3S+2T+2T (combined jump)
BV (Basic Score): 6.9
GOE (execution score): +0.26
Current (player's real-time technical score): 15.56
1st (Currently ranked first player's total technical score): 72.89
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Combined rotation, throw jump, spiral line, one technical move after another was completed. Although the scores of Lu You and Xie Yunjun only increased a little bit each time, they were rising step by step, gradually and steadily.
Until their technical score broke through 63 points, Nan Yazhu in the audience began to feel a little restless. You know, her technical score was only 66.32 points, and the kid on the ice who was four or five years younger than her still hadn't completed the last lift!
In other words, as long as Lu You and Xie Yunjun don't fall as soon as they start to lift, their technical scores will definitely be ahead of her.
The lifts of Chinese pair skating have always been in line with international textbook standards, and the possibility of mistakes is extremely small.
Up to now in the competition, Nan Yazhu only has a slight advantage of a few points in the short program, and judging from the scoring of yesterday's short program, Lu You and Xie Yunjun's performance points were not the kind that were suppressed very hard. No one can predict what the final ranking of today's free skating will be.
Nan Yazhu had already guessed the result in her heart, but when Lu You and Xie Yunjun finished the lift and the technical score was fixed at 71.32, Nan Yazhu was still a little dejected.
She has been working in the youth group for four or five years. Everyone said that she was not cut out for pair skating, or even figure skating, but she still persisted until now, chasing the footsteps of the world's top players and never gave up.
When her male partner couldn't cooperate with her, she would change partners. Some people said that her jumping ability was not strong, so she worked hard to study the back outside edge jump. She thought that after practicing the 3T+2T+2T triple jump, she would be able to compete with Russia in this Grand Prix. However, she didn't expect that the triple jump she was proud of would become insignificant in front of this race.
At the moment when Lu You and Xie Yunjun successfully landed the 3S+2T+2T on the ice, Nan Yazhu even began to doubt whether she should continue skating?
If I can’t even skate better than the players who are much younger than me, will I really have a future when I get promoted to the adult group?
Nan Yazhu was thinking absentmindedly as the performance scores were announced. She saw through the broadcast camera the two figures in the Kiss & Cry zone hugging and cheering, her coach beside them with tears in his eyes, and the Chinese ice fans in the audience covering their mouths and screaming silently. The bright red five-star red flag was waving in their hands, blooming with the most beautiful colors.
On the big screen displaying the rankings on the ceiling of the ice rink, the two names representing China rose all the way up, finally surpassing South Korea and settling in the silver medal position.
The light of expectation in Nan Yazhu's eyes dimmed, and her male companion Jerry came over and patted her shoulder: "Nam, are you okay?"
"I'm fine. I'm used to it." Nan Yazhu forced a smile.
Yes, she should have gotten used to being surpassed by younger players time and time again over the years.
It's just one more disappointment.
The score calculation was completed at 11:30 am Nagoya time, Japan.
The third stop of the World Figure Skating Junior Grand Prix, the pairs skating competition in Nagoya, Japan, officially came to an end.
VA from Russia won the gold medal, the Chinese Lu and Xie combination won the silver medal with a small difference of less than five points, and South Korean player Nan Yazhu and her male partner Jerry won the bronze medal.
In their first appearance on the international stage, they won the silver medal in the A-level competition. Lu You and Xie Yunjun almost broke into the vision of international ice fans with a domineering attitude. Now the international figure skating circle is flooded with discussions about this new combination.
Many people speculate whether they will take over the positions of China's top pair skating pair skaters Jiang Ran and Yu Botao in the future.
Of course, all this depends on how the two children develop in the future. These days, there are at least eight out of ten young geniuses who are short-lived in international competitions and finally fail miserably due to developmental problems. Once someone falls, there will be countless other geniuses to take their place.
There is never a shortage of talent in this sport, nor is there a shortage of talented and hard-working people. Competitive sports can sometimes be so cruel.
8:30pm.
The lights in the figure skating venue were turned off, leaving only a beam of light to illuminate the ice surface. Three podiums of different heights were placed on the right side of the square ice rink, and the red carpet extended all the way to the exit.
The pairs skating competition ended at noon. Lu You dragged Xie Yunjun to support Guan Xiaoxuan and the others. After watching the ice dance free dance competition, they even had time to go back to the hotel to catch up on some sleep.
