Evgenia Medvedeva of Russia is just 18, but she is already a two-time world champion and should be the favorite for the ladies figure skating gold medal, which begins with the short program. Stay here for live updates and analysis:
Evgenia Medvedeva, the world champion from Russia and the favorite, saved her triples till later in the program in order to start with an expressive camel spin and step sequence to Chopin. But when the jumps came, she nailed them. Her score of 81.61, including 9-plus in all in the subjective categories, puts her eight points ahead of the field and sets a high mark for the others to hit.