After the women's singles and pairs short program competitions ended in the morning, Lu You and Xie Yunjun ranked third and went to participate in a small medal award ceremony. After the ceremony, a group of Japanese reporters came to interview them.
The Chinese team did not bring a translator, and the translator provided by the organizer was not good enough, and his Chinese was not relevant. In the end, a Japanese ice hockey fan who could speak Chinese came on stage at the award ceremony and temporarily acted as a translator.
The atmosphere of the small medal award ceremony is very relaxed, and it is also a great opportunity for ice fans to get close to their favorite athletes.
Of course, Yamamoto Nanako would not miss such an opportunity. She successfully squeezed out the unreliable translator of the organizer and took the seat. She looked at the two children standing next to her with a loving face like an aunt, resisting the urge to reach out and touch their little heads, and translated the reporters' questions into fluent Chinese.
"Tori-chan, Kimi-san, we got third place in the short program this time. It's such a good result. Do you have any special gifts you want?"
Lu You stood in front of Xie Yunjun, so short that he only reached Xie Yunjun's chest. Before the interview, Jiang Yang reminded the two children to think twice before speaking, and not to speak without thinking, or to make ambiguous or erroneous remarks that would become a weapon for others to attack them.
Lu You was too lazy to think, so he poked Xie Yunjun's waist with his backhand, signaling him to answer.
Xie Yunjun took the microphone and said, "A gift I really want... I hope that after the competition, when we go to Tokyo Disneyland, I can help my girlfriend get her favorite limited edition StellaLou doll."
Nanako Yamamoto: I see. Tori-chan likes StellaLou. Take a note of it in your notebook. Next time I get the chance during the competition, I’ll prepare this doll and throw it to Tori-chan.
"This is not a gift. Is there anything else you want?" Nanako Yamamoto continued to translate the reporter's questions.
"If possible, I hope the coach can reward us with a bag of cheese sticks," Xie Yunjun thought for a moment, "someone likes to eat this, but in order to control his weight, he is under strict supervision by the coach. This person hasn't eaten it for more than a year."
Lu You tilted his head back, stretched out his hand to scratch Xie Yunjun's palm, and said anxiously: "Why are you exposing my past——"
Xie Yunjun slowly added: "But mainly I want to eat."
Lu You: "...Why don't you talk to me? It's so embarrassing!"
A burst of laughter broke out at the scene. Lu You covered his face and hid behind Xie Yunjun. The reporters and ice fans, including Yamamoto Nanako, were so cute that they turned into screaming chickens, with smiles of old fathers and mothers on their faces.
After the game, Cavilla, who was in a state of jet lag debuff, was still dozing off at the press conference. She was awakened by the noisy atmosphere. She opened her eyes dazedly, not knowing what was going on. She couldn't understand Chinese and Japanese, and thought the interview was over and they were going to take a group photo, so she raised her medal, made a scissors hand gesture, and showed her signature professional smile.
Her companion, Anatole, hastened to press her hand.
The audience was so happy at this point that they felt that it was more fun when the kids in the youth group got together. The interview ended in a friendly atmosphere. The free skating on the second day of the competition was divided into groups according to the results of the short program. The better the result, the further back in the group you were in.
Xu Yangbing, the team doctor accompanying the Chinese team, is a PhD graduate from a well-known Chinese medicine university. He has only two hobbies. One is distributing cheats as a graduate student, and the other is playing two-dimensional games.
According to him, he got a soul in the game last night and was extremely lucky to have drawn a weapon of super rare quality. So when Lu You and Xie Yunjun went to draw lots today, Xu Yangbing pretended to be lucky.
Lu Tingsong: "Come on, you know what it means when things reach their limit, they will turn around. You used up all your luck playing games last night, which means you are now a pure nigger, and you are still passing on your luck."
Xu Yangbing said mysteriously: "You, a mortal, won't understand."
Lu Tingsong scratched his ears and said, "If I draw the first two to appear, I will punch them twice."
Not long after, Lu You came back happily, pulling Xie Yunjun back.
The little girl was very excited: "We were picked to be the second to last in the last group! Uncle Xu, you are amazing! You are so awesome!"
Xu Yangbing smiled and said, "Yeah, I was just saying that I've been very lucky recently."
Lu Tingsong: "..."
It’s too hasty. Is it too late to touch Xu Yangbing’s hand and buy a lottery ticket now?
Jiang Yang said, "Okay, don't be too happy too soon. The free skating is not as physically demanding as the short program. But don't be too nervous. Lu You is small, so it won't be too taxing for you to do twists and lifts. You still have a lot of advantages. Just treat it as a normal training session and skate well."
After Jiang Yang finished speaking, Xu Yangbing beside him shook the mat in his hand and said, "Come on, while there is still some time, before you two go to the backcourt warm-up room, I will massage your feet and clear your meridians."
