The Autumn Classic is held almost at the same time as the Lombardy Cup. For the women's singles event, which is the king of involution in figure skating, the Autumn Classic is definitely a competition that ice fans love to watch.
Jiang Shi, who made a comeback after many years, had the honor of witnessing the quadruple jump battle in women's singles skating in her first match after her comeback.
After participating in the competition, the girl looked at her result outside the top 20, learned from her mistakes, and immediately added 3A to her training goals.
"It was so perverted. I was trembling in the corner at that time, you know."
After returning to China, Jiang Shi excitedly told the provincial team about the famous scenes of the Autumn Classic.
"At that time, the Japanese women's singles number one cleaned the short program and free skating, and the free skating score exceeded 170 points. When she was about to jump the big goose flip and sing, Aurora came on stage. Goose Luo came on stage with her three quadruple jumps and a quadruple sandwich jump."
Lu You bit into a piece of chicken breast that Xie Yunjun picked for him, and said in a very supportive tone: "And then?"
"Then I saw Aurora's free skating start with a 4S, and the 4Lz and 4T that followed made my scalp numb," Jiang Shi held up his chopsticks, excited as if he was the one who did the quadruple jump, "This is not the killer move, the killer move is the quadruple sandwich jump in the second half of the program."
Jiang Shi: "4T+1Eu+3S! Damn it, after multiplying it by 1.1, this jump alone is worth almost 20 points!"
"This level of difficulty can be used in men's singles to win easily, and the ISU recently issued a document on transgender competitions—"
Click.
A little boy from the provincial team picked up his chopsticks in a hurry and his eyes were blank for a few seconds.
Xie Yunjun took out a pair of new chopsticks from the chopstick holder next to him and put them in his hand.
"Look how scared the kid is," Lu You said, trying to hold back his laughter. He handed a skinless chicken leg to the junior who had just joined the provincial team. "Your senior sister Jiang was just scaring you. Transgender competition has nothing to do with our figure skating. Don't worry."
I don’t know when it started, but Lu You has lost the title of the youngest in the provincial team. This year, she and Xie Yunjun have a group of little followers following them and calling them senior brothers and sisters.
Jiang Shi held his chin with his hand and looked at the scene of the gentle father and patient mother coaxing their son, and whistled.
At the beginning of the season, Lu You and Xie Yunjun had a very tight schedule. Less than ten days after the end of the Lombardy Cup, the coaching staff took them to Oberstdorf, Germany to participate in the Fodi Cup.
The Wudi Cup is also the qualifying tournament for the 2022 Beijing-Zhangjiakou Winter Olympics.
The so-called qualifying tournament is actually the allocation of the remaining Olympic places. The first batch of Olympic places will be determined in the first year's World Championships. Each country can have a maximum of three Olympic places in each event.
This year, except for Japan's men's singles, Goose's women's singles and Canada's ice dance, no other country's event can fully participate in the Olympics.
Based on the performance of Jiang Yu and Nie Han last year, the Chinese team could have won three Olympic places for pairs, but because there was no third group entering the free skating at the World Championships, the third place was lost. The team still needs to send someone to the qualifying tournament to earn the third place again.
And this person cannot be the Jiang-Yu combination, the champions of last year's World Championships, or the Lu-Xie combination, which was urgently promoted to the group before the start of the season.
But it's still okay for them to participate in the competition and earn points.
The ISU introduced this new regulation to avoid wasting Olympic places.
If a country that is a figure skating desert suddenly gets a lucky star and one person leads the whole family to win three places, but the country cannot send two other capable people to participate in the Olympics, then these two places will be wasted, and it would be better to let capable athletes from other countries fill the places.
In short, under the new regulations, the phenomenon of bringing family members along is completely prohibited. If you want an Olympic quota, you have to earn it yourself.
In this year's qualifying tournament, there are only three available places in the pairs skating event.
The Chinese team sent Si Nan and Xu Zhen to this qualifying tournament. After the free skating, their total score was ultimately lost to that of the Kazakhstan players, and they unfortunately missed out on the third spot in the Olympics.
After the game, Jiang Yang took both of their cell phones and deleted all unnecessary social media apps.
It goes without saying that once the results of the competition are transmitted back to China, there will be no shortage of negative comments about Si Nan and Xu Zhen on the Internet.
And the fact was just as he thought. Before long, accusatory posts appeared like mushrooms after rain in forums and bulletin boards.
Rational ice fans and performance-oriented people are arguing fiercely, and when you click into the special discussion forum for the qualifying tournament, the anger is so intense that it is about to overflow.
[Si Nan and Xu Zhen are not good enough, can they not occupy the qualifying spot? Originally, we were counting on pair skating to win the Olympic figure skating championship, and now we have lost the third spot. Can't we replace them with capable people? ]
[…What serious illness is there upstairs? Jiang Yu and Lu Xie do not meet the requirements for the elimination match. If Si Xu is not sent, do we have to drag Nie Hanhan from the hospital to the competition venue? ]
[Why are you protecting her? Sinan fell like this in her 3T jump and you don’t allow people to say anything? I heard that this is the simplest jump in figure skating, and she hasn’t even been allowed to do the 3A jump yet.]
[I often see Si Nan posting pictures of himself having fun everywhere. He doesn’t really focus on figure skating. It’s a miracle that he can achieve any results… Hurry up and find Xu Zhen a pair who switched to women’s singles [praying.jpg]]
[I am really confused. In this Olympic year, what kind of utopianism has been mixed into the figure skating forum? Can you watch a few more competitions to understand figure skating before expressing your opinions?]
