Although physical strength is king in sports competitions, no matter which sport it is, it will be affected to some extent by luck.
There was once a particularly unlucky contestant who fell down during the Ending Pose after the performance was over, and was ruthlessly deducted points.
Thinking about it this way, Nie Hanhan felt that it wasn't so hard to accept that Lu You and the others only got the first place to appear.
The former national team athlete stared at the TV screen intently. When Lu You and Xie Yunjun came on the court, even the commentator started talking more.
After all, they are the country's most promising young pair skating team, and will support the future of flower pair skating. The commentator's words of praise for them are like free money.
The pleasant voice of the CCTV commentator came: "Lu You and Xie Yunjun look good today. I hope they can perform well in the finals."
"The commentators at CCTV still haven't gotten over their habit of giving their own players a big thumbs up before a match," Han Feiyang muttered, "How many pairs of players have they given bad thumbs up in the past two years."
There is a saying in the figure skating circle: When the commentator of CCTV5 praises you for your good condition, then the skater should be careful, because this may be a scoop.
During the previous National Championships, Han Feiyang was praised by CCTV after his short program clean, saying that he was in “excellent shape and has a good chance of winning the National Championships.” Then in the free skating the next day, he changed 3S to 2S.
Nie Hanhan burst out laughing, then looked at the two faces full of collagen on the TV with deep emotion.
When the news of Lu You and Xie Yunjun's promotion to the next group came out, no one was optimistic about this pair of newly promoted pairs. No one thought they could really replace the Nie Han combination and compete for the podium at the Olympics.
Many people even felt that they might not be able to get a ticket to this year's Grand Prix Final.
But the fact is that Lu You and Xie Yunjun did it. With a technical difficulty that was enough to break all prejudices and scoring schemes, they won a ticket to the finals with a silver and a bronze in the respective races.
It is true that as seniors, the Jiang-Yu duo avoided the China-Japan races in order to support their country's young players, but that also requires the strength of the reserve players to be worthy of their support and to be able to support them.
At the Grand Prix Finals, Jiang Yang and Lu Tingsong each held the hand of a child and said a few words of encouragement. Then Lu You and Xie Yunjun reached out and pushed the baffle, slowly sliding into the center of the ice rink.
Lu Tingsong clenched his fists and looked expectantly at the two children he had raised.
Jiang Yang patted him on the shoulder and said, "They are the only group of players in GPF who are not yet adults. No matter what level they achieve in the end, they are our pride."
On the white ice surface, the light yellow skirt fluttered in the wind, and next to the skirt were two pairs of hands, one big and one small, with their fingers clasped together.
They soon began their performance to the sound of violins.
The first move is the triple Philips jump.
The duo once again replicated the signature 3F of Bayekov, the men's singles gold medalist at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, using the chokta-counter-turn three entry method, a series of changes of feet, edges and directions, the complexity of which made all the young single skaters in the youth group feel ashamed.
When landing on the ice, Lu Youzhou tilted, and just when everyone thought she was going to flip over or fall, she twisted her golden knees and managed to stabilize the jump.
Seeing this, Lu Tingsong was frightened and heartbroken at the same time.
This method of landing on the ice, which relies on the knees to twist the axis back forcefully, causes great wear and tear on the cartilage and meniscus. Lu You is currently following the speed flow, and her own strength is not strong. A series of pace changes followed by a jump will inevitably affect her timing of tapping the ice for leverage, thus making her landing tighter, and in the end she can only rely on her knees to force her way back.
In fact, when Lu You was practicing, she had tried the pre-stepping edge + fuzzy edge method commonly used by some international players. With her current rotation speed, she can not only complete 3F easily, but also 3Lz easily.
After all, the only difference between the Lutz jump (Lz) and its twin brother, the Philips jump, is that the F jump takes off with the inside edge, while the Lz takes off with the outside edge, which is why it is more difficult than the F jump.
If the sneak attack is ruthless enough and he does not use the blade separately and just uses the flat blade to get away with it, then the difficulty of Lu You's single jump on paper can be raised to another level.
As for the more powerful Xie Yunjun... as long as he is bold enough to steal the week, Aksher's three weeks is not a dream.
However, neither of them bothered to do this kind of jumping style that would be criticized, and the flower-planting team's clean jumping was not an exaggeration.
After the single jump, Nie Hanhan said, "I heard that these two kids like to do a single jump followed by a throw jump to increase their success rate during competitions. Why did they do the single jump first this time?"
Han Feiyang: "I don't know. I heard that Xie Yunjun has just passed the development stage. Maybe the difficulty of the jump has been reduced?"
Nie Hanhan: "I don't think so. I heard from Teacher Xue that the development barrier didn't have much impact on Xie Yunjun, and his strength even improved. If they lowered the difficulty of the jump, Lu You wouldn't have to use his knees to force himself to complete the difficult 3F..."
"ah!"
Nie Hanhan suddenly screamed and patted Han Feiyang. She looked at the two people facing each other in a waltz-like posture after the jump, and thought of a possibility.
