Technical Elements: 35.48
Presentation: 25.75
Deduction: 0.00
Short Program: 61.23
The big screen on the ceiling of the ice rink showed the final score of "Sky Walk", with 36.39 points for technical score, 25.75 points for performance, 0 points deduction, and a total score of 62.14 points.
"Walk in the Air" became the second short program performance after the Si-Xu combination to exceed 60 points, and the score was one point higher than the program of Si Nan and Xu Zhen!
This was the first time for Lu You and Xie Yunjun to participate in the National Championships. The judges did not dare to give them too high a score for their performance, but they still surpassed Si Nan & Xu Zhen, the youth group champions of the previous National Championships.
The duration of the short program in pairs skating at the National Championships is 10 seconds longer than the international time, requiring the athletes to control the competition time within 2 minutes and 40 seconds (±10 seconds), so the content of the short program is not too much and the athletes' physical exertion is not too great.
After getting the points, Lu You did not show his usual excitement. Instead, he carefully calculated the scores and analyzed: "The planned BV of our free skating is not much different from that of Senior Sister Si and Senior Brother Xu. The planned BV of our senior brothers and sisters is even higher than ours. If we want to get first place, we can't make too big mistakes in tomorrow's free skating."
This well-reasoned analysis almost made Lu Tingsong burst into tears on the spot. He thought that he had made the right decision in choosing the provincial team. Look, the atmosphere of the provincial team had an influence on Lu You. Now the child has learned to analyze the current situation and has finally stood up!
Lu Tingsong would never guess the real reason why Lu You was so serious. It was because the first place in the National Championships determined whether she could participate in the Grand Prix, and the Nagoya race was related to the important event of her life whether she could go to Tokyo Disneyland.
Xie Yunjun: "We only have a slight advantage in the short program. If we want to surpass our seniors in the free skating tomorrow, we still have to rely on GOE to win."
Lu You agreed with a stern face.
"Okay, don't think too much before the game. Youyou and Xiaojun played well today, and they need to keep up the performance tomorrow." Jiang Yang was very happy and took a sip of the hot tea in the thermos cup. "You guys stay and continue watching the men's singles match. I'll go watch Sinan and Xu Zhen's training."
The biggest competition in the youth pair skating at this year's National Championships is between the two teams Lu Xie and Si Xu. One is the champion seed team of the last National Championships, and the other is this year's rising dark horse star. But no matter how hard they fight, both seed teams are from Jianglin Province, so no matter what the result of the free skating tomorrow, Jianglin Province has already locked in the championship and runner-up of the youth pair skating. Jiang Yang is naturally physically and mentally relaxed.
As for Si Nan and Xu Zhen, although they have been training with their national team recently, Si Nan happened to be stuck in a developmental stage and was surpassed by her junior today. Jiang Yang was a little worried about her condition.
As for the others, they are far behind in terms of technical difficulty and are basically nothing to be afraid of.
Less than ten minutes later, the second group of pairs skating competition officially ended, and the men's singles skating competition continued on the field.
The seeded player in the men's singles skating event is a boy named Lin Yinian, who just turned 15 this year and is from a southern city. Due to geographical reasons, Lin Yinian practices figure skating almost entirely at his own expense, with annual expenses of around four or five hundred thousand yuan. It is not easy for him to make it all the way to the National Championships.
After Guan Lin announced her retirement and became a coach, whenever Lin Yinian had a day off, his mother would take him across half of China to take lessons with Guan Lin.
You have to know that as the top female singles player, Guan Lin's lessons are not cheap. The price of one-on-one instruction on the ice is as high as 400 RMB per half hour, and Lin Yinian will have at least one hour of 1v1 instruction classes every day when she is on vacation. If you calculate carefully, the cost of taking Guan Lin's courses alone for one summer vacation is astonishingly high, not to mention the cost of food, accommodation, equipment and venue fees here.
Lin Yinian, the seeded player who got promoted with money, wore a pink costume today and was the first to appear in the first group. The song selected for this short program was the violin version of "Rose Boy".
When the announcement was being made, Xie Yunjun was helping Lu You take out a hair clip from his hair. When he heard this selection, he frowned and failed to control his strength, causing Lu You to scream.
"It hurts," Lu You covered his head and turned around, only to see Xie Yunjun frowning. He didn't care about the few strands of hair he had lost and asked hurriedly, "Xie Yunjun, what's wrong with you?"
