Chapter 96: Chinese figure skating finally got what it wanted...



[OG Battle Report] On the sixth day of the competition, my country won its first medal in the ice event. Congratulations to the national figure skating team for winning a silver medal in the team competition!

The award ceremony for the team competition was held at 8 pm Italian time. Domestic ice fans waited until the early morning and finally watched the live broadcast of the award ceremony on CCTV5.

"one two three--"

"Ready, jump!"

Lu You held Xie Yunjun's left hand and Jiang Shi's right hand. The ten girls held hands and jumped onto the podium cheering under the command of Zhao Zixuan.

Those who had a partner hugged their partner, and those who didn’t waved towards the camera, happily telling everyone - we won the silver medal!

When the officials of the Ice Hockey Association hung the silver medals on the chests of the athletes, the ice fans in front of the TV all sighed with satisfaction.

Well, although it is not the team gold medal, the silver medal is already very good. This is already the best result in the history of their flower-growing. Last time it was bronze, this time it was silver, and next time it will be gold. Dreams always have to be achieved step by step.

The next morning, when everything woke up and a new beginning began, terms related to the figure skating team competition unsurprisingly became a hot search.

The first one is naturally #Chinese Figure Skating Team won silver medal in team competition#, but if you scroll down, you can see many small tails.

#What's wrong with our great country producing some beauties#

#Are you here to watch the Olympics? I'm embarrassed to point it out to you#

#Love Breaks Into the Door Olympic Limited Edition#

#Childhood sweethearts are so sweet that they make your teeth fall out#

All the ice fans in Rabbit Village have a pair of eyes that are naturally fond of ice hockey. In addition to the few real boats in the representative team that they have been obsessed with for a long time, after the team competition, everyone also invented various CP stews. Among them, the love triangle between Li Xiaoyue, Zhao Zixuan and Nakazaki Yuto, which was edited by the soundtrack of "Always Quiet", is the most representative.

Oh, by the way, another weird one is “My Old Father” by Lin Yinian and Zhao Zixuan.

However, the national team's internet-free teenagers will not be able to see these weird pairings. Before leaving, everyone has consciously deleted apps like WeChat and other apps from their phones, leaving only WeChat as the only social software.

After Lu You replied to the congratulatory messages from his relatives and friends, he looked up and found that the fight in the ice hockey game was not over yet.

The female ice hockey players have proved with their strength that when girls fight, they can do more than just pull hair, they can also punch each other.

The two female players from the American team and the Finnish team were fighting wildly on the court. The fierce fight did not affect their teammates' continued competition, which made Lu You narrow his eyes.

Cavira next to him was watching with great interest, and even took out a few whey protein bars to eat.

Now Caveira communicates directly with Lu You in Russian. She turned around and wanted to ask Lu You and Xie Yunjun if they wanted to eat energy bars, but then she realized that this was a special period of the Olympics and athletes had to be very careful about the food they took.

Not to mention the food handed over by athletes from other countries, they would not touch anything that was out of their sight.

Thinking of this, Kavira didn't want to embarrass her friend, and just as she was about to put the protein bar away, Lu You took the initiative to reach out to her: "Is it delicious? Give me one."

Cavila chuckled twice, picked out Lu You's favorite raspberry flavor and handed it over: "I knew you wouldn't mind."

Lu You cut the protein bar into two pieces through the wrapping paper, stuffed one piece into Xie Yunjun's mouth and held the other in his own mouth. After a while, the players on the field finally finished the game and were suspended for five minutes.

The members of the national team yawned in unison. In fact, none of them understood ice hockey very well. If the snow stadium was not too far away, they would really like to try skiing.

After all, freestyle skiing, snowboarding and ski jumping are all China's favorites to win gold medals.

On the other hand, in ice sports, apart from the silver medal won by the figure skating team in the team competition a few days ago, there has been no progress in the past few days.

Xue Chengze, with his hands in his pockets, chatted with the short track speed skating head coach who was also watching the game: "You have to compete so many times in each event of short track speed skating. Every extra competition means more tension. The higher-ups have given us hard targets. The athletes must be under a lot of pressure, right?"

The short track head coach sighed, "Who said it wasn't true? Sometimes I think your figure skating business is pretty good. The qualifying rounds, quarterfinals, semifinals and finals are really torturous. Every now and then there's a false start, which messes up people's mentality. Look, my hair is almost falling out."

The coaches, who bore the pressure of most of the indicators for the ice sports, stared at each other in silence, and then simultaneously reached out to touch the tops of their sparse heads.

After five days of rest after the team competition, the most watched individual competition in figure skating is about to begin. Starting from February 13, one event will be completed every two days until the ice dance free dance ends on the 20th, when all figure skating competitions will be considered completed.

The first to appear in the individual competition was the women's singles.

Figure skating in Italy has been on the decline in recent years. Even if Italy wants to push someone to the podium at home, there is no other sport that can be helped except ice dancing. Therefore, the scoring of the three events of single skating and pair skating at the Milan Winter Olympics will be relatively fair.

Interestingly, when the ISU drew lots to select the referees for the Winter Olympics this year, the two strictest referees in the world happened to be drawn for the women's free skating event. They were Babbitt Gehe from Svalbard and Ms. Haruyama Noriko from Japan.

