Figure skating is more suitable for me to participate in the Olympics

The figure skating season is generally divided into two stages. The first half is from September to December, and the most important event during this period is the Grand Prix.

In the second half of January to March, the European Figure Skating Championships and the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships will be held at the end of January, and the World Championships will be held at the end of March.

Only European figure skaters can participate in the European Championships;

In the four continents, only athletes from North America, South America, Asia, and Australia can participate;

No one can play Euros and four continents at the same time.

This year is 2010. In February, Vancouver will host the Winter Olympics every four years. For figure skating, this is already the most exposed and most glorious battlefield.

Regardless of whether it is the European Championships, the Four Continents, the Olympics or the World Championships, the number of entries is limited, and the national skating federations will only select players with good performance in domestic competitions to participate.

In this Winter Olympics, among the four Chinese figure skating events, pair skating won three Olympic spots, while women's single skating, men's single skating, and ice dance each had only one spot, so only the champion of this year's championships, In order to get the opportunity to go to Vancouver.

"Flower skating is for youth. If you are over 23 years old, you can call yourself a veteran and you can retire at any time. For many athletes, if they can't participate in this Olympics, they won't be able to make it to the next one, such as Shen Liu. "

Zhang Junbao lay on the railing and explained to Zhang Jue: "Shen Liu is 22 years old. Four years ago, he was not strong enough to qualify for the Winter Olympics. Now he is skilled enough, but he fell in September last year. After half a season Immediate reimbursement, resume training immediately before the injury is fully healed, it can be seen how much I want to go to Vancouver."

Zhang Jue scratched his head: "Uncle, I remember that Shen Liu is the only men's singles in our country who can do quadruple jumps right now?"

At present, there are only a dozen or so people in the world who can do quadruple jumps. In the desert of singles skating like China, a quadruple jumper is a stable top player in this event.

Zhang Junbao nodded: "Really? Xiao Shen is now in the national team."

The old uncle gave a thumbs up.

"But there is only one quota. If he accidentally collapses in the National Championships, he will still have to accept his fate if he loses this quota. But then we don't have to count on the men's singles performance in the Olympics."

Although men's singles still doesn't attract much attention in China, the performance in pair skating is good, so everyone looks at pair skating.

Zhang Junbao sighed: "However, the quota for the Winter Olympics is calculated according to the ranking of the World Championships. Last season, Shen Liu wanted to be ordered by the leaders to slip into the top ten of the World Championships, so as to give his country an extra spot in the men's singles. It's not easy to be the first brother Du Miao, but he ended up skating No.12. You see, he even warms up now with a tense face. If our figure skating talent pool is stronger than it is now, there will be a few more For a powerful little men's singles, Shen Liu doesn't need to be under so much pressure."

The referees of an art event like figure skating are all handsome, and the selection of coaches also depends on their appearance. For example, Zhang Junbao is quite good-looking, and none of the athletes who are warming up on the ice rink is ugly.

Zhang Junbao glanced at Zhang Jue while talking. After training, the child has recovered to 3S, and can even do 3S+2T jumps. This progress is not surprising.

Zhang Jue was still muttering something like "If the sky has love, the sky will grow old, life is really beautiful", turned around and left with the skates in hand, but didn't look at the expectant eyes of the old uncle.

It's not that Zhang Jue doesn't understand the old uncle's ardent expectations, but what he likes is a stage where he can get a lot of attention, so his dream is still to be an idol.

Athletes are too hard and tired, and none of them who can go to the top arenas is full of injuries, the price/performance ratio is too low, and they can't make much money, so it was not within his scope of career choice from the beginning.

But Zhang Jue also knew that apart from himself, the old uncle might not be able to meet good seedlings of this level in the next few decades, otherwise the old uncle would not be so worried that he would become addicted to alcohol and develop liver cancer.

The 6-minute practice before the official start of the game ended. Except for those who were about to compete, the rest of the athletes left the ice and went to the waiting area.

