"Coach Liang, yes, yes, let's all be happy. It's these good guys on our national team who have done us a great job..."
"Director Shao, you're joking. The good sales of the peripherals can't be attributed entirely to the contestants. It also has a lot to do with the hard work of the comrades in the Propaganda Department."
"Brother, sister-in-law, Youyou and Xiaojun's next match is on the 18th, which is still more than ten days away. You can still make it in time if you fly to the capital next week. It's not that fast."
In an athlete's apartment in the Winter Olympic Village, Xue Chengze, Jiang Yang and Lu Tingsong's phones kept ringing. The coaches' voices were heard. They answered the congratulatory calls from different people, and when they stood on the balcony and grinned, they were all filled with the cold wind of the capital's night.
But the biting cold wind could not blow away the rosy glow on their faces.
Xue Chengze smiled as he spoke on the phone: "Some people said let them talk. The judges were selected in advance by the ISU, not arranged by us. Besides, isn't figure skating a competition all about who is in good shape and who can withstand the pressure? Other countries didn't hold up, but we did, so shouldn't we win?"
After the team results of this year's Winter Olympics came out, it really caused quite a stir in the figure skating circle.
The United States and the powerful country, which had won medals for two consecutive years, both fell out of the top three this year, while Italy, which had been in fourth place for a long time, finally fought for its place, punched the United States, kicked the Maple Leaf Country, and soared to the runner-up position.
What is most shocking is that Rabbit Village, which couldn’t even enter the free skating in the past, actually won the bronze medal this year!
When the results were first released, some conspiracy theorists were still spreading rumors on the Internet that "the Chinese Ice Hockey Association put pressure on the referees and gave the team bronze medal to themselves by fraud." They were shouting that the Yancheng Lake Winter Olympics scandal had reappeared, but after the two detailed score sheets were posted, these people quickly disappeared.
The free skating score sheet that was released had the name "Zixuan Zhao" clearly displayed, and the content was as follows:
FS "Defending the Yellow River"
Technical factor score: 110.28
Program content score: 85.46
The difference of 25 points between technical points and performance points is heartbreaking and brings tears to eyes. Not to mention bribing the referee, ice fans all suspect that the referee has a grudge against their top player.
Brother Zhao sacrificed himself and successfully used his performance points to nip the black hand conspiracy theory in the bud.
Rational ice fans fought back, saying that the players from their Rabbit Village have always acted cleanly, and if they know how to do a certain move, they know how to do it, and if they don't, they don't. As long as they dare to show off on the field, their performance will be textbook standard.
Among them, someone edited a slow-motion comparison between the Rabbit Village athletes and athletes from other countries. It has to be said that there is no harm without comparison. If we are to be serious about it, the jury should first catch the athletes of certain noble nationalities who use the pre-jump method one by one.
"Yes, I will definitely catch Zixuan's artistic performance when I go back." Xue Chengze pinched his brows.
To be fair, Xue Chengze felt that the program "Defending the Yellow River" was the pinnacle of Zhao Zixuan's artistic performance. As for why the score was still so low - it was probably because the image of his military boxing was deeply rooted in the judges' minds and it would take some time to reverse it.
The coaches’ phones were ringing off the hook, but the players’ phones were quiet as chickens during the competition.
In the room, Lu You sat cross-legged on the floor, holding a large bottle of sports drink in her arms and pouring it into the paper cups in front of her one by one. After doing all this, she leaned against Xie Yunjun, sniffing and looking towards the kitchen: "It smells good."
Xie Yunjun opened a piece of dark chocolate and handed it to her.
Lu You looked at the piece of dark chocolate with great confusion and swallowed his saliva. He had to say that the quality of the chocolates Margaret gave him was really excellent, worthy of being Italy's specialty industry.
"I'm not going to eat it."
Lu You picked up the chocolate candy and stuffed it into Xie Yunjun's mouth. When his fingertips rubbed against the boy's lips, he was covered by the soft and warm touch.
For some reason, a terrible idea suddenly came to Lu You's mind.
Since it feels so soft, then...