Xu Yangbing's massage skills are well-known in the Jianglin team. Even the national team wanted to send him there several times. In the end, Xu Yangbing stayed because his hometown is in Jianglin and he didn't want to go to the capital.
Lu You looked at Xu Yangbing flexing his knuckles and shuddered: "Can you not press it?"
"Of course not, hurry up," Xu Yangbing pointed at the yoga mat on the ground, "Who of you two will go first?"
With the idea of dying early and being reborn early, Lu You sat on the yoga mat with a fearless attitude. He took off his shoes to reveal his two little feet. Xu Yangbing squatted down and pressed the acupoint on the sole of Lu You's foot with his thumb. Lu You screamed miserably.
Xie Yunjun squatted beside Lu You. Lu You leaned sideways and hugged his arm. Xu Yangbing pressed him so hard that he screamed: "It hurts so much, oooo, what kind of suffering is it to have your feet pressed? Ouch, it hurts so much!!!"
Xu Yangbing had been a team doctor for many years and had massaged countless children to tears, but Lu You's reaction was the first one so big that he was afraid to continue massaging. Finally, Lu Tingsong said, "Don't worry about it. She is just acting too much. Do you see any tears in her eyes?" Only then did Xu Yangbing finish the massage. Then he asked Lu Tingsong to relax Lu You's calves while he continued to massage Xie Yunjun's feet.
Lu Tingsong rubbed his niece's leg muscles with a ring clamp and said, "Suffer a little more now, so that you can get fewer injuries and have fewer acupunctures in the future. Otherwise, you will have to have acupuncture instead of just foot massage in the future."
"Acupuncture and moxibustion are all good, but the real concern is injections," Xu Yangbing added.
He was telling the truth. Now the two pairs in the domestic adult group have to arrange the three-piece set of plaster, moxa, fumigation and acupuncture before going abroad to compete. If it really doesn't work, they can only get injections before going on stage.
Lu You and Xie Yunjun were young and did not understand what injections were at that time, nor did they know how much impact injections would have on athletes.
Xu Yangbing explained: "The blocking injection is a mixture of a certain concentration of corticosteroids and local anesthetics, which is injected into the painful part of the human body to achieve the purpose of temporarily treating old soft tissue injuries and inflammations - to put it bluntly, it paralyzes the nerves to relieve pain, but it has no effect on the treatment of the injury itself."
"This is not a good thing. Not only will you become addicted if you use it too much, but if you're not careful, the injury will become more serious."
Because the feeling of pain is actually a protective mechanism of the body for the injured part. Only when the brain is aware of the pain will it send out signals to stop the body from exerting force, so as to avoid more serious consequences due to forced force.
However, athletes do not feel pain after the injection, and often their original injuries are made worse due to strenuous activities, forming a vicious cycle of injecting injections for competitions, which then worsens the injury and they have to inject injections again before the next competition.
Lu You seemed to understand, and waited until Xie Yunjun finished massaging his feet and relaxing his muscles before the two of them carried their small mats to the warm-up room behind the field. When they got there, Cavira was already there. The costume that Cavira wore for her free skating was a purple-red bodysuit with no hem. Her entire body, from her calves to her arms to her neck, was wrapped in the bodysuit, and she looked very cool.
The song chosen for the free skating by Caveira and Anatoly was "Victory", a piece of music that was once quoted in "The Hobbit 3". It is a very grand and heroic piece of music. Such tragic music is not very common in figure skating. But if Caveira and his friends, who are from a fighting nation, chose it, it would not be surprising.
No wonder Kawila's Costume directly abandoned the hem design.
Cavira did several double As in the warm-up room. The "bang bang bang" sound of her feet hitting the ground undoubtedly brought tremendous pressure to the other players present. Seeing Lu You and others coming, Cavira greeted Lu You in her Russian-style English and praised Lu You's costume as very beautiful.
Lu You: I don’t understand, but it seems like he is praising me, so just smile.
Lu You smiled at Kavela and said "Thanks". Kavela was two years older than Lu You. She thought that Lu You's smile was exactly like the Barbie doll in her collection. She couldn't help but ran over to pinch Lu You's face, and then hugged Lu You and rubbed him. Lu You didn't know that he had inadvertently captured the heart of a foreign girl, and thought that this was the big goose's unique way of saying hello, so he put his soft face close to her and rubbed it back politely.
Caveira: Oh my God, how can there be such a healing child in the world! You is so cute!!
Lu You:?
Not knowing what happened to Cavira, Lu You had to start warming up with Xie Yunjun before the game. Following Lu Tingsong's instructions, they first spent 20 minutes stretching, and then 20 minutes of variable-speed shuttle runs and jumps. After they had finished the activities, the two began to practice land technical movements.
"Hey, You, do you want to exchange jumping techniques?" Cavila suddenly called Lu You and Xie Yunjun, and pulled his male companion to quietly approach them, "I heard that you have been practicing 3Loop recently, right?"
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