Yuzuru Hanyu challenged 4A (Axel quadruple jump) and fell.

After getting up and performing, he fell again.

When he left, he touched the ice and his eyes were red.

Yuzuru Hanyu.

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  At the end of the men's singles free skating competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics on the 10th, Yuzuru Hanyu ranked fourth in total.

  On December 7, 1994, a little boy was born in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.

His father, Hideyuki Hanyu, wanted him to live as hard as a string on a bow, so he named him Yuzuru.

  As a joke of fate, Yuzuru Hanyu was diagnosed with asthma at the age of two.

In order to fight the disease, 4-year-old Yuzuru Hanyu put on skates and began to practice figure skating with his sister.

No one could imagine that this little boy who put on skates to fight the disease is stepping out of his figure skating era step by step.

  Hiroho Shimizu, an Olympic gold medalist in figure skating who also suffers from asthma, gave Yuzuru Hanyu a lot of encouragement.

He made Yuzuru Hanyu understand that disease will not block the way to the top of the world.

Since then, Yuzuru Hanyu has become more dedicated and focused in her figure skating practice.

  However, due to illness, Yuzuru Hanyu's road to figure skating is still full of ups and downs.

In order to improve his stamina and physical strength, Yuzuru Hanyu has tried almost all kinds of methods.

Taking medicine, tracheal expansion surgery, and practicing various methods to improve their cardiopulmonary function.

Finally, his stamina and physical strength have been greatly improved, and he can also try more technical moves.

  In 2009, won the figure skating grand prix youth group final champion;

  In March 2010, won the World Junior Figure Skating Championships;

  In February 2011, he won a silver medal in the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships and became the youngest medalist in the event.

  ...

  Just as Yuzuru Hanyu's figure skating future was going well, the 2011 earthquake in Japan destroyed his hometown of Sendai and his training ground.

Yuzuru Hanyu was training at the skating rink in Sendai when the earthquake struck.

The terrifying memory of the earthquake could not disappear in his heart for a long time.

However, although the earthquake temporarily disrupted Yuzuru's life, it closely linked his fate to figure skating.

That summer, Yuzuru Hanyu gave up the opportunity to train abroad and participated in more than 60 charity performances. While raising funds to help the disaster-stricken areas, he also practiced again and again in performances to improve his figure skating skills.

Yuzuru Hanyu.

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  In December 2011, Yuzuru Hanyu won the bronze medal in the All-Japan Figure Skating Championships and was successfully selected for the World Championships list for the first time.

  In March 2012, he participated in the World Figure Skating Championships for the first time and won the bronze medal.

In December of the same year, he won the All-Japan Figure Skating Championships for the first time...

  If the 2013 World Figure Skating Grand Prix Finals champion made this 19-year-old teenager into the public eye, then the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics became famous, it can be said to have opened the Hanyu Yu The peak era of strings.

Yuzuru Hanyu.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Cui Nan

  In March of the same year, Yuzuru Hanyu won the gold medal at the World Figure Skating Championships for the first time and achieved the Grand Slam of the Olympic Games, World Championships, and Grand Prix Finals.

In December, defending the World Figure Skating Grand Prix Finals champion, achieved two consecutive championships; defending the All-Japan Figure Skating Championships champion, achieved three consecutive championships.

  In 2015, he broke the world record with a total score of 330.43 points and achieved three consecutive championships; in 2016, he became the first player to successfully complete the quadruple jump in the outer knot in the official competition; in 2017, he won the World Figure Skating Championship again, creating a figure Free skating men's singles world record.

  However, fate seems to have played a joke on him again:

  Less than three months before the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Yuzuru Hanyu fell during training and injured his ankle ligaments.

Just when everyone was worried about whether his injury would affect the performance of the Winter Olympics, Yuzuru Hanyu proved himself with a song "Onmyoji", successfully defending the championship, and became the first figure skating champion in the men's singles of the Winter Olympics in 66 years. player.

  In that game, CCTV's commentary was also regarded as a classic: "The Sochi Winter Olympic champion faced the challenges of the surrounding teenagers in the Pyeongchang cycle, which reminded me of a sentence - fate, whispering to the warriors: You can't Resist the storm. The warrior whispers back: I am the storm."

  Time comes to 2022. As the champion of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, he also suffered from injuries and other problems during the Beijing Winter Olympics cycle.

At the end of last year, Yuzuru Hanyu fell and was injured during training, and he was unable to train with difficult techniques for a long time after that.

But even under such circumstances, he still wants to challenge the 4A that he has practiced for many years in the Beijing Winter Olympics.

  On February 8, 2022, Yuzuru Hanyu made his official appearance in the men's single skating short program at the Beijing Winter Olympics, completing his first show at the Winter Olympics.

Although he failed to successfully complete the corresponding actions due to mistakes during the game, Yuzuru said in an interview after the game that he was not hit by any blow, and said that he would adjust his state and continue to "do his best".

Yuzuru Hanyu leaves the scene to touch the ice.

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  On February 10, Yuzuru Hanyu appeared in a blue suit.

  At the beginning of the competition, Yuzuru Hanyu challenged 4A, taking off and flying, so smooth, unfortunately, he made a mistake when he landed and fell.

After getting up and then performing, he fell again.

  However, the mistakes did not affect his subsequent performance. In the subsequent games, Hanyu completed the corresponding actions with extremely high quality.

  At the end of the song, Hanyu stood in the middle of the ice, staring at everything in front of him for a long time.

Then he circled every corner of the venue and thanked the audience for the last time, and his eyes were still red.

  When leaving the curtain call.

Yuzuru Hanyu bent down to touch the ice surface with both hands, and then raised the hands that touched the ice surface to give an affectionate kiss.

I don't know how many people were moved by this scene.

  For Yuzuru Hanyu, his trip to the Beijing Winter Olympics may have regrets, and it is regrettable that he failed to perfectly show everyone the wonderful and incredible 4A.

But facing the arena, he has done his best to show what he wants to show, and his persistence and love for figure skating no longer needs any words to explain.

  Yuzuru Hanyu, an athlete who does not wait for the whip, we don't know what choice Hanyu will make after this Winter Olympics.

From the time he was suffering from injuries but never gave up figure skating; from the time he gritted his teeth and insisted on becoming the first defending champion; from the time he relentlessly challenged the 4A, which no one had ever succeeded in, he was already a legend.