ice emperor

"The 6-minute warm-up is over, and the first player in the fourth group is on the field."

"He is Sean Jones from Arizona, USA. In the National Junior Championships held last year, he achieved a good result of No.3. Let us look forward to his wonderful performance together."

Just as An Yi was waiting to see a good show in the backcourt, the fourth group of skating short program contestants ushered in the frontcourt ice.

Not far from the seat, An Zexian who also watched the live action on the TV screen and was secretly nervous was different.Since An Yi used the item 'God's Scale', most of the anger in his chest had dissipated.At this moment, it can be said that they are watching and waiting relatively calmly, whether the players who will play after him can pull him down from the current No.1 throne by virtue of their pure strength.

To be honest, he thinks it is unlikely.

Ah……

It's not that he underestimates people on purpose, but considering that in the current youth group short program, triple axels are allowed at most, he really doesn't believe that anyone can surpass him in program difficulty and performance.

That being the case, the picture later will be interesting.

If he was a news media, he would even think about the headline of tomorrow's headlines, and he would call it——God descended on the Maple Park Ice Rink, justice or shady?The men's singles short program of the World Youth Championship showed the lowest average score in history. Louis Watts, a 14-year-old dark horse from China, ranked first after the match.

Holding the wooden handle of the planet candy with the fingers of his right hand, he pressed the candy ball to his lips, covering up the mocking smile at the corner of his mouth.

An Yi quietly watched the No.19 player on the screen, a 16-year-old American player.After seeing him swaying his body and supporting the ice with his hands when he fell on the ice at 3a, he closed his eyelids slightly and crossed out his name in his heart.

After 40 minutes and 5 seconds, the short program performance ended. The American contestant's scores were quickly scored, with an average of 4 in technical scores and 9 in artistic scores.But it is very rare, under the effect of "lessons learned from the past", no one expressed any objection to this result.

Immediately afterwards, the second player, the third player, and the fourth player all had an average score of about 5, which was very similar to the first three groups of athletes. Finally, the audience, the CBC live room, and the TV Everyone in front of them realized one thing.The nine judges scoring on the spot probably felt the pressure from various aspects because of their previous 'mistakes'. When scoring the players who played after An Yi, they all behaved extremely cautiously and rigorously.

Of course, this may be another illusion, because there are still fourteen players waiting to play after this.

Maybe this situation will change soon?So even if the referees are rarely fair at the moment, it is still not enough to win everyone's trust in them.The reason is very simple. Their previous actions were indeed a bit too straightforward, too rough and presumptuous, and they simply treated everyone as fools.

As the fourth player in the fourth group finished skating, An Yi lifted his spirits and locked his eyes on the real-time screen. He watched his good friend Johnny Wasenberg in a black performance suit standing on the ice rink and accepting the coach James Joe. His final instruction.

After more than ten seconds, the camera followed his friend to the center of the ice rink, and was fixed on the obviously modified starting posture.The familiar hip-hop skating music of Swan Lake sounded, and An Yi watched his good friend skate on the ice and started his own short program performance.

The first jump, Axel's triple axel.The take-off is fully prepared, the ice landing is stable, and the slide is smooth.In the second jump, the hook triple axel, the blade was a little blurry, but it was not to the point of making a wrong blade, so it was considered a good completion.

The third group of jumps, triple axel jump to the inside and then triple axel to the outside, was clean and neat, and successfully brought a wave of applause from the audience when the ice fell and slid out.The footwork and spins that were completed afterwards also maintained a very high standard, which completely ignited the enthusiasm of the audience and made them forget what they had seen before, the imperfect performance of the previous players.

The music continues, one last squat turn.

At the end of the short program, good brother Johnny Wassenberg completed his skating.

If An Yilai, who had watched his performance in its entirety, evaluated it, even if this short program did not have a score of 98, it would definitely have a score of 92 or 3.The short program "Ode to the Swan" he performed is only short of expressiveness and movement details. It is impossible to defeat him, but there is no problem in defeating others.

'The skater from Canada, Johnny Wassenberg, scored after the short program slide--'

技术分：5．35．45．45．35．45．35．45．45．4。

艺术分：5．25．25．35．15．25．25．35．35．3。

Ranking of referees: Australia 2, Finland 2, USA 2, Russia 2, Ukraine 2, Germany 2, Canada 2, Japan 2, Romania 2.

place: 2

In the voice of the on-site announcer announcing the results, everything was as An Yi expected, and Johnny temporarily ranked No.2 with a slightly lower score than him.