The National Figure Skating Championship lasts for three days. The competitions on the first day include men's singles short program, women's singles short program and ice dance.

The short program lasts 2 minutes and 40 seconds. During this period, athletes need to perform three different jumps, including a single jump, an A jump, a set of continuous jumps, a set of footwork, and three sets of rotations.

The referee will add and subtract the performance points (GOE) based on the basic points based on the technical movements of the players, and finally add the performance points to get the final score of the players.

Because the competition is a domestic competition, the referees are all their own people, and the scoring is not crooked, and they will not favor North American and Russian players. The players are familiar with the home environment, so most of them perform well.

From Zhang Jue's point of view, most of the men's singles competitions on the field are pretty standard, but from the perspective of Zhang Jue, a former stage boss, their performances are pretty average.

This is also the normal state of Chinese athletes. For the sake of technical points, everyone practiced jumping hard. In other respects, the expressiveness is flat. Many people even value jumping so much that they are not good enough for skating and spinning. .

Until Shen Liu came on stage.

His repertoire is "Canon", which is not new at all. In this season, at least three single skaters in the figure skating circle have also chosen this repertoire, which can even be called old-fashioned.

But Shen Liu's performance is unique, his jumping is superb, but his physical beauty is far behind those old dancers, his upper limbs are very stiff, but his performance is better than others.

Because Shen Liu's feelings for the show are real.

This is the first time for Zhang Jue to watch the competition live. In this athlete, he saw a very pure love for figure skating. When the performer is fully devoted to the stage, even if the dancing skills are not high enough It can still touch the viewer.

Shen Liu's ability to become the only male single skater in China who can do well in the international arena is not just based on quadruple jumps.

"He's a real showman."

This contestant's performance style is very calm, but there is also a youthful vigor in the calm, and a love that matches the tone of the music.

Bing is pale and indifferent, but his program can give people a feeling of spring blossoms, which can only be achieved by people who really have a self-understanding of the music.

Even though Shen Liu did not perform quadruple jumps in the short program for stability, and the jump configuration was only 3A, 3F, 3lz+3T, but because he completed these jumps calmly and easily, the degree of completion of the program was higher. The show is more complete.

At the end of the show, as long as anyone could tell, Shen Liu's score would be the highest in the audience, and the audience also gave him the warmest applause since the start of the game.

Zhang Junbao was full of admiration: "Shen Liu's short program is scheduled well this time. As long as the free skating does not collapse, his quota for Vancouver will be stable."

"You also said it wasn't a big crash."

The head coach of the national team, Sun Qian, stood beside Zhang Junbao at some point, with a serious look on his face: "Shen Liu's biggest shortcoming is that he is unstable, and his mentality is not good. Every time he competes well in the short program, he wants to compete better in the free skating. Well, the result is that you put too much pressure on yourself..."

And figure skating is a sport that really depends on the state of the athletes, and the athletes put pressure on themselves. Isn't this a clear rhythm to avalanche the state on the field?

Seeing the person coming, Zhang Junbao couldn't help standing up straight: "Coach Sun."

Regardless of the fact that Coach Sun mainly leads pair skating, any athlete who has been in the national team has listened to the teachings of the godfather of Chinese figure skating.

Sun Qian waved his hand: "Shen Liu's talent is much stronger than yours back then, but if he is more stable in the competition, he should be in the top ten in the world ranking."

"I don't know what's going on. The men's singles materials that the national team has found in the past two years are either not talented enough, the upper limit is too low, or the mentality is not good. What if Shen Liu's jumping talent can be combined with your big heart?"

The primary state of competitive sports is a group of people working hard, and the top competitive arena is a group of people who work hard to fight their talents. Zhang Junbao was not talented enough back then, and the most difficult jump was only 3lz.

Zhang Junbao smiled awkwardly: "You said before that I'm not afraid of losing. In fact, it's a good thing for children to be competitive. The main thing is to find a good balance between mentality and reality. Speaking of it, I also feel that in the past two years The good seedlings of domestic men's singles are all poisonous, such as the one I bring now, the talent is absolutely nothing to say, it is only higher than Shen Liu, and the mentality should not be worse than mine, but..."

