Before the Asian Open, CCTV5 released a pre-Winter Olympics promotional video, inviting a series of athletes who might appear in front of the Olympic camera. In addition to the short track speed skaters who won the only gold medal in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the figure skating team was the most popular.
The figure skating team’s peripheral cultural and creative products were sold out as soon as the pre-sale link was posted.
Director Shao of the Publicity Office was grinning from ear to ear, and cheerfully instructed his subordinates to increase the inventory. He then asked, "Is there a popular artist named 'Yan' on the Internet who drew a group portrait of the Chinese figure skating team, which was forwarded a lot and even became popular on the Internet?"
The girl working under Director Shao nodded: "Yes, but why are you asking this?"
"We need to open up our minds to promotion and not just limit ourselves to traditional promotional methods," Director Shao said amiably. "When I attended a peer exchange meeting, I heard that the game and film and television sectors often hired artists to draw... illustrations, which were then made into badges and colored papers, and the sales were quite good."
The little girl opened her mouth wide: "Director Shao, I didn't expect you to keep up with the trends of young people so closely."
"Then you've found the right person. This artist has five million Weibo followers, and she's also a fan of figure skating," the girl from the publicity office said excitedly. "She's good at ancient ink and watercolor painting, and has worked with many big companies. She's very famous on P Station, and she's also drawn... uh, fan art for contestants Lu and Xie."
The director of the Publicity Office rolled his eyes and asked: "What is fan art?"
The little girl was suddenly stuck.
How do I explain what fan art is to my father-like leader in a public institution who is over 50 years old? Waiting online, very urgent.
"I am finding the words you young people use increasingly difficult to understand. Let me search for it." Director Shao said as he took out his mobile phone, turned on the handwriting input method, and swiped with one finger for a long time.
A few seconds later, the free skating of "Frozen Symphony" in the World Youth Championship ended. Xie Yunjun half-knelt on the ground, Lu You bent down and held the boy's face, and a watercolor illustration of their foreheads touching appeared on Director Shao's mobile phone screen.
[Yan Yan doesn’t want to draw V: LX, let me kiss you! If you can’t do it, I’ll press your head! My childhood sweetheart, Ace! Who understands! ]
Director Shao: “…” Young people nowadays are easily excited.
"Well, Xiao Deng, send an email to contact this artist to see if she is willing to design cultural and creative products for the Winter Olympics," Director Shao thought for a moment, "and ask her if she is willing to sell the copyright of this picture to us for promotion."
The girl named Xiao Deng let out a "huh" and suddenly felt an unrealistic feeling as if the wall of another dimension had been broken.
At present, the domestic trials before the Olympics have not yet started, and the second Olympic spot for China's pair skating has not yet been determined, but knowledgeable ice fans know that it is most likely the Lu-Xie combination with an extremely difficult configuration.
Although Lu You is a female partner with a time bomb of development, as long as Lu You does not fail in the development stage, she and Xie Yunjun, who are at the peak of their careers as female athletes, are truly the top two in the difficulty of pair skating.
The difficulty of four triple jumps, four triple throws, and three twists is stable at level four, which is also top-notch in the adult group.
It’s just that the two of them have just been promoted to the group and have no nationality support, so they have no competitiveness in GOE and PCS.
After watching the Olympic promotional video, everyone became more convinced that Lu Xie would compete in the Olympics - the appearance of Lu Xie and double number one Jiang Yu in the same frame was simply a hint from the CCTV that couldn't be more direct.
While the promotional video is being broadcast on various CCTV channels, the Asian Open is about to kick off in mid-October.
The predecessor of AO (Asia Open) was the Asian Championships, which was a competition only open to Asian skaters at the time. Later, in order to attract more international skaters, the Asian Championships was renamed the Asian Open, open to figure skaters from all over the world.
The Asian Open held in the flower-growing capital this year is also the officially designated test event for the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Winter Olympics.
The so-called Olympic test events are not to test the level of athletes like the domestic test events in various countries, but a test of the venues.
Holding competitions at Olympic venues is mainly to make it easier for organizers to test broadcast signals, camera placement, lighting and other hardware facilities.
Black technologies such as Hawkeye replay introduced at the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Winter Olympics will also be tested at this Asian Open.
Of course, the Olympic test match is also a good opportunity for the athletes to adapt to the venue in advance, so the competition for points in this AO is bound to be very fierce.
At 10 a.m. at the Capital Airport, several flights were landing and the international passenger exit was crowded.
Xie Yunjun, who was pulled to the airport by her female companion, held Lu You's hand tightly, fearing that she would be squeezed away by the crowded crowd.
"You, we can't see you," Cavella's tongue-twisting English rang through the receiver, "What color are you wearing?"
Lu You stood on tiptoe, her sight was completely blocked by the uncle in front of her, so she had no choice but to hold her phone and lead Xie Yunjun to a more open place: "Red, but there are too many people, I am almost drowned."
Lu You: "Now I'll let Xie Yunjun lift me up, and I'll stick my head out for you to see."
After she finished speaking, she leaned towards Xie Yunjun. Xie Yunjun held her waist with both hands and lifted her up.
