There has never been a lack of bloodshed in competitive sports, but even so, athletes will not easily say the word "quit".
Every competition is crucial for the players. They have finally earned enough points in the first two races to enter the finals. If they give up at this time, all their efforts will be wasted.
How could anyone not understand Erica's persistence?
When Erica was sent back from the hospital in the evening, half of her face was covered with purple and red bruises, and her deep and rich facial features were so swollen that their original appearance was completely unrecognizable. Lu You and Xie Yunjun had dinner and went upstairs, and they happened to meet in the elevator.
Feeling the worried gaze of the little Chinese girl next to her, Erica covered the swollen half of her face and turned to Lu You with a smile: "I scared you."
I heard that this little girl from China is only 14 years old, and her male partner is only one year older than her. When Erica was their age, she was still struggling in Canadian domestic competitions. At that time, she had never felt the pressure of representing the country in A-level competitions.
It has been a long time since such a young combination appeared in international competitions. Coaches from various countries have spoken highly of this Chinese combination and even listed them as one of the strong contenders for the medal in this Grand Prix.
Lu You shook her head. She understood that any words of comfort would be futile at this time, so she didn't ask meaningless questions like "Does it hurt?" or "Are you okay?"
After leaving the elevator, Lu You took Xie Yunjun and knocked on Xu Yangbing's door.
Xu Yangbing is still the accompanying team doctor for the national team this time. When Lu You and Xie Yunjun were practicing the 3LoTh throw jump before, because she didn't master the technique well, she fell and half of her thigh was bruised. But after Xu Yangbing's massage and a few needles, not only did the pain ease a lot, but the bruises also dissipated much faster.
"You want me to give acupuncture to that Canadian girl?" Xu Yangbing raised his eyebrows. "Let's not talk about whether the Canadian coach can trust our traditional Chinese medicine. They are your opponents tomorrow. Do you know how much greater your chances of winning a medal will be without the competition of a Canadian seeded team?"
Although Xu Yangbing is only a team doctor, he is considered a semi-professional in figure skating because of his daily exposure. He knows that there is an unwritten rule in figure skating, that is, the P score (performance score) follows the T score (technical score). No matter how weak the American combination is, the difficulty reserve is there, and it is basically impossible for them to surpass Lu You and Xie Yunjun in the total score.
And Nan Yazhu has already lost to the Chinese team in the stage competition.
In other words, Erica's fall today is likely to directly give the bronze medal of the finals to the Chinese team.
"We can also fight for medals with our own strength. Uncle Xu, don't you believe in the strength of Xie Yunjun and me?" Lu You asked.
Xu Yangbing: "That's not what I meant..."
Lu You made an expression of sudden enlightenment: "I see, Uncle Xu, is Erica's condition too serious that even you can't do anything about it?"
Xie Yunjun nodded thoughtfully: "Indeed, Erica fell like this, and Chinese medicine may not be of much help to her injury."
Xu Yangbing: “?”
"No matter how difficult the disease is, as long as it doesn't require opening the abdomen, there is nothing that Chinese medicine can't solve," Xu Yangbing retorted. "The Canadian girl just fell a little hard. As long as the CT scan shows no problem, it's just a serious injury. What else can I do?"
After saying that, he walked downstairs with his silver-handled acupuncture needles and medicine box in his pocket: "You two go back to your room and have a good rest. I'll go show the foreigner some knowledge."
After Xu Yangbing walked away, Lu You burst out laughing.
She stood on tiptoe and high-fived Xie Yunjun. The two children looked at each other, and Lu You smiled slyly: "The plan works!"
The effect of Lu You and Xie Yunjun's provocation was obvious. That night, the team doctor used only a few needles and strange massage techniques to bring Canadian player Erica back to health without using any drugs, and the legend spread throughout the entire team that the bruises and swelling on the player were mostly gone.
Foreigners who had never seen this kind of healing technique exclaimed: "This must be ancient Chinese magic!"
By the next day, when the competition started, Erica's injury had healed a lot, but her coach once again stood in front of her and asked seriously, "Erica, do you really want to continue to participate?"
"You have already won a gold and a bronze in the individual races. No one will blame you even if you don't participate in the finals."
"There are still the World Youth Championships and the World Junior Winter Olympics this year. If your physical condition is affected by the Grand Prix Final, what will you do in the subsequent competitions?"
"I want to participate. I want to perform Carlo and I's program on the ice of the Grand Prix Final." Erica was silent for a while, biting her lip. "We have practiced for so long. This program not only belongs to me, but also to Carlo, as well as the choreographers and coaches who have worked hard for it."
Carlo squeezed his female companion's shoulder and said, "Erica, don't think about me. Your health is the most important thing."