You have to know that these two are the famous referee duo, known as pre-killers. They are extremely demanding in terms of technology and cannot tolerate any sand in their eyes. If any sub-station competition invites these two big Buddhas, many guilty players will choose to deliberately avoid them.

After seeing the horrible GOE that the two evil players gave to the South Korean women's singles, the Russian women's No. 2 and Milijian's No. 1 were so nervous that they drooled. They must have understood that this Olympics has put a "no way out" sign on the pre-jump method.

At a time when the pre-jump method has become the mainstream trend, most of the contestants have some technical problems. Looking at the whole audience, the only ones who were calm were Russia's Hagiyanova, China's Jiang Shi, Japan's Koe Yumi and Kazakhstan's Skaya.

The skills of these people are recognized as textbook level. Among them, Hajiyanova's 4Lz and Jiang Shi's textbook-level 3A have also been included in the ISU technical demonstration video.

Jiang Shi's battle suit this year is dark green. Although Jiang Shi usually talks a lot, this girl has a cold look. When she doesn't speak, she is an ice beauty. With her tall figure, she can suppress this calm color.

The coach accompanying Jiang Shi and Li Xiaoyue on the sidelines this year is Lu Tingsong, who pulled the two out of the lake. He was unable to enter the Olympic arena during his active service, but after changing his identity, he finally arrived at the place of his dreams.

But this time, he wants to entrust his dream to his two disciples.

Li Xiaoyue, who was the first to perform, fell 3LZ and completed the free skating with 125.90 points. However, the girl herself was quite happy. After she came off the stage, she foolishly went to pick up the dolls thrown by the ice fans.

The national team's singles skating coach looked toward the ice rink and said, "The strength of Russia and Japan cannot be underestimated, especially Yumi Koe. She showed off her 4T before the competition, but I don't know if it will be used in the Olympics. This battle will be difficult."

"Don't worry, Jiang Shi is in great shape," Lu Tingsong looked at his disciple. "For a player who has returned from the game, being able to compete again is like being reborn. There is nothing to be afraid of."

Although Jiang Shi did not perform a quadruple jump, he was a player who knew all six types of triple jumps very well. The short program did not allow for quadruple jumps, so the gap between the players was not widened. This year's free skating was very strict, and with Jiang Shi's skills, he might have a chance to stand on the platform.

And Jiang Shi himself was naturally very clear about this.

For her, the Milan free skating is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. For example, the Russian No. 2 who performed before her was almost questioning her life because of the referee's use of non-standard techniques for quadruple jumps. Two of her quadruple jumps were directly demoted to the next group.

If we don’t win, there won’t be another four years.

Jiang Shi pinched his knee that had been blocked, and when he raised his head, a confident smile appeared on his face.

On February 14, "Miss Saigon" was played at the Assago Arena, and Jiang Shi finished the free skating with 163.65 points. Even the strict referee could not find any technical errors from this older Chinese female singles player.

The Chinese team got off to a good start in the individual competition, winning a precious bronze medal. After more than 20 years, China finally stood on the podium in women's singles skating again.

On February 15, Lin Yinian won the second place in the men's single skating short program with the song "Goodbye Nonino".

On February 16, "The Legend of 1900" 3.0 made its first appearance at the Winter Olympics. This version of the program, which underwent 23 edits and three choreography changes, made Lin Yinian, who was participating in the Winter Olympics for the first time, become a legend in one fell swoop.

The young Chinese man in bright clothes and riding a horse opened his arms, breathed rapidly, then waved his arms vigorously, his face full of satisfaction after a hearty enjoyment.

Lin Yinian was drawn to play at the last position in the last group, and China's first gold medal opportunity appeared at this moment.

Xue Chengze, who accompanied Lin Yinian to divide the medicine, took out a piece of VC and put it in his mouth as a quick-acting heart-saving pill. All the members of the national team stared at the big screen without blinking. Lu You held a bottle of opened water but did not dare to drink it. He just held Xie Yunjun's fingers tightly and breathed as quietly as possible.

In the Kiss & Cry area, Lin Yinian blew his nose but his eyes never left the scoreboard.

Finally, the score bar flashed and the score popped up.

Lu You finally let go of the breath he had been holding, and he lay limply on Xie Yunjun. Xue Chengze forced himself to suppress his trembling hands and patted Lin Yinian's shoulders heavily in front of the camera.

After leaving the KC area, the head coach could no longer hold back and tears gradually filled his eyes.

I won.

It's a gold medal.

After going through the lows for so many years, watching the eyes of countless ice fans change from hope to disappointment, and then suppressing their regrets to say "Go China" again, this scene has been repeated countless times. Finally, Chinese figure skating has got what it wanted and is heading towards the top of the mountain again.

In the camera, Lin Yinian was surrounded by his teammates. The one who lifted him up high was Xie Yunjun, the world's No. 1 male partner in pair skating, while his female partner Lu You held a wreath in her hand and threw it hard into Lin Yinian's hands.

That is another spark of China.

On February 17, 2026, "Poseidon" will return to the competition. Just like the name of this short program, the ocean is Poseidon's home court, and the ice rink is dominated by the performers of this program.

And tomorrow, the final battle will come.

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