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PYEONGCHANG, Feb. 15-- Figure skaters Sui Wenjing/Han Cong won China a second silver medal at PyeongChang Olympics on Thursday in pair event with 235.47 points after free skating, 0.43 points away from the top of the podium. The silver came after Liu Jiayu snatched the silver medal of the women's snowboard halfpipe for China on Tuesday and became the first Chinese snowboard Olympic medalist. Rebounding from the disappointing fourth finish in short program, world championships runners-up Aljona Savchenko/Bruno Massot of Germany won the gold with a personal best of 235.90 points, while team gold medallists Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford of Canada took the bronze medal with 230.15 points. The Canadians also become the first in the Olympic history to successfully finish a throw quad Salchow. Leading in short program, Sui/Han was hopeful to become the second Chinese pair to claim the Olympic gold in this event, after their coach Zhao Hongbo paring his wife Shen Xue won the title in Vancouver 2010. Skating to the classic Turandot by Giacomo Puccini, the Chinese duo, the last but one to skate, suffered a major setback when Han under-rotated a double toeloop in a planned combination of triple Salchow plus two double toeloop jumps at the beginning. The hesitation-caught Sui stumbled on the following side-by-side triple Salchow jump, which killed the pair's "gold" dream in the advance, given a flawless routine by the German duo before theirs. | 