[Pair skating 3A? I don't know what to say. The number one female skater Aurora did several quads and 3A but it was not stable. Please clarify the difference between pairs and singles. 】
[Hahahahahahaha, this is funnier than the jump and Bielman in ice dancing. ]
[Although, the new rule that players who are promoted to the group urgently are prohibited from participating in the play-offs to earn a place is also confusing...]
[Those of you who are pointing fingers at others, if you are good enough, go ahead. Did Sinan call you to tell you that she didn’t train hard? Or are you his mother?]
[The athletes train very hard day after day. Maybe they haven’t earned back the money they spent on figure skating when they were young. As spectators, we have no right to blame them.]
[Stop arguing, stop arguing, LX is about to go on stage. 】
Although the allocation of double Olympic quotas has been completed, the Wudi Cup competition has not ended. There is still a group of players who already have Olympic quotas but are waiting in line to earn points.
Lu You and Xie Yunjun were the second to last group to perform in the free skating. Before going on stage, Si Nan held Lu You's hand and solemnly said "Come on".
Although she also wanted to stand on the land of her dreams at the Olympics held in her motherland, since she and Xu Zhen had already made efforts for it, Si Nan had no complaints even if she failed.
As for the bad reviews online, Sinan has the same big heart as the Jianglin Provincial Team, so she just treats those people as talking nonsense.
Compared with their junior brothers and sisters who are one or two years younger than them, the pressure on them is nothing.
"These two kids have already competed in two big competitions in a row," Jiang Yang frowned, "and the Grand Prix is about to start."
With such a rush of consecutive games, even Jiang Yang and Qin Siyu who were with the team looked a little tired, not to mention Lu You and Xie Yunjun who still had to play.
Qin Siyu also felt that this was not going to work: "The Asian Open in mid-October is a test match for the Olympics, so we must participate in it. Then we should not participate in the Finnish Cup Challenge in early October."
"It's okay if the points are less. The two kids have only been promoted to the group for one year. They won't be able to enter the last group in next year's Olympics. We should be thankful to be able to stay in the bottom three or four groups."
Jiang Yang sighed, "Well, the Grand Prix is about to start. In addition to the China Grand Prix, let's apply for another Grand Prix in Japan. This will save the two children from having to deal with the time difference."
The adult Grand Prix is different from the youth group. The host countries of the six sub-races each year are fixed, namely the United States, Canada, China, Japan, France and Russia.
Each host country has three wild card spots available to players in its own national tournament.
As gold medalists of the World Youth Championship, Lu You and Xie Yunjun are guaranteed a spot in one event this year and have the right to choose the event first. With a wild card from the Chinese station, they can participate in two events in the first year of the Grand Prix and try to make it to the finals.
"Coach Jiang, Coach Qin, Xie Yunjun seems to have cramps again."
After the free skating, Lu You helped Xie Yunjun slide to the exit, found a chair and helped him sit down.
When Xu Yangbing was carried over by Qin Siyu in a hurry, Lu You was squatting in front of Xie Yunjun and massaging his calves.
Jiang Yang was worried: "Old Xu, please go check on this kid. He's been having cramps lately. What's going on?"
Xu Yangbing squatted down, touched Xie Yunjun's bones and muscles first, and then used professional massage techniques to massage Xie Yunjun's calf muscles.
"Have you been feeling pain in your knees and bones lately?" Xu Yangbing asked.
Lu You nodded faster than Xie Yunjun: "Yes, yes, he occasionally feels pain in his legs recently, especially when doing some ice jumping."
Jiang Yang patted Lu You's head and said, "Let Xiaojun speak for himself."
Xu Yangbing asked again: "Has your appetite increased? Do you always feel hungry or feel hungry again soon after eating?"
Xie Yunjun reached out and took Lu You to his side, and nodded: "It happens sometimes."
Then Xu Yangbing calmly took out a few heat packs and stuck them on the boy's pants.
Xu Yangbing: "Oh, in that case it's no big deal, it's just normal growth, commonly known as growing taller."
Qin Siyu: “……?” You call the puberty period no big deal?
"Let's measure their height later," Xu Yangbing waved his hand as he looked at Jiang Yang and Qin Siyu, who were both looking at each other with fear. "This child doesn't have obvious growing pains, so he shouldn't be growing very fast. He won't grow five centimeters in a month like Si Nan did before."
Although Xu Yangbing said so, no one can be sure about the developmental barrier. Figure skating is a precise sport. Even the slightest impact on height and weight can cause many movements to be unable to be performed.
Lu You pursed his lips and quietly tightened his grip on Xie Yunjun's hand.
After the free skating results came out, the two squeezed into the top five of the Wudi Cup with a slight advantage of three points and got 163 points.
Jiang Yang directly postponed the next day's exhibition skating and rushed back to Jianglin with his team overnight to conduct a series of tests on Xie Yunjun before the Olympic test competition.
Jiang Yang ticked the last 3F and breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank God, luckily the single jump in pair skating is not difficult, and I didn't miss any jumps."
Fortunately, Xie Yunjun is a male player, so the development barrier will not have such a big impact on him.
After Xie Yunjun slid outside the baffle and put on his scabbard, Lu You stood on tiptoe and wiped the boy's sweat with paper, remaining silent.
Xie Yunjun looked down at the girl: "What's wrong?"
Lu You bit her lip and suddenly hugged his waist without saying a word.
"Why don't you tell your coach that your knees hurt when you do the 3F jump? We can skip the 3F jump and do the edge jump which requires less strength and explosive power."
Lu You pinched the corner of his clothes and said in a muffled voice: "I can also increase the difficulty and replace the throw jump with 3ATh to make up for the 3F score."
Xie Yunjun inserted his fingertips into the girl's long hair, lifting up the scent of shampoo on the ends of her hair.
"It's okay, it will be fine soon."
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