"It's okay," Xie Yunjun quickly came back to his senses and rubbed the place where he had pulled, "I'm sorry, I hurt you."
Xie Yunjun quickly undid Lu You's bun. Lu You keenly felt that something was wrong, but he didn't know what. After thinking for a long time, he had to move closer to Xie Yunjun and watch the game with him.
Lin Yinian's short program was very brilliantly choreographed. All three jumps were in the second half, namely 3A, 3Lo and 3F2T combination. In addition, his jumps were originally very clean. After a few jumps, his short program score was almost close to that of the adult male players.
But the most exciting part of the entire performance was not the difficulty of his technique, but his state during the performance. Lin Yinian seemed to have devoted his body and mind to the music. Every look and movement seemed to be telling a story that could not be expressed in words. Every spin and jump affected people's moods step by step.
Although many people do not know what kind of song "Rose Boy" is, as the music reaches its climax, when Lin Yinian holds the knife in both hands and spins in a Behrman posture -
At this moment, the whole audience was in an uproar.
Besides being surprised by this extreme move by Bellman, which is almost never seen in men's singles, through this move, everyone seemed to see a trapped beast bound by invisible threads on the ice rink, and the emotions conveyed were full of depression and sadness.
Lu Tingsong was stunned: "This expressiveness is really..." Is it really possible for a fifteen-year-old boy to have that?
At the end of the performance, Lin Yinian almost knelt on the ice after completing the ending pose. The strands of hair on his forehead were wet with sweat, and his chest was heaving violently as he gasped. It took him a long time to stand up from the ice, and he slid towards the exit with weak steps, as if this performance had used up all his strength.
Logically speaking, the men's singles short program should not consume such intense physical energy. Lu You held the baffle with both hands and rested her chin on her hands. She always felt that Lin Yinian's performance was too heavy for a teenager. When she chose songs for herself, she liked cheerful and light ones, so that she would be happy when practicing.
The background of the creation of the song "Rose Boy" comes from a child who was bullied at school because of his feminine behavior. The child had a gentle personality and liked things that girls liked, so when he went to the bathroom at school, his pants would be taken off to "check" if he was a girl. In the end, the child was found lying in a pool of blood in the bathroom. The school cleaned the blood without authorization and announced to the outside world that the boy, who had normal physical examinations since childhood, died of a sudden heart attack.
Lu You rested her head on her arms, looking at Xie Yunjun's pretty profile. When Xie Yunjun was a child, she was also laughed at by the children in the class because of her beauty. When Lu You accidentally found out about this situation, she didn't know how long it had lasted. She was so angry that she had a fight with that person. In the end, both parents came to the school. Liang Jie and Lu Shi'an were also very angry after understanding the reason. Liang Jie even hugged Xie Yunjun with red eyes, and asked him in a trembling voice why he never told his family about these things.
Fortunately, the child's parents and school had upright values and gave the child a serious lecture. When he truly realized his mistake, he came to apologize to Xie Yunjun.
Lu You was also punished to write an 800-word self-criticism for the fight, and later in class, the head teacher caught Xie Yunjun writing the self-criticism for her...
In the end, Lin Yinian scored 78.35 points in the short program. Looking at the domestic youth men's singles players, this is almost an unsurpassable score.
The coach who was sharing the score with Lin Yinian hugged him with a look of joy and patted him on the back with satisfaction, but Lin Yinian himself did not show much expression. He lowered his eyes and put on his clothes without even glancing at the score.
There were only six people participating in the men's singles competition in the youth group this time. After more than ten minutes, the men's short program performance also came to an end. So far, the short program competition in the youth group of the National Figure Skating Championships has been over.
The hotel that Lu You and his group booked was not far from the ice rink and could be reached on foot. Most of the players participating in the National Championships chose this hotel. When Lu You dragged Xie Yunjun back to the hotel, he happened to see Lin Yinian getting out of a black Bentley. A woman in the car leaned out of her upper body, revealing her soft and gentle profile. She said, "Niannian, go back to your room first. Mom will go park the car."
Lin Yinian lowered his head, said "hmm", and turned to walk into the hotel.
Lu You grabbed Xie Yunjun's hand with some concern: "You have been staring at this boy today, is there something wrong?"
