World Championships Update: Pairs

I am utterly shocked to find out that China's Pang and Tong have edged out the powerhouse Savchenko and Szolkowy of Germany for first place in the pairs competition after the short program.  Did not see that one coming!  In third place is new Russian pair Volosozhar and Trankov.  In other news, Eric Radford broke his nose mid progarm after being hit by partner Meagan Duhamel's elbow.  And he continued skating!  Despite the broken nose, the pair sits ahead of both American teams.

Pl.	Name	Nation	Points	SP	FS
1	Qing PANG / Jian TONG	CHN	74.00	1
2	Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY	GER	72.98	2
3	Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Maxim TRANKOV	RUS	70.35	3
4	Vera BAZAROVA / Yuri LARIONOV	RUS	64.64	4
5	Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV	RUS	62.54	5
6	Narumi TAKAHASHI / Mervin TRAN	JPN	59.16	6
7	Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD	CAN	58.83	7
8	Caitlin YANKOWSKAS / John COUGHLIN	USA	58.76	8
9	Stefania BERTON / Ondrej HOTAREK	ITA	57.63	9
10	Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan MOSCOVITCH	CAN	56.86	10
11	Amanda EVORA / Mark LADWIG	USA	54.64	11
12	Maylin HAUSCH / Daniel WENDE	GER	53.90	12
13	Yue ZHANG / Lei WANG	CHN	52.25	13
14	Huibo DONG / Yiming WU	CHN	49.29	14
15	Klara KADLECOVA / Petr BIDAR	CZE	45.20	15
16	Natalja ZABIJAKO / Sergei KULBACH	EST	44.35	16
17	Stacey KEMP / David KING	GBR	44.14	17
18	Adeline CANAC / Yannick BONHEUR	FRA	43.92	18
19	Lubov BAKIROVA / Mikalai KAMIANCHUK	BLR	38.20	19
20	Danielle MONTALBANO / Evgeni KRASNOPOLSKI	ISR	37.43	20
21	Stina MARTINI / Severin KIEFER	AUT	35.34	21
22	Alexandra MALAKHOVA / Leri KENCHADZE	BUL	30.10	22