Chapter 137 Epilogue: The Throne (Part 2)
In March, the short snow season has not yet ended in the Northern Hemisphere.
Chongli just had a heavy snowfall, and people in the snow circle were flooded with messages about the heavy snow on their WeChat Moments.
Far across the ocean, a grand event of ice and snow sports is in full swing.
——XGAMES World Extreme Games.
The pinnacle event of the extreme sports world is divided into two series: summer and winter. The competition includes dozens of events such as rock climbing, alpine gliding, skateboarding, skiing, etc.
In the eyes of all people who play extreme sports, its competition value is even higher than the Olympic Games, which are more familiar and accepted by ordinary people.
Therefore, every year when the XGAMES competition opens, it attracts countless top extreme sports players from all over the world to gather together.
This year, although the competition was delayed due to the global epidemic, the Winter Series, the ultimate sports event, still arrived as scheduled on March 14.
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In China, due to the different strengths of traditional sports and the atmosphere, few people are willing to take the initiative to learn about ice and snow sports competitions, and of course, the number of people who pay attention to XGAMES competitions is even smaller.
This year, thanks to the document "300 million people on ice and snow", skiing has become a hot sport.
So, on a short video platform, an Olympic-related public account channel, there was a live broadcast of the event:
There were 30,000 to 40,000 people squatting in the live broadcast room, all of them were people in the snow circle who had nothing to do at night and couldn't sleep. Everyone was chatting in the barrage, frantically nominating this year's single and double freestyle ski dark horses...
Who who who retired.
So-and-so is injured.
That person changed his nationality.
That person changed the project.
Most of the names mentioned are foreigners, and the chats, gossip and irresponsible predictions of the events are all flying together.
At this moment, the camera happens to be focused on the snowboarding BIGAIR project venue.
The competition was inexplicably arranged at night, but the venue was brightly lit. The professional competition venue was like a bowl pool, with a special track for freestyle ski jumping, a starting platform, a jumping platform, and a landing point.
The audience sat by the pool, which could accommodate tens of thousands of people. It was packed with flags of various countries and sponsorship logos of various brands flying in the air.
Someone started singing and everyone else started shouting in unison.
Ice and snow events are really popular abroad. People who love extreme sports are naturally passionate. The scene was surprisingly lively, with people screaming and shouting the names of the athletes they support.
The live broadcast room seemed relatively calm.
The commentator explained the current athlete's identity and country in a smooth and uneventful manner. He started, he jumped, and what kind of jump he did -
Everyone was a little drowsy.
Until almost midnight.
After a Canadian athlete completed a mediocre 1440° turn and landed successfully, a slender figure appeared on the starting platform.
[Okay, now Bill Roger has finished his first round and played well. The first round is already halfway through. John Houston from North America is still in first place with a BSCork2160°MUTE... The next player to appear is——Huh?]
The man appeared at the departure platform.
The Asian figure is a little inconspicuous among a group of Europeans and Americans. He is wearing a black snow suit and black snow pants...
From a distance, it looked like it was almost submerged in the crowd of staff.
But when the camera zoomed in and swept across, as the man wearing the binding standing at the starting platform bent over, the red five-star red flag logo on his sleeves and helmet was particularly bright and eye-catching in the darkness.
The commentator paused for three seconds.
[The following players are only from China——Ah, we have someone participating in this competition? Let's see, the players are from China... CHONGSHAN. ]
The commentator has honestly read out the names of the players that appear in the lower left corner in the order of English and in phonetic spelling.
In the live camera——
The man put on his binder and straightened up.
The camera zoomed in and he tilted his face slightly, allowing people to clearly see the light-colored mole on the side of his high nose bridge, which seemed to move slightly with his movements.
He glanced expressionlessly at the camera, then raised his hand and pulled down his goggles.
In the XGAMES live broadcast room——
The crows and sparrows were silent.
There was a brief silence, and even the bullet screen stopped scrolling.
Until someone typed a "?".
The signal sounded.
On the starting platform, the man bent down, pressed the fastener, and started.
In the live broadcast room, barrages of comments were flooding, and the number of viewers suddenly increased sharply. People in the snow circle swarmed into the live broadcast room one after another, asking questions frantically, and thought they were sleepwalking.
The black snow suit, the new Burton custom bright yellow sole, when the man is like a giant phoenix with wings spread, it seems that even the cheers disappear at the scene——
He took off like the most perfect parabola in the world.
The back is like a bow, folded, and scratched.
With a leisurely first lap, the Doublecork move is already formed.
[It should be a Doublecork. At the current level of domestic and foreign competitions, the top skaters in training can only achieve a Doublecork of 1980°. There are probably less than three people who can do it... and currently no one in the competition has achieved it - OK, the Doublecork of Shan Chong skater is 1440° - 1800° - Oh! ]
Accompanied by the two commentators' exclamations.
And at the live broadcast site, the commentator screamed in bird language at the top of his lungs.
【1980°! Doublecork1980°! 】
The commentary was deafening.
Amidst the screams, everyone saw that after completing a series of rotations, the man was getting closer and closer to the ground.
[Yes! Yes! The world's first Doublecork 1980° in competition! Shan Chong! After nearly three years, Shan Chong returned to the competition in front of everyone in the snow circle! 】
The black figure approaches the ground.
The cheers, applause, screams, and shouts of the foreign language commentators could not cover up the dull sound of the snowboard hitting the ground.
【stand!】
With his knees slightly bent, the front edge of the snowboard stuck firmly into the snow trail, and the snow dust that rolled up blurred everything in the camera.
Until three seconds later.
Riding on a snowboard, a slender black figure emerged from the dust, calm and composed.
The charm of extreme sports is that it doesn’t matter who wins the game or which country they come from. At least the people at the scene just want to see a wonderful game.
After a brief silence, the applause almost tore the silent night sky.
In the bowl audience seats, tens of thousands of spectators stood up and cheered for the scene that just broke the world snowboarding BIGAIR's double cork difficulty move.
Amid the enthusiastic applause and cheers, the man on the snowboard stopped skiing, bent down, and took off the board.
Holding the board and straightening his back, he turned around and glanced at the competition stage behind him.
The bright venue lights are as bright as stars and the night sky is as bright as day.
The king woke up from hibernation and looked over his land.
Even today, the decay has faded, and the once frozen throne still shines.