The performances of the boys and girls on the field were still captivating. They had already lost their childishness. Although it was only their second season, they were improving with every competition.
From increasing the difficulty to challenging new styles, the two have been bringing new surprises to the ice rink.
The quality of this fancy hand-raising 3S+2T+2T was incredibly high. In the end, Lu You and Xie Yunjun won the first jump GOE of more than 2 points in the pair skating of this competition. The total score of the consecutive jumps was as high as nine points, which is a god-level score rarely seen in pair skating a few times a year.
And their subsequent choreography was also beautiful beyond words——
The two people's knife moves flow across the ice surface like melted Dove chocolate, which makes people wonder: Is the ice surface really so smooth?
Isabella looked at the pleasing skating and couldn't help saying, "There are really not many athletes who practice skating well nowadays. Everyone is focusing on improving the difficulty of their skills. Our pair skating is a little better, but if you look at the single skating, the artistic beauty is really not as good as before."
Jiang Ran stood beside her and was also filled with emotion: "Yes, several coaches in single skating only teach jumping. The women's singles are all working hard on quads and triple As, as if they have completely given up skating and spinning."
Under the current ISU rules, jumping is the most important tool for scoring points, with one jump easily worth more than ten or twenty points. Good skating and rotation are of no use except for making the audience say "Wow, so beautiful".
Yu Botao: "There is no other way. If you don't practice jumping, you will be beaten in the competition. You can only win by jumping. Unless the UFS pays attention to this, this phenomenon will continue."
While they were talking, Lu You and Xie Yunjun on the field also started a joint rotation.
Lu You was lifted up by Xie Yunjun's waist, and he posed in ballet style, with his long arms stretched out and his swan neck gracefully outlined.
Her whole body was in an inverted C position, and she was held in a small lifting position and entered into an upright rotation.
The girl in the black dress stroked the back of the boy's neck, looking at the person in front of her with closed eyes and a pure, beautiful and flawless face. Her eyes were cold and paranoid. As an evil personality, she wanted to devour the good personality in front of her. She seemed to be saying: We are one. Do you really think I will let you go? I will set you free?
The second posture is the swallow spin.
With Lu You's petite body, her entire body could be completely covered by Xie Yunjun when she was doing the swallow spin.
The atmosphere between the two of them suddenly changed. Xie Yunjun opened her eyes, restrained Lu You's wrist with her big hand, and put the other hand around her waist. Lu You raised one hand and spun quickly with Xie Yunjun in the posture of a flying swallow.
The evil personality is nothing but an illusory shadow in the mirror! After tonight, you will no longer be able to control me, and this devilish dream will finally end!
…Will things turn out like this?
Of course not, these are just excuses used by the kind-hearted Jekyll to deceive himself and escape reality.
Evil thoughts grow without a trace. If Jekyll was really as kind as he thought he was, then the evil personality of Hyde would not have been separated after taking the potion.
Lu You twisted her body while spinning, revealing a contemptuous smile. She stroked Xie Yunjun's face, tempting him to go crazy and fall into evil. The two stared at each other as he entered a squatting spin.
—I want you to become me, and this body will be occupied by me.
The violin played the dance of death, the rapid music slowly lengthened, and after the joint rotation ended, the girl was held in Xie Yunjun's arms, and they both slowly lowered their heads.
Even so, I don't want to become a follower of the devil Satan.
If we are destined to exist together, then let me go to hell to atone for my sins with endless regrets and all my bad deeds.
After the show ended, the audience was silent for a few seconds, and then they stood up and gave a warm round of applause.
This is a superb performance!
Although there was no opera house's stage lighting assistance, and no opera singer playing two roles at the same time, the two players from China led everyone into the strange doctor's inner world on the empty ice. Good and evil, madness and calmness were naturally integrated into their body language.
"A silent performance is better than words," said Tang Baifeng. "Lu You and Xie Yunjun have never let us down. They once again gave a wonderful performance in the competition held in their motherland and completed a free skate without any mistakes!"
Guan Lin's voice was also full of laughter: "Their triple Salchow jump, the seamless switch between Rippon and Tano postures can be said to be very naughty."
Isabella, who was about to go on stage, and Jiang Ran made the same face-holding gesture: "Great! I think I understand a little bit why ice fans like to match up pairs athletes so much."
The two were clearly acting out a story about multiple personalities trying to kill each other, but after the show ended, the two kids calmed down and immediately stuck together again.
At this time, Lu You changed his cold and crazy image in the show. After being pulled up by Xie Yunjun and bowing, he flapped his wings like a little bird and rushed into his male companion's arms.
Childhood sweethearts playing pair skating, who wouldn’t say it’s awesome?
The Canadian coach couldn't help but remind him: "Isabella, you're the next one to play, adjust your mentality."
"Got it," Isabelle patted her face and handed her hand to her male companion, full of confidence, "Aubrey, now it's time for us to perform. Although the new generation of contestants are very strong, the current adult group is still our home court!"