Xie Yunjun shook Lu You's hand in return and shook his head to indicate that he was fine. After a while, he suddenly asked Lu Tingsong, "Uncle Lu, do we have any ice packs?"
"Yes," Lu Tingsong suddenly perked up and quickly took out a disposable quick-cooling ice pack from his bag. Thinking that Xie Yunjun was injured somewhere, he asked nervously, "What's wrong with you? Where do you feel uncomfortable? Hey kid, why didn't you tell me earlier if you felt uncomfortable? I'll call the team doctor to check you out."
"I'm fine, it's not for me to use." Xie Yunjun took the ice pack, leaned over and said to Lu You, "You and your uncle go to the restaurant to eat first, I have something to do", and then strode in the direction Lin Yinian left.
Lu Tingsong couldn't stop shouting.
Lin Yinian stood in front of the elevator door with his head down and the brim of his hat pulled down low. He had pink earphones in his ears, which were playing the song he would perform in tomorrow's free skating. The number of floors in the elevator slowly decreased and it would soon reach the first floor where he was.
With a ding sound.
The elevator door opened and someone suddenly grabbed his wrist.
Lin Yinian's muscles tensed up instantly, goose bumps crawled all over his arms uncontrollably, the back of his head felt numb, and he shrank back. When he looked to the side, he only saw an excessively beautiful face.
Lin Yinian recognized that this was the male partner of the pair skating group that won first place in the short program, but he couldn't remember his name.
The reason why I was so impressed with him was because the coach mentioned that he looked like himself and was both incredibly handsome.
"What do you want?" Lin Yinian asked coldly.
"My name is Xie Yunjun, and I'm a pair skater." Xie Yunjun introduced himself first and handed over the ice pack in his hand. "You forced yourself to do the Biellmann during the competition. If you don't see a doctor for your back injury, you won't be able to compete in the free skate tomorrow."
Lin Yinian was silent for a long time, lowered the brim of his hat even lower, and then took the ice pack: "Thank you."
He looked at his wrist, which was grabbed, and signaled Xie Yunjun to let go: "Do you have anything else to do? The elevator is here, I need to go back to my room."
Xie Yunjun looked at him for a long time before he slowly spoke: "The song you chose for your short program today is "Rose Boy". What do you want to express by choosing this song?"
Lin Yinian's pupils hidden under the brim of his hat suddenly shrank: "What does this have to do with you?"
"If I'm overthinking, then I apologize for my offense," Xie Yunjun said, "but if you really chose this song for personal reasons, I want to tell you that boys can be beautiful, have pierced ears, and like the color pink, and it doesn't mean anything."
"There are always people in this world who regard their own values as inherently superior. They label anyone who goes against the world as outliers. They think some people and things are abnormal, but when they have such thoughts, they themselves are abnormal."
Lin Yinian clenched and unclenched the fists in his pockets, and repeated this several times. He finally raised his head, revealing his black and white eyes hidden under the brim of his hat.
He looked at Xie Yunjun and found that the person in front of him was just as the coach said, with delicate features, fair skin, and beautiful as if she walked out of a painting. Lin Yinian's voice was a little awkward: "Why are you telling me this?"
Xie Yunjun: "Because some of these things, the things you may be experiencing now, are also things I have experienced in the past."
No one stipulates that a flower must grow into a sunflower or a rose.
The blooming of a flower should be free, and the growth of a child should also be free. As for what kind of appearance one wants to grow into, it should be up to one's own choice.
It's just that he was luckier. When he was ridiculed for looking like a girl because of his delicate appearance, and when a group of parents at the ice rink questioned why boys should learn figure skating, someone stood in front of him and made him understand these principles in advance.
“Who stipulated that boys should learn ice hockey and speed skating but not figure skating? Then can’t girls also practice weightlifting? Aren’t those female weightlifters who win glory for their country in the Olympics great?”
"You don't know anything about figure skating. Why do you make such a rash conclusion when you don't know anything at all?"
"Before you say that, please go to the ice and try to see how much explosive power and control you need to make each jump, and how many times you need to practice the rotation to avoid dizziness."
Xie Yunjun caught a glimpse of a furry head popping up at the end of the corridor. He looked around for a while, and when he saw him, he stretched out his hand and waved happily, then ran towards him skipping and jumping.
"Xie Yunjun! Do you want to eat? I'm starving to death!" Lu You shouted as he walked.
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