In the vast crowd, Lu You stood up holding a Russian sign that read "Пекинприветствуетвас (Beijing Welcomes You)".
The expressions on the faces of passers-by nearby can only be described as dull.
Lu You held up the pick-up sign and looked around, looking for Cavila and the others: "Do you see me?"
Cavella dragged the skate box with one hand and waved his other hand in the air: "I see."
Anatoly gave Lu You a thumbs up and asked Kavira, "Do you want me to lift you up and say hello to You?"
“No, no.”
As Caveira spoke, he turned on his camera, pointed it at Lu You in the distance, pressed the photo button, and then uploaded the edited text to Twitter in one go.
When the two of them walked over with the coaching team, Lu You was put down by Xie Yunjun, and he ran to his friend and gave her a big hug.
The two girls hadn't seen each other for almost half a year, and as soon as they met, they hugged each other and jumped around.
Anatoly shook hands with Xie Yunjun and bumped shoulders with him. He was surprised to find that Xie Yunjun was now almost as tall as him.
Anatoly said honestly, "Jun, you are the tallest Asian player I have seen in all these years."
In his impression, Asian male athletes who are over 1.7 meters tall are considered tall, except for ice dancing which does not involve difficult jumps.
It seems that when selecting athletes, Asian coaches tend to choose smaller athletes in order to obtain a more stable center of gravity and better jumping ability.
Anatoly has also seen Asian male athletes who were less than 1.6 meters tall, and when taking photos, they were not as tall as some European and American female athletes.
But his explosive power is not worse than that of tall players. Because he is smaller, he has better balance ability and his error rate is much lower than that of ordinary players.
"The restaurant in the Winter Olympic Village has invited a chef from Quanjude to come and make Peking duck," Lu You and Cavella said, arm in arm. "Xie Yunjun and I took a peek before we left. The duck embryos have just been put into the oven. We should be able to eat the first batch when we go back now."
Caveira's eyes sparkled: "Is it the legendary Peking duck that was eaten over 600 times a day during the 2008 Beijing Olympics?"
Accommodation for this Asian Open was also arranged in the Olympic Village, and even the canteen menu was designed in accordance with Olympic standards. Beijing roast duck, as a specialty of the capital, was very popular in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and was in short supply. The Olympic Committee was forced to increase the daily supply of 300 roast ducks to 600.
This year, the Chinese restaurant in the Winter Olympic Village directly set up six roasting ovens, dedicated to allowing all contestants to enjoy the freedom of roasting duck.
Due to the fierce competition in this AO, Russia only sent Kavela and Anatoly to compete. YM will participate in another more reliable Challenger Series event at the end of October - the Dennis Tan Memorial Tournament to ensure points.
"Although Russia has secured all three places for the Winter Olympics, except for the top two teams in the test match who are guaranteed admission to the Olympics according to regulations, the decision on the third place is still in the hands of the Ice Hockey Association."
On the bus to the Winter Olympic Village, Anatoly said: "The Ice Hockey Association feels that the status of me and Caveira is unstable, and it is very likely that we will be replaced at any time."
Cavila's face darkened: "This bastard misled me!"
"I warned you at the time," Anatoly looked at his female companion, "after all, the center of that ice hockey team looks like a scumbag."
Caveira shook his long hair and decided to close all emotions from now on: "From now on, there will be no love in my career."
Anatoly's expression was calm: "Really? I don't believe it."
Caveira chuckled, "When he broke up with his ex-girlfriend, he ran to my house in the middle of the night, got drunk, hugged me and cried, saying that he would never believe in love again. In the end, he had his bonus for a month confiscated because of drinking. Who was that person?"
Anatoly covered his female companion's mouth and said, "Don't mention my dark history outside!"
Ice fans of the doubles event are all talking about it, but if we had to name a pair that they least hope for, it would undoubtedly be VA.
Although Big Goose got married at an early age, which made it very convenient for ice fans to have CP since childhood, both Cavilla and Anatoly have not only officially stated that the relationship between them and their partners is just comradeship, but they also have their own love lives. It's just that their vision of choosing a partner is exactly the same and confusing, either they are the queen of the sea or the scumbag.
There is a direct bus from the airport to the Winter Olympic Village. Half an hour later, Cavella had his first bite of Peking duck in his life.
The dough was wrapped with jujube wood roasted duck meat dipped in sweet noodle sauce, and topped with chopped green onions and cucumbers. Although the most essential duck skin had been removed under the pressure of the coach, it was still so delicious that a group of people almost bit off their tongues.
When he came to the flower-growing capital to compete in the past, because he was not allowed to eat out, Cavila could only walk on the street and smell the aroma of roast duck.
"In order to eat Peking duck again during the Winter Olympics, I will definitely go all out in this test match!"
After Caveira shouted this sentence ambitiously, he and Anatoly fell into a game of Jenga on the OP the next day.
Then, while Lu You was doing a spin, his nose itched and he sneezed. With a "whoosh" sound, he threw himself onto the ice. He was still confused when Xie Yunjun grabbed him by the armpit and lifted him up.
This made the staff of the Olympic Committee inspection team very nervous. They thought there was something wrong with their ice surface, so they redid the ice surface overnight the day before the AO competition started.
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