Word: salchow
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...time world champion runners-up, Shen and Zhao possess an awesome array of technical tricks. They hope to become the first pair of skaters to include a quadruple-throw Salchow in their Olympic routine. But the duo has been consistently marked down for a lack of artistic flair. Judges look for the grace, fluidity and lyricism that the great Russian partners bring to the sport, a prejudice that fans of a more athletic style of skating have long criticized. Now an aggrieved Shen and Zhao have added a new dimension to that complaint: they (and their supporters) feel they...