"They are not trying to lower the difficulty of the throw jump, but to challenge the throw jump with a higher score than 3FTh!"
In pair skating, 3LzTh and 3FTh are considered throw jumps of the same difficulty, so the only throw jump that can score higher than 3FTh, besides the quad family, is 3ATh.
At the competition site, 19-year-old Ivlova and 21-year-old Mosokov stood together. When Lu You supported Xie Yunjun's shoulders and the young man slowly put his arm around his female companion's waist, starting a buffering period that lasted a quarter of the ice rink, Ivlova murmured in shock: "What are they doing..."
Russia's No.1 doubles athlete Apollova said without hesitation: "They are going to do a triple Axel."
Evlova: "But didn't Lu and Xie say in the post-match interview that their 3ATh success rate was not high? Was the 3A throw in the China station considered a guess?"
"They have already reached the finals. No matter what, the worst result is sixth place," said Apollova's partner, Biman. "So even if the success rate is less than half, it is worth taking a gamble."
As soon as Biman finished speaking, Lu You stepped forward with the outside edge of his left ice skate, twisted his body and jumped, while Xie Yunjun pushed him diagonally upwards with force!
One and a half laps.
Two and a half laps.
Three and a half laps.
——It’s been a week!
When Lu You bent his knees and landed on the ice, his whole body was in a lunge-stretching posture, with the angle between his right calf and thigh forming a ninety-degree angle, and in a deep squatting posture, his ice skates hit the ice with a "click".
This was a landing on the ice with no room for error. If Lu You hadn't used his knee to support himself, he would have fallen directly due to the lack of height for landing on the ice.
But as Lu You exerted force with her legs, the muscles on her well-proportioned calves showed explosive outlines through the flesh-colored pantyhose. She quickly stood up and spread her floating legs, drawing a smooth half arc on the ice.
[Fuck, this is so cool, this is so cool, he can even stand like this, I can only say respect to Lu Lu's golden knees. ]
[The muscles on Xiao Qingmei's calves are so strong that they can paralyze me with one kick.]
[I watched a documentary before, which said that this method of forcibly landing on the ice in a squatting position would cause the knees to bear a greater impact force, which is extremely unfriendly to the athlete's joints.]
[Axel is the only type of jump that takes off forward. It is not easy to use leverage, and three-quarters of the jump must be done by the female partner herself. It is really not easy for Lu Xie to practice it.]
[Can I dream of a double 3A? ]
[Great! The women's singles quad roll, the doubles triple A roll sounds feasible, roll! They can all be rolled! (nonsense)]
[I remember that the 3ATh of the childhood sweethearts in the China Cup was included in the free skating? Why did the GPF short program start with the 3A throw? Doesn't that mean there will be another throw in the free skating? ]
【Because of a little effort, a bicycle can be transformed into a motorcycle. 】
Lu You and Xie Yunjun's throw jump landed successfully on the ice, immediately triggering a small climax of barrage on the live broadcast platform.
While they were sharing Kiss & Cry, Lu You took the StellaLou PaPaTu tissue box handed to him by Lu Tingsong and blew his nose without stopping.
Lu Tingsong wrapped Lu You in his coat and said, "Did you kick off the quilt again last night? You must have caught a cold!"
The tip of Lu You's nose was red. He took a big gulp of warm water and glanced at the scoring screen. When Lu Tingsong saw that their short program score exceeded 70 and actually got 73.48 points, breaking their all-time short program record, Uncle Lu excitedly waved his fist.
Xie Yunjun took Lu You's hand and squeezed it, and the two smiled at each other.
The second pair drawn to play were the American pair Sally & Jeffrey. For some reason, this American pair always had some problems in this year's competition. After losing their spiral line in the last Asian Open, they failed in a throw jump again today.
Coupled with the not-so-clean jumping technique inherited from their American ancestors, the two were severely caught in the pre-match in Japan, and in the end their short program score did not even reach 70.
I don’t know if the ice surface in Osaka was poisonous, but Isabella and Aubrey, who performed right after the American combination, both fell flat on their faces during their single jump, and their performance scores dropped significantly.
Therefore, after the six short programs of the pair skating were completed, Lu You and Xie Yunjun miraculously ranked third and won a small medal for the short program.
The three gods who had gotten lost in the draw ceremony finally arrived and brought the lucky buff to the Chinese team.
When Chinese ice fans saw four Chinese faces wearing white down jackets and national flag red pants appear at the small medal award ceremony, they were so happy that they didn't know what to do, as if they had won the lottery.
The scene where the Lu-Xie pair and the Jiang-Yu pair stood together in front of the spotlight and held up small medals made everyone see something called inheritance in them.
On their chests, yellow star tracks fall on the fiery red, forming the most harmonious color combination. Even through the camera, the stars on the red flag are still grand and brilliant, igniting the flame of inheritance.
Never give up, and never give up.
Nie Hanhan, who was watching this scene in front of the TV, suddenly stood up with the help of a walker: "Brother Yang! I have figured out what I want to do after I retire!"
She said firmly: "I want to be a coach."
Nie Hanhan thought that their dream would definitely continue in another form.
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