The Milan Winter Olympics is scheduled from February 6 to February 26. Before that, the canteen aunties of the national team prepared a large reunion dinner, allowing the athletes and coaches from their hometown who were away to celebrate the New Year in advance.
However, as figure skaters, and with the Olympics approaching, everyone was very restrained in eating, and a large table of food ended up going into the coaches' stomachs.
Zhao Zixuan, a native of the capital, went back home. When he came back, he was 0.5kg heavier. After he weighed himself timidly, Xue Chengze's face changed drastically. He took the hoisting pole and chased him around the ice rink for three rounds.
Lu You and Xie Yunjun squatted on the sidelines and watched the show: "Master Xue is close to retirement, but he is still in such good spirits. Maybe he will not retire by the time we retire."
Zhao Zixuan was selected into the national youth team at the age of 15. Although Xue Chengze was a pair skating coach, he had watched Zhao Zixuan grow up, so he was ruthless when dealing with him.
After beating up the student, the old man stuffed the lifting bar into Lu Tingsong's hands, and like when they were kids, he pulled Zhao Zixuan's ears to do weight loss training.
Zhao Zixuan, as the oldest active national team player, no matter how many mines he has at home, still has to be arranged clearly by Coach Xue.
On the ice rink, someone shouted, "CCTV reporters are here to collect footage for the campaign promotional video!"
Lu You, who was drinking water, almost choked to death. She quickly stuffed the thermos into her bag. Xie Yunjun pulled her up and Lu You said, "Hurry up, hurry up, or we will lose our Grand Slam."
Although journalists should not make things difficult for journalists, Tang Baifeng has a poisonous mouth. Whoever he praises will be in trouble. Anyone who listens will know.
Several veterans of the national team fled the scene, leaving only Deng Manyue and Fu Wenxing, who were promoted to the next team this year, and the two children looking at each other in bewilderment on the huge ice rink.
Deng Manyue looked at the entrance of the ice rink from afar and saw Tang Baifeng jogging towards them with a smile and waving. The girl was silent for a moment.
Deng Manyue retreated tactically: "The squinting eyes are all monsters, Fu-Fu, let's retreat first."
In the end, Tang Baifeng only managed to shoot a clip of Zhao Zixuan. In the video, the gray-haired Xue Chengze was waving a small branch like he was herding ducks, and was practicing frog jumps with his hands behind his back while drawing a flower-planting knife.
On the first night of Laba Festival, Lu Tingsong borrowed a big iron pot from the cafeteria auntie and cooked a full pot of Laba porridge. He removed all the lotus seeds and other things that athletes could not eat. Everyone drank the reduced-ingredient Laba porridge happily and then started the sprint training before departure.
Nie Hanhan, Han Feiyang, Lu Tingsong and Xue Chengze stood together and watched Lu You and Xie Yunjun complete the short program. The three of them breathed a sigh of relief.
"The minor technical issues have been corrected, and there are no problems with the grading elements," Nie Hanhan looked at Lu You and Xie Yunjun and nodded with satisfaction, "This version of Costen is indeed better than the previous one with music."
This season, Lu You and Xie Yunjun's short program is "Poseidon". The first version of the costume was designed by Capital Institute of Fashion Technology as usual. Probably to highlight Chinese elements, Capital Institute of Fashion Technology made a costume for Lu You with a cheongsam collar, buttons, and wave and cloud patterns, while Xie Yunjun's costume also had Tang suit and tassel elements.
There is nothing wrong with Costen itself, and to be fair it is quite nice to look at, but the problem is that it is seriously disconnected from the performances of Lu You and Xie Yunjun.
"Poseidon" is one of the albums in the Maritime Silk Road trilogy and is also the soundtrack of the documentary "Maritime Silk Road". This is a song based on the ocean transportation routes since BC, which explores the connection between Eurasian civilizations. It is not appropriate to call it a national style song.
No matter what music the contestants use, they all want to lean towards traditional Chinese style. This has been a common problem in the Capital Institute of Fashion Technology's design of costumes for flower-growing contestants in recent years.
After participating in the Japan station, the world-renowned figure skating costume designer Yuri Ito took the initiative to contact Lu You and Xie Yunjun, saying that she had a design draft with the theme of "sea" a long time ago, which was very suitable for their short program this time. If the two are willing, Ms. Yuri Ito wants to make a brand new costume for them.
Thus, the second version of Costen of "Poseidon" was born by chance.
The total weight of this Costume is only 503g. Due to the complicated weaving process of the fabric and the precious raw materials, the cost of Lu You's Costume alone is as high as 70,000 RMB. Xie Yunjun's Costume only needs to be made into a top, so the price is slightly cheaper, but the total cost of their Costumes is nearly 100,000.
Yuri Ito's principle in designing Costumes is to communicate with the contestants themselves constantly. After two months of communication and rework, the final version of Poseidon was finally produced.
After the discussion, Ito Yuri followed the opinions of Lu You and Xie Yunjun, using the tribal totems of ancient civilization as the main pattern and embroidering it on the costen with silver thread.
In order to better fit the theme of the sea, translucent fish fins were designed under the sleeves of Lu You and Xie Yunjun. When the fabric flutters in the wind, it will emit a shimmering light blue sheen under the light.
Lu You's costume was decorated with tiny rhinestones hand-sewn from the waistline to the shoulders.
