Pang/Tong----4 Continents Champions Look to Worlds

China's Qing Pang and Jian Tong won the 2004 Four Continents Championships in Canada in January. They also won their second Chinese Nationals this season. They had been second five times. "We are eager to be champions again for a long time," Tong said. "We're always trying to be the best. We're hoping for the top three at Worlds this year." The pair also won the Four Continents Championships in 2002, finished fourth at Worlds in 2003, and placed ninth at the 2002 Olympic Games. They won their first Grand Prix event in 2003 at Skate America, and then took the silver at the Cup of China and Cup of Russia to make the ISU Grand Prix Final, where they finished fifth. They will keep skating for at least one more Olympic Games.

Tong began skating when he was six. "I was a roller skater first, when I was five," he remembered. "Then a coach found me and said I had talent and could be a figure skater. I competed for five years in singles and two more years as an ice dancer. I won the gold medal in my province in juniors and was third in China in juniors in singles. In dancing, I was second in juniors at Nationals."

"I was taking ballet when I started skating," he said. "I was gifted for dancing. Even now, everyone thinks I'm a dancer. I thought the jumps were too hard and I didn't like falling so I decided to be a dancer. But dancing wasn't as challenging. I couldn't reach a high international level in dancing. So pairs became more attractive than singles or dance. I like it better."

"I began skating when I was six," Pang said. "All the schools had outside rinks so I went with my class and fell in love with skating." She landed her first triple salchow when she was eight. Between 1985 and 1993, Pang competed in singles, placing as high as sixth in junior ladies in China, then she switched to pairs. "I find the technical parts and elements to be more challenging and more fascinating, especially the throws and spins," she said. "I like throw jumps the most. Our hardest one is the quad salchow."

"Bin Yao put us together in 1993, but then he had to leave to coach the national team so we had no coach for a period of time," Tong noted. "We had to find our own way to train ourselves. So we watched videos and talked to each other. That's why we have our own specialties, different from other pairs." Later, they returned to working with Yao. Pang and Tong train in Harbin. "When we are very busy, we train for three to four hours a day, including off ice," Tong said. "In the summer, we work six or seven hours a day, five days a week." Off ice, they do bodybuilding and conditioning, plus ballet in the summer, six times a week.

Yao and Hailan Jiang are their choreographers. Yao found the music for their short program, Illumination by Rolf Lovland, while Leann Miller suggested the music for the long, Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme of Paganini. The short is from last season, while the long is new. "The coaches show us the music and we pick and choose," Tong explained. "I like very fast music when I skate. The rhythm is more challenging and makes me feel more active. Classical music fits us best. I have a special liking for Rachmaninoff. I like the rhythm very much. Last year we also used Rachmaninoff." Pang added, "At first I didn't know opera music, but then I realized I loved it." Off ice, Tong listens to popular music, usually rock and roll, except when he's reading. Then he likes to play classical and other soft music.

He loves playing video games and fishing in the lake. "Some day I want to live near the sea so I can fish there," he said. "I have all the equipment for it." She likes to read fashion magazines and novels, go on the Internet, and go shopping. Both skaters like sports. She enjoys bowling, basketball, and horseback riding, while he likes all kinds of sports including basketball, bowling and golf. She most enjoyed traveling to France and Switzerland because of the scenery. She collects skating pins and key chains, while he collects stamps f

感觉庞清胖了一点，这样看起来才舒服呀！

好象是啊，她以前是39公斤，现在据说是41公斤了。

骨感太强就不美了。冰上飞的形体正好啊！标准

　　提到“冰上情侣”四个字，恐怕首先出现在大家脑海中的是申雪和赵宏博的名字。不过，中国的冰雪界却存在着这样一对真正的花样滑情侣档--庞清和佟健。日前，在加拿大举行的2004年四大洲花样滑冰锦标赛上，这对年轻的双人滑组合以完美的表现力压群芳，最终摘得桂冠。不过一谈到训练，佟健便把感情的事情放在了一边，他说：“只有形成默契的两个人才能领悟。我和庞清就是经过多年的磨合，才达到现在这样的微妙关系的。至于以后退役了会怎样，只有到时才知道。”

1米63如果才39公斤的话也太过了。看她的两条细腿我还奇怪她可怎么能三周跳呢。
庞清是太瘦了，应该多吃一点点东西。41、42公斤才合适。

45kg以下九成啊，方丹1.53M，41kg，三周不也没问题，庞清再重点没问题，佟健绝对举得起他！太轻了，她自己也容易受伤！（看庞清的腿细吧，丁洋比她还细）

方丹这么矮？！
看来在花样滑冰女选手中陈露属于高个子了。

刘艳1.65呢！她最高！我怎么记得庞清1.61啊！

官方网站上是1。63米，我感觉她站在1。80米的男伴身边，对比一下好象绝不止1米61。
刘艳好像并非很小，是84年的吧。