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Olympic silver in men's figure skating  See also  According to
the Sochi 2014 website, Patrick Chan of Ottawa, Ontario won the
Olympic silver medal in men's figure skating on Friday.  Chan
posted a total score of 275.62 points and was 4.47 points back
of Japanese gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu.  Hanyu made Olympic
history by becoming the first Japanese man ever to win a gold
medal in figure skating at the Olympic Winter Games. Chan was
trying to accomplish the same feat for Canada on Friday. Japan's
only other gold medal in figure skating came from Shizuka
Arakawa at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin. Interestingly
that was Japan's only medal from the Olympic Winter Games eight
years ago.  Meanwhile the bronze medalist went to Denis Ten of
Kazakhstan who made the quantum leap from ninth to third in the
long program.  The level of figure skating was a mirror image of
men's long program figure skating in recent years--poor. Both
Hanyu and Chan did