In the real-time video sent back from the arena, Johnny, who was sitting on the waiting table, was stunned for a few breaths after seeing his score.Then there was a big smile on his face, one hand patted his thigh and the other hand covered his stomach, in front of Joyce, in front of the audience, and in front of the CBC TV live camera lens, laughing bent over.

Five or six seconds passed, and when he finally restrained his laughter and stood up from the equal score table, it was obvious that he was very satisfied with his score, and waved to the audience and supporters who once again applauded him. Waved and blew a kiss.Immediately afterwards, he hugged the Canadian team jersey balled into a ball in his arms, and rushed into the athlete's channel under the camera of the live broadcast.After running to the area where An Yi was, he dragged a chair over to An Yi and sat down beside An Yi. At the same time, he didn't forget to reach out to him.

"Hey man, do you still have that candy?"

"You don't know, I love that stuff so much. When I saw you eating just now, I couldn't help but want to ask you for more."

As he spoke, he leaned against An Yi affectionately.Johnny Wassenberg relaxed after skating, and didn't worry about what happened to the nine referees who scored on the spot, how they suddenly became so fair and impartial.

Sitting next to him, An Yi saw that his friend was not unhappy at all. After a sigh of relief, he put his hand into his coat pocket again.While his father's eyebrows were twitching, when he took out a star candy and handed it to his good friend, he didn't forget to turn his pockets out, saying that he really really had no stock here.

For his performance, Johnny Wassenberg, whose favorite snack is a lollipop, expressed strong dissatisfaction.After 'grabbing' the only survivor, he bumped his good brother's shoulder with his shoulder.

With frowning eyebrows and eyes, staring at the last point in An Yi's mouth, the pitiful look in his eyes when the little finger covered a candy was so distressing and hilarious.The on-site director who shot this video couldn't help but insert this scene into the cbcsports live broadcast, and successfully made the two hosts in the live broadcast room laugh, and also successfully made thousands of people laugh. Spectators watching the game.

"Louis, I suddenly have a feeling. I think... Even if there are two groups of players behind us, you and I might still be able to win the top two in the short program."

When the last player in the fourth group skated on the ice, Johnny Wassenberg peeled off the candy wrapper and put the candy in his mouth. He absently glanced at the screen in front of him and said to his good friends with a smile.

"Compared with our performance in the short program, I have no objection to being ranked behind you. It's just... well, I'm just curious about the referee's scoring criteria this time. Could it be because of your low score before that you felt the pressure from the audience? Have to make a balance for the players to score in the later games?"

As he was talking, he noticed that Axel, who was playing behind him on the screen, jumped three times. He immediately looked away and turned all his attention to his friend and continued.

"Who knows if the real situation is like this? Maybe the referees were suddenly inspired by God and discovered the minimum professional ethics of themselves as referees."

"I believe that according to the current situation, as long as the players behind, the performance of the short program cannot reach the height of you and me. The biggest supernatural event in the previous World Youth Championships is about to happen. In the short program, the third, The two players in the fourth group surpassed the last group of players to rank in the top two, which is unheard of and unseen. Hahaha, if it really happens, how will the sports news report tomorrow.”

Because of the sugar in his mouth, Johnny's voice was muffled.But still, An Yi and James Joyce, An Zexian and others around them could hear clearly what he said.

In an instant, after hearing this innocent prophecy from the child, several adults suddenly lifted their spirits and exchanged glances with each other.Excitement and doubt, two completely unrelated emotions, quickly spread among them.

On the one hand, they want to be optimistic and laugh, but on the other hand, because of such a weird phenomenon, they have no confidence to ensure that things will really develop like this in the end.

The most typical example is An Zexian.

After listening to Johnny Wassenberg's prediction, he didn't dare to think about No.1, No.2, or even No.3.

I just keep praying in my heart, hoping that no matter what the ranking of my son is in the end, it will be a success.As long as you are in the last group in the free skating stage, you will be considered a success.

As the head coach of the figure skating national team, he has seen a lot of athletes being entrapped by ISU referees.For the current stage, the "miracle" that happened to his own son by accident is completely unbelievable.

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