However, she was caught by Lu Tingsong in the middle of her sleep to try on the clothes she would wear for the dinner after the award ceremony. After dinner, she took the shuttle bus to attend the award ceremony.
By the way, Guan Xiaoxuan and Zhang Bai also won a bronze medal in the individual race, earning their first A-level medal in their competition career. They were so happy that they were almost at a loss as to what to do.
The person who came to the award ceremony today to present plaques to the young players was a world champion in women's singles from Japan. She brought several officials from the Ice Hockey Association and greeted the young players in a friendly manner, especially the Chinese and Korean players who are also Asian. She was as amiable as an older sister.
After the awards for men's and women's singles were presented, the award ceremony for pairs skating and ice dancing began. Caveira and Anatoly, as champions, were the first to skate out to salute and stood on the highest podium.
Lu You washed her hair before going out. Before she had time to blow-dry it, the bus had already arrived at the hotel entrance. Lu Tingsong asked her to let her hair fall behind her back to dry naturally. The broadcast prompted them to go on stage to receive the award. Lu You wanted to tie her hair up, and her fingers habitually touched her wrist.
The result was empty-handed.
Lu You was stunned for a moment, hooked Xie Yunjun's finger, and whispered in his ear: "What should I do? I don't think I brought the rubber band. Do you still have the rubber band I gave you?"
At this time, the camera was already scanning towards them. Xie Yunjun quickly walked behind Lu You, took off a pink rubber band from her wrist, and quickly gathered Lu You's long hair into a low ponytail.
This action was captured by the camera, and the old fathers and mothers at the award ceremony immediately let out a sigh of satisfaction, wishing that the two children could grow up overnight so that they could ship the couple openly.
But now, the two kids are still too young, so let’s not get involved in these trivial things and just focus on the friendship between childhood sweethearts.
There is also a dinner after the award ceremony. The dinner for the youth group is basically an exchange between coaches. The young contestants go there to meet internationally renowned coaches and choreographers and see if there is a chance to train under them in the future.
Lu You wore the little black dress prepared by Lu Tingsong. After meeting a few coaches, she hid in a corner with Caveira and ate a small cake.
Xie Yunjun and Anatoly were each responsible for keeping watch on their own female companions.
God knows how greedy the girls who practice figure skating would be when they see high-calorie food like cake. Lu You and Cavira were almost ecstatic. While their coach was not paying attention, the two girls secretly stole a piece of cake and hid behind the table, ready to rebel.
No matter how rebellious she was, Lu You still knew not to touch the cream, so she had to reluctantly scrape off the tempting and sweet cream on the cake.
Cavella stared at the scene without blinking, drooling as he bit his fork. "God, I promise, if I eat this piece of cake, I will do weight loss training for the next week."
Lu You clasped his hands together and said, "Avalokitesvara, I promise too."
Anatoly kept an eye on his coach's movements and urged Caveira, "Eat quickly. If the coach finds out that Jun and I are covering up for you guys eating cake, I guarantee Mr. Olaf will kick my ass hard."
Caveira waved his hand: "Okay, keep an eye on it for us."
After that, the two girls put their heads together and shared a small piece of cake. After eating, Lu You waved to Xie Yunjun, handed him the empty plate, and asked in a low voice: "No one found us, right?"
"My uncle and Coach Jiang are talking to Olaf," Xie Yunjun reached out to wipe the cake crumbs off Lu You's cheek, and then handed the used plate to Ying Waiter as if nothing had happened, "Come out quickly."
"That's good."
Only then did Lu You come out from behind the table, pat his belly, and look satisfied.
That night, the news that Xie Yunjun and Lu You won the silver medal in the Japan race spread on domestic ice social platforms.
However, compared to the silver medal, the shots of Xie Yunjun tying Lu You's hair seemed to be more popular. Together with the topic #那些年大家嗑拉的童年甜甜马#, it even went viral and attracted some netizens who didn't know much about figure skating to join in the discussion.
On the eve of the Olympic year, the domestic ice hockey association was naturally happy to see this phenomenon. They reposted it on their official account and also provided some popular science information about this unpopular sport, figure skating.
The Ice Skating Association released a group clip of Chinese figure skaters with cool and exciting music. This move directly attracted many netizens to join the fun. The next day, the Grand Prix of Youth Figure Skating, which had never been broadcast before, was featured on CCTV5's prime time. First, the official competition was replayed, and then the post-match performance skating was broadcast live.