He paused, and under Sun Qian's curious eyes, he finished the second half of the sentence.

"He doesn't intend to be an athlete. He thinks it's too hard, and it's not good for him to suffer from injuries. He has neither money nor popularity, so he doesn't plan to be an athlete in his life plan."

Such a realistic reason for refusal made the corner of Sun Qian's mouth twitch: "How old is the seedling you mentioned?"

Why do you sound like a kid?

Zhang Junbao pointed to the ice rink below: "Here, the best-looking one among those ice boys who are clearing the rink, my sister's baby."

Sun Qian looked through the reading glasses: "Drink! Your baby is so smart before he is 10 years old, and he has made a clear life plan?"

Zhang Junbao: "...Sun Zhi, my nephew is 12 years old this year, and his birthday is in June, which is only half a year before 6."

Sun Qian paused, and his tone became more and more distressed: "It's good to be short, short people have a low center of gravity, and they can jump more stably than others. You don't know that when Shen Liu was developing before, he grew from 1.6 meters three to 1.7 meters two in one breath. I was scared, I dreamed that he would stop growing."

Zhang Junbao's nephew looks like he is an adult and is no longer than 1.7 meters. His body proportions are very good-looking. Doesn't this make people think that he was born for figure skating just by looking at his figure?

But the reason why the kid doesn't want to be an athlete is so realistic that even the head coach of the national team can't refute it. In the end, he can only wave his hand, pretending that he has never heard the news that Zhang Junbao has picked up a good seed.

And Zhang Jue spent a very fulfilling day. He and a group of little ice boys cleared the bouquets on the ice, and went to help the staff to make up the ice after the game, so he got the technology of making up the ice.

In addition, he also took advantage of the convenience of leaving the venue late to skate on this competition-level ice rink. The competition-level ice rink is very wide, and the ice is also mixed with milk when it is frozen, so the feet feel silky. Zhang Jue just slipped for a while and couldn't put it down.

With a bang, the young boy jumped on the ice with the rear outer knot jump that he is most familiar with now, that is, the Sakhov jump (S jump).

The first is the relatively simple 2S, which is a jump that many ice boys can do, and then the 3S. Zhang Jue uses 10 jumps as a group to practice jumping on the ice where the national competition has just ended.

This feeling that the entire silver-white world belongs to him is really great. Zhang Jue imagined that the seats around him were filled with spectators who came for him. Small scenes, but the whole scene was filled with ice fans, who watched his every jump intently and cheered him for every successful jump.

The spotlights were shining like he was a superstar.

When jumping the 11th 3S, Zhang Jue tried to clasp his hands and lift it up when he was in the air.

When most athletes jump, their upper body will tighten, so that their jumping axis will be thinner and their turning speed will be faster, which can also stabilize their mid-air axis and increase the success rate of jumping.

But at this moment, Zhang Jue violated the jumping law of tightening his upper body, and his jumping posture was as graceful as a ballet.

There was a crisp clashing sound, and the boy landed on the ice steadily, and the skates still had enough strength to slide out in a beautiful semicircle.

This light jump fell into the eyes of Shen Liu who walked into the ice rink. His eyes were full of astonishment, and he almost lost his words.

Then he saw the boy's skates got stuck in a dent that hadn't been repaired, and the whole person fell on the ice and rolled a long way away, then hugged his ankle and howled like a child.

"Oh! It hurts my father to death!"

For some reason, Shen Liu's heart inexplicably resurfaced the words that the coach repeatedly told the children when he went on the ice for the first time in the past.

"Remember, jumping is a very dangerous movement. You must do it when there is a coach watching. You can't practice jumping when you are alone. Otherwise, no one will care if you break your leg. Repeat it again. You are not allowed to practice jumping alone secretly. ,Did you hear me!"