The Swiss national team took the lead in...
2010 Olympic Winter Games in Canada.Xue Shen and Hogbo Zhao confidently won their gold medal after taking the first place in the short program on Sunday and the first place in free skating on Monday, garnering 216.57 points in aggregate.
Their fellow countrymen Qing Pang and Jian Tong took the silver with 213.31 points and the German pair Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy won bronze with 210.60 points.
Russian couple Yuko Kavaguti and Alexander Smirnov finished in fourth place with 194.77 points as their performance saw several errors.
"Psychology" prevents Russian skiers from winning medals
Russians pinned great hopes on its skiers at the Olympics in Canada, but on Monday the best results were 7th place in the women"s 10 km free style Cross Country (Yevgeniya Medvedeva) and 9th place in the men"s 15 km free style Cross Country (Maxim Vylegzhanin).
Russia"s skiing head coach blamed his team"s failure for "psychological" reasons.