After Su Zhe and his party arrived in Pyeongchang, they soon met with the Korean staff who came to guide and receive them, and then went to the Olympic Village with the Korean Winter Olympics staff to temporarily settle down. At the same time, after resting, they also needed to understand the process of the draw press conference on the second day and the ice training locations for the next two days.
After getting off the plane, Shao Xingchen, an old friend whom Su Zhe met unexpectedly, of course did not want to follow the figure skating team. He also booked a hotel in Pyeongchang and said goodbye to Su Zhe and his party after getting off the plane.
As a foreign choreographer temporarily hired by the figure skating team, Galliardo was not originally required to accompany Su Zhe and his team to Pyeongchang. However, Galliardo also wanted to see with his own eyes the final presentation effects of Su Zhe's two works on the ice, so he also came to South Korea with the figure skating team.
When this passionate old man saw Shao Xingchen leaving, he naturally asked Su Zhe why he didn't kiss his lover goodbye.
Suzhe was silent for a while, which was rare for him, and then he calmly explained, "We are just friends."
Regardless of whether Galliardo believed it or not, they did not have time to dwell on this issue. After Su Zhe and others followed the Korean Winter Olympics staff to the Olympic Village, they quickly connected with their own country's Winter Olympics officials. After allocating their accommodation, they also got the detailed schedule of the men's singles draw press conference on the second day.
A total of 30 athletes from 22 countries have qualified to participate in the men's singles short program at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Japan and the United States have the most qualifications, with both countries obtaining the full number of three qualified athletes. The Chinese athletes are Su Zhe and Wang Wei.
The next day, February 15 at 9 a.m., the Pyeongchang Organizing Committee will hold an on-site draw press conference, and the 30 athletes will draw their short program groups and the order of appearance within the group on site.
After clearly announcing the news, Wang Wei let out a long sigh.
Su Zhe turned his gaze to Wang Wei in confusion, and then saw Wang Wei crawling his entire body onto the conference table in front of him, lying on the table, shaking his head and sighing.
"This claw of mine is known as the Emperor of Africa. Brother Zhe, you don't know that the group I can be drawn into is either the first group or the death group. As for the order of appearance, don't even think about it. It's either the first or the second."
Wang Wei covered his face with a look of sorrow as he said this. “You don’t know that there is a lottery betting house for me on the Ice and Snow Kingdom forum. People bet on how unlucky the lot I will draw will be this time.”
Wang Wei's words sounded so magical that Su Zhe couldn't help but feel curious.
Is it really that magical?
Facts have proved that such creatures as African Americans do exist.
At 9 a.m. the next day, at the draw press conference in Pyeongchang, the 30 men's singles athletes participating in the short program competition came on stage one by one to draw their own lots, which were then displayed on the spot and recorded by the Winter Olympics officials on site and announced in real time.
Wang Wei and Su Zhe came on stage to draw the prizes later, and among the groups announced one after another, four of the six contestants in the first group had already been drawn, leaving only two vacancies for the fifth and sixth places.
Su Zhe did not think much about it, he just thought that Wang Wei would not be able to appear in the first group. Unexpectedly, Wang Wei drew lots before him. After seeing the groups and the order of appearance, Wang Wei hung his head again. Su Zhe took a look and saw that this unlucky child had drawn the sixth place in the first group.
After sitting down again, Su Zhe glanced at the first group ranking clearly written on the paper in Wang Wei's hand, patted his shoulder, and comforted him, "It's okay, after all, you are the sixth to appear, so you still have an advantage."
Wang Wei was about to nod when the members of the American team on the stage finished drawing lots. One of them was drawn to the first group and was ranked fifth.
The American player who was drawn to compete before Wang Wei was none other than the talented teenager Garcia, who made a mistake due to psychological pressure in the Four Continents Championships.
Wang Wei turned to look at Su Zhe expressionlessly, blinked, and said aggrievedly, "Brother Zhe, what did you just say? I want to hear it again."
Su Zhe glanced at Wang Wei, then at Garcia on the stage, and finally covered his mouth with his right fist and coughed twice. "Well, I don't think I said anything just now."
Wang Wei "tt"
Although it was New Year's Eve, on the forums of the Ice and Snow Kingdom, many dry ice fans were still following the Korean lottery press conference in real time, hoping that Su Zhe and Wang Wei would get a good group and lottery order.
Compared to Wang Wei's previous super-black hands, the ice fans were originally thinking that the draw order of the sixth place in the first group was not bad this time. As a result, after Garcia was drawn to appear in the fifth place in the first group, the ice fans who were browsing the Ice and Snow Kingdom forum suddenly burst into happy laughter.
