Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava closed out the pairs’ free skate at the 2025 Cup of China in Chongqing, Folks’s Republic of China, on Saturday, 25 October, with a surprising efficiency to Jonathan Roy’s “Conserving Me Alive” that sealed their second profession Grand Prix victory.
The Georgian duo gained the free skate with 139.47 factors, forward of Italy’s Sara Conti and Niccolò Macii (136.47) and Olympic champions Sui Wenjing and Han Cong, who delighted the dwelling crowd with a comeback bronze.
“It was so nice to skate right here, it was such an awesome viewers, we have been so glad that we have been in a position to come again right here,” stated an elated Anastasiia, with Luka nonetheless catching his breath beside her.
Conti and Macii, the reigning European silver and world bronze medallists, opened their Grand Prix season with a sublime efficiency to a model of “Caruso”, a becoming selection for a pair heading into their dwelling Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.
However the loudest cheers of the night time belonged to Sui and Han. The Beijing 2022 Olympic champions returned to competitors for the first time in almost 4 years, skating to music from a Chinese language dance-poetry drama. It wasn’t good, however their plain connection carried them again onto the podium in entrance of a house crowd that roared their approval.
Rewatch all of the motion on the ISU Youtube here.
