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"Only...is that so?"

"To be honest, Joyce, sometimes I'm really disappointed with my performance. How could I lose to him again and again when the difficulty has such a big advantage?"

The game continued. When An Yi watched the game and made comments, the frontcourt players waited for the game. Johnny, who was watching the performance of his rival, shook his head and sighed. .

Hearing his question, James Joyce was stunned for half a second and found surprise in his eyes. He looked up and down the big disciple in front of him for a long time, and finally stretched out his right hand in relief and amused him, and patted his strong back.

he thinks.

This is probably one of the benefits of Johnny's return to calmness and change of mind. Although his competitive state is usually unstable, his vision and resistance to pressure are absolutely beyond the imagination of figure skating practitioners all over the world.

what is the reason?

After being tormented for so many years by his best friend, the figure skating talent is too good to be human, Louis Watts, what other wonderful performances can make him fancy and put pressure on him?

He even withstood the impact of Axel's quadruple jump in the first place. As long as he wasn't stupid and couldn't think about it, honestly, no one in this world can influence him.

"Oh, Johnny, this is my good boy. I'm glad you're finally back to your senses and in your place."

"Who are you? Johnny Wassenberg! The world's second-ranked Canadian figure skating symbol of a new era! Who is Ilya Ivanov? Just an unwilling sinker who wants to seize the last chance, The one-time rebel. Mind you, remember what I said about him? His time is long gone, and now the figure skating players are ruled by two of my students, Johnny Wassenberg And Louise Watts!"

"..."

The game on the ice rink continued, 1 minute, 2 minutes, halfway through, and the pace accelerated. James Joyce made a conclusion with an extremely positive voice, and looked at Johnny for a moment, who hadn't expected him to be so ostentatious.

After a moment of silence, with a wide grin, Johnny winked at his head coach.She thanked him tacitly and ranked herself ahead of Louis.

Because he knows very well in his heart that even if he is second only to his best brother and best friend in the world ranking, the gap in strength between the two of them has already reached the point where it cannot be bridged.

He also decided that in the future, he would never do anything to surpass his friend or beat him, such unrealistic dreams, and simply hold on to his title of No. [-] in the world, and not let anyone break his position as the second closest to No. [-]. The result will do.

thump!thump! !thump! ! !

Thinking divergently, thinking about the past and the future, the strong sound of piano percussion suddenly came, and the background music echoing over the ice skating hall reached a climax at the second minute and five seconds of the free skating.

On the ice rink, a quadruple jump with a rear outer knot was performed at the beginning, a quadruple jump with a rear inner knot was performed in the second technical action, and then the third technical action was followed by a joint rotation and the accelerated Ilya Yi Vannov came to the west side of the ice rink and began to perform the fourth movement step.

The slender and tall figure, the rich and full design of the right upper body body movements are in line with the ice skates under the feet, the knife tooth step touches the ice for a small jump, the outer edge of one foot is twirling three times, the right foot skates the hook blade and the left foot lands on the ice, The two feet are stretched out 180 degrees, showing a line-shaped inner edge sliding and outer edge sliding, and the right foot floats enough to slide out the rear outer edge of the left foot'}' (bracket step), connecting the left rear outer ')' arc of Chocta, turning The body is connected to the right front inner'(' arc, and with two opposite gliding trajectories, it has completed many changes such as body rotation, foot change, and edge change.

but!

This is not finished.

Just when he was dancing with music, he continued the succession of steps to vent his emotions, and opened the important moment in the second half of the program. At the end of the sequence at 30 minutes and [-] seconds, he twirled three times clockwise with the front inner blade of his left foot, and then In the third week and a half, the blade was retracted, and the posture of sliding the left rear inner blade back into the body remained unchanged. When everyone was unprepared, the blade of the right foot lifted by the floating foot touched the ice to help support the body With his left foot, he took off and jumped into the sky.

Wipe it!

The body seems to lose weight, one hand is touching the chest and the other is raised high, and the five fingers are opened and twirling.

One lap, two laps, three laps, four laps!

At the moment when An Yi, Johnny, An Zexian, Joyce and others thought that his strength had reached his limit, in the short program competition on December [-], An Yi's consecutive steps ended exactly the same, but his jumping movements The method of turning around for one more week announced to those who like him or hate him all over the world that he, Ilya Ivanov, has his own pride and absolutely cannot tolerate failure caused by his own mediocrity!

"what the hell—quadflip?!!"

"Ow! Ilya Ivanov, the firepower is unstoppable! After sending the quadloop (jump around the rear outer knot ring) for the first time in the opening game, he made another breakthrough and dedicated a whole set of free skating The third quadruple jump, and the inside point of the ice Phillip quadruple!"