Exhibition skating is also called gala or EX. It is held the next day after almost every figure skating competition. The organizers will invite the contestants to give a post-match performance as a thank you to the audience. This is also when the atmosphere is the most relaxed. In the exhibition, the contestants can skate whatever they want, with no restrictions on costumes and movements, and they can even use props that cannot be used in formal competitions.
Because of this, many classic shots in figure skating actually come from exhibition skating.
Lu You and Xie Yunjun's performance skating program was prepared early in the morning. It was called "Catch You Catch Me", which comes from the theme song of the Japanese animation "Cardcaptor Sakura".
When Lu You appeared on stage wearing Sakura Kinomoto's iconic red puffy skirt and holding a star-shaped magic wand, many ice fans from Japan recognized her at a glance, and they stood up and rushed to the railing and screamed wildly.
Yamamoto Nanako held her face and said: "It's so cute!"
After Xie Yunjun also skated out wearing the green combat suit of the male protagonist Xiaolang, when the two of them stood together and perfectly recreated the childhood CP of countless people, the ice fans could no longer control themselves and their enthusiasm almost overturned the venue.
In fact, the anime Cardcaptor Sakura is not only popular among Japanese fans, but also throughout Asia. Who didn’t buy a deck of Clow Cards when they were a child?
When the familiar melody played, many audiences at the scene and in front of the TV said that their DNA was moved.
Lu You was wearing a puffy skirt, and at several turning points in the music, she and Xie Yunjun performed 3T, 3S and 2A respectively. However, neither of them did the throw jump again, as it was easy to make mistakes and it would be bad if they got hurt.
In short, at their age, performance skating is all about being as cute as possible, as long as they can leave a good impression on the judges. However, Xie Yunjun's facial expressions were not rich enough, so in the end, the cuteness banner was handed over to Lu You.
When the performance was almost over, Lu You held Xie Yunjun's hand and walked around the rink while waving, like a little doll in a dress. Finally, she lifted the hem of her skirt in the middle of the ice rink and saluted in a cute way, causing the ice fans to scream wildly. Although the audience would not use flash lights during figure skating performances to avoid affecting the players, the dense shutter sounds still showed the enthusiasm of the ice fans.
Lu You happily hugged Xie Yunjun's arm and waved to the audience excitedly.
Nanako Yamamoto was very satisfied. She pointed the camera at the two children and pressed the shutter button frantically.
After the exhibition skating, some media came to take pictures of several young pair skaters who were holding signs. Anatoly, who was already having a great time in the exhibition skating, pulled Xie Yunjun into the crowd of single skaters. He pulled a small male skater and insisted that the man play lift with him, which scared the male skater so much that he screamed and shouted for Xie Yunjun to save him.
"Yujoo, please come closer, you're out of the frame," the photographer on Lu You's side called out from outside the barrier, "Let's take a group photo of all the female couples."
Lu You glanced at Nan Yazhu. This girl was not in good shape the whole day. She even fell down during the performance skating. No one knew what she was thinking. At this moment, she was on the edge of the group taking photos.
Caveira said: "It's hard to understand at the moment. After trying my best, I found out that no matter how much sweat I put in, it can't compare to something called talent. It's actually very hurtful."
Lu You pulled his hair and struggled for a long time, but finally slid over and poked her arm, saying in English: "We are going to take a group photo."
Nan Yazhu finally came back to her senses, slid over to Lu You and Kavira, and forced a smile towards the camera.
After the exhibition skating, the athletes will return home the next day. Everyone says goodbye and politely says "see you at the next competition" to each other. In fact, when facing the top three in each event, many people are praying in their hearts that they will not see each other at the next race.
Nan Yazhu also came to say goodbye to Lu You and Kavira. She chose Latvia for her next stop. Although they wouldn't be able to meet in the second stop, maybe they could still meet in the finals.
Nan Yazhu said to Lu You, "You are really talented, much more talented than me. To be honest, I have been learning figure skating for ten years and have been constantly looking for a male partner that suits me. Before participating in the competition, I never thought that I would lose to anyone except VA."
Lu You was suddenly embarrassed and didn't know how to respond.
Finally, Nan Yazhu smiled and said in a self-deprecating way, "The appearance of you and your male partner even makes me feel that some people can never beat geniuses no matter how hard they try, because this world is inherently unfair. There are always people who are born to be favored and can easily find a male partner that suits them."
