Evlova's brother and male companion Mosokov raised his eyebrows: "You taught Chinese athletes jumping techniques? Does Mr. Olaf know about this?"
Caveira stuck out his tongue at his senior brother. "Of course, we were discovered later, but Mr. Olaf didn't say anything. He even asked Anatoly and I to learn more from their spins."
"Their synchronized rotation is indeed very tacit," Ivlova had to admit, "Most players would not dare to perform synchronized rotation in a vertical arrangement in front of the referee, because if the two people's coordination is not synchronized, it will be immediately noticed by the referee."
"But these two Chinese players not only dared to do the vertical axis rotation, but also completed it beautifully."
"I'm beginning to wonder if they have controllers in their heads."
Evelova said half-jokingly that even though her male partner was her brother from the same mother, Evelova could not guarantee that the spins they performed would be better than those of Lu You and Xie Yunjun.
Mosokov also showed his approval: "Mr. Olaf showed me their knife-lifting swallow-style rotation video. The Chinese girl is very flexible, and her male partner is also quite flexible."
“Maybe in future competitions, they can bring the Biellmann spin into pairs skating.”
Biellmann is a type of upright spin in figure skating, which is considered to be the most difficult spinning posture. It requires the skater to bend the floating foot from the back over the head, with the whole body forming a teardrop shape. Female athletes with good flexibility can even pull their legs as straight as a candle to do a more difficult candlestick spin.
Because the Biellmann requires a higher level of flexibility in the athlete than the sword-lifting swallow pose in which the leg is pulled from the side, it is often seen in women's singles skating competitions.
However, due to their physiological structure, it is extremely difficult for men to complete the Biellmann. Even if their bodies are flexible enough for them to perform the Biellmann, it will still be very painful. This shows how much damage it will cause to the waist and abdominal muscles of male athletes.
This is why Bellman is dubbed "beautiful and cruel".
Currently, the number of male players in the world who can perform Biellmann can be counted on one hand, and most of them are in the youth group or those who have just entered the adult group.
In order to prolong their sports career, male athletes in the adult group basically gave up this move in the later period.
As for pair skating, since the possibility of a man and a woman being able to perform the Biellmann at the same time is extremely small, so far, only one pair has been used in competitions, but that was a long time ago.
Lu You and Xie Yunjun's synchronized rotation was finally graded as level four. After the throw jump, the entire short program was successfully completed to the extent that no mistakes could be seen with the naked eye.
After the performance scores were updated, the Chinese team's short program score was fixed at 71.32 points.
This is also the first short program today to exceed 70 points.
Although the scores were lower than those in the Japan station, Lu You and Xie Yunjun, as Asian players, were able to get such scores in the hands of a group of European and American judges, which already showed their strong strength.
When Lu You and Xie Yunjun came out of the KC area, the announcer just started calling the name of the next group.
"On the ice, from Canada, Erica & Carlo."
Erica and Carlo slowly skated into the center of the ice rink and began their performance under everyone's worried gaze.
This short program performance was definitely not perfect, and it could even be said to be full of mistakes, but the "Exodus" performed by the Canadian athlete at the Youth Grand Prix Final was enough to be remembered by everyone.
Their 2A was downgraded to 1A, and their planned triple throw and twist were all in vain and turned into double twists. Even because of a cervical injury, Erica's spiral line did not meet the standard. Despite this, after the music came to an end, the Canadian pair still received the highest courtesy at the figure skating scene - the audience stood up and applauded.
A standing ovation is the highest honor given to a figure skater.
Carlo hugged his partner tightly. Erica had tears in her eyes, but she still smiled and greeted the audience. As for the score of the short program, it was no longer important to them.
Canada ranked last in the short program score of this JGPF, and even in the free skating on the second day, the score was still the lowest among the six combinations, but this time, no one was willing to say a word of blame. Although they did not win a medal, they demonstrated the sportsmanship that is more important than a medal.
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[Latest Events] Good news! The World Figure Skating Junior Grand Prix Finals has come to an end! The Chinese team has an impressive record. After winning the bronze medal in men's singles skating, the pair skating team won another silver medal!
This post with a picture of Lu You and Xie Yunjun doing the splits quickly became part of the front page.
[Thanks for the invitation. I was at the scene, watching the Grand Prix Gala. When the childhood sweethearts’ free skating scores came out and they ranked second, I once suspected that I was dreaming. After all, the referee was a bitch. I thought the two kids could only compete for the bronze medal at most.]
[This split is so beautiful! It touched my heart when I watched it live! ]
【LX's luck was incredible. Canada, the biggest medal rival, had a scary incident before the game, which affected the mentality of the players. Even VA from the Big Goose couldn't stand it and fell several times in the free skating. This wave was equivalent to directly handing the silver medal to the flower. 】
[However, YM of Big Goose is still as stable as an old dog, worthy of being a brother-sister duo, sitting firmly on the throne. ]
[ls (upstairs), it is not convenient for siblings to have bone diseases, but childhood sweethearts can have life and death diseases! ]
[Hey, I’m still in junior high school! If you want to support this couple, at least give them two more years!]
[I was surprised to find that LX now has a high difficulty reserve, three types of triple jumps + three types of triple throws, and a perverted 3S+2T+2T. If the referee behaves like a human being, it is not impossible for him to win the gold medal in the World Youth Championship. ]
[You can always believe that the ISU referee's blindness is only temporarily improved. ]
[I agree with LS. Besides, Erica will have recovered by the time of the World Junior Championships, and Caveira will not always blow up like in the finals. When YM is added, it will be difficult for the childhood sweethearts to snatch cards from the three favorite referees. ]
There was a heated discussion in the figure skating circle. On the Chinese team side, there was an endless stream of people coming to congratulate and calling. Several coaches' phones were almost blown up.
