As the saying goes, you never know how much someone at the top of their game earns, and this also applies to figure skating.
The income sources of the world's top figure skaters are very complicated. For example, after the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Winter Olympics, Lu You and Xie Yunjun's combined annual income has exceeded 10 million yuan, of which the salaries of regular athletes, ISU subsidies, and prize money of 10,000 or 20,000 dollars from major competitions can be ignored. The real bulk of the income comes from various endorsement fees.
In addition, royalties, performance fees, commissions from commercial performances, peripheral sales, portrait usage rights, etc., add up to a huge amount of money.
Speaking of royalties, we have to sigh at the amazing spending power of ice hockey fans.
Even if they didn't deliberately create any characters, Lu You and Xie Yunjun, who were admitted to the Capital Foreign Language School with their bare scores, really made the sports world proud - who says that sports students are simple-minded and strong-limbed, and can only be admitted to good universities through special recruitment? Not only are there sports tyrants in Japan, but we also have them in our flower garden, and we have two at once!
The image of Lu You and Xie Yunjun as talented figure skaters with both good looks and abilities has been deeply rooted in people's hearts. While becoming a guiding role for countless sports people, they have also set off a wave of commercialization of athletes' values.
Taking advantage of the momentum of the Olympics, the Publicity Department of the Sports Bureau officially produced and published a photo album of the two. After it was launched on major platforms, the annual sales reached 100,000 copies. Including the reprints in recent years, the total number should be around 150,000 copies.
You should know that the price of the official photo album is not low. A set of two volumes is priced at 199 RMB. In other words, the sales brought by the photo album alone is close to 30 million, and the royalty rate fluctuates around 10%.
Now, Director Shao of the Propaganda Department would smile so hard that his teeth were showing when he saw Lu You and Xie Yunjun, as if he was looking at two walking treasure bowls.
It is said that because of the large-scale printing of peripheral posters and photo albums, the two children invisibly saved a printing factory that was on the verge of bankruptcy. When Lu You and Xie Yunjun donated half of their royalties to charity, the owner of the printing factory, Ren Chengfu, who learned the news, also added another 500,000 yuan in donations.
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【Water Post】It has nothing to do with the competition. Did you know that Lulu took out this year's royalties and opened a special training class with his old club Speed Star Club? For ordinary families who have talent but cannot afford figure skating fees, Mom, I saw an angel!
[1L: As the title says, I am an amateur figure skating enthusiast and usually skate at the Speed Star Club. When I went there two days ago, I heard the coach say that the "Spark Class" has already started. This year, two young female singles and a pair of ice dancers were selected.]
[2L: Was this the inspiration that Lu Xie got from Uncle You during his overseas training? Didn’t the current Canadian men’s singles number one Arturo come from the poverty class of the Polar Bear Club? ]
[3L: It is said that LX donated 1.5 million? This is only half of the royalties, so Lu Xie is now a rich man. This college student feels the disparity between people and is vomiting blood...]
[4L: According to gossip, the price of a single LX ad is currently starting from seven figures, and this is without a WC (World Championships) gold medal. If we can win a gold medal this year, the price will probably go up.]
【5L: Students from the Capital Foreign Language School speak out. Lulu and Xiexi don’t live in the dormitory. They seem to have bought a house near the school. Our school is within the West Third Ring Road! Third Ring Road!!】
[6L: To be honest, I didn’t prepare any new programs this off-season because of the college entrance exam. Lu Xie has been using “The Stray Cat” and “The Train Full of Cherry Blossoms Heading to Spring” for two seasons. I’m a little tired of watching them. When will my childhood sweetheart prepare a new program? I’m rolling on the ground.jpg]
【7L: @Olivia, Sister Ye, stop beating up Micha and come out and write a new show! 】
[8L: Xue Jiao revealed in an interview that Lu Xie’s skills are now back, and he has already been practicing 4T on the circular hanging track! Jiang Shi has also started to work hard on the quad! ]
[9L: Ah, what kind of auspicious year is this? My Rabbit Village figure skating is booming! ! ]
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As the 2023-2024 season is coming to an end, Lu You and Xie Yunjun, who won two gold medals in the Grand Prix, a silver medal in the GP Finals, and a gold medal in the Four Continents Championships this season, successfully ranked second in the world standings.
The standings at the end of the season are basically the ranking of the world's players that year.
No.1 Apolova/Biman
No.2 Lu You/Xie Yunjun
No.3 Anjo Haruna/Yoshioka Kentaro
No.4 Ivlova/Mosokov
No.5 Erica/Carlo
No.6 Caveira/Anatole
It is gratifying that Rabbit Village's singles skating, including two other pairs, has also been making steady progress in recent years. Si Nan and Xu Zhen were transferred from the national second team to the first team and are currently ranked eighth, while Deng Manyue and Fu Wenxing, who are preparing to be promoted to the next group next season, are ranked eleventh.
In single skating, Lin Yinian has become the new top player, occupying the second and fourth places in the ranking list together with Zhao Zixuan. The rising star of women's singles, Jiang Shi, has also been stable in the top five and has become a regular at the Grand Prix Finals. Even ice dancing has her name on the top ten list.
In March of that year, when the team was about to go to Canada for the World Championships, after communication and discussion between the national team and the Polar Bear Club, it was decided that the children of the national youth team would set off with the team and stay in Canada for half a year of training.