Lu You: “…”
After these few days of competition, Lu You actually discovered that Nan Yazhu was not as annoying as she had imagined. At least in figure skating, Nan Yazhu was upright and did not act straight, unlike some other contestants who relied on the referee's favoritism and played tricks.
But Lu You found Nan Yazhu's idea that "I lost to you because I don't have a good male partner" a bit weird.
"I don't know why you think so. I was four years old when I first skated. I practiced women's singles until I was 11, and then I started to partner with Xie Yunjun," Lu You said. "When we first started to partner, we practiced for a long time, but we couldn't even do the simplest lift. At that time, everyone said, why don't you skate separately in singles, you don't have the talent for pairs skating."
“But we’ve been skating until now.”
"My coach once told me that a partner is not a tool that can be summoned and dismissed at will, nor is it a part that can be replaced when it is not suitable. He is our comrade-in-arms and a partner we trust unconditionally on the field. The reason why we can complete each throw, twist, and lift without reservation is because we know that our male partner will always catch us safely on the ice."
Lu You: "A figure skating competition is just about completing some required moves. Why are you so anxious?"
Nan Yazhu was stunned. She had never heard any contestant say such a thing before. But when she thought about it carefully, she realized that the little girl from China in front of her was telling the truth.
There are 7 movements in the short program and 11 movements in the free skating. In the whole competition, it is just to complete 28 prescribed movements in front of the audience and judges. Unlike track and field competitions, there is no smoke of gunpowder in figure skating. In fact, everyone's biggest opponent is himself.
"Figure skating competitions don't have to be a life-and-death struggle, right? Although I came here with the idea of defeating you because of your brother," Nan Yazhu heard the little girl in front of her say, "One thing is one thing, although I still can't understand why you defended your brother, but in figure skating, you are a respectable opponent."
On the Shinkansen from Nagoya to Tokyo, Japan, Lu Tingsong was browsing Instagram on his phone. He originally wanted to see what the outside world thought of Lu You and Xie Yunjun's competition program, but unexpectedly, he came across an interesting piece of information while browsing.
"What kind of medicine did Nan Yazhu take?" Lu Tingsong said in amazement. "It's really strange. It's been a year since the short track speed skating incident. Why did she suddenly think of apologizing today?"
Jiang Yang raised his eyebrows: "Really? There is such a thing? Let me take a look."
He took the phone that Lu Tingsong handed to him. Nan Yazhu's Instagram account was displayed on the screen. The latest update was an apology statement.
[Nan Yazhu Yujoo: I apologize for the incorrect remarks I made, and I also apologize to the Chinese short track speed skating team for losing the gold medal qualification due to the penalty imposed on my brother. Now my brother has been banned by the International Skating Union. He has also realized his mistakes and is deeply reflecting on them. I learned a lot in this competition in Japan. Jerry and I will participate in another leg of the Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating in a week. My fans who support me, see you in Latvia! ]
"Hey, this is really a rare thing," Jiang Yang touched his chin, turned around and asked Lu You, who was playing Candy Crush with Xie Yunjun on his pad, "What did you say to Nan Yazhu on the day of the performance skating?"
Lu You was still directing Xie Yunjun to clear the level: "Click this, this blue square... ah? What did I say to Nan Yazhu? I didn't say anything, what's wrong?"
"Regarding the previous short track speed skating incident, Nan Yazhu posted an apology statement on Instagram," said Lu Tingsong.
Lu You blinked his eyes: "Oh, then isn't this an apology?"
Whether they are netizens or fellow athletes, no one can forgive anyone on behalf of the short track speed skating team, because they are not the ones who lost the honor.
As for Nan Yazhu, now that she has apologized, they should just be rivals who respect each other from now on. If they want to be friends, there is probably no hope, Lu You thought.
This is a matter of national honor. Although Lu You is young, the education she received since childhood has taught her that this matter must be treated seriously.
The discussion about Nan Yazhu only lasted a few minutes. In the two days after the competition, Jiang Yang simply gave everyone a holiday and prepared to take the four children who came to Japan to participate in the competition to Disney for a good time.
Lu You had been looking forward to this day for a long time. As soon as she entered the park, she went straight to the shopping area. At a young age, she showed the shopping nature of a girl. When she came out of the store, she and Guan Xiaoxuan each had two large bags of spoils, plus cartoon headbands on their foreheads.
Lu You chose a headband for Xie Yunjun that matched her own. When Lu You ran in front of him, Xie Yunjun naturally bent down and let the girl put the headband on his head.