When the two were preparing to go on stage, Lu You and his friends just slid to the exit.
The little girl handed a bunch of purple StellaLou rabbits in her arms to the coach. Just as she put on the holster, Lu Tingsong rolled up the paper document in his hand and hit her on the head.
Lu You was knocked and let out a goose cry: "Huh?"
"Have you been practicing some weird moves behind my back again?" Lu Tingsong tried hard not to laugh. "Why do you have so many weird ideas in your head? You take advantage of Xiaojun's willingness to do whatever you ask and drag him to practice some weird moves. Tell me how many times this has happened."
Jiang Yang also stared at Lu You with suspicion: "Are you still secretly practicing the Arhat meditation squatting and rotating posture?"
He knew Lu You's mischievous character too well. He had a lot of magical ideas in his head, such as cross-legged spins, arhat meditation spins, and swallow-style gliding while doing flips. He wanted to try everything and often dragged Xie Yunjun to practice with her, which made the coaches almost blinded.
"I haven't practiced it yet. Didn't you say it was too ugly?" Lu You took the water cup handed to him by Xie Yunjun. "I think it's quite fun. I have to find a way to put it in my performance skate in the future."
Lu Tingsong: "..."
Lu You stuck out his tongue, with an expression that said "I know I was wrong, but I'll do it again next time", and hid behind Xie Yunjun tactfully.
Lu Tingsong: "Hey you little brat!"
On the way to Kiss&Cry, the uncle and nephew were fighting a guerrilla war, one chasing and hitting the other dodging. Jiang Yang and Xi Ni's voices kept being heard, "Stop hitting them. You only have one child. If you hit him again, he will be stupid."
As Isabella and Aubrey skated to the center of the rink to warm up, the big scoreboard lit up.
【中】FS-Lu You & Xie Yunjun
Technical factor score: 78.85
Program content score: 71.15
Free Skate Score: 150.00
Short program score: 69.19
Although their short program was a bit disappointing, Lu You and Xie Yunjun had a huge advantage in the clean free skating without any score pressure. Their names were under the five-star red flag and they jumped from the bottom to become the current number one.
Tang Baifeng shouted excitedly: "Lu You and Xie Yunjun's free skating score exceeded 150 points, breaking their own free skating record. They are only 5.6 points away from the free skating world record of 155.60 points created by Jiang Ran and Yu Botao!"
"They are the future hope of Chinese pair skating," Guan Lin said. "A difficult and clean free skate deserves this score."
At this moment, Tang Baifeng hoped very much that Lu You and Xie Yunjun had not been promoted to a higher group urgently. If this score was placed in the youth group, it would not only break the world record of the youth group, but would also become a legendary existence in the youth group!
It turns out that the young players of their new generation can achieve such a score without being suppressed in the score.
The 80-point mark in the short program in pair skating and the 150-point mark in the free skating are treatments only available to top international players, and also determine whether a player has the opportunity to compete for the podium.
"It would be great if there were no newcomers in figure skating who suppress their scores, and no nationality bias," Jiang Ran imagined it even though he knew it was impossible. "Youyou and Xiaojun's difficulty is higher than Hanhan and Feiyang's. If the judges' scoring is fair, they have a chance to compete for an Olympic medal with their qualifications."
Yu Botao put his arm around his female companion’s shoulders and said, “Give them some time to grow. I believe that before long, they will become something that the referees cannot control.”
Because absolute strength can break all prejudices and unfairness.
While Jiang Yang and Lu Tingsong were beaming with joy, Isabella and Aubrey from Canada began their performance. Their free skating program was "The Hunchback of Notre Dame".
This classic selection of music, which combines magnificent history, good and evil, beauty and ugliness, love and desire, was performed very well by the veteran pair. They fit in every musical node and interpret this Western story.
Only an experienced veteran like Isabella can perform a piece like "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". No matter how strong the young actors' acting skills are or how dedicated they are in the performance, they will still seem shallow compared to such a grand story.
Lu You sat next to Xie Yunjun, their little fingers hooked together, each holding a bottle of yogurt that came from nowhere, and watching the show seriously.
Xie Yunjun still had an ice pack tied on his knee. His height had not stabilized and there was a tendency for him to continue growing. It still hurt when he did some ice jumps. In the free skating, he did several ice jumps in a row. As soon as he got off the stage, Xu Yangbing quickly put ice packs on him.
Lu You licked his mustache and touched Xie Yunjun's thigh: "Does it still hurt?"
"One thing, it's fine after applying ice," Xie Yunjun held down her restless hands, took out paper to wipe her mouth, and said with a hint of helplessness, "Don't... touch me randomly, the seniors are about to go on stage, just watch the show."
Lu You said "Oh", rubbed against Xie Yunjun's shoulder, found a comfortable position to lean his head on, and continued to slurp his yogurt.
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