"Considering his 27-year-old age, this performance is astonishing! If there is no accident, he will also send a backside point to four weeks and then a backside point three in the joint jump—ohmygod! What is this!? Triple axel with back-in-loop and then-outside icing!? God behold! What does Ilya Ivanov want to do? Five quadruple jumps? Is he trying to match Louis Woz? It must be emphasized that he has 27 years old, 27 years old!!"

Performances beyond everyone's expectations were staged one after another. After the free skating competition entered the second half, the Russian made consecutive amazing moves.

In the live broadcast signal, the commentators of the major TV stations were roaring with excitement or worry, and the edited Chopin No. [-] Ballade reached its climax.Ilya Ivanov followed the step-by-step jump and slipped out, then accelerated for a short distance, took off and rotated again, and the inner ring was followed by the outer ice for three weeks.

According to the schedule of program action that he submitted at the beginning, and now it has completely changed, he still has a four-week outside ice point that can be executed.

At this time and now, the only suspense left is whether he will do it and how he will do it!

And the answer came quickly. At the third minute and 35 seconds of the free skating, he grasped the transition from high to low of the background music, slid in with the rear outer edge of his right foot, and touched the center of gravity with the blade of his floating foot. Sink, bend your knees, and swing your arms to complete the jump!

With a swipe, there was a crisp sound of the blade breaking through the ice, and it began to spin counterclockwise with the sound of wind.Under the watchful eyes of the people watching his performance on and off the court, in a set of free skating programs that can last up to 40 minutes and [-] seconds, he tried to complete the fifth quadruple jump that is extremely difficult and risky.

"This person is..." Crazy?

At the same moment, in the preparation area of ​​the competition field, under the attention of the six women's singles and four men's singles athletes, the staff of the Chinese national team surnamed He stared round.

Although he subconsciously blurted out the last few words of that sentence, anyone in the national team who saw Ilya Ivanov's performance could guess it.After witnessing the ruthless Russian performing the quadruple jump for the fifth time, he said in unanimous agreement, isn’t he crazy?

but.

The answer is obvious.

Ilya Ivanov, unwilling and unwilling to lose.Use your own practical actions to break your own shackles again and again and reach a new height.

Technical difficulty limit?

does not exist!

He won't let it exist either!

In the field of figure skating men's singles, no matter in the past, present or future, no one can easily defeat him!No!

"Yo, Dad was slapped in the face, son. When you play later, you have to help Dad—"

"No, he will fail the quadruple jump."

"what?"

Jump up and spin, fall all around.

Just when people all over the world thought that Ilya Ivanov would successfully complete the quadruple jump, An Yi, who was sitting on a chair in the backcourt watching the game, made such a judgment .

as predicted.

An Yi's voice just flew out and was still in the air. Looking at the real-time picture, the Russian man turned around steadily on the ice rink, lowered his body and was about to use the rear outer edge of his right foot to open the ice and slide out. Due to insufficient height, both skates landed on the ice Knock a handful of ice crystals on the ice.Immediately afterwards, he lost his center of gravity, his body fell to the right, and he fell on the ice with a bang, which made people gasp and have a toothache.

And as soon as this result came out, it is unknown how many ice fans in the world are worried and regretful, because Ilya Ivanov said before that everyone in the Chinese national team who began to worry about An Yi felt relieved Take a long breath.

Although it is very unreasonable and uncompetitive, the reality of the Russian veteran's basic points for the entire movement minus the execution points and the fall penalty made them so satisfied that they couldn't be more satisfied.

They are not masochists, and they don't have the hobby of being crushed and flattened by powerful opponents, fighting to the death, fighting against the current, going through ninety-nine and eighty-one hardships, and finally picking the sweet fruit of victory through hard work.

Jumping up quickly, spinning faster, falling down and falling in an instant, everything happened within five seconds.

Standing up and continuing to perform, accompanied by applause and applause from 3 spectators at the scene, Ilya Ivanov, after completing the last jump and hook triple axel, pushed the free skating program to the end and began Perform No.13 technical movements combined with rotation.

Squat, upright, and swallow with a knife, the three basic postures of rotation are sufficient in number of cycles and change in difficulty, fully meeting all the conditions required for the four-level rotation.

At the fourth minute and 30 seconds, the music dissipated and his game was coming to an end. He had worked hard and been satisfied, with successes and failures, high spirits and impermanence.

Just like his career experience so far, all kinds of regrets follow him, just like the unwillingness in his heart.

It is precisely because of this that he wants to fight!He just wants to work hard!Want to fight for it!Want to try again!

Even in the end, he was still covered in bruises.

……