It's not that everyone is gloating over the misfortune, but Wang Wei's dirty deeds have long been well-known among ice fans, and this is just one more piece of evidence.
Compared to the somewhat unlucky Wang Wei, Su Zhe's luck was much better. He appeared in the first place in the fifth group. Although he was the first when he appeared, the fifth group was already a good group.
After the draw press conference, the organizers had no other arrangements for the time being. The figure skaters present said hello to each other if they knew each other. For example, Amami Tsubasa, the Tsukawa brothers, Igor, Garcia and others all had more or less some friendship with Suzhe in previous competitions. After greeting each other, everyone did not exchange too much small talk. Instead, after a simple greeting, they quickly met up with the coaching teams from various countries, and then went to the training hall at the designated time for the final joint practice according to the organizer's practice schedule.
On the domestic Internet, the atmosphere of celebrating the New Year on New Year's Eve is in full swing. With the official arrival of New Year's Eve and the start of the Spring Festival Gala, the Internet suddenly entered a harmonious and beautiful atmosphere. Various big Vs were revolving around the Spring Festival Gala, and began the annual time to complain about the Spring Festival Gala at a fixed time and place to earn traffic and forward it.
At this time, almost all the hot searches on Weibo were related to the Spring Festival Gala. However, among these many hot searches, there was a piece of gossip that was stubbornly mixed in, about Shao Xingchen appearing lonely on the streets of Pyeongchang and looking sad because he failed to appear on the Spring Festival Gala.
The satellites were all shocked when they saw this push. What happened to their eldest son's personal trip to Pyeongchang? He was just relaxing after the movie was finished. Who did he offend? Didn't you see that their eldest son posted a Weibo yesterday and was very happy?
So in the atmosphere of complaining about the Spring Festival Gala, there were also some fan circle fights, which made the crowd very amused.
The next morning, February 16, the first day of the Chinese New Year, 9:00 am B city time, 10:00 am Pyeongchang time
At this time, people in the country are either fast asleep or following their elders to greet their relatives and friends during the Chinese New Year. Amid the lively New Year atmosphere, there are also some ice hockey fans and spectators who stay in front of the TV.
Wang Zixuan is such a die-hard ice fan who sits in front of the TV early in the morning. During the holidays, she usually cannot get up before 11 o'clock in the morning, but on the first day of the new year, she crawled out of bed early in the morning and turned on the big TV at home.
Seeing their daughter getting up so early, Wang's parents thought she was going to go out with them to climb the mountain, burn incense and worship Buddha. They had no idea that their daughter would just sit in front of the TV and couldn't get up.
"Hey, Wang Zixuan, you usually don't even get up when I tell you to. Today you want to sleep, that's fine, but now that you're up, why don't you hurry up and go out with me to climb a mountain and worship Buddha instead of watching TV at home?"
"Oh, Mom told you yesterday that the Winter Olympics figure skating competition is today."
Wang Zixuan likes figure skating and has learned it since she was a child, but she has never become a professional athlete. However, she has always loved this sport. Her parents know this and have always been supportive.
When Wang's mother heard what she said, she also followed her to the TV and took a look. "Oh, the competition has just started. Who are the domestic contestants this time? There is the one called Wang Wei, right? Is the Su Zhe you have been praising for the past six months also here?"
The homes of all ice hockey fans or spectators are more or less having similar conversations as Wang Zixuan's family.
The Winter Olympics is something that most people in China think of, but they do not attach as much importance to it as the Summer Olympics. First, for most southerners in China, winter sports are difficult to understand and participate in, which leads to the problem of winter sports being difficult to popularize. If they are not even popularized, it is naturally difficult for people to pay attention to these sports. Second, because China has too few advantages in these winter sports, it is difficult to find advantages to promote them in news. Even though every time there is a breakthrough in the relevant sports in China, efforts are made to promote it, but so far only a few athletes in the speed skating event have left a slight impression on the domestic public.
The Winter Sports Management Center is of course aware of the difficulty in promoting winter sports. The next Winter Olympics is about to be held in City B. Originally, they should have taken advantage of the opportunity to promote this Winter Olympics and made sufficient publicity. However, this Winter Olympics happened to completely overlap with the domestic agricultural calendar, and the Winter Sports Management Center was helpless.
Ice fans like Wang Zixuan do not need the Winter Management Center's vigorous promotion as they will find various resources on their own to learn about the competition information.
