Russian Olympic athletes who participated in a rally supporting President Vladimir Putin and the invasion of Ukraine are facing a backlash.

Figure skating needed a little brightness after the gloom of the women’s singles competition, with its doping cloud and its tornadic climax. Sui Wenjing and Han Cong of China delivered.

Sui Wenjing and Han Cong captured the Olympic gold medal that eluded them by a razor-thin margin four years ago.

The top six finishers in the Olympic pairs short program did not have a single negative grade of execution among the 63 marks they received.