Minerva Hase and Nikita Volodin of Germany took a sizable lead in the Olympic pairs figure skating short program in Milano-Cortina, topping a tightly contested field ahead of Monday’s free skate.

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Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea are in seventh and Emily Chan and Spencer Akira Howe are in ninth after the pairs' figure skating short program.

Japan's Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara soared from fifth place to Olympic gold with a world-record free skate on Monday. The final day of Olympic pairs skating brought records, history and heartbreak.

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One of these pairs has already made history, in that Kam and O'Shea have a nearly 14-year age difference, which makes them the team with the largest age gap for any U.S. pair to have competed at worlds since at least 1990, according to NBC News research.

U.S. figure skater Ilia Malinin was spotted in the crowd watching the pairs' short programs, two days after his brutal outing in the men's free skate.

Elana Meyers Taylor won her first gold medal, and sixth overall, taking first in women's monobob. She is now tied with Bonnie Blair as the most decorated female American winter Olympian. Her teammate, Kallie Humphries, took bronze.