Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara won Japan's first gold medal in pairs figure skating at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics on Monday, jumping four places from the short program with a world-record free skate performance.The world champion pair scored 158.13 points, the highest-ever mark, for their free program for a total of 231.24, finishing 9.49 points ahead of silver medalists Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava of Georgia at Milano Ice Skating Arena.Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin of Germany won bronze with a 219.09 total.The Japanese pair's victory marked a dramatic turnaround…READ FULL ARTICLE