This is definitely the most rigorous doping test that Lu You and Xie Yunjun have ever experienced since they started participating in the competition.
Xu Yangbing only had time to spray some medicine on Lu You's feet before the two were taken away by WADA inspectors. Even before leaving, Jiang Yang wanted to stuff two bottles of water he had brought with him, but was politely stopped by the agency's staff.
The coaching team could only give repeated warnings and then watch Lu You and Xie Yunjun being taken away.
When Lu You was helped and limped to the preparation room, Kavela, Erica and Ivlova, who had already finished the game, were sitting inside, each holding a bottle of water and drinking it.
Generally speaking, only the top three in the program and the athletes who broke the world record have to undergo doping tests, but this time the doping test seemed to be going to check all the top ten in the short program.
Seeing familiar friends, several contestants who were promoted to the same group immediately got together.
When Xie Yunjun went to get water, Lu You found a stool and sat down: "In the past, didn't we all wait until the competition was over before checking together? Is the Olympics so strict? They controlled us before the competition was over?"
Caveira: "Don't look at me, this is my first time participating in the Olympics too."
Finally, it was Ivlova, the oldest of the group, who explained: "The normal testing process of the Olympics is no different from that of other competitions, but the results of the doping test came out last week, and a violation was found in the alpine skiing."
"It's Jennifer, the gold medalist in the women's super-G slalom," Mosokov continued. "The working group is now re-examining bottle B. If the final results are the same, Jennifer will be stripped of her gold medal."
When talking about doping, the expressions on the faces of several Russian athletes became solemn.
Because Russia has been mired in a doping scandal in recent years, at least eight out of ten Russian athletes have suffered losses. They don't know whether other athletes from their country are suspected of doping, but for figure skaters, doping is completely unnecessary.
"Being too excited on the court is not a good thing," Anatoly said. "It's easy to fail if you get too excited."
Caveira waved his hand: "So there are still sedatives. I heard that a shooting athlete was found to have used sedatives and was banned for five years."
Fortunately, the athlete's event was shooting. If it was a figure skater who was banned for five years, his career would basically be over.
"But some coaches seem to really arrange for their players to take drugs, such as erythropoietin," Erica said, becoming more and more mysterious. "It is said that a mysterious organization has cracked the method of opening the urine test sample bottle and can replace the sample."
Lu You took out the water bottle and drank some water: "Isn't there some special black technology in the sample storage bottle that ordinary people can't open it?"
Doping testing is a serious job, and the sample bottles used are also very special. Each inspection will be divided into two bottles, A and B. Once the bottle cap is put on, the built-in metal ring will lock the bottle mouth, and only the bottle manufacturer can open it with special instruments.
And this way of opening it is actually just cutting it in half.
That is to say, it is impossible for anyone in the world to obtain the sample without destroying the bottle, unless aliens really exist.
Caveira looked curious: "So what is this mysterious organization?"
Erica had a subtle expression on her face that said, "Do you really want to know?" She coughed and lowered her voice and said, "They said it was a Russian agent, so is it true?"
Cavila: “…” It’s really a ghost!
Four Russian contestants and two Canadians gathered together and chatted non-stop, alternating between English and Russian. Lu You and Xie Yunjun listened for a while, and when they felt they had finished drinking enough water, they followed the staff to the sampling room.
…
The pairs skating short program began at 6:30 p.m. Beijing time. Due to a temporary doping test, all press conferences after the competition were cancelled.
"You two should take Xiaojun back to rest first. We still have a free skating competition tomorrow," Xue Chengze pinched his brows, "I'll just wait for Lu You here."
Xie Yunjun pursed her lips and said, "The free skating will not start until 7 o'clock tomorrow night. I will wait for her to go back together."
Lu Tingsong had no intention of leaving and rubbed his hands anxiously: "It's been an hour and a half since Xiaojun came out after the examination, why is there still no movement from Youyou? Isn't he being targeted by WADA?"
"If they are going to target someone, they won't just target the female companions," Jiang Yang pushed Lu Tingsong to sit down, "Our Jiang Shi, Yu Botao, and Xie Yunjun have all come out, but none of the six people from Big Goose have come out yet, let's wait a little longer."
When the pointer silently passed twelve o'clock, Lu You finally walked out with despair.
Olaf on the side stretched his neck, and when he didn't see his own player behind Lu You, he stood up and went to negotiate with the WADA staff.
As for what he said, Olaf's English was so strong that no one could understand. They only felt that the world-class godfather of figure skating seemed to be suppressing his anger.
After she climbed into the car, the coaching team asked her what happened to the three-and-a-half-hour test today.
Lu You had an expression that was hard to describe.
"How should I put it..."
To make a long story short - because of the alpine skier who committed the crime in defiance of the law, figure skating was also affected. This year's doping control was unprecedentedly perverted. In addition to completing the sampling under the supervision of staff, it also added the prohibitions of touching the container, having no obstructions, and turning your back to the supervisor.
My goodness, who wouldn’t be nervous?
