US leads in figure skating team event, China in top 3 before last short program

Thanks to medal hopeful Sui Wenjing/Han Cong's top-class performance, China edged onto the third place with 21 points, beating Japan into fourth by one point, though Olympic silver medalist Shoma Uno landed a nearly perfect short program to finish second.

Skating to a Mission Impossible 2 Orchestra Suite, Sui/Han, the 2018 Olympic silver medalists and two-time world champions, delivered a side-by-side triple toeloop, and threw triple flip and triple twist in a Flamenco-themed program, setting 82.83 points to top the pairs short program.