On the other side, Guan Xiaoxuan was still forcing Zhang Bai to help her choose a Donald Duck headband. Zhang Bai thought it was childish, but after being glared at by his female companion, he finally put it on obediently.
While Lu You was buying goods for himself, he also bought a limited edition Duffy Bear for his friend Lin Yinian. Lu Tingsong took out a long receipt from the shopping bag and looked at the price with a bit of a sore throat: "This headband buckle is 3,000 yen each? It's less than 200 yuan when converted into RMB."
Lu Tingsong: "One of you won a silver medal and the other won a bronze medal. Is that little prize money enough for you to do this at Disney?"
The bonus is certainly not enough.
The prize money for the race was not much to begin with, not to mention that Lu You and Xie Yunjun won silver medals. It was basically just a token of their appreciation. However, since Lu You joined the provincial team and became a regular athlete, he no longer had to pay for many training and competition expenses. Not only that, they also received a salary every month, which meant they had achieved financial independence at a young age.
Liang Jie opened a bank card for each of her two children. The prize money from competitions and subsidies from the provincial team were all deposited in this card. Before they knew it, each child had nearly 20,000 yuan in their card.
After returning from the Japan Grand Prix, Lu Tingsong used the tens of thousands of dollars to buy a pair of spare ice skates for each of his two children, equipped with new carbon fiber ice blades, and let them gradually adapt to the new ice skates during their daily training.
Lu You and Xie Yunjun didn't need to change their skates because their skates were broken. Their original skates were good enough for them to skate throughout their youth careers if nothing went wrong. However, it is a habit of most figure skaters to prepare a pair of spare skates. If there is a problem with their skates during a competition, they can immediately change to the spare skates they have already adapted to, so that their performance will not be affected by changing shoes.
Now that the competition level of Lu You and Xie Yunjun has been upgraded to international competition, Lu Tingsong always feels uneasy without a pair of spare ice skates.
If you ask Lu You what is the most painful thing in her figure skating career, the girl will answer without hesitation that the most painful thing is adapting to a new pair of ice skates.
In order to assist in completing various difficult movements, the uppers of professional figure skates are designed to be very hard. New shoes are even harder and very rubbing to the feet. Lu You couldn't stand it after skating for an hour. When Xie Yunjun helped her take off her shoes, a layer of skin was rubbed off on her ankles and heels, and the exudate stuck the flesh and socks together.
Xie Yunjun frowned: "Does it hurt?"
Lu You pulled his arm and said, "Don't worry about me for now. Sit down quickly. You have new shoes too."
Upon hearing this, Lu Tingsong hurriedly pushed Xie Yunjun to sit down. When he took off his ice skates, he found that the child's ankles were indeed rubbed in several places, similar to Lu You's condition.
Lu Tingsong gently patted the boy's head and said, "I am in this situation too, why don't you say anything? If Lu You doesn't cry out in pain, do you still want to continue practicing with her?"
This is the process of getting used to new shoes. Although Lu Tingsong and Jiang Yang felt distressed, there was nothing they could do as everyone had gone through this before. When Xu Yangbing rushed over with the medicine box, Lu Tingsong was helping his two children take off their socks.
Lu You was crying in pain and clutched Xie Yunjun's hand tightly. Even though Lu Tingsong had been very careful, God knew how painful it would be to tear off the cloth that was stuck to the wound.
Xu Yangbing rushed over and said, "Hey, get out of the way! If you can't take it off, don't force it. Look how it hurts the child!"
"How can I apply medicine without taking off my socks? I remember my coach told me directly to stop being pretentious and just take off my socks and go apply the medicine." Lu Tingsong touched the back of his head.
Jiang Yang said quietly beside him, "Really? Was that how I treated you back then? So ruthless?"
“…”
Lu Tingsong was speechless. You are! Of course you are!
What Lu Tingsong used to fear the most was Jiang Yang's one-on-one training sessions. However, in recent years, as he has grown older, Jiang Yang's training style has become more and more gentle. Lu You would occasionally act like a spoiled brat and roll around to act cute, making the former national team coach very happy. There was no trace of the coach who was once known as the King of Hell.
Xu Yangbing took out a bottle of saline solution and soaked the adhesions of the two children's wounds. He waited until the exudate dissolved before peeling off the socks. Due to years of training, Lu You and Xie Yunjun not only had scars on their ankles from the wear and tear of ice skates, but also had a tendency to deform.