"Hiss," Lu You, who was originally leaning on his male companion, took a deep breath and immediately sat up, holding his head and shaking it.
Xie Yunjun came over, held the girl's face and examined it carefully: "What's wrong? Headache?"
Lu You's gaze slowly slid down, and finally landed on the two lips that opened and closed, with the sweet smell of chocolate between breaths.
Lu You: "…" It's over, something's wrong with me. "
It was all because of Cavella and Erica telling her gossip about the Winter Olympics every day, like the Swiss skiing prince and the French figure skater kissing passionately all the way from the stairwell to the door of the apartment, which made her have such naughty thoughts in her mind from time to time!
Before she could continue her thoughts, the sound of pots and pans colliding in the kitchen interrupted Lu You's train of thought.
Jiang Ran's voice rang out: "Two guys outside! Do you two want to eat chili peppers?"
"Eat!" Lu You quickly replied, "Xie Yunjun eats too!"
Jiang Ran uttered "Oh" in a long voice, and soon came out with a ceramic bowl as big as a washbasin. At the same time, the aroma of fish balls filled the whole room.
Zhao Zixuan scooped two large bowls of noodles for Lu You and Xie Yunjun, with a doting smile on his face: "We can't eat out during the competition. In the past, after the team competition of each Olympic Games, everyone would get together and cook a meal to celebrate..."
Of course, Zhao Zixuan would never say that the noodles were bought from the supermarket and that he got the fish balls from the female chef in the Olympic Village restaurant with his baby face.
Jiang Ran buried his head in his noodles and mercilessly criticized his junior: "What do you mean by every previous session? It's like you've participated in many Olympics. During the last Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, you were still a greenhorn, eating Korean fried fish cakes while crying while writing five years of college entrance examinations and three years of simulations."
Yu Botao added: "I remember that year too. Your dad said that if you didn't get into a 985 university, he would pack you up and send you to study abroad. You wouldn't have to practice figure skating anymore. Coach Xue was so scared that he couldn't even enjoy his meals. He would have to keep an eye on you after training every day, for fear that you really wouldn't be able to get into a good university in China. From then on, there was no Zhao Yige in figure skating in Rabbit Village."
Four years ago, Zhao Zixuan was only 18 years old. He just happened to participate in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the year of the college entrance examination. Under the dual pressure of the competition and the college entrance examination, Zhao Zixuan was afraid that he would not do well in both. He made frequent mistakes in the six practices before the game. After the game, he hugged his coach and cried bitterly. Finally, he completed the short program with red and swollen eyes.
Zhao Zixuan blushed and stiffened his neck: "Save some face for me, please!"
He turned around and looked at the two youngest teammates in this year's national team.
At this time, Lu You was estimating how many calories a bowl of fish ball noodles had. After calculating, the girl picked up the chopsticks and reluctantly put half of the noodles into her male companion's bowl.
The next few days after the team competition were a bit boring. Apart from occasionally watching their teammates' games, Lu You and Xie Yunjun spent most of their time training in the venues arranged by the Olympic Committee.
The battle line of figure skating in this year's Winter Olympics was very long, with a total schedule of more than ten days. The first individual competition to start was the men's singles skating, while the pair skating, which is the light of Rabbit Village figure skating, was relegated to the last few days.
Because the time was too long and she had to maintain high-intensity training before the game, Lu You's physical discomfort became more and more obvious. When her Achilles tendonitis was particularly serious, she had to temporarily stop training and seek acupuncture from Xu Yangbing to relieve the pain and swelling.
Although Xu Yangbing didn't say anything, he had already prepared the blocking injection in private.
Zhao Zixuan's good form continued into the individual events, where he won the bronze medal in men's singles skating with a total score of 303.18, creating the best result in the history of men's singles skating, while also avoiding the fate of being captured and forced to inherit the family business.
Brother Zhao, who finished the competition early, felt relaxed and became the strongest cheerleader in the following time.
The second event to start was ice dancing.
