Blade of Glory [Figure Skating]

"Hello, audience friends, this is the live broadcast of the sports events of the Sojersey Olympic Games. Now we are connecting with the two commentators of the men's single figure skating event that just ended, let them talk about today's short programme."

This is a sports TV station dedicated to live broadcasting of various sports events.For this Winter Olympics, they sent many sports reporters and professional commentators to Sauzexi.And now, the TV station is connecting the live broadcast room of the TV station with the live broadcast room far away in Sozexi through a satellite connection, and the TV host and the commentator of the live broadcast room are projected on the TV station at this time co-location effect.

It can be seen that the host's colleague who is far away in Suo Zexi is excited and complicated, eager to bring his views and opinions to every audience in front of the TV.

"Yes, host. My partner and I finished watching the normal short program just now, and now we are really a little incoherent. First of all, I didn't expect that I could actually see someone jumping out of Axel's quadruple half jump in my life." And it's perfect! I don't know how to describe my mood at that time. Because Xishu's Qingyue had already skied a short program of quadruple axel on the back toe and triple axel to the back toe. Opening jump! So when I saw him go into the forward slide, I was like, oh, this is going to be an axel triple axel? God, that's what I was thinking many!"

There are two commentators in the live broadcast room of the Sozexi Ice Project that is being connected.One of them looked unkempt.One looked calmer and older.

And the one who was speaking at this time was the slovenly-looking narrator. He was wearing a professional headset, holding a document in his hand, but he kept pulling his hair to express his inner excitement. .His partner didn't interrupt him, and he just went on.

"But just when I thought so self-righteously, I saw Qingyue take off. I swear this is the highest ice jump I have ever seen... Afterwards, I even felt that if Qingyue was going to jump directly from Jumping out of the ice rink, jumping out of the guardrail, maybe he can do it! His spin speed is very fast, but I was dumbfounded at the time. Purcell jump!

So at that time, I didn't care that Qingyue's game was not over yet, so I just grabbed my partner's arm, and I couldn't control myself and asked my partner, 'God...he, how many times did he spin in the air just now?dude!I counted right!So... Could it be four and a half weeks! ?And there is no deposit week! '"

Looking at the performance of my colleague Suo Zexi when he was connected online, the host who watched the short program match just now also had a deep understanding, but after being amazed, it became a kind of inexplicable lost.Just like that, after the commentator uttered this exclamation sentence, he continued, "But even so, Qing Yue still only got the third place in the short program, didn't he?"

"Yes, it's a real shame and ... incredible."

After saying that, the younger-looking narrator lowered his head slightly, as if he couldn't accept the result of the short program that just ended.So the host turned his attention to another commentator with more professional figure skating knowledge.

"Actually, the vast majority of audience friends in front of the TV are like me, unable to understand that the short program that just ended would have such a result. So, can you analyze it for us from a professional perspective? , Rhodes?"

Hearing the host's question, the older commentator nodded and picked up the document in his hand.

"If it's just purely from a technical point of view, Qingyue's short program can be said to be perfect. He jumped out of Axel's quadruple jump that has never been done in an official competition, and there is no save. Of course his ice landing is a bit rough, but that is not important to us. But I think we need to pay attention to the three jumps made by Qingyue in the short program. They are 4T+3T, and the back and outside points around the ice Jumps and triple axel jumps. 4A, Axel triple axel. And 3Lz, hook triple axel.

Before the rules were revised, one of its requirements for the men's single event short program was that there must be an Axel single jump in the program.But after the introduction of the new rules, this rule was revised to require an Axel double axel or Axel triple axel.Perhaps many people think that there is no difference between the rules before and after the revision, but for Qingyue today, this difference is almost fatal.Because there is no Axel two-and-a-half jump or Axel triple axel in his short program.So this is enough to constitute his deduction point. "

When the commentator named Rhodes said this, the host of the sports station couldn't react at all. He just froze for a few seconds during the live broadcast of the show, and then used a suspicious look Look at Rhodes.

"Is this actually becoming Qingyue's deduction point?"

"Yes. We didn't believe that the rules would be interpreted in this way at first. But according to the referee score sheet we got just now, this is indeed the place where Qing Yue was deducted points. So we may assume that if Qing Yue was not in Ah Axel did a quadruple axel and then a triple axel, and his short program should probably be able to rise to No.2."

"What did you say? Just moved up to No.2?"

Rao has experienced many sports events, and the host of the TV station has also felt such incredible one after another.After subconsciously asking this question, he called up the video playback of Qingyue's game.

"But we can feel how beautiful Qingyue's short program was. To be honest, I haven't seen such a wonderful men's singles short program for several years. His jumps are crisp and neat. He is high and floating, his posture in the air is light and agile, and his landing on the ice is perfect. Let’s look at his spin again. In my personal opinion, his spin is no less inferior to that of Freire four years ago.”

"Yeah, that's what I thought too. But we had to explain the situation again with the scoring sheet."

