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Two-time defending world champions Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy are third, while Olympic champions Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo did not enter.

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China's two-time world champions Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo won the pairs.

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China's She Xue and Zhao Hongbo, who train in this rink and live a short distance away, took the pairs title with gravity-defying throw moves and twists.

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In pairs, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, who must really like America, won their third Grand Prix overall crown.

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And finally, in 2002, one month after the Olympics at a World Championships without the Russians or Canadians, Hongbo becomes world champion.

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His parents agreed, and Hongbo went to the dormitory.

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It is a snapshot of a very young Hongbo, standing in the snow looking merry.

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And whenever the family drank water, we would remember how excited Hongbo was when he brought those thermoses home.

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“Hongbo is generous with his money,” his mother says approvingly.

THE SECOND MARK JOY GOODWIN 2004