The Costen was brought here by Haruna Anjo during the Grand Prix Finals. When handing the dress to Lu You and Xie Yunjun, Haruna Anjo said, "Tori-chan's dress is made of three thousand rhinestones."
"By the way, Ms. Ito also said that Kimi-san's previous costume was too plain and didn't match your divine face at all," Anjo Haruna chuckled, "so she helped you put the diamond all the way under your armpit this time."
Costen was placed in a dust bag with a card inside, on which was written Ito Yuri's blessing in Chinese, stroke by stroke.
Kentaro Yoshioka: "Ms. Ito Yuri is actually your fan. She has been waiting for you to find her to do the Costume, but you guys digest the Costumes every year internally and don't give her any chance to perform."
As athletes within the system, Lu You and Xie Yunjun's costumes are provided by the state and cannot be easily replaced by themselves. However, after the superiors saw the new version of Poseidon, they had to admit that Ito Yuri's design was indeed more stunning.
The leader agreed, but the cost of the Costen had to be paid for by Lu You and Xie Yunjun themselves.
Although Ito Yuri designed for free out of love, Lu You and Xie Yunjun were determined not to get it for free. After learning about the cost of the Costen, they still transferred the production costs into Ito Yuri's studio account according to the market price.
Lu You and Xie Yunjun's Poseidon Costumes made Jiang Shi very envious. Her short program song this year was "The Ballad of the Great Wall" and her free skating was "Miss Saigon". Her free skating was a dark green off-shoulder costume and her short program was the national flag red with the silhouette of the Great Wall.
"Damn rich people," Jiang Shi held onto Sea God Costen and refused to let go. "When I become rich, I will also go to Ito's studio to customize one, using the most expensive celestial feather fabric and inlaying it with bulging diamonds!"
Although Lu You and Xie Yunjun are still one Olympic gold medal away from a Grand Slam, looking at all the domestic figure skaters, no one's income can match that of these two. Since they made their relationship public, their popularity has reached its peak.
I guess only top athletes like them are willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a Costen that will only be used a few times.
On February 3, the Chinese team, wearing uniform uniforms, flew to Milan on an Air China charter flight.
Ordinary coaches and athletes all sat in economy class, and athletes in the same event sat together. The figure skating team had a total of 15 athletes, and the oldest one, Zhao Zixuan, served as team captain.
As soon as Jiang Shi got on the plane, she waved her little notebook and went to ask for an autograph from the freestyle skiing aerials master whom she had admired for a long time. After all, aerials is also a scoring event, and when the referee is distracted, all kinds of fancy moves can be comparable to those in figure skating.
After a ten-hour flight, a flight carrying the spark of China's winter sports landed in Italy. Everyone split into two groups. The skaters went directly to the Milan Olympic Village, while the snow players needed to transfer to Cortina d'Ampezzo, which hosted the snow events, and stayed in the Olympic Village there.
There is a six-hour time difference between China and Milan, so the commuter journey was not too difficult. Lu You woke up feeling refreshed after a good night's sleep. Early the next morning, he received a human cub burping kit enthusiastically provided by the organizers of Milan.
To be honest, the organizers did this with good intentions. After all, there were all kinds of scandals in the Olympic Village... well, it can't be said.
The organizers in Milan knew everything very well and arranged all rooms for single occupancy, even for pairs of players who had made their relationship public. After all, there are many people in the world who appear to be partners on the surface but actually play with each other behind their backs.
Lu You casually threw the box of Unspeakable into the drawer, knocked on the door of the next room, and pulled Xie Yunjun to go to the meeting.
Athletes who have participated in the Olympics know the rules of the Chinese team, but most of the first-time athletes are so nervous that they wish they could live in the toilet with toilet paper in their arms. How could they have any romantic thoughts?
Xue Chengze gave a few simple reminders, and finally kept the three pairs of doubles players as well as Yi Zhu and Wu Tianrui to provide individual ideological guidance.
There's no other reason, it's just because these are all real people...ah, of course Deng Manyue and Fu Wenxing don't count for the time being, but the status of these two people now is similar to that of Lu You and Xie Yunjun back then, it's not puppy love but worse than puppy love.
Fu Wenxing is basically just waiting for Deng Manyue to become an adult so that they can officially be together.
On the evening of February 5, the Milan Winter Olympics officially held its opening ceremony. China's five teams of pairs skaters performed a square walk with lifts. The next day, the figure skating event officially began team pre-competition practice.
Lu You and Xie Yunjun finally met their friends at the figure skating rink whom they hadn't seen for a year.
Lu You stepped on the knife sheath, rushed to Cavila and Erica, and stretched out his hand: "Give me five!"
Kavira: “Ulla!”
Erica: “Yeah!”
The three girls hugged each other. Erica and Caveira both had wedding rings on their ring fingers. Carlo and Anatoly walked up to Xie Yunjun. One hooked his neck, and the other poked Xie Yunjun with his elbow. "Last year I saw that You's finger was empty. Why is it still empty this year?"
Anatoly: "You are 20 this year, isn't that the legal age for marriage?"
Carlo: "Stupid, the legal marriage age for boys in China is 22, and Jun is only one year older than You. Do you think everyone will get married as young as you, the fighting nation? But you can prepare the engagement ring first."
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