Seeing Erica's persistence, the Canadian coach sighed deeply, realizing that he could no longer persuade her, and said, "Okay, if you feel uncomfortable during the game, you can stop at any time."
After what happened yesterday, today's official competition was also full of twists and turns. The first group to appear, the American combination, made mistakes since the beginning of the show, and their single jump and throw jump could be said to have fallen flat on their face.
In addition to the fact that the technique was not very clean to begin with, even if the referee wanted to make some money, he couldn't do it behind the scenes in public.
As for Nan Yazhu, who was in the next group, I don't know if she had any psychological trauma. She directly cancelled the difficulty entry when doing the lift, and her body was not stretched enough when completing the posture changes in the air. In the end, she got a pitifully low GOE, and her performance score was greatly reduced.
"It's our turn."
Xue Chengze clapped his hands loudly in the ears of Lu You and Xie Yunjun to wake them up. Jiang Yang and Lu Tingsong squatted down to check whether the two children had put on their ice skates properly, and whether the buttons on Lu You's pantyhose were fastened in the skate slots.
"Keep your mind clear of distractions. You only need to remember the technical moves you need to complete and don't be affected by irrelevant things," Xue Chengze pondered. "You are you, and others are others. Believe that the tacit understanding between you will not change because of other people's mistakes."
Xue Chengze: "Do you understand?"
Lu You and Xie Yunjun nodded.
Xue Chengze pushed the two children onto the ice rink, one in each hand, and watched them stand in the middle of the rink and salute gracefully.
In a trance, he seemed to see the past when he was 19 years old, when he once held his female companion's hand and fought for his country on the white ice rink.
At that time, our country was short of financial and material resources, and did not have the favorable training conditions like we have today. But in that era, our country was not only glorious in pair skating, but also in single skating.
But now, these two young children can only shoulder the future of Chinese pair skating.
As the music started, two figures seemed to overlap in Xue Chengze's memory. They completed the planned movements in an orderly manner, steadily gaining basic points and execution points. When it came to the time of lifting, Lu You did not hesitate and handed his hand to Xie Yunjun. After his male partner lifted him into the air, he supported the boy's shoulders and flipped over his head.
Lu You relied on Xie Yunjun's single hand to support the force point on her hip, hugged her knees with both hands, and made a split in the air, maintaining this posture while Xie Yunjun supported her and moved with a twisting step.
Difficult entry, male partner's one-handed support, aerial posture changes and splits posture, this is undoubtedly a very creative set of 4 wrist presses.
They did not become hesitant because of the mistakes made by the Canadian player yesterday, and still performed difficult and highly entertaining lifts, which impressed many judges who had watched the first two groups of performances. In the end, they gave the 4Li (4 groups of wrist press lifts) the highest rating and a high GOE score.
Halfway through the music, the duo still used the single jump design from the race and completed a Bracket turn followed by a double Axel.
This is already the second half of the music. Generally speaking, only single skaters will perform jumps in the second half of the program, because in single skating, there are bonus points for completing jumps in the second half of the program, and the final score will be multiplied by 1.1 times.
Pair skating had this rule a long time ago, and at that time putting the lift in the second half of the program also gave extra points, but these rules have now been abolished.
Even in single skating, the scoring rules have been changed in order to prevent athletes from putting jumps in the second half to score more points, resulting in an empty first half of the program.
Under the current rules, the short program for single skating has been changed to the last jump of the short program, and only the last three jumps of the free skating can get extra points.
The rules set by the International Skating Union are adjusted and changed every year. Some ice fans wonder whether the ISU is targeting some outstanding players. However, as athletes, everyone has no choice but to abide by the rules issued by international organizations.
The penultimate move of Lu You and Xie Yunjun was a synchronized rotation. They changed their positions and jumped into a squatting rotation. After spinning a few times and turning into a swallow style, someone immediately recognized that their upturned swallow rotation was the famous Yuna Spin.
In figure skating, there is a type of spin called a swallow spin because the floating leg is spread out and the whole body posture looks like a swallow spreading its wings. The swallow spin is divided into forward swallow spin, upward swallow spin, and side swallow spin.
Yuna Spin is the usual posture of a famous women's singles Grand Slam winner when doing the Yuna Spin. In order to commemorate this woman, this graceful Yuna Spin was later named after her.
While spinning in the Yuna Spin, the competitor needs to lean back completely, which is a great test of waist and abdominal strength.
"Kavilla, you have competed with these two Chinese players before," Ivlova asked her junior sister off the court, "What do you think of their strength?"
Caveira answered truthfully: "You and Jun have a solid foundation and a strong learning ability. At the Japan station, their 3Lo throw success rate was less than half. After I taught them some techniques about 3LoTh, ten days later at the Finland station, they put 3LoTh into the free skate and succeeded."
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