Zagitova,15, outduels Evgenia Medvedeva to win gold medalCanada’s Kaetlyn Osmond takes bronze with season-best skateNo US woman finishes in the top six for first time at OlympicsNo figure skater dominated the past quadrennium like Evgenia Medvedeva, and the raven-haired Russian who final year became the first woman in 16 years to win back-to-back world championships while elevating the sport to new technical heights with dumbfounding consistency.
But none of it mattered on Friday afternoon as the 15-year-passe prodigy Alina Zagitova capped her meteoric ascent with the Olympic title,beating out the countrywoman who inspired her to become a figure skater to win the first gold medal for the Olympic Athletes from Russia at these Pyeongchang Games. Canada’s Kaetlyn Osmond took the bronze.
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Source: guardian.co.uk