At this moment, the live broadcast of the competition has already begun, and two special rooms have been opened for Wang Wei and Su Zhe on the Ice and Snow Kingdom Forum to record their performance in the competition.
Among the players in the first group with Wang Wei, the most noteworthy one is naturally the talented player Garcia from the American team. Apart from that, the other players are not as good as Wang Wei in the world rankings and in the performance of a series of past competitions.
Before Garcia took the stage, the highest short program score of the top four skaters did not exceed 80 points, especially the first Ukrainian skater. Perhaps because he was the first to appear, or because he was nervous about his first appearance in the Winter Olympics, he missed his first 3a, and then failed in several jumps. Due to the continuous failure of jumps, his entire performance and skating were almost out of control and stiff. After the performance, his face revealed a visible sense of loss.
Although the audience still gave him friendly applause, his final short program score of 4879 points also meant that he would lose the qualification to advance to the free skating competition on the second day.
Garcia's short program today is still his short program of this season, The Swan of the Gem Forest.
In the previous Four Continents Championships, he also failed in consecutive jumps due to nervousness. Just now, after his coach Paulon saw the mistake of the Ukrainian athlete in front of him, he was still worried whether Garcia would be affected by this athlete's failure.
Fortunately, during the final practice before the game, Paulon noticed that Garcia looked full of fighting spirit on the ice today and showed no signs of skating stiffly due to nervousness.
After warmups, Garcia returned to the ice and hugged Paul Ron.
"Come on." Paul Ron patted his beloved disciple on the shoulder, and then watched him climb to the center of the ice.
As a man who has swept all the awards in the youth competitions, Garcia does have his own unique pride and capital. When the soft piano sound rang out, the sound of violin strings was gently inserted in the gentle and melodious sound.
In the Gem Forest, a group of swans were leisurely playing in the water. Among them, there was one that was the most elegant and proud. It was the most beautiful of all the swans.
Garcia folded his arms across his chest and opened his arms as he skated forward in a swallow-like motion. Compared to many male singles figure skaters, his movements were softer, but this softness was not without a youthful sense of toughness and strength.
His slightly cold expression was like a proud swan in the gem forest, who was particularly proud of his beauty and uniqueness.
The audience felt the beauty displayed by Garcia, who was not overly nervous, which was totally incomparable to the previous players.
He easily performed a series of three turns, bracket steps, and twists, accompanied by dance movements of his hands and limbs, vividly conveying the graceful movements of the swans on the lake freely displaying the beauty of their postures.
During this series of steps, Garcia's coach Paul Ron was always looking at Garcia nervously on the sidelines.
The error point from the last four continents is coming soon.
Under Paulen's nervous gaze, Garcia on the ice performed a series of difficult steps, turned three times and directly entered a 4s3t double jump.
The crowd watched as he gracefully leapt off the ice, landing effortlessly after a quadruple jump and then a triple Lutz.
The two jumps are very closely connected, and at the same time, the jumps between them are very elegant and high.
It can also be seen from Garcia's performance that he has mastered this double jump very well, and even when jumping, he appears to be particularly calm in maintaining his posture in the air.
OK
Paulon waved his fist slightly on the sidelines. As long as he can get through this difficult time, he believes Garcia will not have any more problems in the future.
Just as Paul Ron thought, after this leap, Garcia's condition became better and better. Although the show had entered the second half, the relaxed state he displayed was even better than in the first half.
Until the end of the show, Garcia did not make any obvious mistakes. When the music stopped and he returned to the center of the ice to finish his move, all the audience present and watching the live broadcast could feel his joy at the moment from his panting but brilliant smile.
The audience also celebrated his wonderful performance with enthusiastic applause and cheers. Many audience members also enthusiastically threw dolls into the field to wish Garcia a success in his short show.
It can be seen that Garcia was also very happy after performing the show perfectly. He easily picked up a cute doll from the ice, held it in his hand, waved to the audience around him, and then bowed to express his gratitude.
As he skated to the sidelines and ran towards his coach, he finally looked like a 19-year-old boy with a hint of excitement on his face.
"Well done!" Paulen was also very happy. He took the doll from Garcia's hand, then led his disciples to the equal points seat and sat down there waiting for the scores to be announced.
In the Ice and Snow Kingdom forum, ice fans who were watching the live broadcast were also somewhat amazed at Garcia's performance.
As expected of a recognized talent in the US team, he has no obvious shortcomings in skating, jumping or footwork, and he is also flexible enough to do the Bellman, which is really amazing. Although his artistic expression is not particularly outstanding, it is definitely not bad. In this episode of the Gem Forest Swan, the elegant beauty of the swan is enough.
