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BEIJING, Nov. 7-- Despite having touched down with his hand on a quad lutz and turning out of a quad toeloop, local favorite Jin Boyang still got a season best 93.89 points after skating to "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" at this weekend's Cup of China Grand Prix skating tournament. Thanks to the short program score, Jin, 20, managed to maintain an overall second-place finish after his free skate, albiet with some shaky quads, and was ruled just fifth among 12 men's singles competitors in total. The Cup of China was the third of six ISU figure skating Grand Prix series events, and the headliners looked to demonstrate their podium potential with the arrival of the 100-day countdown to the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Jin was as eager as his fellow competitors, especially after his one-year older teammate Yan Han, who claimed the country's best result in an Olympics after finishing 7th in Sochi 2017, suffered a shoulder injury and had to go under surgery just seven months ago. The two-time and current world bronze medalist, assumed to be the most hopeful of China's male figure skaters ahead of the upcoming Pyeongchang Games, admitted that he'd been wavering before deciding on the famous movie soundtrack to accompany his routine. "We discussed a lot, tried more and turned down all of them, before we agreed to stick to the Chinese style," said Jin. A Chinese Wuxia movie released in 2000, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was very well received in the Western world, and led to a boost in popularity for this Chinese film form in places where it had previously been little known. | 