Ah, now their figure skating program is getting richer and richer. In the past, they could only send the best players out to practice, but now... send! They can send all of them out!
So, Chi Hui, Deng Manyue, Fu Wenxing and others who were still working hard in the youth group also followed the team and boarded the plane to Montreal.
Of course, unlike last year when Lu Tingsong pretended to trick Chi Hui into reimbursing the team but actually paid for it himself, the expenses for this trip were truly covered by the national team.
Xue Chengze looked at the young men and women full of collagen, and felt infinitely relieved: "Our flower-growing delegation hasn't looked this young in a long time, don't you think, Zhao Zixuan?"
The 24-year-old Zhao Zixuan had a numb expression: "Please don't kick me out of the ranks of young people."
Xue Chengze patted him on the shoulder and said, "You are already an old man in figure skating. What's the name of the top skater in the Milan cycle... Ah, Hagiyanova, didn't she call you Uncle Zhao at the post-match dinner last time?"
Zhao Zixuan: “…”Thank you for reminding me.
The plane landed at nine o'clock in the morning. Lu You, who was so sleepy and dazed, almost rolled off the gangway. Xue Chengze was so scared that his heart almost jumped out of his chest. Finally, Lu You was pulled back by Xie Yunjun and held tightly. He didn't even know how he got to the hotel.
While she was half asleep, it seemed as if someone had placed her on a soft big bed, and then lifted her waist and pulled her into his arms: "Youyou, there is snow on your clothes, take off your coat before going to sleep."
Lu You couldn't remember what happened afterwards. She slept from dawn to dusk. When she woke up and took out her cell phone, it was already six o'clock in the afternoon.
After taking a shower, Lu You wandered around the hotel while eating an apple. Now she is studying journalism in the Department of Media in college, and Xie Yunjun is studying diplomacy in the Department of Political Science. There is no special sports class in Capital Foreign Language University, so both of them train while attending classes. After learning that they were going to participate in the World Championships, many people, including lecturers, sent private messages to Lu You.
The cell phone kept ringing, eight out of ten were messages to cheer me up, and the remaining two were confessions of love.
Well, after Lu You and Xie Yunjun became adults, ice fans all over the world completely let themselves go and were obsessed with them. Even though their videos with the dog food tag were all over the internet, because there was no official stamp on them, many girls and boys still managed to get their contact information to see if they had a chance.
In this regard, Lu You and Xie Yunjun's classmates just wanted to grab these people and shake them wildly - their names were written on a property certificate! Isn't this hint obvious enough!
Lu You met Cavela and Anatoly on the way to find a restaurant. Because he took Russian as his second foreign language elective, by the end of his freshman year, Lu You could speak Russian fluently while chatting on the phone with his friends. Erica felt that she could not lose, so she also went to buy a book called "Russian - From Beginner to Give Up in Half an Hour".
Erica: Thanks for the invitation. Suddenly I feel that Mao-flavored English is not that difficult to understand.
At 9 pm Beijing time, 9 am Toronto time, the World Championships in ice dance and pairs skating short program/rhythm dance will begin.
Lu You and Xie Yunjun's competition program is still "Stray Cat Strut". This season, ISU still has not lifted the ban on four weeks for the short program for pairs and women's singles. As we all know, in the 2023-2024 season, the LX combination of Zhonghua and the AB combination of Da Goose were very close. The level of the two groups was similar, and the score difference in each game was very small. Basically, whoever can clean wins.
Currently, Lu Xie and AB are both practicing the throw four. Whoever can master it first will be able to sit on the throne of the king.
After the first day of competition, the difference between the Lu-Xie combination and the AB combination was only 0.18 points. This tit-for-tat plot is what the public likes to see the most. Therefore, at the small medal award ceremony, reporters were ready to go and focused their cameras on the four players who represented the highest level of international pair skating.
Lu You looked at the reporters below the stage with expressions that said “Fight! Fight quickly!” and felt very puzzled.
After handing over the task of answering the reporter's questions to her male partner, Apolova pulled Lu You over, and the two female players began to communicate in Russian mixed with English: "Why do I feel that you have grown a little taller? You are a few centimeters taller than me. Is it more difficult to practice the quad throw? I am still about 90 degrees away. How far are you?"
As a fellow quad thrower, Lu You nodded tiredly, "It's a little higher, but it's stabilized at 164cm. I have a full circumference, but the axis is crooked, so I can't land smoothly... I feel that my ice strength is not enough to bring the height up. I plan to practice strength more in the off-season."
Apolova pinched her waist and said: "Rather than doing strength training, I'd better eat less and lose weight. I hope Biman can throw me higher."
After talking about the fourth, Apolova asked Lu You where she could buy the rhinestones to decorate her ice skates. She also wanted to spruce up her own ice skates. Lu You enthusiastically introduced the universal orange software of Rabbit Village to her foreign friends and said that she could help buy it if necessary.
Then the bronze medalist, Haruna Anjo, also raised her hand: "Tori-chan, I want one too, bring one for me, I want the pink one."
Lu You: "Okay, you have to stick it tighter when the time comes, otherwise if the diamond falls off, the referee will deduct a point."
Apolova and Anjo Haruna made an OK gesture together: "Understood."
Reporters waiting to watch the show: "..."
Why are these three giants of pair skating so serious about discussing skate decoration?
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