2010 Winter Olympics photo gallery: Pairs figure skating

The best athletes in any sport are praised for making the difficult appear easy. But figure skaters also have to make what they do look like something profound, sincere, wrapped up in a moment of genuine emotion.

Here is a collection of photographs from the February 15 pairs figure skating free program.

View more photographs from the 2010 Winter Olympics Games. And read the Georgia Straight's Olympic Journal.