Probably no one would have thought that they, who were only fourteen or fifteen years old and as beautiful as dolls in a music box, would have such a pair of feet.
In the eyes of outsiders, figure skaters always use their feet to perform a series of incredible movements on the ice seemingly easily.
So there are many ice fans who say that the legs of figure skaters are masterpieces kissed by God, but after actually seeing the feet of figure skaters taking off their skates, perhaps no one will say that anymore.
"After training every day, you all come to the infirmary to see me to take care of your ankles," Xu Yangbing said sadly, and turned around to teach Lu Tingsong a lesson, "How old are they? Look at what has become of their feet. No matter how much training we do, we must ensure the children's bone health!"
After all the ordeal, Lu You and Xie Yunjun's feet were both wrapped in Vaseline gauze like mummies.
Seeing that he couldn't go on the ice, Jiang Yang simply said, "I'm going to participate in the Finland event at the end of the month, and maybe the finals later. It's not good to keep my feet in this condition."
"Anyway, the chances of the skates having problems are low, so you won't have to get used to the new skates yet. Just keep a spare pair and wait until the off-season."
Xu Yangbing looked horrified: "Master Jiang, please don't raise a flag."
Jiang Yang: "Set a flag? What does that mean?"
Xu Yangbing: "It's just like what you say comes true. Have you seen TV dramas? The male protagonist always says before the war, don't worry, I won't die, I will come back to marry you after I win this time. But basically, those who say this die in the war."
Jiang Yang: “…”
The qualifying rules for the Youth Grand Prix are based on a points system. The champion of a race gets 15 points, the runner-up 13 points, the third place 11 points, and so on. Each player can participate in a maximum of two races, and the top six players in the final points can enter the final.
There are not many pairs players who have entered the youth group in the international competition this year, and it is almost impossible to find another one with such outstanding results as Lu You and Xie Yunjun.
If we look at last year’s ranking, since both kids can beat Nan Yazhu, it won’t be a problem for them to enter the finals this year.
It was mid-September and the school had been in session for nearly half a month. Lu You and Xie Yunjun had been attending classes in the morning and training with the provincial team in the afternoon and evening. Their days were so fulfilling that they didn't seem like those of junior high school students.
Although the minor skin injuries on the feet would heal in two days, Liang Jie was still very distressed and tried every means to make some delicious food for the two children to nourish their bodies.
Mother Liang is a person who believes in Chinese medicine and health preservation. She firmly believes that her children, who spend every day on the ice rink, need to eat more foods that replenish qi and blood to resist the cold brought by ice and snow.
Lu Tingsong explained: "That's because you, sister-in-law, were sitting next to the ice rink without moving, so you felt cold. People like Youyou and Xiaojun sweat a lot during training, so they can wear short sleeves, not to mention having a cold body."
In response to this, Liang Jie said that she understood the reason, but she still wanted to feel at ease.
So that night, Lu You drank the longan, red dates and brown sugar water Liang Jie had prepared. Halfway through, she suddenly felt a bloating in her lower abdomen, and a strange pain. Seeing that Lu You looked strange, Xie Yunjun quickly put down the bowl and asked, "What's wrong? Where do you feel uncomfortable?"
Lu You touched his belly and said, "My stomach hurts a little."
"Where does it hurt?" Xie Yunjun stretched out his hand and pressed Lu You's stomach. "Is it here?"
"No...a little lower..."
"ah--!"
An even stranger feeling spread throughout her body. Recalling the physiology class she had taken at school, Lu You thought of a possibility. Her rosy lips opened slightly. She threw away Xie Yunjun's hand and covered her face with her hands: "Go upstairs and call mom, and don't come down later! Don't ask me why! Woo woo, how embarrassing!"
Xie Yunjun was stunned for two seconds at first, but after seeing Lu You trying to cover his butt, he reacted. The boy turned away his hot face, quickly took off his coat to cover Lu You's thighs, and went upstairs to call for help.
Lu You was finally dragged to the bathroom by Liang Jie to wash herself. Liang Jie carefully taught her daughter some physiological knowledge and how to use sanitary products, then she stroked Lu You's soft hair and said, "You You will be a big girl in the future."
In the next few days, Lu You, who was only fourteen years old, felt the horror of menstruation for the first time.
