Winter Olympics Figure Skating 2018: Pyeongchang Odds, TV Schedule, Live Stream
With the team event concluded, the focus will turn to individuals and pairs in the 2018 Winter Olympics figure skating.
Canada were the dominant force in the team competition and have a number of competitors that will be confident of taking gold in the coming days. The action starts on Wednesday in South Korea with the pairs skating short program.
That discipline will be followed by the men's singles, the ice dance and the women's singles competitions.
Read on for the schedule for the remaining events at the Gangneung Ice Arena, the vital details for viewers and the favourites to win each of the remaining medals.
Figure Skating Schedule
Wednesday, Feb. 14—Pair skating, short program
Thursday, Feb. 15—Pair skating, free skating (Savchenko and Massot—11-10)
Friday, Feb. 16—Men's single skating, short program
Saturday, Feb. 17—Men's single skating, free skating
Monday, Feb. 19—Ice dance, short dance
Tuesday, Feb. 20—Ice dance, free dance (Papadakis and Cizeron—10-11)
Wednesday, Feb. 21—Women's singles, short program
Friday, Feb. 23—Women's singles, free skating (Medvedeva—20-21)
TV Info: NBC Sports (U.S.), Eurosport (UK), BBC (UK)
Live Stream: NBC Sports App (U.S.), Eurosport Player (UK)
Odds courtesy of Action Network and accurate as of February 13.
Figure Skating Preview
While the early stages of the figure skating were all about the collective, the focus will shift in the coming days for the competitors.
In the ice dance, the pressure on the performers is huge, as an individual error can be costly to the chances of one's partner, too. It's something French pair Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron have coped with tremendously down the years.
The favourites for gold here are the double world champions and four-time European champions, although they'll face major competition from Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who have already excelled in Pyeongchang.
Indeed, the Canadians produced an exceptional performance to help their country to gold in the team event. In the buildup to the pairs, sportswriter Eoin O'Callaghan was full of praise for them:
The singles events look as though something special will be needed to beat Russian skater Evgenia Medvedeva, who broke the singles short-program world record in the team competition.
Her short-program score of 81.06 bettered the mark she'd previously set and will surely fill her with confidence heading into the singles, where her main rival for gold is set to be compatriot Alina Zagitova.
BuzzFeed's Hayes Brown admitted he had been won over by Medvedeva after her stunning performance:
There was plenty expected of Nathan Chen in the men's short program, as he entered these Games undefeated this season. But the youngster, perhaps unsurprisingly, struggled under the bright lights of the Olympics.
The 18-year-old dipped below his usual impeccable standards and suffered a rare fall that cost the United States crucial points. You sense a man of his immense potential will be desperate to bounce back from such a disappointment.
As relayed by photographer Kenny Holmes, it appeared Chen's attention turned to this event immediately after his short-program struggle:
If he brings his best, then the American will be a tough man to push off top spot. But, like all of the figure skating events, there are high-class rivals in situ, too. Defending champion Yuzuru Hanyu and fellow Japanese Shoma Uno are among them.
The pairs event will begin on Wednesday, with German twosome Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot set to fight it out with Sui Wenjing and Han Cong; the latter narrowly beat the former to the world championship title in Helsinki last year.
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