United States was third, led by Mirai Nagasu, who gave a near-perfect performance<br />that included an extremely difficult triple axel, eight years after her last Olympic appearance.<br />Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan and Evgenia Medvedeva of Russia, both gold medal favorites in their individual events,<br />and Nathan Chen of the United States did not appear for the free skates, though Medvedeva and Chen had skated in the short program.<br />“So to become the first American to land a triple axel at the Olympic Games is historical, and no one can take that away from me.”<br />Nagasu placed second to the Russian Alina Zagitova.<br />Patrick Chan placed first in the men’s free skate,<br />and the ice dancing superstars Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue won the free dance to give Canada the comfortable victory.<br />“Four years ago, when I was left off the team, I wanted to make another Olympic team,<br />and I knew I would really have to be something special,” she said.<br />A third place by Gabrielle Daleman in the women’s event was not enough to stop their momentum,<br />and another strong performance by Virtue and Moir locked up the big win.<br />The team of Russians won the silver medal thanks in part to a first place by Alina Zagitova in the women’s free skate.
