The final figure skating medal event — women’s singles — will conclude Thursday at 8 p.m. Eastern with the free skate portion of the competition. We will be updating this story throughout the night with live results and analysis. Chelsea Janes is reporting from Gangneung Ice Arena and Des Bieler is in Washington.
Alina Zagitova hangs on for gold medal
Evgenia Medvedeva could not quite match her 15-year-old Russian rival, Alina Zagitova, whose sudden emergence this season was capped with a gold medal at the Olympics. Medvedeva posted the same score as her OAR teammate in Friday’s free skate, 156.65, but the world record score Zagitova posted in Wednesday’s short program, 82.92, was enough to put her over the top.
The 18-year-old Medvedeva, who had won the past two world championships, had to overcome a broken foot suffered late last year, and she could point to that injury while Zagitova won the European championsips last month.
Source: Yahoo News
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