Not only did I lack the energy to do anything and my whole body was aching, but I also had to be on guard against the floodgates opening at all times, making it impossible for me to go to school and train normally.
The warm water in Xie Yunjun's thermos cup has been replaced with brown sugar ginger tea these past two days. He has to supervise Lu You and make sure he drinks a cup of tea after class. The provincial team's training has also become axis stability training without strenuous exercise.
Jiang Yang took advantage of these few days to catch Lu You and Xie Yunjun's problem of the axis of their throwing and jumping being always crooked.
"Open your arms, keep your shoulders, back, hips and ankles close to the wall, and do 100 squats in this position."
This is a land training movement that can help athletes find their own axis and stabilize it. Despite the physical discomfort, Lu You did not say a word and honestly completed the 100 squats.
Jiang Yang felt sad when he saw it. It was not that he wanted to force his child to train during her period, but the Finnish Grand Prix was less than ten days away. Excluding the time spent on the road, Lu You and Xie Yunjun only had about a week left for training.
The Finland station is different from the Japan station. Not only are eight out of the nine referees not from our own country, but Canada's top seed EC (Erica & Carlo) will also participate in the Finnish station. In addition, some combinations from the United States are also very troublesome.
In terms of difficulty reserve alone, Lu You and Xie Yunjun are almost on par with Big Goose. The reason why Jiang Yang is so worried is that many of the combinations in this competition are of noble nationalities among noble nationalities. They are the kind of people who can get +1 GOE even if they land unsteadily on the ice and reach out to hold the ice.
Not to mention the use of blade blur and ordinary stealing. Whether to catch it depends on the mood of the referee.
It would be fine if only the GOE score was inflated, but the art score was also inflated crazily. Jiang Yang was really upset just thinking about it, so for this Finland station, Jiang Yang's only wish was to get enough points to enter the finals, and it would be best if he could win a medal, but he wouldn't force it if that wasn't possible.
Lu You's menstrual period ended three days before the Finland station. After a few days of adjustment, the two of them, carrying their newly practiced 3Loop (triple loop jump) and their gradually stable throw jump techniques, crossed thousands of miles across land and sea to participate in the Finland station competition. Under the blind scoring technology of the European referees, they got fourth place in the Finland station and successfully entered the finals.
As soon as the score sheet for the Finnish station came out, domestic ice fans angrily scolded a bunch of referees, because there was a North American combination in this competition, and the male partner was just short of twisting 180 degrees on the ice before taking off. This was such an obvious sneak jump that had no difficulty at all, but the referees not only did not catch it, some even gave it a GOE level of +3.
In the end, this North American combination finished second only to Canadian seed EC, while they ranked sixth in another tournament.
As a result, this team that originally had no hope of entering the finals was promoted by the referee all the way to sixth place in the standings and airborne into the Youth Group Grand Prix Finals.
At this point, the World Figure Skating Junior Grand Prix standings and finals list has been released.
First place, Ivlova & Mosokov [Russia]
Second place, Kavira & Anatoly [Russia]
Third place, Erica & Carlo [Canada]
Fourth place, Lu You & Xie Yunjun [middle]
Fifth place, Nan Yazhu & Jerry [Korea]
6th place, Christina & Owen [US]
The finals were scheduled to be held in Italy. Interestingly, the seventh-placed team happened to be an Italian duo. They could have entered the finals on home soil, but were squeezed out by the inferior American players. The Italian Ice Hockey Association could not stand this grievance and immediately submitted a letter of appeal to the ISU, which was naturally rejected with a high-sounding reason.
The coach of the Italian group was so angry that he directly updated a status on the social platform, which was basically a mockery, saying that the main venue of the finals was in Italy, and the dreams of some groups who wanted to continue to transform into artistic jellyfish might be shattered.
The farce of the Grand Prix lasted for quite a while, and ice fans were enjoying it. It’s not even the off-season yet, but the excitement in the figure skating circle is comparable to that of a novel. It’s simply too interesting.
Lu You knew all this because Guan Xiaoxuan went through a lot of trouble to find out and told her.
In early December, the first snowflakes of the year fell in Jianglin Province. At the same time, the Chinese figure skating youth team, led by national team head coach Xue Chengze, also set off for Turin, Italy, to compete in the Grand Prix Final.
In addition to women's singles skating, China miraculously made it to the finals in men's singles, pairs and ice dancing events this year.
Many domestic ice fans cried with joy. They had not seen such a large team for many years.
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