After all, the Chinese team won a silver and a bronze medal in this Grand Prix, and even took fourth place in ice dancing, which had never made much of a splash.
After the exhibition skating, the Chinese team began to pack their bags and prepare to return home. The group held a brief post-match summary meeting in Xue Chengze's room.
Guan Xiaoxuan touched Lu You's silver medal with envy, and vowed to practice harder in the future.
Lu You put away his small sign and comforted her: "The coach told me that your ice dance is very dependent on experience, and it has always been the preserve of European and American players. In addition, this project cannot be scored by technical difficulty, but more on artistic performance. When you are promoted to the adult group and show your faces in front of the judges more often, your scores will naturally go up."
Lin Yinian didn’t know how to comfort people, so he could only nod along.
Before leaving, the Canadian coaching team brought Erica and Carlo to express their gratitude and said that if the Chinese team is interested in coming to Canada for training during the off-season, they are always welcome and will be happy to waive some fees.
Erica gave Lu You and Xie Yunjun a maple leaf commemorative coin each, and said with a cheerful smile: "Carlo and I didn't bring anything special when we went abroad for the competition. We only have some commemorative coins. I give them to you. I hope you don't mind."
"Thank you very much for the help from the Chinese team this time. You and Jun, we will see you at the World Youth Championship, and we will definitely be in our best form then."
After saying these words, Erica turned around and was about to leave, but she couldn't help it. She turned back and rubbed Lu You's furry head twice, then left a contented sentence "Little sweetie, see you next time."
Only then did Lu Tingsong realize that compared to the situation in the single skating side where the two sides were disgusted with each other and got angry at the slightest disagreement, his niece seemed to be getting along well with her opponents. Even Caveira, who missed the silver medal this time, still hugged Lu You as usual before leaving.
As for the singles skating... you can tell what the atmosphere is like by looking at the expression of the French skater who's ranked fourth, who looks like she wants to bite Lin Yinian to death.
When discussing this topic on the plane, Xu Yangbing said with a sigh: "You just haven't read enough novels. If you put it on a domestic novel website, it would be called "When a Charmer Learns Figure Skating". A more exaggerated one would be "A Figure Skater Holds a Charmer's Script"."
Lu Tingsu: “?”
I suspect that you are writing secretly behind my back, but I have no evidence.
The team chose an evening flight for their return trip, which still took about 12 hours. The coaching staff, who had been tense for several days, fell asleep after the lights dimmed.
Lu You, who had been trying to adjust to the jet lag for three days but failed, was so bored that he felt like mushrooms were growing on him. Suddenly, the little girl remembered something and took out a few envelopes from her bag.
These were exactly what the Ice Association officials gave them before they set out on the expedition.
In order not to affect their condition before the competition, several coaches did not allow the children to watch. After the competition, everyone was busy with exhibition skating, so it was not until now that Lu You had time to read the handwritten letters sent by ice fans.
She gave half a stack to Xie Yunjun, and the two children began to read on the small table.
Most of these letters were sent by domestic ice hockey fans, of course there were also some foreign fans, such as a letter signed by Nanako Yamamoto. Because this Japanese lady would carry a telephoto camera to watch every game, Lu You was already familiar with this ice hockey fan sister of himself and Xie Yunjun.
The last letter Lu You opened was enclosed in a purple envelope with a bunny print.
After unfolding it, she found that the Chinese characters on it were written crookedly, but every word and stroke was written with great care.
【To contestants Lu You & Xie Yunjun:
We are a pair of Japanese junior pair skaters. We are a little younger than you in age. I wonder if this letter can successfully cross the mountains and seas and reach you.
Maybe by the time you see it, it will have already achieved excellent results in the Grand Prix Final?
We who grew up in Japan have always known that Japan's pair skating is in a completely different state from single skating.
In a figure skating development system where universities or clubs are the main body and provide financial support to athletes, choosing pair skating, which does not bring economic benefits, is a doomed difficult path. In China, apart from me and my male partner, there is not even another pair of pair skating athletes in the youth group. Therefore, when participating in domestic competitions, it is often just me and my male partner performing alone in the pair skating event.
We also felt lonely before. Before seeing your competition, my male partner and I were ready to split up and practice single skating separately. It was your short program “ハウルの動く城” (sorry, I don’t know how to translate this animated film into Chinese) that rekindled my male partner and I’s confidence in pair skating.
…
Like Tori-san and Kimi-kun, my boyfriend is my neighbor. We grew up together and practiced ice skating together. Although our parents advised us to choose single skating which is more popular in Japan, I can't forget the time when I danced on the ice holding hands with my boyfriend. The happiness from the heart was pure and beautiful.
Learning to skate is a very hard thing. It is really painful to fall when doing pair skating. There is no future for pair skating in Japan.
But when I see Tori-san and Kimi-kun, who are only one year older than us, shining brightly on the world stage, and winning honor for their country even though the outside world was not optimistic about Chinese pair skating, I feel that perhaps all this can be changed.
I have always believed in what the former defending champion of Japanese single skaters said: There have been many difficult things, but there is no night without dawn.
Although pair skating is still not valued in Japan, I believe that as long as we work hard enough, the club will definitely see our value.
Next year my male partner and I will be promoted to the youth group. I look forward to seeing Tori-san and Kimi-kun on the field. If this wish can really come true, I will feel extremely honored.
I wish you both all the best and hope you will achieve more success in the World Youth Championship.
Sincerely,
Anjo Haruna & Yoshioka Kentaro
November 13, 2020】
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