It was Rhodes, who was relatively calm in the Suo Zexi live broadcast room, who was speaking at the moment. He opened the short program scoring rules in his hand, looked at it for a few times, and then turned his gaze back to the camera lens in the live broadcast room, "From On the surface, Qingyue's skating is very smooth, but his skating speed cannot return to the speed of his peak due to his age. In addition, Qingyue's footwork with excellent choreography, although it seems Complicated and eye-catching, but his footwork rating is actually not high. Unlike most of the first and second-tier skaters who sprinted towards the fourth-level footwork this time, Qingyue's footwork rating is only three. If it is In the Olympic Games four years ago, he was definitely the undisputed number one in the short program. But now..."

When he said the last sentence, Rhodes, who looked very calm, showed a sarcastic smile, and shrugged helplessly...

That's right, Qing Yue's short program that was so perfect that it was almost impeccable only won the third place.This is unacceptable to all the ice fans watching on the spot.They kept yelling and protesting in the direction of the referee team, but none of them could change the score that the referees scored according to the rules.Almost every one of them is so well-founded, and no one deliberately wants to do something to another, some... It's just a rule.

Yes, although the score of level [-] footwork is extremely high, there are really fewer men's singles players who can really skate it beautifully or even captivate people's hearts than those who can jump quadruple jumps.Alek once counted as one, and Koness eight years ago counted as one. Even Freire, his fourth-level footwork can only be regarded as smooth, and he is gorgeous because of his proper choreography.

But in an era of such emphasis on footwork?But no one can achieve the level of completion Alek once had.

And most of the spectators don't understand what kind of footwork is considered a high-level footwork. They can only use their own eyes and hearts to intuitively judge which person skates better.It was precisely because of this that they couldn't understand that Qing Yue, who left the deepest impression on them, was only in third place.

Since they can't understand, vent their anger with angry shouts.Such a scene made Qing Yue feel an indescribable... feeling of ridicule, but he didn't know why he was mocking and who he was mocking.Fearing the danger of being hit hard by a drink cup thrown from the audience, Freire ran to the referee's seat to ask what happened to the score just now, but got a score without Axel's triple axel or a double Weekly jumps will be the answer to deduct points.

This really made Freire dumbfounded. He kept repeating the rules just to make the players have to jump an Axel, but when they made the rules, they didn’t expect someone to do quadruple jumps, so there was one less in the rules. ' or Axel quadruples'.But because of Freire's pleasing status in the hearts of the referee team and his skillful words, he didn't call the gray one black, so he came back in such a disheartened manner.

"Maybe... we should have replaced the triple axel with the triple axel."

Freire, who never expected to understand the interpretation of the rules in this way, said this, but Qingyue really didn't care at all, smiled and shook his head, picked up the water bottle and took a few sips of water slowly.Seeing this, Freire immediately took the towel in Qingyue's hand, and wiped the sweat from his forehead, cheeks, and even his neck.

"Don't you think, as a player who has been used to unfair treatment for a long time, what makes me the biggest winner is not the short and long programs that comply with the rules and get high scores but limit my strengths. Is it because he clearly skating out a show that was better than any of the contestants in the competition, but in the end he only won the last place?"

All the men's singles players present who could see Qingyue looked at Qingyue with almost difficult eyes, but saw that his face was not as heavy as he should be at this moment, or even... angry.

He looked so relaxed, with an "I knew it" look on his face, more relaxed than anyone else in the room.Hearing what Qing Yue said, Freire felt helpless, took the water bottle from him, and put his strong arms on Qing Yue, regardless of the fact that there must be more than twenty cameras chasing their figures. On Yue's shoulders, he dragged him to the corridor leading to the dressing room, and said helplessly in Qing Yue's ear: "Don't think about it, it's impossible. That's better than I will participate in the long program for you tomorrow." It’s not even possible to win the Olympic championship. However, getting second or third and embarrassing the people ahead of you seems to be a good choice.”

Saying that, both of them laughed easily.

Perhaps, these two famous ice players who were once all-powerful in the ice world, each with their own specialties that no one else can surpass, have won countless medals, and have let countless people look up to them have let go of their previous obsessions.Or in other words... What they are obsessed with is no longer the medals with different evaluation standards and different values ​​in different eras.What they are chasing... is just the persistence in their hearts to prove the meaning of their existence.

When Qingyue was 19 years old, Alek, who was under tremendous psychological pressure on the eve of the Olympics, once said to Qingyue: "Gold medals are glory, but glory is not just gold medals. But... the world will only win because of us. Gold medals and knowing we got the glory."

Qing Yue has been remembering this sentence until now, and finally realized the meaning contained in that sentence deeply.But when he rose again at the age of 27 and returned to the ice rink, he thought about a lot and gave up a lot.

Since the world will only know that they have achieved glory because they have won a gold medal, he forsakes that glory.Just to let people know... There are some things only he can do.None but him.