(Beijing Winter Olympics) With ice as "poetry", who will you compete with?
China News Agency, Beijing, February 9th, Question: Who is to compete with ice as "poetry"?
China News Agency reporter Zhang Su
He suddenly accelerated and slid, prepared for a moment, jumped high and spun quickly, and in the blink of an eye, fell heavily to the ground.
Crawling on the ice for a moment, he slowly got up and gently moved his injured right foot.
His black training suit was covered in ice on one side, shockingly.
This is the scene of Japanese figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu practicing Axel quads (4A) at the Beijing Capital Gymnasium training hall on the 9th.
There are 6 known basic jumping movements in figure skating, and only the quadruple jump of Axel has not been conquered by any players in competitions.
Yuzuru Hanyu, the two-time Winter Olympic figure skating men's singles champion who successfully jumped out of 4A in a public training session, will challenge him again in the Beijing Winter Olympics figure skating men's singles free skating competition to be held on the 10th.
On the ice training on the 9th, Yuzuru Hanyu practiced 4A more than once, but unfortunately the best thing is to fall on the ice with both feet.
At this time, in addition to "completing the real 4A", another goal he set for this Winter Olympics trip, "achieving the 'three consecutive championships'" has been questioned.
On February 8, the figure skating men's single skating short program competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics was held at the Capital Gymnasium. Japanese star Yuzuru Hanyu ranked 21st and scored 95.15 points. This was his "first" in the Beijing Winter Olympics. show".
Photo by China News Agency reporter Cui Nan
After the short program competition on the 8th, Yuzuru Hanyu ranked only 8th among the 24 finalists.
Not only does this affect his order of appearances in the free skating competition, but more importantly, the short program scores will be counted toward the overall score.
In this alone, there is a gap of 18.82 points between him and Chen Wei of the United States, who is temporarily ranked first.
Before the game, some people who tried to exaggerate the "two-person battle" generally believed that Chen Wei basically locked the gold medal.
In the Winter Olympics, winning gold and silver is certainly valuable, but in the figure skating event known as the "poetry of sports", the poems written with the ice blade are obviously not only for the gold medal.
- They are fighting with "self".
In the men's singles short program competition on the 8th, French athlete Hermoz, who usually focuses on triple jumps, overcame psychological pressure and tried quadruple jumps and succeeded.
He later revealed that he was so stressed before the game that he didn't want to eat and was shivering in his chair, and now "just wants to enjoy the moment".
Chinese figure skating star Jin Boyang is even more courageous.
If the outside world was still skeptical about his successive mistakes during the team competition, now more people appreciate his maturity and self-confidence.
Jin Boyang also said that he skated not only a set of programs, but also himself. He "learned to accept his own failures" and just wanted to be worthy of his beloved figure skating career.
- They are also fighting against "time".
Brown, the self-proclaimed figure skating "loser", is participating in the Winter Olympics for the second time after Sochi.
He doesn't shy away from talking about age, deriding himself as "like the 'dad' on this team".
On February 8, the figure skating men's single skating short program competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics was held at the Capital Gymnasium. Japanese star Yuzuru Hanyu ranked 21st and scored 95.15 points. This was his "first" in the Beijing Winter Olympics. show".
Photo by China News Agency reporter Cui Nan
But Brown didn't get old.
He was the last to play in the men's singles short program competition, setting a new personal best result of the season.
Brown said it took him eight years to get back on the right track and get "the flames that had been extinguished to rekindle."
Brown made the cut, but Brzezina, the "Veteran of the Four Dynasties" from the Czech Winter Olympics, stopped short programs. The veteran then announced his retirement, which made many ice fans feel that time is fleeting and veterans are rare.
——They are even more fighting with the "potential".
When Yuzuru Hanyu fell to the ice again and again to challenge 4A, there was no shortage of controversy.
Because according to the current scoring standard, 4A's "price ratio" is not high.
Some commented that the International Skating Federation "did not assign appropriate points to it" considering that 4A could not be completed at this stage.
Even though he knew that the current 4A score might be unfair, Yuzuru Hanyu never stopped exploring.
In fact, just like the theme of his graduation thesis "Make ambiguous scoring rules more objective through technology", this player who has left an important mark in the history of figure skating has always been focusing on how to create a bright future for the world of figure skating.
"Hanyu Yuzuru is a role model worthy of my learning. To challenge the spirit that no one dares to break through is actually the spirit of sports and the spirit of the Olympics." Jin Boyang commented, and said that inspired by this, he will also work hard Encourage more people to participate in ice and snow sports.
"Why does the divine fire on Mount Olympus burn, it is not for one person to defeat another, but for the opportunity to show the indomitable human beings to the gods..." A writer once described it this way.
The scenes staged in the Beijing Capital Gymnasium are the vivid footnotes of this "Poem of Ice".
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