Before the serious business of figure skating starts next week, the Olympics is having the skaters offer a preview of what’s to come after Friday’s opening ceremony. The bonus, at least for the skaters involved, is that it comes with a gold medal.
Friday in Beijing brings the start of the Olympic team event, a hybrid competition in which 10 nations will send out skaters in all four disciplines. (Well, not all of the teams in all of the disciplines, it turns out; positive coronavirus tests have already wrecked the scoring chances — and thus the medal hopes — of the teams from Germany and Ukraine.