MOSCOW, Feb 18, Pavel Levkovich. The judges considered small flaws in the short program Russian figure skaters Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Gallyamov at the Olympic Games in Beijing, said Olympic champion Natalya Bestemyanova. Russians Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov take second place after the short program. Chinese Sui Wenjing and Han Cong (84.41) are in the lead, setting a new world record. The third place is occupied by the Russians Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Gallyamov (82.76). Alexandra Boikova and Dmitry Kozlovsky (78.59) are on the fourth line. «The Chinese skated just fine, there's nothing to say, wonderful. Finally, Tarasova and Morozov skated cleanly, they did it at the right time and in the right place. As for Mishina and Galliamova, skated reverently and with a cool head, so you need to skate a short program. They had tiny, well, just very tiny technical flaws, this gave the judges the opportunity to lower them a little. We understand that by the set of elements in the free program, and for the victory of the Chinese, our strongest pair must be lowered,» Bestemyanova said.