Anyway, Lu You was so nervous that he couldn't even provide enough samples after drinking three bottles of water. He was sent back to the lounge to recuperate and be tested again before being released.
The players on the Big Goose side were even worse off, because they had a collective drug scandal, they were the focus of WADA's attention. In addition, Russian female players have the habit of dieting to control their weight before the game. Before Lu You came out, the top pair skating player Aurora went to the sampling room three times and was rejected every time on the grounds that the sample was less than 75ml.
"Then they probably won't finish until the early morning," Xue Chengze said.
——Big Goose Sister’s urine test was indeed not completed until two in the morning.
The next day, Russian media were full of press releases criticizing WADA for being too harsh on Russian athletes, and some Russians even started holding protest banners at the stadium entrance.
I don’t know why, but when Lu You and Xie Yunjun passed by, he always felt that the Russian ice fans looked at him in a way that…
Full of compassion?
Lu You touched his nose suspiciously, wrapped his down jacket tighter, and quickly entered the venue.
After yesterday's short program competition, the top 16 players will be able to enter tonight's free skating. At that time, Lu You and Xie Yunjun were taken for urine tests after breaking the world record, and had no idea about the subsequent competition. Big Goose AB broke the short program world record again more than ten minutes later.
Lu You: "No wonder the Russian fans looked at me weirdly just now!"
It turns out that the world record only loved them briefly.
If it were someone else, they would probably vomit to death at this point, but Lu You’s brain circuits are different from those of ordinary people.
When talking about this before the game, Lu You said as a matter of course: "So what? World records are meant to be broken. Forget about ten minutes. Even if it only lasted ten seconds, it still existed."
The girl held onto Xie Yunjun and proudly puffed out her chest: "I am the creator of the world record, awesome! Together, we are even more awesome! Isn't that right, Xie Yunjun?"
Xie Yunjun said "hmm" with a smile.
Lu Tingsong couldn't bear to listen any longer and flicked his niece's forehead with his finger: "Since you are so awesome, why don't you two bring back a medal for the individual competition and try."
Lu You: "Just give it a try!"
Just as they were joking around, Xu Yangbing walked up to Lu You, rolled up the information in his hand, squatted down and tapped the girl's right heel which was lightly raised.
"You'll be awesome if you can put your center of gravity back on your right foot."
Lu You suddenly gasped in pain.
"I told you to be wild, but you insisted on doing 3ATh in the short program. You'll pay for what you did," Xu Yangbing crossed his arms. "Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere else?"
Lu You shook his head: "No, my muscles still hurt a little, but it's just ordinary growing pains that won't affect my competition."
Xu Yangbing asked knowingly: "What are you going to do with your right foot?"
Hearing this, Lu You immediately put away his smiling expression and said, "I want to get a shot to seal the wound."
"Let me warn you first, injections can only provide temporary relief, and it will make your foot injury worse," Xu Yangbing said, "You only have Achilles tendonitis now, but if you exercise violently after the injection and no longer feel pain, it is possible that it will develop into an Achilles tendon rupture."
Lu You: "...Do you really have to scare me before the game?"
"As a doctor, of course I have to explain the pros and cons to the patient in advance," Xu Yangbing took out a syringe and a small medicine bottle from the medicine box, "It's very painful to inject the heel, have you thought about it?"
Lu You nodded: "I've thought about it."
Surprisingly, neither her male partner Xie Yunjun nor the three coaches spoke out to stop her. Xie Yunjun went up and gently held Lu You's hand, while Lu Tingsong just turned his head away with reluctance.
Winter Olympics, hosted by our country, development is important.
If any one of these three conditions was missing, or if they did not break the short program world record yesterday, Lu Tingsong would not agree to Lu You taking this blocking injection, but when these conditions were met at the same time, reality no longer allowed them to have any other choice.
No one can guarantee what will happen to Lu You after he develops.
When Lu You was only seven or eight months old, Lu Tingsong's favorite thing was to take his medal and make his niece, who had just grown one or two baby teeth, giggle.
When he was one and a half years old, Lu Tingsong carried Lu You onto the ice for the first time, and was chased and beaten by his sister-in-law with a clothesline for this.
When she was four years old, the girl fell flat on her face on her face when she first went on the ice. She looked at her sister who was doing the Biellman dance in the stadium with envy and said that she wanted to learn figure skating.
When Xie Yunjun was five years old, he came to their home. Lu You excitedly took him to the ice rink and asked the little boy to learn figure skating with her. Xie Yunjun said nothing, pursed his lips and began to practice how to stand firmly on the ice.
At the age of eleven, the two who spent every day together began to practice pair skating and have been skating until now.
Lu Tingsong watched them grow from little kids into graceful young boys and girls, and from having difficulty drawing a gourd to being able to easily complete a triple jump. The movements that the audience completes in an instant require athletes more than ten years to perfect.
If you don’t know what the future will be like, then cherish the present. As an athlete, if you don’t fight desperately, you will definitely regret it when you look back on this time in the future.
The transparent potion was slowly pushed to the end.
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