That's right, and his overall technical movements are very clean and accurate. When he grows more stable, I feel he will be an enhanced version of Amami Tsubasa.
Ice hockey fans on the Internet are very supportive of Garcia's performance, and while domestic ice hockey fans are applauding Garcia's performance, they are also worried about Wang Wei who is about to appear next.
Wang Wei will be next. With a strong player like Carlos Garcia in front of him, I hope he won't be affected.
Wang Hongming gave his son the same instructions.
"Don't worry about the skaters in front of you, just skate well."
Wang Wei was already on the ice at this moment. After being given a cold lecture by his father, although he wanted to cry and express his pity, the last practice time before the game was limited, so he just shook his head and turned to the ice to do his own practice.
At this time, Su Zhe was warming up in the backstage players' warm-up area. There was a TV hanging next to the warm-up area, which was also broadcasting the performance of the players on the scene.
Through the TV, Su Zhe could see that Wang Wei was simply confirming the skating and movement nodes of each of his movements on the ice. His movements looked quite smooth, and he didn't look like he was screaming and nervous before going on stage at all.
This is indeed the case. Wang Wei has always had a good mentality, probably because of the confidence gained from long-term black-hand training. No matter how bad the draw is, or how strong the players are, he can always show his expected level. He is a player with very stable personal condition and performance.
While Wang Wei was doing on-ice practice, Garcia's score was officially announced.
Garcia scored a high score of 10473 with his short program "Swan of the Gem Forest". This unexpected score immediately caused another round of cheers from the audience, and then they gave Garcia another round of warm applause to congratulate him.
Wang Wei was startled by the applause. He looked up and saw Garcia's score on the big screen. Despite his broad-mindedness, he couldn't help but be surprised by the score.
In the warm-up area, the players who were warming up also saw this high score that exceeded 100. The second group of players who were about to appear frowned and felt a little nervous. However, players like Amami Tsubasa, the Tsukawa brothers, Igor, and Su Zhe, after their attention was briefly attracted, quickly turned their attention to their own warm-up preparations.
Garcia performed well, but this score is not insurmountable for these people. The real battlefield is not here, but on the ice later.
At the scene, after a brief cheer, the audience fell silent again, and Wang Wei's practice time came to an end. After he skated to the edge of the ice rink, his father Wang Hongming patted him on the shoulder without saying much.
Wang Hongming knew that this was his own son, so he didn't need to worry too much about his attitude.
So, when the music started again, Wang Wei also began to skate briskly on the ice, accompanied by the passionate and fighting music.
Wang Wei is a one-dimensional creature, including his performances on the ice. He is not good at displaying overly complex artistic content, but he can simply be like a warrior full of infinite enthusiasm on the ice, showing an indomitable momentum for justice.
The song he used for his show this season is Justice, a piece of music that simply conveys the passion for justice and defends justice. Its passionate and exciting melody can easily move people's hearts.
Wang Wei on the ice was performing an indomitable and passionate image on the ice, accompanied by this passionate rhythm.
At the first point of the music, he jumped forward to the beat, then spun in the air and landed on the ice. It was a triple Axel jump, which he completed well and received applause from the audience.
In the following performance, Wang Wei, as always, played to the best of his ability. Although he failed in a 3t landing, the overall performance was still quite good.
In addition, Wang Wei always maintained an optimistic and cheerful attitude. At the end of the final performance, his performance was recognized by the audience, who gave him warm applause.
Wang Wei was quite satisfied with his performance. After bowing to the audience around him, he returned to his father's side at the edge of the ice rink with a smile, and followed his father Wang Hongming to the equal seats.
After a short wait, Wang Wei's score was announced. He scored 8613 points, ranking second behind Garcia.
However, Wang Wei couldn't help but feel a little dizzy when thinking about the score difference between Garcia and himself.
"This kid is so scary. Alas, besides him, there are also Amami Tsubasa and his gang, plus Tetsu. I don't think there will be a row of 100-pointers in this short program."
Wang Wei muttered these things while scratching his head, and finally he could only send Su Zhe a silent blessing in his heart.
Hey, Brother Zhe, today's battle is not going to be easy. You must try your best.
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A little-known fact: today's chapter is the 233rd chapter in total, and the 99th chapter of all the extra chapters. Orz, my extra chapters will exceed 100 tomorrow.
No, it's the Winter Olympics now. I believe the final victory is just around the corner.
Wow, so I’ll see you all in the next chapter. I’ll wait for a few days for Caicai to recover and I’ll work hard to make a million dollars. Wow
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