Among the four events, ice dancing has the heaviest artistic component and is also the one that values seniority the most. The longer a contestant stays in the adult group, the higher their score will be than that of a new group that has just started out.
In recent years, the ice dance No. 1 of Zhonghua has made remarkable progress, and its skills have been steadily and solidly improved. They have made steady progress, and with the accumulation of years, they finally improved by more than ten places in the Winter Olympics held in their motherland.
Ice hockey fans were delighted to find that names that they had to scroll down for a long time to see in the Final Results list in the past could now be seen at a glance this year.
——Although it is still a bit far from the podium, the ice dance team has submitted a satisfactory answer at the Winter Olympics hosted by their motherland.
The female singles athlete competing in this year's Winter Olympics is veteran Tian Diyun.
Although there is a person named Jiang Shi who crawled out from the bottom of the lake recently in China, this girl has rested for several years, and it is inevitable that her condition will be unstable when she was suddenly pulled to participate in the Olympics. So after discussion, everyone persuaded Tian Diyun, who had already prepared to retire and go home to get married, to come back, and persuaded her to stick with the Winter Olympics cycle first.
Tian Diyun and the previous No. 1 athlete Guan Lin are athletes of the same period. She is already 24 years old this year. You should know that Guan Lin has retired for two years. For Tian Diyun, it is a pleasant surprise for her to win a bronze medal in the team competition on the eve of her retirement.
Now, she is asked to compete with a group of Russian and Japanese girls who are in their prime and are pregnant with four weeks and 3A killer weapons. She is really powerless.
Fortunately, the first sister did not disappoint everyone's expectations. Not only did she perform exceptionally well in the team competition, she also completed all the choreography in the individual short program step by step. The difficulty was not high, but she won with a stable mentality, and she made few mistakes in the triple jump in the short program.
However, after entering the free skating, Tian Diyun, who was already a little overdrawn in the team competition, could not keep up with her physical strength. She missed two jumps in the second half and ended her retirement battle with a score of 14th.
Time flies, and as the Winter Olympics is coming to an end, figure skating finally starts its last event - the pairs short program competition.
At 14:30 on the afternoon of February 17, the public draw ceremony was filled with contestants from various countries.
According to an unwritten convention, the organizers will arrange the athletes from the top 1 country in the event in the first row of the draw ceremony. Therefore, in the previous draw ceremony, the first row of women's singles was arranged with the Big Goose athletes led by Aurora, the men's singles were arranged with Hinata Yoshimaru and the two Japanese guys he led, and the ice dance was arranged with Canadian and American athletes sitting in the first row.
At today's pairs skating draw ceremony, the Jiang-Yu combination and the Lu-Xie combination sat closest to the notary seat.
Pair skating is the brightest pearl in the crown of Chinese figure skating.
"CCTV, CCTV, hello everyone. You are now watching the live broadcast of the pair short program draw ceremony by the sports channel. There are six groups in the pair short program, and the draw for the first three groups has been completed."
"In the first row are old friends, Jiang Ran and Yu Botao, who have won two World Championship gold medals. They are the most popular candidates to win the Winter Olympics. Sitting to their right are two new faces, the first-time Winter Olympics players - 16-year-old Lu You and 17-year-old Xie Yunjun."
"Yes, these two young skaters who were promoted to the group this year won the gold medals of the Four Continents on the eve of the Olympics. They have excellent jumping ability and have completed a triple Axel throw and a quadruple twist in the free skating. I wonder if they can surprise us in this Olympics and add another medal for Chinese pair skating?"
Lu You and Xie Yunjun, who were sitting in the first row, had no idea that they had been nurtured by the Central Bank invisibly.
The two stared at the projection screen, and when the notary called their names, the young duo stood up holding hands.
Xie Yunjun lowered his eyes and looked at his female companion, and said softly, "Do you want to smoke?"
Lu You really didn't trust his luck which was sometimes good and sometimes bad at the moment, and shook his head quickly.
"Okay," Xie Yunjun said, "I'll do it then."
The boy reached into the black cloth bag, grabbed a small piece of paper and placed it in the staff member's hand.
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